GLENN MERCER – “Dot Dash is extremely proud to present
Glenn Mercer’s first Brooklyn show with his new band.
We were fortunate enough to catch the band’s Maxwell’s
gig last fall and it brought a HUGE smile to our
faces. FANTASTIC! The new band features other
ex-Feelies, Dave Wackerman on percussion and Vinny
DeNunzio on drums. Here’s Glenn’s Bio from the Myspace
page:
“Glenn Mercer is the former lead
singer/guitarist/ composer of the Feelies, the
influential, Hoboken-based, alternative band, THE
FEELIES . Their debut album, Crazy Rhythms, was voted
#49 in the top 100 albums of the 80s by Rolling Stone
magazine and chosen by Spin Magazine as #49 of the
best Alternative records of all time. The Onion
recently named The Feelies as Best Underrated Band.
Other critical acclaim included a feature in Time
magazine. The Feelies performed on the David Letterman
Show and on Broadway and in concerts with Lou Reed,
Patti Smith, REM, and Bob Dylan. Glenn’s music has
been featured in the films Married to the Mob,
Something Wild, Prelude to a Kiss, the Truth About
Charlie and the Squid & the Whale. Glenns television
credits include Dawsons Creek, Party of Five and the
Real World. He has recorded with the Trypes, Yung Wu,
the Willies and Wake Ooloo. His debut solo record,
Wheels In Motion, will be released by Pravda Records
this spring.”

WILD CARNATION opens the night, also featuring a
former Feelies member, Brenda Sauter on bass and
vocals. Below is Jim DeRogatis’s review of their
recent release

Wild Carnation, “Superbus” (Lucky Pig Records):
”Although they broke up after their fourth album
“Time
for a Witness” (1991), the Feelies still loom large as
an influence on inventive rock bands, with echoes of
their swelling melodies and trademark “crazy rhythms”
in the Strokes and the Arcade Fire, to name only two.
Fans of the New Jersey quintet have been hoping for a
reunion for years, and while there’s no sign that will
ever happen, they can content themselves with the rare
but always fulfilling release from veteran Glenn
Mercer (who’s issuing a solo album later this year)
and Brenda Sauter, the vocalist, bassist and leader of
Wild Carnation. Sauter’s group made its impressive
debut as a guitar, bass and drums trio with a single
and an album (“Tricycle”) released by the then
Chicago-based Delmore Records in 1995. Twelve years
may seem like a ridiculously long wait between
releases, but then the Feelies were never a band to be
rushed, either, preferring to craft their mysterious
sounds in their suburban basement laboratory, and
waiting to issue them until they had a suitably
impressive set. Now expanded to a quartet with the
addition of a wonderfully droning Farfisa organ, Wild
Carnation does the Feelies’ legacy proud on 10 lovely
and hypnotic songs produced by fellow indie-rock
legend James Mastro of the Bongos, with Sauter’s
limited but charming vocals (think Maureen Tucker of
the Velvet Underground) and the group’s variation of
that familiar undertow rhythm grabbing and holding the
spotlight.” Jim DeRogatis – Chicago Sun Times”

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