Aqualung Goodies for Air-breathers

Although Matt Hales, a.k.a. Aqualung (not to be confused with Aquaman), looks to be seriously pigeon-toed on the cover of the latest issue of Ragged, I assure you that it in no way impairs his musical making ability!

Matt broke into the spotlight in 2002 with some fahrfegnugen luck when his song Strange and Beautiful was used in a VW Beetle commercial. Since then he's been continuing to craft "grownup" music, as he calls it. His latest release, Memory Man, was released last month, and he's on tour now promoting it (dates below). For those of you who haven't listened to Aqualung before, his music sounds and feels like a mix between Keane and Radiohead's album The Bends.

When asked about the album, Matt says, "So when it was time to make a new album I wanted to have all those flavours - from fucked up space rock to ghostly glockenspiel, from old fashioned piano songs to linear soundscaping. And I was reading Beckett and Blake and thinking about fatherhood and fate and love and death and the future, so that's in there too. So it's complex record, ambitious and full of drama."

And thanks to Ragged, I have the chance to give away the following prize pack to one lucky reader:

- Aqualung hoodie

- Aqualung t-shirt

- a copy of his latest cd Memory Man

- and a hard-copy of Ragged

All you have to do to be eligible is leave a comment (or e-mail me) with your name, e-mail address, and the name of your favorite super hero (from the Justice League or other). I'll pick a random winner around next Wednesdayish and notify them by e-mail.


Aqualung - Pressure Suit : Memory Man

Aqualung - Outside : Memory Man

Aqualung - D.C. Song : Live at the 9:30 Club 4-16-07 (courtesy of On Tap Magazine)

Visit his website, his label Sony Music, and become his friend on MySpace.

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Tour Dates

April
28 Exit / In, Nashville, TN
29 Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, MO

May
02 Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis, MN
03 Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI
05 Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO
07 House Of Blues, San Diego, CA
08 Fonda, Los Angeles, CA
10 Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
12 Neumo's Seattle, WA
13 Richard's on Richards, Vancouver, CA
14 Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR

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More Super(hero) songs

Lazlo Bane - Superman : All The Time In the World

The Ramones - Spiderman Theme : Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits

TV theme - Batman 60's TV Theme : Batman