PROJECT 19 hosts a rock show at the Chronogram loft space on Wall Street, at 314 Wall St. in uptown Kingston, NY, to benefit great musicians and the Project 19 Art Fund.

Based in Brooklyn, Hopewell are still local heroes for their upstate roots. Just back from playing the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, NY, for which they were hand-selected by curators The Flaming Lips, they'll bring their intelligent psychadelic rock back home for the Project Rock Show.

"The songs on Good Good Desperation, the band's latest on Tee Pee Records are rife with moments that make you feel as if you are in touch with the camera's lens in that photograph of the burning trees in the mountains of California, zeroing in on civilization for a stand-off, taking it all in and only feeling slightly afraid of what's next, mostly just sitting there in awe of the brute force." —Daytrotter Sessions

"...Breathtaking, soulful psychedelic rock with a dark turbulence at its heart: the two elements tugging at each other until a music that is both disquietingly beautiful and emotionally powerful is all that remains." —Stevie Chick, NME

"A band so good they named a town after them." —Jonathan Donahue, Mercury Rev

LISTEN: hopewell.tv | myspace/hopewell

From Chambersburg, PA, making frazzled rock that's been likened to the Clash, the Stooges, Dinosaur Jr., the Pixies, et. al., the Shackeltons have been praised by pretty much everyone else who's heard them, including:

"The Shackeltons sound check was better than all the music I heard at all of SXSW." —Bob Boilen, NPR All Songs Considered

"So instead of pretending there are a hundred thousand good new releases, instead check out this wild-eyed fusion of Pixies and early White Stripes. The good news: the whole record is this freakish, this thrilling". —J. Edward Keyes, Rolling Stone

LISTEN: theshackeltons.com | myspace/theshackeltons

 

Jason Sebastian Russo of Hopewell debuts his religi-cynical, scrappy anti-pop solo material. Subconsciously taking shape over the course of many strange years, it finally became tangible in a British cow barn / recording studio this past March, and was performed at one of the coolest music festivals in England this July. Jason is backed by a family band comprised of Silent League frontman (and brother) Justin Francis Russo, and a pretty girl.

"Brooklynite Jason Russo's alt-psych pedigree is impeccable. Former guitarist for mesmeric soft-psych legends Mercury Rev, Russo toured the world as a teenager but has remained resolutely unjaded, instead drawing his micronarratives from imaginary, self-directed movies. Located somewhere between The Microphones and Feist, Russo's new solo material retains the lyrical swagger and bite of his teenage band Hopewell, but marries it with a balmy lightness of touch that promises the perfect Truck sunset." —Truck Festival 2009 program

"It's like a John Lennon record. It's all the gay pop songs that couldn't be on the Hopewell record, but, they're really good." —Jay Green, Hopewell drummer

LISTEN: jasonsebastianrusso.com | myspace/jasonsebastianrusso