European Tour!

Sept 1 THE WINDMILL – Brixton, UK w/Cate Le Bon
Sept 2 END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL – Dorset, UK
Sept 5 BUFFALO BAR – Cardiff, UK w/Cate Le Bon
Sept 6 NINE BAR – Leicester, UK w/Cate Le Bon
Sept 7 TAYLOR JOHN’S – Coventry, UK w/Cate Le Bon
Sept 8 THE CASTLE HOTEL – Manchester, UK w/Cate Le Bon
Sept 9 THE HEELEY INSTITUTE – Sheffield, UK w/Cate Le Bon
Sept 10 NO MEAN CITY FESTIVAL – O2 ABC – Glasgow, UK

Sept 11 BIS AUF MESSER Instore – Berlin, Germany
Sept 12 SING SING – Hannover, Germany
Sept 13 TBA
Sept 14 KULTURE CAFE – Cologne, Germany
Sept 15 SPARTE 4 – Saarbrücken, Germany
Sept 16 INCUBATE – Tilburg, Netherlands
Sept 17 CAFE GALAOU – Stuttgart, Germany
Sept 18 MUDD CLUB – Strasbourg, France
Sept 19 PRINZ WILLY – Kiel, Germany
Sept 20 RIFF – Magdeburg, Germany
Sept 21 VERVE – Bielefeld, Germany
Sept 22 SCHOKOLADEN – Berlin, Germany
Sept 23 NOCHBESSERLEBEN – Leipzig, Germany
Sept 24 REEPERBAHN FESTIVAL – Hamburg, Germany
Sept 25 TBA
Sept 26 TBA
Sept 27 Oh My Garden – Brussels, Belgium
Sept 28 TBA – North France
Sept 29 CAFE CANNIBALE – Paris, France
Sept 30 TBA – Southern France

Oct 1 ELECTROPURA – Valencia, Spain
Oct 2 DANTE CLUB – Vall d’Uixo (Castellon), Spain
Oct 7 Braga, Portugal
Oct 8 CAFE POP TORGAL – Ourense, Spain
Oct 13 SALA BERLIN – Zamora, Spain
Oct 14 TBA – Madrid, Spain

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This Frontier Needs Heroes>Order it Now!

Space Baby Video!

This Frontier Needs Heroes Release Space Baby!

Space Baby is the first song from The Future.

This Frontier Needs Heroes is the Alternative Folk duo of brother-sister Brad and Jessica Lauretti from Brooklyn, NY.  Listening to This Frontier Needs Heroes is like having Brad and Jessica play in your backyard while the sun comes up.   With their powerful delivery and delicate harmonies; their songs are full of personal stories of love and longing for a better world.

Last year, they used Kickstarter donations from their growing fan base to fund their follow up album.  They decided to leave the studio for a more intimate approach and recorded in an old school house in Wassaic, NY, with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato (MV & EE, Dinosaur Jr., Thurston Moore).  THE FUTURE, out May 10, 2011 on their newly formed label HEROIC ENDEAVOURS RECORDS, has wild new songs about all of their rambling experiences including new visions about space, family, heroes, history, and dogs.  THE FUTURE also includes album art in 3D and will be shipped with 3D glasses!

“The Future” is now available in CD, MP3, and VINYL.

BANDCAMP http://thisfrontierneedsheroes.bandcamp.com/

YOUTUBE http://youtu.be/HQiuMqfXnQo

UK tour dates

Heroes UK tour 2010 – More dates coming soon!

Aug 27 BARN NOVA at SHAMBALA FESTIVAL
Aug 28 DRYSTONE STAGE – SOLFEST
Aug 29 La Terraza Suena W/KATH BLOOM Madrid SPAIN
Aug 31 Miss Peapods W/KATH BLOOM + MV/EE PENRYN
Sep 1 Miss Peapods- w/ Kath Bloom + MV/EE Penryn
Sep 4 Cafe Oto w/Kath Bloom London
Sep 5 Freebutt w/Kath Bloom Brighton
Sep 6 Kicthen Garden Cafe w/Kath Bloom Birmingham
Sep 7 The Roxy Room w/Kath Bloom Edinburgh
Sep 8 Star and Shadow w/Kath Bloom Newcastle
Sep 9 The Vicarage w/Kath Bloom Bradford
Sep 10 Band on the Wall Manchester
Sep 12 End of the Road Festival w/ Kath Bloom

Sept 17 Cobbles and Clay Howarth w/ The Travelling Band
Sept 19 Sideways Saloon w/ Travelling Band and Artur Dyjecinski
Sept 21 Puzzle Hall Haifax w/Artur Dyjecinski

US + UK tour!

US + UK TOUR
We are heading out on a 3 month US + UK tour!
We will be playing dates with Arbouretum, She Keeps Bees, Naked
Hearts and Kath Bloom!  We will be hitting up the east coast beaches,
the gulf coast and then back up through the mountains before we head
to Europe at the end of August.  You can check our myspace for all of
our tour dates!  http://www.myspace.com/thisfrontierneedsheroes

New Single JUST BECAUSE

JUST BECAUSE new single out July 6

Help us make our Next Album!

In April, we will go back into the studio to record our next album!

With this money we can record it, and distribute it all over the world!

We have new songs about love, space, babies, whales, farms, and dogs!

Please forward this to people far and wide, we need all the help we can get!!

We are embarking on another phase of our musical journey, and we want you to be a part of it! Last year Jessica and I released our first album together, and after years of struggle we saw all of our hard work pay off! It was beautiful, we played 150 shows in 40 of the United States, Vancouver/Montreal Canada, and 15 awesome shows in the UK! We did this all without a label, a booking agent, a publicist, a manager, or even any idea of how to do it, but we just figured it out! Renewing our faith in hard work and humanity. We didn’t always know where we were going to sleep, or if we had enough money for decent food, but somehow it just magically worked out. ALMOST every day!

Everybody knows about the state of the music industry, new forms of distribution are bringing music to the people! We are part of a new movement of independent artists who are gonna keep music alive for the future. Introducing Kickstarter, here is a safe way you can support us, as easy as using Amazon.com. Think of it as Pre-ordering the Album, or just being part of something really amazing! We can’t do it without you! There are rewards for every level of support. Even 1$ will help us meet our goal! We don’t take anything for granted, we know how hard everyone works, and how many noble causes there are in this world, and that’s what we are all about!

This album has a mix of old and new songs, songs you haven’t heard in a while and songs we wrote this summer. One in particular is called “Just Because” it’s a song I wrote about how I feel about saving the whales! Here is the link to our PROJECT you will find out everything you need to know there about what to do next, and what awesome prizes you’ll get in return for helping us realize our fantastic vision! If you can forward it to any friends and family who know or might care about us, that would be a big help! We need everyone’s help to pull this off! We are as grassroots as you can get! But we are staged to do some really amazing things this year!

Love,
Brad + Jess

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Tour Diary Week 3

This week we started to head out west with stops in Rochester and Buffalo NY, Toldeo Ohio, Ann Arbor MI, Chicago and Madison WI.

We played with some really great bands like David Cloyd, Anti-Villains, Jugbone and Birdlips!

We ate buffalo wings in Buffalo, almost got jumped in Toledo, saw our newest cousin in Ann Arbor, put our feet in Lake Michigan in Chicago and ate grilled cheese sandwiches in Madison!

xoxo the heroes

Tour Diary Week 2

Wow that was fun!

This week we toured New England with Zachary Cale and the Highway Ghosts!

We made stops in Northampton, Boston and New Bedford Mass, Burlington VT, Lewiston Maine and New Haven CT.

We got to go swimming in a river by a waterfall, record some songs for Paddy’s blog in the attic of an old warehouse, eat tacos and homemade Portuguese wine, sit in a pew that Herman Melville sat in, and have our mom come see us play with Kath Bloom!!!

Thanks Justin and Julia for making the BEST popcorn I’ve ever had!

Thanks Hallucinijasons for the Bastille Day cake.

Thanks Science for putting on an awesome show

Thanks Chris Teret and Micah Blue for
being amazing songwriters.

Thanks Paddy, Ryan and Maryese for keeping Burlington cool!

Thanks to everyone at No Problemo! You guys rule, seriously.

Thanks Zach for letting us play on Shackles every night. I freakin love your band!

Thanks Penn for comin along. We miss you already.

Tour Diary Week 1

Greetings from the road!

We are starting our US tour in New England with a week of shows with Spider.

We also have Penn Sultan from Last Good Tooth playing mandolin with us!

We made stops in Worcester and Lowell Mass, Biddeford and Peaks Island Maine, Portsmouth and Star Island in New Hampshire.

We saw an old speakeasy from the 20′s, drank a beer in the hull of a ship, had bonfire jams, ate lobsters, played banjo at the American legion, saw Jack Keroacs grave, ate BBQ and Blueberry Mickey Mouse waffles and heard a ghost story about the ghost of a little boy who was puking on this guys bed!

Thanks Aaron from the radio station for letting us crash and for showing us Hotel Vernon and the bear skin in your livingroom.

Thanks Gil and Coco for being cool. And for the tequila!

Thanks Jackman for taking us to the American Legion.

Thanks Coalmine Canaries for taking us to a haunted island!