THE NIGHTOWLS
PREMIERE NEW SINGLE
"ALL THE GOOD THINGS YOU ARE"
WITH POPMATTERS
LISTEN HERE
NEW ALBUM WE ARE THE NIGHTOWLS OUT ON 4/27
RELEASE SHOW AT THE CONTINENTAL CLUB ON 4/20
ON TOUR THIS SPRING
"Though there are a number of soul acts coming out of the city of the weird of late, there's something more remarkable about this group, something more sincere and authentic." -PopMatters
"With a thrusting brass section, buttery strings and a slice of Incognito soul, Austin-based band The Nightowls thrust forward with their forthcoming LP." -SoulTracks
"[We Are The Nightowls] captures The Nightowls in fine form as they lay into a well-oiled sound that is bursting with funk, soul and poppy goodness." -Glide Magazine
APRIL 17, 2018 - AUSTIN, TX - The Nightowls are premiering their new single "All The Good Things You Are" exclusively today with PopMatters. Listen HERE. "All The Good Things You Are" is the latest single, following "Don't It Feel Weird (Falling In Love)" and "#selfiequeen", from The Nightowls' upcoming album We Are The Nightowls due out on 4/27. In support, the band will be embarking on a spring tour set to include an album release show at the Continental Club in Austin on 4/20. See below for a full list of dates. For more information, please visit: http://wearethenightowls.com/.
We Are The Nightowls was written and recorded over the course of one year, following extensive touring in support of 2016's Royal Sessions, which was labeled an "energetic blend of classic soul and modern pop" by Paste Magazine. "Our previous albums were concept albums paying homage to the historic recording studios in which they were recorded," frontman Ryan Harkrider describes. "This new album is more about capturing the band's sound...it's a more cohesive statement about who we are." For that reason, the band made this 2018 release their "self-titled" album.
In February 2017, The Nightowls began recording at Fischer Studios in Hill Country Texas with Grammy-nominated producer Chris Bell, whose credits include The Eagles, U2, Erykah Badu and Peter Gabriel, among others. After 3-4 different recording sessions, the band ended up with 20+ songs that they would later listen back to and either discard, rewrite or reshape. By fall of 2017, the story of We Are The Nightowls began to solidify with the help of tracks like "Get Funked up", "#selfiequeen" and "Lift Me Up". With a deadline set from Nine Mile Records in late February 2018, the band pushed on, and wrote and recorded what would become the last half of the album ("Don't it Feel Weird", "Laybackwittit", "Can't Wait to Knock It") in about 2 months. We Are The Nightowls is now ready for a late April release.
The Nightowls first took Texas by storm in 2014 with the release their debut album, Good As Gold, which was hailed "suave, energetic, blue-eyed soul" by The Austin Chronicle and named one of the Top 10 albums of the year at the annual Austin Chronicle Music Awards. The Austin-based ten-piece followed up this debut with Fame Sessions, recorded at iconic Muscle Shoals studio, in 2015, and the aforementioned Royal Sessions, recorded at the infamous Royal Studios in Memphis, TN, in 2016.
With these releases, the band garnered national attention from The Atlantic, Southern Living, Relix, Performer Magazine, Pollstar, Paste Magazine and more, and brought their "raucous" live show (Austin Monthly) across the US, hitting every corner of North America and playing dozens of festivals including Austin City Limits Festival, KGSR Unplugged at the Grove, Ouray Mountain Air Music Series, The Levitt Pavilion, Blues on the Green and the Double Decker Festival.
"All The Good Things You Are" is the third single from The Nightowls' upcoming album We Are The Nightowls, due out on 4/27.
For more information, please visit:
Website: wearethenightowls.com
Facebook: facebook.com/TheNightowls
Instagram: instagram.com/wearethenightowls
Twitter: twitter.com/The_Nightowls
Youtube: youtube.com/user/WeAreTheNightowls
We Are The Nightowls
1. Don't It Feel Weird (Falling In Love)
2. Can't Wait to Knock It
3. #selfiequeen
4. All the Good Things You Are
5. Nice and Slow
6. Interlude
7. Lift Me Up
8. Together Alone
9. Laybackwittit
10. Get Funked Up
11. We Are The Nightowls
Tour Dates
April 20 - Austin, TX - Continental Club
April 27 - Houston, TX - Continental Club
April 29 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
May 1 - Los Angeles, CA - The Resident
May 10 - San Antonio, TX - The Rustic
May 11 - Dallas, TX - The Rustic
May 16 - Oklahoma City, OK - The Powerhouse
May 17 - Kansas City, MO - Knuckleheads
May 18 - Davenport, IA - Racoon Motel
May 19 - Madison, WI - North Street Cabaret
May 20 - Chicago, IL - Tonic Room
May 22 - Nashville, TN - The 5 Spot
May 23 - Atlanta, GA - Smiths Olde Bar
May 24 - Knoxville, TN - Barley's Taproom
May 25 - Knoxville, TN - Blue Plate Special on WDVX
May 25 - Memphis, TN - Railgarten
May 26 - Fort Worth, TX - Main at South Side
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Judicial Watch “Last Chance to get to the Bottom of New York’s most Infamous Cold-Case Killing”—Daily News
Saturday marked the 46th anniversary of the shooting of NYPD Patrolman Phillip Cardillo inside Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam mosque in Harlem. A conspiracy of cover-up and silence immediately surrounded the case. Decades of controversy followed. No one served a day in jail for the murder. In March, Judicial Watch sued the New York City Police Department for records in the case.
The New York Daily News asked Saturday: “Could the secret to unraveling the Cardillo murder be in the withheld records of the NYPD? The Judicial Watch lawsuit may be the last chance to get to the bottom of New York’s most infamous cold-case killing.” The op-ed was written by legendary NYPD detective Randy Jurgensen, who literally wrote the book on the case, “Circle of Six.”
46 years after the Cardillo shooting, Jurgensen notes, “the NYPD won’t release investigative files, a promised report and an audio tape, preposterously claiming an investigation is still ‘active and ongoing.’” A ruling in the case is expected soon. Legal action also is moving forward in a parallel case against the FBI in Washington. Read more about Judicial Watch’s legal moves here. Read more about the Judicial Watch investigation into the Cardillo killing here.
The Cardillo murder has been pursued across the decades because of an abiding sense of injustice: that law-enforcement and politicians conspired to make the case go away; that evidence vanished; that the shooter was arrested and acquitted due to the earlier cover-up. The injustice continues with the NYPD’s despicable lie that there is today, 46 years later, an “active and ongoing” investigation.
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Micah Morrison is chief investigative reporter for Judicial Watch. Follow him on Twitter @micah_morrison. Tips: mmorrison@judicialwatch.org
Investigative Bulletin is published by Judicial Watch. Reprints and media inquiries: jfarrell@judicialwatch.org
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Judicial Watch Sues FBI for Comey Book Documents
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department for FBI prepublication review and other records about former Director James Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00894)).
Judicial Watch filed suit after the Justice Department failed produce any records in response to a March 16, 2018, FOIA request for:
All records of communications between the FBI and former FBI director James Comey relating to an upcoming book to be authored by Mr. Comey and published.
All records, including but not limited to forms completed by former FBI director James Comey, relating to the requirement for prepublication review by the FBI of any book to be authored by Comey with the intent to be published or otherwise publicly available.
Comey reportedly received an advance in excess of $2 million for his book set for publication on April 17th. Former FBI agents and officials intending to write books concerning their tenure are customarily required to submit the entire transcript for pre-publication review.
“James Comey illegally took and then leaked material from his FBI memos in order to get a Special Counsel appointed to target President Trump. And so now Judicial Watch is asking questions about whether James Comey is getting special treatment from the FBI to use these ill-gotten FBI documents in his book,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
This is the second Judicial Watch lawsuit on the Comey book deal. Shortly after Mr. Comey signed to write his book August 2017, Judicial Watch sent a FOIA request seeking FBI documents related to the deal and coordination on his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. In January 2017, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department for failing to respond to these requests.
On April 15, 2018, in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about his book, Comey admitted to leaking conversations with President Trump in order to get a special prosecutor appointed, saying, “Look, it’s true … I gave that unclassified memo to my (friend), who was also acting as my lawyer, but this wasn’t a lawyer task, and asked him to give it to a reporter.” This echoes his controversial testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about the circumstances that led to his dismissal, the ongoing investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illicit email server. In November, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department for its records about Comey’s testimony (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-02316)).
Judicial Watch has several other lawsuits pending for Comey-related records:
Judicial Watch’s case was consolidated in Cable News Network, Inc., v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (No. 1:17-cv-01167).
