RANN
PREMIERE NEW SINGLE "COPYCAT"
VIA EARMILK
LISTEN HERE
NEW EP RENEGADE HOLIDAY DUE OUT 2/23
RELEASE SHOW AT ROUGH TRADE NYC ON 2/24
JANUARY 30, 2018 - BROOKLYN, NY - Indie-pop band, RANN, are premiering their new single "Copycat" exclusively today via Earmilk. Listen HERE. "'Copycat' is an intriguing juxtaposition musically", Earmilk notes, "with its blend of uncliched psychedelia and unpretentious garage-band angst that evokes the familiar while carving out its own place in Bushwick." "Copycat" will be featured on RANN's upcoming self-produced EP, Renegade Holiday, due out on 2/23. In support, the band will be playing a release show at Rough Trade NYC alongside Mobile Steam Unit on 2/24. For more information on RANN please visit: http://facebook.com/rannpage.
Described by Thrd Coast as "Phoenix with a touch more grit, or The Strokes draped in synth," RANN are a Brooklyn-based quartet that have garnered a fair amount of praise for their collage-genre combining indie rock, dream pop, psych and punk. Although the four members initially met while studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, it wasn't until they all moved to Brooklyn in 2014 that they decided to write music together and create the melting pot of influences that defines RANN.
During the winter of that same year, the members of RANN isolated themselves in a cabin in upstate New York and wrote 12 songs; 9 of which would become the band's debut album, Yellowgun. The record was officially released in November 2015 to acclaim from Vanyaland and The Deli NYC, and propelled the band onto the CMJ college radio charts, a number of SXSW showcases and two national tours.
During that second tour, RANN isolated themselves again--this time in a cabin in Yosemite Park, California--to write a new batch of songs that would later become Renegade Holiday. After wrapping up the tour with a nearly sold out homecoming show at Rough Trade NYC, the band went back into the studio to record these new songs that were later mixed by 7-time Grammy Award winning engineer, Michael Brauer (Coldplay, John Mayer).
"Copycat" is the latest single from RANN's upcoming EP, Renegade Holiday, due out 2/23.
For more information on RANN, please visit:
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5:30 PM (18 hours ago)
to me
Dear James,
Tomorrow night, President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address. Over the past year, you helped the president roll back crippling regulations, enact the largest tax cut in over three decades, confirm a true conservative to the Supreme Court, eliminate Obamacare's individual mandate, and lay the groundwork for so much more.
Despite the good economic news and America's renewed sense of self confidence abroad, our values and civic institutions are decaying. Civic disengagement is exacerbated by the left's radical campaign to alienate and isolate anyone who disagrees with the latest trend of politically correct views.
We saw the Obama administration's vindictive nature when it forced nuns to pay for birth control. We see it today in the left's knee-jerk reaction to resist everything associated with Donald Trump.
The truth is that the president's most significant accomplishments have both been conservative and broadly supported. Conservative principles and values can help unify the nation around policy solutions that work for all Americans.
For example:
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans should work together to give more choice to individuals and families over their health care. Parents and their children should be given the gift of school choice, especially those who serve in our armed forces. Welfare recipients who are able to work should be given the opportunity to rediscover the dignity of work.
President Trump's second year is full of opportunities, but will inevitable be marked by the challenges from a radical left wing movement that wants his presidency—and our nation's longstanding values and institutions—to fail and crumble.
Heritage Action is fighting to make the president's second year even more successful than his first.
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