Lantern Live at Shea Stadium

The People at Shea Stadium up in Brooklyn do a really cool thing where the record all the live shows that happen there and then post them to their website. The recordings they make are also pristine. We fortunately played the last show of the our tour there and were able to capture ourselves in full tour form. Tight, angry, loud, and fast after 5 weeks of being on the road. This is FULL THROTTLE right from the opening chords of a blistering take of "I Don't Know." I hope you enjoy it and those who haven't seen Lantern live, well I hope it more than inspires you to come on out to see a set.

Best and thank you to the kind folks at Shea Stadium. One of the best DIY venues I have had the pleasure of playing.

Lantern - Live @ Shea Stadium by LiveatSheaStadium

New Lantern/Dirty Beaches Bootleg for Free Download

There is a new live album available for FREE download off of our Bandcamp site. This time it's our collaboration with Dirty Beaches which took place in Brooklyn last spring. We made a tape of the bootleg which we sold out of on tour. Please feel free to spread it around and share it all with your friends - Download it and burn it to a cd to give to one of your friends for the holidays. We are really proud of the results considering how little time we had to prepare. The songs are quasi improvised and the final tune turned out to be a sort of spontaneous cover of Tom Waits' "Going Out West" - it wasn't our intention, it just sounded that way - Alex caught on though.

Spooky Track from Elizabeth Cotton

Spooky track by the immortal Elizabeth Cotten.

Lantern Has Just Launced a Kickstarter Campaign

Hello all!

I hope the summer is finding you well. It's been hot here in Philly. Anyways as some of you may know my band Lantern is planning a five week tour this fall all across the United States and up to Canada. We have been working on it since the spring time and things are starting to come together. We feel really proud about Lantern and we really want to take the show on the road. We have been working our asses off this past year to get the gears oiled for a tour. We are taking the big step and jumping in with both feet.

But since we are such a young band and aren't able to be working with guarantees or contracts, what we make is what we make. So this is a little scary so we are asking your help in helping us get from place to place!

Your monies will go to...

GAS, a AAA membership, vehicle and music equipment maintenance, and any necessary lodging expenses. We recently purchased a stationwagon that needs a few minor repairs before leaving. Any contributions help and are sincerely and most fully appreciated!

Watch our video here to see what it is all about!

-Z

WYRD FEST AND RADIO SESSION

WYRD FEST TONIGHT! ALSO LANTERN IS DOING A RADIO SESSION ON CKUT FROM 3-5PM ET.THE CONCERT TONIGHT WILL ALSO BE STREAMED LIVE VIA CKUT.

Lantern Gig Tonight!

Tonight at the Hong Kong Garden (Cecil B. Moore & Phillips) Lantern is playing with Hot Guts and Purling Hiss. It is the release show for the new Purling Hiss EP Lounge Lizards appearing on the label Mexican Summer.

Avant-Lard Podcast #2 - That's Not Punk! - 6-12-2011

Welcome to the second installment of the Avant-Lard podcast. As promised last week, this week focus would be punk - loosely defined - more in spirit, which in my opinion is what matters. A lot of the music is made by my friends or has been stuff I have come across recently while booking this Lantern fall tour. Which if anybody out there can help or wants us to play somewhere - please get in touch! zacharyfairbrother (at) gmail (dot) com. Anyways I hope you dig this mix - it goes through a range of moods and is a pretty decent jammer. I think all of these bands are so good and I hope you feel the same.

-Z

LISTEN TO IT HERE:

1. Grand Trine - RFID - Grand Trine/Holy Cobras Split (Bruised Tongue)
2. Aluk Todolo - Obedience - Descension (Public Guilt)
3. Women In Prison - Reaction - Demo (Self Released)
4. Purling Hiss - Passenger Queen - Live on Brian Turner (WFMU)
5. The Friendly Dimension - Executive Koala - Cassette Single (Craft Singles)
6. Kill Squares - Last Time - ROOFTOP GARDEN BBQ PARTY VOL #1(Campaign for Infinity)
7. The People's Temple - Sons of Stone - Sons of Stone (Hozac)
8. Cosmonauts - Neon Kids - Cosmonauts (Burger)
9. The Ether - I Have Seen the Smile - The Ether/Lantern Split (Electric Voice)
10. The Offset: Spectacles - Elements - The Offset: Spectacles EP (Rose Mansion Analog)
11. Hot & Cold - Eat People - Sacred Vacation (Rose Mansion Analog)
12. Ancient Crux - In Teen Dreams - Interracial Coupling EP (Family Time)
13. Tonstartssbandht - Big Day Today - Now I Am Become (Arbutus)