ADRIAAN JEAGGI

03/04/1963 - 10/06/2008

Thank you Adriaan Jeaggi for being a fellow-musician, for being a friend.
Our thoughts go out to Sabine, Sara and Olivia.

Adriaan played bugle and trombone on several recordings by Alamo Race Track.

CIRCUS TREURDIER

Alamo Race Track will play at the music and theatre festival circus Treurdier june 12th at Studio K in Amsterdam. Check for schedule and tickets at www.circustreurdier.nl.

ROTTERDAM

Alamo Race Track will play Rotterdam on May 3rd. Tickets at rotterdamseschouwburg.nl

FACEBOOK

We've got our own page at Facebook.com now. Check it out and register yourself as an Alamo Race Track fan. Alamo Race Track at Facebook.

ALAMO RACE TRACK @ SXSW

Once again, Alamo Race Track will be playing in Austin, TX for SXSW [March 12-16, 2008]

THE OPEN SEA @ VERA

At the Eurosonic festival, 3fm invited the band over to Vera in Groningen to play a song on the radio. Check the video here:


EUROSONIC

Alamo Race Track will be playing at EUROSONIC on January 10th at the 'Stadsschouwburg' in Groningen. The show will be broadcast live through 3FM.

NIGHTWRITERS

In December the band will join Dutch (and Belgian) writers Saskia Noort, Kluun, Christophe Vekeman and Tommy Wieringa; combining literature and music in 'Nightwriters on tour':

CROSSING BORDER

This saturday (11/24) Alamo Race Track will perform at the CROSSING BORDER - festival in The Hague. (Cuatro-stage, 20.45h)

SESSION & INTERVIEW ON XMU RADIO

Alamo Race Track did a semi-acoustic session and interview at XM Radio, which will be broadcast at noon (eastern time). Check the website of satellite station XMU Radio for times and details.

ALAMO RACE TRACK AT CMJ, NYC

In October Alamo Race Track will be playing New York City once again. For now, we can confirm the show at Ace of Clubs (October 17th - 8PM).

LA FLECHE D'OR - PARIS

You can see Alamo Race Track back in Paris on October 25th, 26th & 27th at La Fleche d'Or. More information will be available at fargorecords.com

ALAMO RACE TRACK ON FEARLESS TV IN NYC

Alamo Race Track will be on Fearless Music TV in NYC Saturday night, October 6, performing "Black Cat John Brown". Fearless Music TV is on Saturday nights at 12:30am
on Fox 5 in NYC. For those outside of NYC check out the time and channel listing at www.fearlessmusic.tv.

LOWLANDS VIDEO

Alamo Race Track kicked-off the Lowlands Festival at the India tent. The set received rave reviews already. Alamo Race Track will do another acoustic session on Sunday.
VPRO 3voor12 have a video of The Northern Territory online.

ALAMO RACE TRACK IN NYC & LA

Alamo Race Track will be playing New York City and Los Angeles. On August 2nd you can see them live with 1990s for Club NME at the Annex (152 Orchard St. New York City) and on August 6th at Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, Los Angeles).

Furthermore, Alamo Race Track will be performing live on Fearless Music TV in New York. In Los Angeles Alamo Race Track will do a session and an interview for KXLU radio.

VILLAGE VOICE REVIEW

[...]Black Cat John Brown is full of similarly spacey grit. Aside from immortalizing one cat's life, songs celebrate Paris hangouts ("Kiss Me Bar"), argue with girls ("Lee J. Cobb Is Screaming a Lot"), or analyze loneliness and truth ("My Heart"). Melodies are buoyant yet kind of cranky; rhythms flare, cushioning the tunes in a skipping groove. Frontman Ralph Mulder's clear singing is matter-of- fact musical. It's all very indie, clued-in, determined, and held deliberately apart from the usual London-New York-Tokyo nexus. In European terms, it's all very Ohio. [full review]

TOM TOM BEAT

"Alamo Race Track = The Strokes + Peter Bjorn & John" [full review]

NUMBER 1 ALBUM

@ KRNU's TOP 30 Albums

BLACKCATJOHNBROWN ON 3|12 SHORTLIST

Alamo Race Track's 'Black Cat John Brown' is nominated for a 3voor12 Award. The album has been shorlisted together with 11 other albums for the best Dutch album of the past 12 months.

FILTER ON BLACKCATJOHNBROWN

From Filter Magazine (July '07):
"Black Cat John Brown is quickly approaching "Young Folks"-sized ubiquity (...) A solid but confounding album of terse pop and wild-eyed indie rock largely overshadowed by the three aand a half minuts of quirky gravel road blues that overshadowes it. "

TRIPWIRE REVIEWS BLACKCATJOHNBROWN

From The Tripwire:
"Black Cat John Brown, is definitely worth taking notice of. It's a calm and cool pop album with just enough tendency to rock that you'll never quite grow bored. (...) Popping back and forth, plucking notes, it's going to be hard not to start singing along. Plus, the Dutch accent that tinges the edge of Mulder's voice is addictive. (...) Alamo Race Track have got a good album on their hands, and with the right amount of love they should do quite well." - Read the full review.

Black Cat John Brown will be out in the USA through Minty Fresh on July 24th. If you can't wait, get it here.

NEW PHOTOS

...some new photos by our tourmanager Bass...

ALAMO RACE TRACK ON GREY'S ANATOMY

Alamo Race Track's 'Black Cat John Brown was featured in an episode of the popular television series Grey's Anatomy.

ALAMO RACE TRACK SPECIAL ON RTL4

Here's a special on ALAMO RACE TRACK by Dutch television RTL4.

BLACKCATJOHNBROWN GETS USA RELEASE

Our latest album 'BlackCatJohnBrown' will get a release in the USA this July through Minty Fresh records. The track 'BlackCatJohnBrown' is already available on iTunes.
For those who can't wait, you can order the album (and other releases) at the Excelsior Recordings Shop.

 

ALAMO RACE TRACK AT PAASPOP ZIEUWEND


Here's an interview and some footage of our show at 'PAASPOP, zieuwend'.

USA DATES (SXSW & REBEL)


On Friday (March 16th) we played SXSW in Austin, Texas. On Monday March 19th we did a gig at Rebel in New York City.

SHOOT THE MUSIC

Initiated by 'Shoot the Music', a program within the Unheard Filmfestival in Amsterdam, three different production companies have been invited to shoot the new videoclip for our next single Lee J. Cobb. As of March 5th you can vote here and choose your favorite. The winner will be announced at the festival's finale on March 24th. Check the live section for details.

FFM // Noorderslag // OuiFM // Maroquinerie

Visit FabChannel.com for a full-length video of our Fine Fine Music show at Paradiso, Amsterdam. Our Noorderslag performance is available at 3voor12.nl . Visit OUI FM for a semi-acoustic session we did at their studio.

Here's an interview, an acoustic session and some soundcheck footage at our last Paris-show at La Maroquinerie:


Video 'The Northern Territory'

We finished our video for 'The Northern Territory'. Hans Kok took us to Antwerp for a nice, cold day of filming. Watch the result here.

Afraid of heights?

French guy Vincent Moon filmed us playing two songs during our last stay in Paris, watch it here, and look around for some of his other 'concerts a emporter'. PS Yes, Guy IS afraid of heights

Album release in Belgium

As of the end of January our album will be available in Belgium. To celebrate we play at 'De Nachten', a festival in Antwerp, on January the 26th.

BlackcatJohnBrown no. 1 !!

Our new album reached number 1 in the Dutch alternative chart "Scherpe rand van Platenland"!!

Great review on our Paris-show (10/17)

In time we will put all of our reviews online but for now here's one by 'Musiqualite': our Paris-show, october 17th. (Also online: Dutch reviews by de Volkskrant [including a review on video!] Het Parool & NRC)

Vote for BlackcatJohnBrown

Support our band and vote here for 'The Northern territory' at Radio France.

BlackCatJohnBrown release parties

This week we present our new album. Since 'BlackCatJohnBrown' will be released in both The Netherlands (Excelsior) and France (Fargo), we're entitled to two release parties. On Tuesday October 17th we will play Desmet Studios in Amsterdam and on Thursday October 19th you can see us in Paris (click here for more info).

Alamo Race Track @ De Wereld Draait Door

The YouTube story continued on national TV, when Alamo Race Track were guests at De Wereld Draait Door. Alamo Race Track did an interview and played 'BlackCatJohnBrown'. For those who missed, check it here... we found a site to upload it to. [click]

3|12 presents Alamo Race Track

Alamo Race Track will play at the Amsterdam Desmet Studio’s on Tuesday October 17th. We will play tracks from our new album ‘BlackCatJohnBrown’. The evening is hosted by VPRO’s 3voor12 who will broadcast the show. 'BlackCatJohnBrown' is album of the week at 3voor12 as well. Read the album review.

BlackCatJohnBrown

Our new album will be out in the shops soon. Pre-order the new Alamo Race Track album BlackCatJohnBrown at the Excelsior Shop on cd or vinyl (+cd) and you will receive the album on the release date (19/10/06). Listen to some of the new tracks here. In The Netherlands 'BlackCatJohnBrown' is 'No Risk Disk' at all Plato record stores.

Alamo Race Track's YouTube smash hit

A video of our semi-acoustic session at Excelsior's 10th anniversary party ended up at YouTube. We played our forthcoming single 'BlackCatJohnBrown' for a small group of fans at the Tivoli dressing room. So far the video, recorded by FaceCulture, has received 240.000 views! See the video below.