PA's thanks.

Thank you, everyone who came to see us at PA's last night. And PA's, thanks for having us.

The setlist:
September
She's so Mature
Holidays on the Run
Chemical Dancer
Kinki Malinki
Darkly

encore:
Viva Natalia (Thanks for the request, DK! We'll start bringing it back into our sets)

Burning bible diamonds.

Ballerina

Started 2001. Finished 2007.

don't talk / you move so effortlessly / ropes and drugs could
hold you here for me / if your dad'll let me / i can't walk / but
you / you can do it for me / you can be the one i was years
ago / you can tango for me / don't run / it's a tease for sore
legs / and i'm the one who brought you here from a seed /
you're my ballerina / for life / you're my ballerina / i need
cash / so go / go malaysh / go hunting / use the eyes i gave
to you / diamond blue / burning bible diamonds / he will run /
run when i tell him / and you will learn to do the same /
dance for me / be my ballerina / for life / you're my ballerina

Click here to listen to the demo.

New Review from Metronome!

We just posted a new review from Metronome Magazine, July 2007. Here it is:

Metronome Magazine, July 2007

Top 5 for July 2007
"She's so Mature"

The Daily Pravda is a gifted band that exploits the virtues of theatrical rock on their exceptional, new five song sampler. Magnificently orchestrated arrangements filled with lush musicality pour from each track. Lead singer/guitarist David Jackel (formerly of the Crush) has an operatic rock voice a la David Bowie, that carries these songs while bandmates Adam Anderson on guitar & synth, Lindsey Starr on bass & vocals and drummer Ken Marcou blaze on their respective instruments. If this five song EP is a precursor of things to come, be prepared... The Daily Pravda could easily become the next big thing from beantown.

- Douglas Sloan


Our music is available at these online stores:


iTunes
myspace
emusic
napster
rhapsody
sony connect

Everyday is like Sunday.

We're meeting up in the PM for some writing. Have some new songs in the works. Writing is fun, long overdo. Then of course, there's the show next Thursday at PA's, which will be a fucking blast.

We'll be running around town, putting up promo material today as well. And Morrissey is on Tuesday!

Late thanks is better than no thanks.

Thank you, everyone who came to see us at Hennessy's last Thursday. We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did. Sean, thanks for booking us. Ken, thanks for the sound.


The set:

Darkly
Chemical Dancer
Kidnapped
September
Holidays on the Run
Dead House
She's so Mature
Samantha Hall
Home Invasion

Demo: "So in Love."

The quality of this demo is akin to that of the painting you would make with crayolas while drunk and blindfolded. Nevertheless, it gets the point across. Inspired by the time when I first bore witness at a Pixies reunion show, this song was initially written around the same time as "Kidnapped" and "She's so Mature" (late 2004). Several weeks ago Adam suggested we make it a Pravda song. We knocked out the structure one evening last week, and I recorded this demo (Adam would never butcher guitar parts like I do here) several hours ago. It will be interesting to see what the band does with it. I envison early Pixies meets Jefferson Airplane, plus maybe a little Patti Smith, but who really knows?

The best (and worst) part is the cowbell section in the middle - just me clucking my tongue in the mic, not really in rhythm.

Click HERE to here my demo of "So in Love" on MacIdol.

- Dave


so in love

he's fire in the sky / he loves me so he hates me / draws me to erase me /
never tells me why / the fire in the sky / loves me like a father / but treats
me like a target / makes me wanna die / but i can't live without him / cause
he's my guy / i shout my soul out / fire in the sky / said i was his favorite /
not good enough to make it / still i have to try / i can't live without him /
cause he's my guy / and so i'm telling you / to duck and run / my lovely one /
oh baby you know that he wants you / he'd kill to have you for a wife / i'll
lie and say that you're my sister / just to save my life / he's thinking of me /
so high above me / i know he loves me / goddamn he really loves me /
i know him better than you'll ever know yourself / it's really love / he's so
in love

Down by the river.

Bostonians, we'll be performing this Thursday night at Hennessy's Upstairs, in the Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall neighborhood.

We will be posting demos soon, previews of a sort for the new record.

Summertime rolls.

So we have a couple shows coming up in the Boston area:

June 14 - We play Hennessy's Upstairs Rock Club. This is a relatively new venue (we headlined their debut show earlier this year), right in the heart of downtown Boston, next to Fanueil Hall and Quincy Market. The room is beautiful; parts of it look like an Irish sitting room from 100 years ago. Joining us will be Blanks, the Glass Set, and Temper.

Blanks
http://www.myspace.com/blanks

The Glass Set
http://www.myspace.com/theglassset

Temper
http://www.myspace.com/bostontemper


June 28 - We rock out at PA's Lounge in Somerville, MA, with a great band from Copenhagen, Denmark called EPO-555.
Check them out. They sound a bit like New Order and Erasure.

EPO-55
http://www.myspace.com/epo555


July 17 - The Genders, from Tel Aviv, are coming to the Abbey Lounge in Somerville, MA, and have invited us to share the stage with them. Joining us will be Ricecookers and Suzuki Smith.

http://www.myspace.com/thegenders

Back in black.

We've been out of the loop a bit recently... just so busy. Played on Wednesday at the Baseball Tavern with Barnicle, The Unfamiliars, and BJ Snowden. Fun show. Funny too. It was hard to compete with the Sox game, and ultimately the Sox won out. But we did our usual screwing around on stage, and had a blast wrecking the place. Lindsey was dressed all in white, like an angel surrounded by the dirty Pravda boys. Karen Barnicle ended up performing solo, with the help of backing tracks from her laptop. She too, was dressed all in white. The Unfamilars played solid alt-rock (though everything sounded like alt rock coming from those speakers), with an earnest, no-frills delivery.

We played again tonight at the rehearsal dinner for Adam's wedding, at a little place on Cape Cod. Good times, and Adam got the perfect gift from Jen (his bride-to-be), an Epiphone Sheraton hollow-body guitar, just like the one John Lennon used to play. Adam's away for a week, and when he returns we have our show at Hennessy's in Boston, where we'll be debuting a new song.

We're now booking up the summer, including gigs in NYC, Philadelphia, and NJ. If anyone can recommend any good venues or bills, please let us know. We'll be heading into the studio soon enough, and we'll be posting demos from time to time.