Uncle Skeleton

We are happy to announce that the first single from the forthcoming double-LP All Too Human is now available for your streaming and downloading pleasure. “Sophisticuffs” is the first new music to be officially released since Warm Under the Covers and, hopefully, it whets your appetite for the onslaught of new tunes that will be headed your way in the spring.

The single release also features a remix from Burgers, a live rehearsal outtake of the title track and a previously unreleased b-side, “Laii.” To obtain all this all you need to do is head over to our Bandcamp, enter in your email and the downloading will immediately begin.

Photo by Chad McClarnon

Remember A New Life? That short film that Uncle Skeleton provided the score for? Well, it’s complete and looking for distribution to film festivals with your help. You can support the film by donating via Kickstarter here. The best part? Aside from helping a worthwhile filmmaker out you’ll be rewarded with an exclusive digital download of “Reception.” It’s a track you can’t get anywhere else! Go check it out!

After Bonnaroo we were asked to play the morning show for our local FOX affiliate morning show. We finally got our hands on a digital copy of the performance and are happy to share it here. It is easily one of the oddest places we’ve been asked to perform but we’re pleased with the results. Enjoy!

Photo by: Lance Conzett

We did it.

Thanks to everyone who came out and we hope you enjoyed the set!

Photo by: Lance Conzett

Many thanks to all who voted in the Mercy Lounge / BMI Road to Bonnaroo series last night for Uncle Skeleton. The troupe will be gathering up and headed off to Manchester, TN in early June to play for the throngs of people willing to face the Tennessee heat. Everyone in the band is entirely appreciative, flattered and completely excited.

Read up on all the competition here.

Chad McClarnon has been working on a short film entitled “A New Life” and asked Uncle Skeleton to provide the score. This video documents the recording of the string arrangements for the piece “Reception” – which will be included in the film. As more information makes its way out in the world regarding the film, we’ll be sure to let you know.. in the meantime, enjoy the video.

Check out this great promotional video for The Rabbit Press courtesy of Tripp / Jenna Watt. Aside from being an engaging piece of stop motion it also features upcoming Uncle Skeleton music. LP3 is lurking.

Warm Under the Covers was named in the Nashville Scene Top Albums of 2010; no small feat given all the great music that comes out of the Nashville music scene in a given calendar year. Many thanks to all who voted and even more thanks to all those who listened.

Photo by Weston Heflin

Thursday nights Next Big Nashville performance at Mercy Lounge went incredibly well. The event was thankfully documented by the likes of Weston Heflin and Seth and Julia Walden. Many thanks to them, the whole band, all the staff at Next Big Nashville / Mercy and especially everyone who came out to see us.

Jason Wilkins by Eric England

Many thanks to Next Big Nashville founder Jason Wilkins for mentioning Uncle Skeleton in this exclusive interview with Huffington Post. Jason talks about the festival, its progress and the fact that Nashville isn’t just country music; citing Uncle Skeleton as a prime example. Here’s the relevant pullquote:

MR: Now, you have one hundred and fifty signed, unsigned, indie, and nationally recognized artists who will be performing over the four nights. I like to champion newbies, so who are some of the lesser known names?

JW: Yeah, some of the lesser knowns. There’s a national band that I’m particularly fond of right now. They’ve got kind of an Arcade Fire meets boys raised on gospel and Bruce Springsteen approach to what they do, and they’re called The Apache Relay. They’re a fantastic live band, and probably a complete unknown from a national standpoint right now. There’s a band called Uncle Skeleton who is very interesting. It’s actually a son of a famous Nashville songwriter and artist, and he gets in there and makes kind of electro, glitchy, strange pop music. But then, live, he delivers it almost like E.L.O. with full strings and everything too.

MR: Who’s the father?

JW: The father is Steve Wariner.

MR: Oh, of course, Steve Wariner, yeah.

JW: Yeah, he and his son, Ross used to have a band called Kindercastle, and his new one is Uncle Skeleton. He really puts a lot into the presentation of it. He’s very much got the Jeff Lynne, Brian Wilson, mad genius approach to it. …

Mad genius? I’ll take that as a compliment. Hat tip to Aaron Hartley for the heads up on the interview and the mention.