semipop indiefolk acoustic rock - Alan Semerdjian - News

2012 - the news

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Alan Semerdjian is in the middle of writing songs that will most assuredly be included in a new release...hopefully in 2012. Look for a west coast tour this summer. If you haven't read his poetry (a serious lyrical and experimental exploration of identity, history, and memory), you can at www.genpopbooks.com. You can also read his prose at www.lipulse.com.

summer summer 2011

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Look for dates with my good friend Mike Bloom in early August other great gatherings like The Great South Bay Festival and a reading of GenPop authors in NYC in July. It's all on the calendar feed...make sure you click on the FULL FEED feature on the bottom of our home page.

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Fall/Winter 2010/2011

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Big show on Long Island this November. Other than that, it's writing writing writing. See you in the new year! Thank you for the love and support.

Spring 2010 update

Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anyone want to host a house/living room concert? Contact me at alan@alanarts.com. Two are in the works already and more to come. Thanks GenPop Books (and all of you who helped make the book what it is) for putting out In the Architecture of Bone as well...what a great literary ride it's been. Again, more to come. Stay tuned for a big summer show or two in the NYC area. Thanks for the continued support, people. This is all for you/us.

Fall 2009/Winter 2010 Update

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

So the music will slow down for a while, good people. Big thanks for all the great shows of love for The Big Beauty over the past few months. After the October 30th fundraiser for the AGBU at NYC's Canal Room, I'll be concentrating on promoting my first full-length book of poetry, In the Architecture of Bone (GenPop Books 2009). The poems deal with growing up hyphenated-american, reconciling the very unreconciled armenian genocide, and my grandfather, the cubist-impressionist painter Simon Samsonian. For more information on this, see www.genpopbooks.com. The Big Beauty is available at iTunes and CdBaby.com. Get in there. Hope to see you at a reading down the line...

love,

as

sweet summer 2009

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

What a summer so far. The Big Beauty Summer Tour is grand...big shows and small shows and a few in between. Seeing great friends along the way always is a plus too. Thanks to Portland, Maine Community Radio (Jeff!) and Portsmouth Community Radio (Chris G. and Terry!) and Shenecteday Today (Richard G. and Jack!) for some special community broadcast shows...

Stay tuned for LA next month and a few more shows in September before slowing the music down and getting set to release my first full-length book of poetry...

Thanks for everything...especially for reading this.

::::as

Thank You Chris Bro, NEXT, and 107.1 The Peak

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dear Diary,

So I'm back in Huntington, NY for the day browsing through the aisles at Book Revue (one of the truest indie bookstores in perhaps the nation) and one of the employees there, Kevin - a real kind guy whom I've known peripherally for quite a while - tells me that it was real cool to hear me on the radio the other night. He goes on to tell me that it was 107.1 FM The Peak, and immediately I think that I haven't thanked Chris Bro and his NEXT show on the Peak. He's what I call a "super music guy"; he's made it his mission to do good for music lovers and musicians for his stay here on earth. I got in contact with him through a real great songwriter and friend named Neil Nathan. We played a show together for NEXT up in Stamford, CT. Great folks, great music, lots of pool tables (the place was called Rack N Roll) and the magic of Chris Bro, the wonderful wizard of indie rock. Check out his webpage for the program: www.nextmusiconline.com/8 Look for Alan Semerdjian on one of his playlists after a Flaming Lips cover of Madonna's Borderline...Neil Young comes after me...yes, he makes some pretty great mixes too...

Thanks again Chris! and Neil for making the connection! I'm hoping to connect with NEXT soon...

Vote for "Can't Wait"

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Hi.

The music video/public art project for my song "Can't Wait," directed by Haik Kocharian, is being aired as part of a contest on Indi Music TV, a program on WLNY (channel 10 or 55-depending on where you live), a TV station in the Long Island/New York City area. The video is on at 2:00am tonight 4.03.09 (Friday night/Saturday morning), and the voting begins after the video is aired. It would be awesome if you could vote for this several times (once per day) over the next week. Registration is super easy. Here's the link:

http://www.indimusictv.com/season02/watchandvote.cfm.

Thanks so much in advance. Please pass the link around and tell friends to vote. It would be a big win for me and unusually beautiful music videos in general if "Can't Wait" won.

You're the best.

::::alan

New News

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

So the new The Big Beauty CD is released and available on iTunes, and while there are no official reviews yet from any major regional/national publications yet the feedback on a local level has been awesome. The music video too has been well-received and is up for an award in a music video contest on Indi Music TV. More on that later. Stay tuned for summer touring dates too - NYC, LA, Boston, Philly, among others.
Appreciaton!

The Music Video and Other News

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The new CD is officially released, but it will take a little while for it to
appear on itunes and amazon and cdbaby and other digital music stores. You can grab mp3's from Digstation though:
http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumID=ALB000027063

And if you haven't checked out the music video/mini-documentary/ short film
for my song "Can't Wait" directed by Haik Kocharian, check it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEAq35TRG5M

We got a whopping response that blew me away. I hope you send it to your address book and turn other people on to it. Perhaps people can post
comments stating what it is that they (you) can't wait for?

Stay tuned beautiful people. Real music and art will continue to exist as long as there's folks like you out there who support it.

Thank you.