Handcuffs Video For “Can’t Get The Girl” In Rotation at Fuse On-Demand in September and October

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Handcuffs Video For “Can’t Get The Girl” In Rotation at Fuse On-Demand in September
New Record “Electroluv” To Release This Fall

(Chicago, IL)—September 9, 2008

The video for “Can’t Get The Girl” off of the debut album, “Model for a Revolution” by Chicago songwriting/performance/production team Brad Elvis and Chloe F. Orwell, who perform as The Handcuffs, will be added in to rotation on Fuse On Demand throughout the month of September. The video can also be seen free of charge on the band’s myspace page at www.myspace.com/thehandcuffs.

The duo is currently hard at work finishing up their second studio album “Electroluv,” due out this fall via Oofl Records.

“Model for a Revolution,” their 12-song debut release, is Inspired by life’s trials and tribulations, an array of music (from Sparks to Garbage and Brazil 66 to Led Zeppelin), and the innovative fashion and photography of the late designer Rudi Gernreich, iconic mod 1960s fashion model Peggy Moffitt and renowned photographer William Claxton (the latter of whom are also partners in life).

The record provides a litany of indie rock songs that will make you tap your feet, bang your head and shout out loud just for the fun of it. Songs from Model for a Revolution, as well as unreleased (as of yet) Handcuffs’ tracks, have been placed in numerous television shows and feature films, including MTV’s The Hills, Laguna Beach, Next and Pimp My Ride; programs on A&E, E! and other networks; and the Sundance and SXSW award-winning documentary The Education of Shelby Knox.

To pick up your copy of “Model for a Revolution,” to watch and listen and to get more more information on the band please visit www.thehandcuffs.com.

Anton Sword Announces Revised Tour Dates For September

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Anton Sword Announces Revised Tour Dates For September

(New York, NY)—September 2, 2008

A few adjustments were made to unforeseeable snafus in his original tour itinerary but electro-pop raconteur Anton Sword along with his loyal band of music makers will still be making a short east coast run in early September with additional dates in Europe in October. The revised east coast dates are as follows:

9/7 – Tritone (Philadelphia)
9/8 – Felix Lounge (DC)
9/9 – Night Light (Chapel Hill)
9/10 – Hexagon (Formerly, Lo-Fi Club-Baltimore)
9/11 – Soapbox Laundrolounge (Wilmington, NC)
9/12 – The Camel (Richmond)
9/13 – Rehab (NYC)

Sword continues to support his debut album “A Sentimental Education” which became available at online stores such at iTunes and Rhapsody earlier this year. Shows will feature live drums via Kristin Mueller (Lucinda Black Bear), Jessica Hallman on cello and bass guitar and Julian Maile (Losers Lounge) on guitar along with Sword’s vocals and keyboards. Please visit www.myspace.com/antonsword and/or www.myspace.com/organicbooking for a complete listings and links to purchase advance tickets.

What if Thom Yorke did the music for "Shaft"? The Lovin' Spoonful scored "Forbidden Planet"? Stereolab wrote the "Peanuts" theme? My Bloody Valentine covered Miles Davis? Fatboy Slim wrote with Burt Bacharach? Johnny Mathis sang Nick Cave? Point being, that Anton Sword has never fit into or enjoyed genre labels. His debut album “A Sentimental Education” is a hybrid, an intersection of several tentacles reaching out from different styles, different decades, different markets, to shape something new in music. Please visit www.antonsword.com to learn more about the songs from “A Sentimental Education,” and Sword’s upcoming new record.

"Anton Sword is good at invoking time and place in his music. The time is the late 1980's, the place is a basement in the suburbs where vaguely displaced teens hang out and listen to Robert Smith & The Cure or some other mildly depressed but incredibly talented band. A Sentimental Education is dark and scintillating and full of texture imbued with an anachronistic melancholy. Anton Sword is a storyteller with an artist's ear for music, constructing vast musical landscapes against which his bard's tales are told. Many of the songs here segue one into the other almost like an epic tale made of smaller stories. The overall effect is very entertaining yet mellow."
--Wildy's World Music Blog

"Should you have forgotten what a beautiful ballad is or what a finely crafted good pop song sounds like, Anton Sword has A Sentimental Education ready for you: 11 wonderfully produced songs of melancholy, love and the fleetingness of human existence...dark but tender."
--Roman Elsener, in The Roman Games Diary Music Blog