Second Story Man will be playing the Glassworks rooftop on Friday June 24th with our friends in the band Adventure. Your admission includes a copy of the second installment in the Louisville is for Lovers summer 7″ series, featuring previously unreleased songs by Second Story Man and Adventure.

This will be the last show for bassist Mike Snowden, and probably the last time SSM will be playing older material for a long while. Hope to see you there!

Glassworks is located at 815 W. Market St.
Show starts at 8 PM.
Ages 21+
$10 admission (includes 7″)
http://www.louisvilleisforlovers.com

Stories split EP with The Helgeson Story - 1999

 
Weddings, Parties, Sympathy EP- (hand-screened CDs and 7″ formats) 2000

1. Want Within the Need
2. Clocks
3. Oompa Loompa
4. Quietly
5. Traffic Jams
6. Flies
7. The Mav
8. Floor Falls Out
9. Suicide Dream
10. Bottom Line

LP Track Listing
Side One:
Want Within the Need
Clocks
Oompa Loompa
Flies
Suicide Dream

Side Two:
Bottom Line
Quietly
The Mav
Traffic Jams

Compilations:
“Write A Note” Cheap Thrills vol. 2 2001
“This Day” Louisville is for Lovers 2002
“Babies Come from Birds” Louisville is for Lovers 2003
“Six Month Coffee” Louisville is for Lovers 2004
“This is Right” Louisville is for Lovers 2005
“Wants the Cold” Louisville is for Lovers 2006
“Darlin’ Always Once” The Way Things Change- Red Square 7″ EP and The Mother Lodge- A tribute to the Rudyard Kipling, 2003 double CD
“Floor Falls Out” Louisville Halloween- Noise Pollution 2002
“Letter to Be” Copper Press #28 2006
“Want Within the Need” Ear X-Tacy Holiday Sampler, 2009
“Lay Down and Die”- Kinghorse Tribute Album, 2010

Second Story Man is playing in Lexington, KY on Friday, December 10th @ Al’s Bar w/The Nativity Singers and Real Numbers

**This is a benefit show for The Broke Spoke, Lexington’s community bike shop**

Here’s an article about the Broke Spoke

We will be playing a show on September 24th in honor of our friend Stephen Slaton, who recently passed away.  The proceeds from the show will help his family out with the mounting medical expenses.

Show starts at 6:45

Crescent Hill Baptist Church (2800 Frankfort Avenue)
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$5

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Second Story Man
http://www.myspace.com/secondstoryman

Late Ones

Alcohawk

Fork In Socket
http://www.myspace.com/forkinsocket

Young Lions

http://www.myspace.com/theyounglionsband

Pilots
http://www.myspace.com/pilots502

August 28- Louisville, KY at Zanzabar (2100 S Preston Street) 9:00pm

Second Story Man and Straight A’s team up once again!!! SSM plays their first show since April sporting a brand new bass player (Mike Snowden of Whistle Peak and High Water Marks). Straight A’s will be performing with frequent collaborator Thommy Browne on second drums/percussion. Don’t miss this one. Fun. Fun. Fun.

From John Carswell at the Sweet Georgia Breezes blog: Having grown up in Louisville, I’m astonished to say that while I have known of Second Story Man for years now, their third long player SCREAMING SECRETS is my first full length exposure to the band. I’m not really sure why. As a 90′s scene kid, I was a fan of the members’ work in bands like Itch House and The Flats, but for whatever reason, Second Story Man have managed to hover just below the national radar for 12 years now. While they have toured occasionally with the likes of Shipping News and Sebadoh, they have otherwise contented themselves with churning out apparently masterful noise pop records whenever the mood strikes them. So unfortunately, I can’t really speak to Second Story Man’s growth as a band, but I can attest to the fact that this is a marvelous record that will most likely go tragically under-recognized. SECRETS succeeds by finding a Beatles-esque middle way between the ultra-dynamic river city indie of hometown greats like Slint and Rodan and the scrappy indie pop of early 90′s Chapel Hill bands like Superchunk and Polvo. While opener “The Want Within the Need” and A-side closer “Traffic Jams” attest that the band can rock at full-power, I find myself continually drawn to the lilting and lush “Quietly” and the pastoral acousti-pop of “Suicide Dream.” Elsewhere, the dissonance of “Flies” recalls Murray Street-era Sonic Youth, and “The Mav” best exemplifies the band’s powerful dual vocal approach. Given the overall quality of SCREAMING SECRETS, I’ll definitely search out the band’s back catalog. Having grown into this record over the last few months, I can entusiastically say that it’s high time the world get to know Second Story Man.

And another from OMG vinyl:

I have to say, we get unbelievably lucky with the quality of records that show up for review. Second Story Man is a Louisville band that has been around for over 10 years, and you can hear the experience in their music. Having toured with bands like Sebadoh and Shipping News, you can hear the wonderful 90’s sensibility that us old folks all yearn for in our rock music. It’s basically a record full of lush, awesome male/female rock and pop, and who doesn’t need more of that?

It sounds as if Second Story Man was able to consume, digest and even spit up its rushing brand of rock to create it’s newest album, Screaming Secrets. Kevin Ratterman’s production assistance can be heard throughout and his Funeral Home recording studio proved to be a fitting sonic battlefield for Second Story Man to wage its own musical war. Screaming Secrets is able to pin swollen waves of grinding tones against swift melodies and swooping harmonies. Warm, oozing textures trudge forward through nerved guitars, restless drums and erratic vocals (“Want Within the Need” and “Clocks”), only to be blinded by clouds of reverb and lofty dynamics on tracks like “Oompa Loompa” and “Traffic Jams.” Violins and banjos are spread across several tracks in a strangely tasteful way. While a host of influences are evident, Second Story Man quickly and firmly plants its own impression of what it means to rock and how to do so. Second Story Man manages to build and keep control of a creatively energetic rock sound. It’s a comfortable chaos amplified by big production that’s not easy to achieve. With Screaming Secrets, the band has raised the bar for themselves and other post-punk indie rock bands. Want more? It’s at myspace.com/secondstoryman.

by Hunter Embry

Louisville Lip Records will also be releasing the long awaited Kinghorse tribute compilation at the Endpoint Reunion shows in Louisville this weekend.  Second Story Man covered the Kinghorse song, “Lay Down and Die.” All proceeds from the record will go directly to local musician and filmmaker Jason Noble.