The Lennings at SXSW
Lennings to play SXSW Interactive Awards Show!
Tuesday March 13th at 6:00pm, The Lennings will be playing the SXSW Interactive Awards show. The event will be held in the 6th floor ballroom of the Downtown Hilton in Austin, TX. Jenny Slate (SNL, Marcel the Shell) and Gabe Leidman (This American Life, The Onion) will be hosting.
More info here:
http://sxsw.com/node/9893
All of the versions of cover songs posted on facebook and twitter can also be found at http://soundcloud.com/lennings. Feel free to send requests for cover songs to lenningsland@gmail.com.
Hole in the Wall ~ Feb 10 ~ 11:00pm
Another beautiful poster by Steve Richey at RVC Media. Photo of Seattle Public Library by Brian May. See you this Friday!
Lennings Cover Songs
Our new album is being mixed at this very moment! Now, even though this is a very exciting time for us, it may be less exciting for you, as you don’t get to hear any of it yet. So in the meantime, I’ve been alone in my house, recording weird acoustic versions of very popular songs by very popular artists and posting them here every Sunday:
http://soundcloud.com/lennings/
I also post them on facebook, so if you have yet to click “like” on our facebook page, go ahead and do that right now. I’ll wait here.
“Hologram” from our Sofar Sounds DFW show
This is from a secret show we played in a boat house out on the middle of a lake. You could actually see the water through the floor boards. Feet stomping on said floor boards caused some camera shakiness. By the way, Karl (drummer) couldn’t make it to the show, so Ross (bassist) played cajon, and Virginia (bassist) played upright bass.
“You’re The One That I Want” by The Lennings – Grease cover – As seen on NBC’s Parenthood
In case you’ve heard this song recently and are seeking info…
This is “You’re the One That I Want” from the movie/musical Grease, covered by Austin, TX indie folk band The Lennings. Technically, it’s just by the singer of The Lennings, but when they play this song live, the whole band is involved. “You’re The One That I Want” was featured on the show Parenthood on NBC in the episode entitled “Sore Loser”.
The Lennings’ Grease cover originally started out as a simple rainy day recording and youtube video of a pot of water slowly coming to a boil. It was more or less an experiment to see if a song could actually make people put up with having to stare at a pot of boiling water…not to mention, proving that a watched pot does in fact boil.
Readers of Tolly Moseley’s blog “Austin Eavesdropper” seemed to like it and began sharing it far and wide. It strangely started to be embraced not only by people who love the original song from Grease, but also by people who hate the original song from Grease. Someone even said, “The Lennings’ cover of ‘You’re The One That I Want’ sounds like it should be the original version, and the original version sounds like how they would have covered it on the show Glee.”
Which brings us to the National Broadcasting Corporation. NBC eventually chose The Lennings’ sweet and heartfelt cover for a sweet and heartfelt scene in which two Parenthood characters have their first kiss. The Lennings have a new album coming out this winter, and even though “You’re The One That I Want” is somewhat different from the majority of their other material, we here in LenningsLand are confident that NBC’s audience and the typical Lennings audience will somehow find a way to coexist. Maybe they’ll have their first kiss too.
