Noise Pop 2009!
Josh Ritter
Laura Gibson
Dave Smallen
Tiny Television

Josh Ritter:
The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter catches the Idaho musician in the midst of a radical transformation. While last year's The Animal Years had Ritter thinking about the state of the nation, his latest offering finds him pining for Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane and Florence Nightingale, all of whom seem to be stuck together in the belly of a whale, a la Jonah. He also manages to squeeze in a few admiring words about ladies' underwear, and that's well before Ritter, backed by drums, bass and organ and cacophony, arrives at a rollicking chorus you might be able sing along with if you¹re quick enough to get all the words.

Ritter is clearly having fun, ¹and you will, too, but there is a method to his madness. Those legendary heroines he name-checks were each responding to an inner voice that pushed them toward some extraordinary mission, one both noble and a little foolhardy. "Those voices can be pretty confusing," he says, "but there is no doubt that if you follow your two a.m. voices you¹ll end up someplace fairly extraordinary."

Laura Gibson:
"She makes a person want to close their eyes and just bask in a star-filled night" - daytrotter.com

“Her singing feels transported perhaps from the early days of sound recording.” -NPR

Tiny Television:
"Organic and deceptively simple, D'Antonio's songs are brilliant exaltations on the human condition and alas, on love. From the compositions to the textures and lyrics – there is an executed, inherent simplicity. This, however, is not to say that Tiny Television is prosaic. Instead, what D'Antonio has managed to accomplish, especially lyrically – are paralyzing meditations on the universals of pain, loss, love and redemption." - Syntax Magazine