SAM CHAMPION To Release Sophomore LP "HEAVENLY BENDER"

SAM CHAMPION To Release Sophomore LP "HEAVENLY BENDER" Out July 15th On North Street Records!

To Play Sold Out Show At Mercury Lounge Wed April 23rd, 9 PM With The Virgins.

SM CHMPN EP Out Now On RCRD LBL :
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Sam_Champion/music

Stereogum : "an absolute force of nature"

Gorillavsbear : "these guys are the truth and i hear they are better live"

Aziz Ansari (Human Giant): "Its already becoming really cool to hate this album."

Rolling Stone : "one of the most buzzworthy releases of 2007"

Gothamist : "Sam Champion is New York's musical anachronism. While most rock bands either bow down to Max's Kansas City circa 1975 or the UK in the post-punk wave of the early '80s, the band is all too happy to take its cues from the '90s"

Spin.com : "While his guitar style is firmly rooted in garage rock, Chernin's sharp lyrics separate Sam Champion from the rest of the Lower East Side pack.

Be here now, captain. What you got in your hands, there, Jack, is a copy of the new Sam Champion album, "Heavenly Bender." Stick it in your stereo and take a listen. Press play.

(If, for the love of the God, you're using a computer, I hope you have some sweet speakers.)

How's that chorus? Sounds pretty damn good, doesn't it? Are you keeping it like a secret? (Please don't. You're a member of the press!)

Can you see the stars where you are? We can't see 'em in New York. Let me tell you this is a damn good rock band at the height of their Byzantine powers. Jack Dolgen's bass rumbles and bounces like it should. Sean Bones' guitar can't miss a note, except, of course when that note is supposed to be missed. And you can hear those pounding drums. And on top of it all, Noah Chernin's plainspeaking about the old tropes that never get old: relationships, mortality, the human spirit, and hard work.

And good old hard work is how Sam Champion has got where they are. It's not an easy game in New York. Rents are pricey and bands are a buck a minute and pizza ovens tend to catch on fire. (More on that later.)

Sam Champion, or the Champ, as we like to call em, hustled onto tours with the Hold Steady, Cold War Kids, Rogue Wave, Apollo Sunshine, the Slip, and Two Gallants. They've gone to England and returned victorious and not a little Victorian and praised by the Guardian. They've killed it at Bonnaroo 2007. The music blogs caught on, premiered the new stuff: VBS.TV <http://VBS.TV> , Brooklyn Vegan, Gorilla vs. Bear, Stereogum.

It's a nice list of accomplishments, surely, for sure, to be sure. But this record that you're hearing "Heavenly Bender" has been four years in the making. During this godblessed time the Champ went from wearing their influences— Tom Petty, Booker T & The MG's, and Crazy Horse —on their sleeves to amalgamating all those old good songs into something great and new.