Aloud’s newest song, “You Will Know”, holds steady at number four on the Boston Emissions Top Five new songs listener’s poll!

Thank you all for voting and your continued support. This week’s poll can be found on the shiny and new WZLX website.

This week’s episode of Boston Emissions was a tribute to host Anngelle Wood’s former home at WFNX, featuring Boston music from past and present. The show re-airs on WBCN Monday and Thursday nights.

The band’s previous ventures onto the Top Five include “To Die at Sea” (off the album Exile), and Aloud’s Fall 2011 single “The Cash and the Pearls”, which was eventually retired after making the list for seven weeks in a row.

10th Anniversary EP

To mark the tenth anniversary of Aloud, this week the Boston Phoenix has released the Aloud 10th Anniversary EP. Spotlighting songs from all three studio albums—handpicked by Jen and Henry—the download is available for free on the Phoenix's On The Download music blog.

Each [song] personifies the spirit of Aloud: raw, honest, and, in the end, a damn fine rock and roll band doing it on their terms.

I Can’t Believe That Worked

Director Stephen LoVerme of Treebeard Media has been filming a short documentary on ten years of Aloud. Featuring rare and previously unreleased footage as well as interviews with Jen and Henry (conducted by Anthony Geehan), I Can't Believe That Worked is slated to be out this summer.

Watch the teaser trailer below!

Reviews in the Noise and the Biloxi Sun-Herald

As the band heads westward, Aloud continues to pick up reviews for Exile. In the latest issue of The Noise. Debbie Catalano, who also happened to review Aloud’s very first demo years ago, reviews:

It’s a recording that belies categorization—and that’s a good thing in my book. … After many, many years of doing recording reviews, it excites me to hear a band present not only something that is different and creative but that is subtly and unpretentiously so.

Read the whole review on The Noise’s website: http://www.thenoise-boston.com/content/view/357/17/ (scroll down to read it)

Exile also gets some love all the way from Mississippi. The Biloxi Sun-Herald gave Exile 4/5 stars. Click here to read the review on the Sun-Herald’s site.

Even more Exile tour dates

Here’s a list of what’s been thrown onto the queue since last week:

If you’re in any of these areas, we’d love to see you! Got friends in the area? Let ‘em know! Aloud is hitting up the Northwest this week. For the latest dates, check out the Performances page.

Keeping up with the band

Aloud has been diligently posting away on Twitter and Facebook, occasionally dropping postcards in the mail to folks. Don’t miss out and follow Aloud on Twitter (@aloudonline) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/aloudonline). You might miss getting that all important postcard with tornado survival tips.

After the release show for Exile in September ended with the quiet strains of “To Die at Sea”, Aloud led the crowd in a singalong of the Beatles classic “A Day in the Life” on the floor accompanied by acoustic guitars, tambourine, a washboard, and some horns. The encore was the perfect cap to a festive evening. The footage below was shot by Conor Olmstead and Chris March (who also edited). Enjoy!

Horse of a different color.

It’s been an eventful week for Aloud as the gang passes the first week on the Exile US tour. Two reviews have been picked up in the interim. The first was from Playground Boston, who was present at the Beast of the Northeast CMJ showcase.

The Boston rock veterans (and PGB Favorites) put together a solid set featuring an excellent blend of older hits mixed in with tracks from the new album. …Their live show features energetic and upbeat arrangements of the new tracks while sacrificing none of their poignance and meaning.

Read the rest of the review on Playground Boston (and check out the rest of their CMJ coverage) over here: http://playgroundboston.com/2010/10/27/cmjp1/

Exile was also reviewed in Reviewer Magazine yesterday. Reviewer Kent Manthie had some nice things to say about the album’s choice of instrumentation and complimented the band overall:

Aloud are nothing if not an original sounding band: there’s nothing “retro” about them, even if they use regular instruments for the most part and don’t create all the sounds with a computer program they still crank out some fresh, new material that stands up on its own.

Read the rest on the Reviewer Magazine site here: http://reviewermag.com/press/?p=3161

Exile is also a top pick over at LMNOP. Click here to read the full review.

Ping!

Aloud is now active on iTunes Ping! If you’ve ever used iTunes, Ping is very easy to use. Just click here to follow Aloud on Ping (this link will automatically open up iTunes 10). Spread the word to your friends!

These just keep piling up, don’t they?

More dates have been added to the tour this week!

As always, the most up-to-date info on the tour can be found in the Performances page. Remember, the Exile tour continues through the end of the year, so keep checking back for more dates and keep telling your friends!

We all love pictures.

Lastly, photos from the trip to Pittsburgh are below. For more pics, head on over to the Exile tour collection on Aloud’s Flickr page. Plenty more pics to follow. Everyone’s been shutter-happy the last week.

Performer Magazine reviews Exile in their November issue.

Aloud has the mysterious ability to send its listeners through an atmospheric adventure by creating intelligently structured songs, bound together by a strong lyrical presence. … Exile evokes sweeping emotions of heartache and hopefulness.

You can read the whole review in page 31 of the magazine, or page 33 of the pdf, which you can download here.

[We would also like to submit a correction to the credits listed in the review: Exile was mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering. Maria Rice, also from Peerless Mastering, was the assistant mastering engineer.]

…or “Tuesday Morning Round-Up, Pt. 2: Wednesday”

In advance of tomorrow’s album release show at Church for Exile (*cough cough link to Facebook event page here*), Aloud has been getting some love from Boston today.

This week’s issue of the Weekly Dig features a glowing review of Exile that’s left everyone blushing. Here’s an excerpt:

Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain have made a name for themselves with the searing vocals and straight-forward rock efforts of 2008′s Fan The Fury. With Exile… Aloud has delivered a stunning, multifaceted opus, proving that Beguiristain can do more than bust guitar strings and de la Osa is hardly just another girl screaming into a microphone.

Go pick up a free copy of the to read the rest. It’s worth it for the Dig’s kickass feature on pies alone.

This Blue Heaven‘s singer MacKenzie Outlund’s weekly Wednesday Duologues features a chat (as in G-Chat) with Jen. Click here to read it and quite possibly find out about German strippers who may or may not be at the show tomorrow. (SPOILER ALERT: there will be no German strippers at the album release show. All strippers will strictly be of Québécois descent.)

Anything else? Why, yes! C. D. on Songs over at Boston Band Crush has posted a song review of Old Soldier. Reviewer C. D. Di Guardia was among the first to hear a very rough mix of Old Soldier back in November of last year during an interview for the Performer cover story featuring Aloud. Click here to read what he thinks of the finished product close to one year later!

Tune in tonight to WZLX 100.7FM at 10pm to catch Aloud on Boston Emissions.

Jen and Henry will be chatting it up with hostess Anngelle Wood about the new album, the upcoming tour, and the CD release show.

And don’t forget: To Die at Sea is on Boston Emissions’ Fave New Local Song Poll. Go vote for it now!

If you’re not in the area, you can still listen live at www.wzlx.com.

Photo courtesy: Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe

Aloud was featured in today’s Boston Globe.

Reporter Jonathan Perry sat down with Henry and Jen last week in Harvard Square to talk about the new album, the upcoming US tour, and the years leading up to Exile.

The Boston rock outfit Aloud is proof positive that, sometimes, less really can be more. And despite their moniker, not to mention a reputation around these parts as a band of big hooks and even bigger harmonies, they’ve gotten quieter to prove that point.

Read the whole article here on the Boston Globe website!

Music from “Exile” has been posted to the site. Just head click on Music, and it’ll be the first thing you see. Easy? Easy. Four tracks from the album (“Darkest Days”, “Exile in the Night”, “Old Soldier”, and “To Die at Sea”) are available for your listening pleasure.

And on the note of listening pleasure, Aloud will be making the rounds on radio this weekend. This Saturday, Sept. 18, at 7pm, Henry and Jen head over to WMFO‘s The Dweezil Show (91.5FM Medford, Mass). Sunday, Sept. 19, at 10pm they return to 100.7FM WZLX‘s Boston Emissions—their first appearance on the show since 2008, and the first since superwoman Anngelle Wood took the reins. (“To Die at Sea” has been getting airplay on Boston Emissions and has made it on the Fave Local Song Poll. Go vote for “To Die at Sea”!)

If you’re not in the area, both stations can be heard online at www.wmfo.org and www.wzlx.com, respectively. Alternately, if you operate outside of the fourth dimension, the shows are archived at the WMFO site and the Boston Emissions site (www.bostonemissions.com) for listening at your convenience.

But it’s always so much better when you tune in with everyone, eh?