May 9, 2012 ~ Band Reunion at the Hotel
I love the people with whom I play music. We're going to celebrate the whole way through, rehearsal, to dinner, to the show.
Thursday, June 14th at 11pm
Hotel Cafe in Hollywood
March 26, 2012 ~ Live Broadcast!
Tuesday, March 27th starts Tuesday with Toedtman!
Watch it live HERE or stay tuned for a later video.
January 12, 2012 ~ I am not a stalker
Part fantasy, all yearning in the key of B Major. Watch a simple video I made of my brand new song. Couldn't wait to share.
December 8, 2011 ~ New song for the holidays!
Click here to purchase my new song: Jolly Old Saint Nicholas or sign up for my newsletter to receive it for free!
December 3, 2011 ~ Tune in today!
Studio City Sound brought me back for their first Christmas Special and I wrote a new song for the occasion! Tune in today at 3pm PST and I'll post a direct link afterwards.
September 15, 2011 ~ Tuesdays with Toedtman video!
A big thanks to Brian Prestwich who came and filmed my entire last Tuesday with Toedtman on his iPad. Here's one of my favorites, my new song, Phone Call.
September 5 , 2011 ~ In studio videos
Here, from Studio City Sound's SCAMfest, some videos with my dear beloved band. Click through related videos and you'll see all 8 tracks. Thanks to Tom Weir at SCS for his fine engineering!
August 26, 2011 ~ Live broadcast tonight!
As part of the Studio City Arts & Music online festival, the band and I will record a live in-studio performance and interview at 10pm PST. Click the headphones to visit the page now and stay tuned for a direct link if you miss it live!
Studio City Sound ustream.tv Channel
August 22, 2011 ~ I Want a New Drug (live)
On the first of the Tuesdays with Toedtman, Dylan Cooper joined me on stage for a cover of Huey Lewis' I Want a New Drug. Stay tuned for the studio version ..
July 31, 2011 ~ Tuesdays with Toedtman
Tuesday has long been my favorite day of the week. Come join me in August for 3 very different shows.
2nd ~ Solo, new tunes & a surprise cover
16th ~ Toedtman Tribute Night with special guests singing my songs: The Brendan Hines / Brother Sal Leonardo / Arielle Verinis and Shawn Kirchner
30th ~ Full 7-piece Band reunites!
See details on the Shows page.
June 15, 2011 ~ New York & PA shows!
Check out the SHOWS page for details. Tuesday, June 28th at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC and Wednesday, June 29th at McCleary's Pub House in Lancaster, PA.
May 28, 2011 ~ New song, new video!
Hear my latest song (with birds, passing cars & the ice in my cocktail) here or on Youtube!
March 10, 2011 ~ Tour photos & more
Visit the facebook page to see photos & more from the road!
February 16, 2011 ~ Tour dates announced
Check the SHOWS page for the dates coming up. Come out and pack into these tiny rooms with us, we'll get cozy.
January 27 , 2011 ~ Horses and Hawks Tour
Kristen and The Brendan will be hitting the road in one month on the Horses and Hawks West Coast Winter Tour. Dates and details will be announced shortly.
January 18, 2011 ~ Now on Pandora!
Oh yeah, now you can create your very own Kristen Toedtman station (not that it shouldn't stop your mix tape production ...)
CLICK HERE to start NOW!
I'm loving discovering new similar artists there.
January 8, 2011 ~ Let's get this year started!
Come on down to the Hotel Café tonight to hear some tunes and merriment from The Brendan Hines & Co., Incorporated. I'll be singing and shaking tambourine, we've got the entire full band, too, so it'll be great fun AND sound terrific.
December 22, 2010 ~ Happy Holidays!
What's the holiday season without some holiday music? Pick up a copy of the Gumbo Family Holiday Album and do some good at the same time. All proceeds go to Students Run LA, a local organization helping kids set goals and reach them. Here's a sampler of the record (and me singing Christmas in New Orleans).
October 5, 2010 ~ Live at the Hotel Café!
My good friend Topher Hopkins showed up Friday night and took some beautiful footage of our show. Here we are performing "Chasing the Dance" Friday, October 1st at the Hotel Café.
Mike Freas, guitar | Chris Lovejoy, drums | Dylan Cooper, bass | Jon McBride, organ | Tuzy Ellis, Katie Cole & Tonoccus McClain singing away!
September 21, 2010 ~ Singing on New Release!
Some of you may know I get to sing all over town in fancy places (Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, etc) as a part of the world class Los Angeles Master Chorale. At the top of the summer (beFORE the tour, beFORE Baltimore . . .), we met at the acoustically dreamy WD Concert Hall with it's HUGE pipe organ and recorded an entire CD of the music of young Nico Muhly for DECCA Records, entitled A Good Understanding. I downloaded it ahead of time from iTunes, and now it is officially in stores nationwide! More importantly, it is GORGEOUS and provocative. Check out samples on iTunes and Amazon.com and purchase from anywhere!
August 18, 2010 ~ Baltimore Soundbytes
Thank you BALTIMORE! What a beautiful time we had, culminating in one full-house love fest at the Patterson Theater. Check out these photos if you couldn't make it:
Before we made it to the stage, we had some RADIO LOVE at WYPR and WTMD. Listen to the WYPR Maryland Morning interview with Tom Hall anytime! at their site here:
And here's the full WTMD interview with Erik Deatherage. Can you tell we were having fun?
(It will take some time to load. Click play and when it stops, pause it & give it some time to travel through space to your machine ...)
Next up, some quality Los Angeles time. Stay tuned for shows!
Still haven't bought your copy of The Fall? Find it on cdbaby today!
They're going like hotcakes they tell me!
July 22, 2010 ~ Touring
Just back from singing lead for the exciting, electric & madly talented 11-piece Afrobeat band from San Francisco known as APHRODESIA, I find myself wanting more road time! Watch the Facebook page for photos & news on that.
Fortunately, in less than 2 weeks' time, I head back to BALTIMORE for a highly-anticipated show with the ever-talented Abby Mott at the Patterson Theater in Highlandtown. Entitled THE GALS COME BACK we'll regale you with stories from afar and charming banter... we tend to have a lot of fun together! Can't make it? We'll have TWO radio interviews (WYPR with Tom Hall; WTMD with Erik Deatherage) to convince you you wish you could make it. Joining us on stage is The Brendan Hines to show you what Charm really means.
And all this in CHARM CiTY!
I'll post radio info as we know air dates. Thanks for staying in touch!
April 6, 2010 ~ Blog love
Jon over at the new Dogtown Gris Gris blog wrote quite a beautiful review. Ch-ch-check it out!
DogTown Gris Gris
Funk. Roots. Truth.
March 29, 2010 ~ Artist of the Month!
The fine folk at the Music Zeitgeist blog have chosen lil ole me as their Indie Artist of the Month. Furthermore, they said some pretty cool things about my music. Check it plus an interview out here!
MusicZeitgeist.com
March 15, 2010 ~ Shows & Tunes
Shows on the horizon, check'em out. We set up, do a sound check and then have fun, it's predictable!
Meanwhile, many internet radio stations are starting to put my songs on their playlist. So far there's:
Women's Radio
Common Nonsense
Banana Peel Radio
PLUS, THE FALL is now available on iTunes and Amazon.com. Download away! And kindly leave a review if you have a moment.
Thanks for the continued support, it makes all the difference!
~KT
January 28, 2010 ~ The album is UP on cdbaby.
Coming soon to iTunes, Rhapsody, the world. Are you in LA? Come see some shows we've got coming up.
December 8, 2009 ~ Designing with fingers crossed!
Tweaking the web design, you may notice some funny stuff. Bear with me ...
December 7, 2009 ~ Typing with fingers crossed!
The masters go in today and should make the deadline to have the CDs mailed to me by Monday the 21st, the date of the show!
Details so far:
Monday, December 21st
Bootleg Theater
2220 Beverly Blvd
www.bootlegtheater.com
$10
8pm Brandon Mayer & The Hidden Powers
9pm The Brendan Hines
10pm Kristen with BAND!
11pm tba
November 19, 2009 ~ My ukulele will be heard!
EXTRA EXTRA! Read all about it. I'm changing the name of the record. Just like that. To what?! That's to be determined yet. Have an idea? Tell it to me!
Also, I'm putting on a last minute addition to the record, a one Horrible Things by (the) Brendan Hines. Dylan Cooper's producing it, me on uke, voices (in my head), and bicycle parts. That's right. It'll be sweet, even if the song tries not to be (it still is).
November 12, 2009
The recording process is finally finished! So exciting, and big thanks will continue to be delivered to all the amazing musicians who played with me since we started recording 1 year ago!
Mixing is al...most complete. I'm having Wrong Time of Year and Here to You RE-mixed through an analog console so that through 'n through this record will sound GOOD. Warm and old-timey, pull a chair up by the fire, & be careful not to burn your tongue on that hot cocoa TASTY.
Projected finish date is December, 2009. Vague, right? Give me a minute, the details will start falling into place.
November 12, 2009
Welcome to the new, temporary kristentoedtman.com . . . I'll keep you abreast of the record status (read: when you can hold it and take it in your car and play it over the loudspeakers and ....) Thanks for visiting and sign up for my newsletter to the left!
