[official post] New Shows Announced!
Posted on August 25, 2008
New tour dates have been posted on the official website:
She and Him are pleased to announce the following shows in November:
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
(Special ticket pre-sale on Wednesday, August 28th at 3pm local time HERE)Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Bimbo’s 365 Club – San Francisco, CA
(Special ticket pre-sale on Wednesday, August 28th at 3pm local time HERE)Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
House of Blues – Anaheim, CA
(Special ticket pre-sale on Wednesday, August 28th at 3pm local time HERE)
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She & Him Posters
Posted on August 17, 2008
Gigposters has three posters that were used to promote She & Him on their summer tour. It doesn’t appear that any of these are for sale (unfortunately). [thanks foobar]
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She & Him on Sound Opinions Podcast
Posted on August 17, 2008
Check out She & Him’s interview and live performance on Chicago Public Radio’s Sound Opinions podcast here. [thanks foobar]
This week’s guests are She & Him, the “she” being actress Zooey Deschanel and the “him” being musician Matt Ward, known to fans as M. Ward. The two met during the making of the movie “The Go-Getter,” and quickly learned they were successful collaborators. She & Him’s first album Volume One, is a collection of songs written by Zooey, as well as a couple of covers. Zooey explains that she’s most influenced classic pop songwriting, much of which pre-dates rock and roll. You can hear the country, doo-wop and Brill-building influence on the duo’s music as they perform their songs “Take It Back” and “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” as well as two bonus tracks.
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She & Him charm the pants off First Avenue [First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN Review]
Posted on August 11, 2008
Another article, this one from City Pages, gushing about what we already know — Zooey and Matt rocks. It’s yet another positive review on She & Him’s August 7th performance in Minneapolis.
Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward sure are easy to like. Everything about the She & Him duo is charming: their mismatched pronouns; their shy, disarming demeanor; their classic, old fashioned love songs. Within minutes of taking the stage at First Avenue, they had captured the attention (and hearts) of every person in the near-capacity crowd, and the audience hung on their every note and phrase. It was possibly the most soothing, engaging show I have ever seen at a rock club.
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Sweet love songs convincingly honest [Wexner Center - Columbus, OH Review]
Posted on August 11, 2008
There’s another positive show review coming from The Columbus Dispatch on She & Him’s August 4th Wexner Center (Columbus, OH) show. [thanks fabgroovy for the link]
Irony took a vacation last night in the Wexner Center’s Performance Space during a two-hour concert headlined by She & Him.
The band’s mostly acoustic sound casually framed the sweet, pining love songs of actress Zooey Deschanel, who sang them with a winning simplicity and convincing honesty. Hip indie-rock songwriter M. Ward, Deschanel’s co-conspirator and producer of the group’s debut album, masterminded the presentation with a reserved style that set the tone for the set.
Deschanel’s songs, remembrances of old love, yearnings for new and ambivalence over romance lost, were front and center all night. Many began with simple lines with a classic ring: “I was taking a walk when I saw you pass by,” from I Was Made For You; “Cried all night ’til there was nothing more,” from Sentimental Heart.
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Actress Deschanel impressive in rock duo [Barrymore - Madison, WI Review]
Posted on August 9, 2008
There’s a positive review of She & Him’s August 8th performance at the Barrymore in The Capital Times:
It reads like the screenplay for a 1960s B-movie musical aimed at the teen drive-in crowd: A glamorous, young Hollywood actress meets up with a scruffy roots rocker, and the unlikely duo make beautiful music together.
It doesn’t sound like the sort of movie that Zooey Deschanel would agree to star in (although she was in M. Night Shyamalan’s hilariously bad “The Happening,” so who knows?). But she’s living the real-life version with indie rocker M. Ward as the duo She & Him, who together played an utterly charming show at the Barrymore Theatre on Friday night.
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She & Him At The Newport Folk Festival [Live Recording]
Posted on August 3, 2008
NPR Music has the entire She & Him Newport Folk Festival performance at their website here (click “Hear the Full She & Him Concert”). The accompanying article is below:
Technical difficulties didn’t deter M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel from plugging on ahead, even if that meant plugging in an electric guitar instead of an acoustic guitar. And then Newport’s infamous rain came down… hard. But that didn’t stop them either, especially when back-up vocalist and songstress Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond) joined She & Him on stage for her sad country-swing song, “The Garden Rose.” Read more
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The Boston Globe: “Him & her”
Posted on August 1, 2008
The Boston Globe has an article on She & Him:
On paper, She & Him doesn’t make sense grammatically. And, in theory, the pairing of actress Zooey Deschanel and indie guitarist M. Ward seems odd, too. But on record, specifically the duo’s debut album, “Volume One,” the quirky couple transcends grammar and expectations. Read more
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Filter Magazine: “She & Him: Simple, Beautiful, and to the Point”
Posted on August 1, 2008
Filter Magazine has an article on Zooey and Matt:
Pretend, for a moment, you do not recognize Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. You have never seen the cerulean, saucer-eyed actress who has been lighting up scenes since 1999. You have never heard M. Ward’s voice and guitar crackle, making speakers sound like some old-time phonograph. It is with that knowledge, or lack thereof, that She & Him should be heard.
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