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Dead Confederate Featured as Yahoo! Who’s Next Artist, and more

Dead Confederate Featured as Yahoo! “Who’s Next” Artist, and more

Added by Major Rock Stations Across the US, Cross-Country Tour with Manchester Orchestra Continues

It’s been quite the year for Athens, GA five-piece Dead Confederate. After bursting on the scene with their critically-acclaimed full-length debut, Wrecking Ball, the band has been touring across the country, currently on the last leg home with fellow Georgians Manchester Orchestra.

In the wake of their television debut on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, as well as being one of Rolling Stone’s “Six Artists To Watch,” Dead Confederate has been chosen as a nominee for Yahoo! Music’s “Who’s Next” User’s Choice competition. The video for their single, “The Rat,” will be featured for a month on Yahoo! Music. The artist with the most votes at the end of the voting period wins and gets the opportunity to perform live at the Yahoo! Music studio to tape a performance and interview. The winner’s in-studio performance will then be promoted for the following month as the feature artist on the Who’s Next? page and the Yahoo! Music homepage. The video for “The Rat” will also be featured on MTV2 “Subterranean” and MTVU, and will be part of FUSE TV’s “Free Music” and “The Worm” programs. Dead Confederate’s brand new video for “Start Me Laughing” was also recently added into rotation at Pitchfork TV.

“The Rat” has been added by major rock stations across the country this week including KNDD/Seattle, KBZT/San Diego, WEQX/Albany, KWOD/Sacramento, WARQ/Columbia and KNRK Portland. The album has reached #34 on the Top 200 CMJ Charts with big support from KEXP. Dead Confederate also did a recent live performance and interview at WOXY.

Dead Confederate is the first artist Gary Gersh, A&R legend and founder of The Artist’s Organization, signed to his new imprint. The band released a self-titled EP in late 2007. The EP garnered immediate attention and the band found themselves opening for R.E.M. at SXSW, as well as sharing the stage with Dinosaur Jr., Yeasayer, the Black Angels, Deerhunter and Black Lips among others. Their 2008 full length follow-up release, Wrecking Ball, was produced by Mike McCarthy (Spoon, Trail of Dead) and has received rave reviews.

“…a raw, howling take on Southern rock that recalls the darkest moments of Nineties grunge.” – Rolling Stone “Artist To Watch”

“Wrecking Ball sounds like Bleach-era Nirvana covering My Morning Jacket. (That’s a good thing.)…Dead Confederate’s alt-country/grunge hybrid doesn’t just feel like a compelling debut, it feels like a compelling new genre.” – The Onion

“atmospheric…sorrowful, searing and Southern virtually in all the right ways.” – SPIN Magazine

“Dead Confederate captures everything you hold dear about rock shows.” – Filter

“…refreshingly direct…a well-put-together debut album.” – The New York Times

“Although southern Civil War soldiers may remain six feet under, Dead Confederate’s sincere versatility drives home rock’n'roll that is damn well alive and kicking.” – Spin.com