String Cheese Incident – Lend Me A Hand

String Cheese Incident has long harnessed and returned their fans’ energy in spades. Through music they transport them on an incredible musical journey that inspires inspiration, joy, and community fidelity.

SCI Fidelity Records became home for this unique approach to music that inspired other bands to undertake grassroots band development.

Lend Me a Hand

Over three decades, this Colorado ensemble has amassed an ardent fan base thanks to their multifaceted musicality and passion for leaving audiences breathlessly entranced at live shows. On their eight studio LP release Lend Me A Hand, however, they unveil a more subdued folk-rock sound as they mark 30 years together with us all!

SCI has never shied away from exploring various musical terrains, yet their new album displays an intimate and emotionally potent songcraft that delivers some of their most intimate and emotionally powerful material to date. On tracks such as Hollingsworth’s unsettling murder ballad “Nobody Thought You Would”, co-written with Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam (Nobody Thought You Would), SCI addresses complex emotions before ultimately finding solace through resilience.

SCI enlisted Brad Cook – known for working with indie acts such as Bon Iver and Snail Mail among others – as producer for its debut LP. Alongside him were guitarist/vocalist Bill Nershi, bassist/vocalist Keith Moseley, violinist Michael Kang, drummer Michael Travis, and percussionist Jason Hann who met for pre-production work before returning home and finishing out their album at their own paces.

Snakes and Stars

SCI has always put their fans and music first, taking pride in doing things their way. One of the first bands to use the Internet as a vehicle to spread their message, they later expanded by opening ticketing, merchandise and fan travel companies in order to better serve their community.

Michael Travis and Jason Johnston joined forces to form Snakes and Stars, an electronic dance music duo that explores the improvisational aspects of modern idioms of electronic dance music. Where DJs primarily play pre-recorded tracks, Snakes and Stars use vocals, synthesizers, electronic pads and triggers as well as guitar, bass and a drum kit in real-time improvising to craft unique musical experiences for listeners.

Current highlights for The Band include shows at Baltimore’s 8×10 on March 23, Milkboy in Philadelphia on March 24, before moving up north for performances at The House of Music in Portland Maine, Sonia Cambridge Massachusetts and Funk ‘n Waffles Syracuse N.Y. On April 1.

On the Road

On the Road is one of the classic road novels from the ’50s, written by Jack Kerouac to rationalize what seemed like senseless rebellion among American youth at that time. Today its appeal remains strong even among readers not part of the Beat Generation.

Kerouac attempted to develop a writing style that could capture the improvisational creativity of jazz in his prose, and Neal Cassady – later to be cast as Dean Moriarty in On the Road – proved critical in this endeavor.

Some critics allege that Kerouac glorified irresponsible young men living reckless lives of drugs-fueled adventures and sacrilegious acts. Others contend that On the Road is a call to adventure and reclamation of America’s pioneering spirit; an amalgam of sad-eyed naivete and wild ambition, On the Road pulses with rhythms from 1950s America: jazz, sex, drugs and passionate experiences which excite and delight.