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Nathan Asher & the Infantry
Sex Without Love Album Release Show
This Saturday, October 22
9pm
The Local 506 in Chapel Hill, NC
Free Show
Visit http://www.sexwithoutlove.org to hear a 9 minute sample of sound
clips from 7 songs off the new album.

Opening bands:

The full line-up on October 22 includes The Never
(http://www.thenever.org) at 11 p.m. and Starting Tuesday
(http://www.unc.edu/~jopi/band/main.html) at 10 p.m. with Owen
Fitzgerald (http://www.myspace.com/owenfitzgerald) opening the evening
at 9:30 p.m. with an acoustic set. For more information, please contact
The Local 506 at (919) 942-5506 or visit http://www.local506.com.

Quotes about the album:

"The songs are thought-provoking and full of imagery. Sex Without
Love is wholly representative of the powerful live performance this
band delivers at every show they play," said Rob Farris (Backsliders,
CountDown Quartet, Kenny Roby), producer of Sex Without Love. "The
fact that they recorded these complex, well-developed songs live,
faithfully executing such intricate arrangements, speaks volumes to
their skill as musicians. This record is firm evidence of how they've
gelled as a band since their first album."

David Menconi, music critic for The News & Observer of Raleigh wrote,
"Sex Without Love" is a sprawling concept album about growing up and
falling in and out and in and out of love in these United States. Front
and center is Asher himself, a singer unafraid to reveal the deepest
depths of himself in the most intense display of vocalizing emotion
this side of American Music Club's Mark Eitzel."

Grayson Currin, music critic for The Independent Weekly, stated, "If
passion isn't your question, Nathan Asher & the Infantry isn't your
answer...Asher's social ideology-think Springsteen's populist bent,
Lennon's escapist maneuvers and Dylan's self-perpetuating puzzlement
and folk-ethic pursuits-rises at the center, embittered, imploring
and embattled by what it senses. The band takes Asher's wail well,
driving from an initial Brit-pop-meets-American Beauty lilt to a
thundering eight-minute mark on "No More Colleges." They channel Neil
Young's Ol' Black Gibson unrest on the exploratory "Storms," an
apocalyptic vision of the loner's possible deliverance."

Buy it:

The album is available for online purchase at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/nasherinfantry and on the band's official
Website, http://www.nathanasher.com.

What it's about:

Sex Without Love captures the power and energy of Nathan Asher & the
Infantry's live shows, offering up a rock/pop sound similar to that
of U2 and early E Street Band, rhythmically backing up vocals by Nathan
Asher, a Dylan-esque street poet. Asher's powerful, passionate lyrics
about love, sex, heartbreak and the mechanization of society and the
human heart bridge the gap between the lyricism of hip hop and
narrative songwriting. The album was recorded live at Martin Street
Music Hall in Raleigh, NC over a 3-day period one month before the
venue closed its doors.