Holiday Single 2011 - Duets From The Films of Christopher Guest

Happy Holidays, everyone! GO HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE 2011 HOLIDAY SINGLE! And go here to watch our video introducing the new songs!

This year, we had the pleasure of recording duets from the films of Christopher Guest with some lovely guest stars.

The first song, from the film A Mighty Wind, is the Mitch & Mickey classic, "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow." We were thrilled to record this with the brilliant comedian (with the voice of an angel), Paul F. Tompkins. Find out when he is coming to your town or listen to his hilarious podcast here.

Our second track is "A Penny For Your Thoughts" from Waiting For Guffman, which we recorded with the hilarious television and Broadway actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, currently starring in ABC's hit show Modern Family. 

We were also honored to have accordionist Gee Rabe donate her time for the song "Penny For Your Thoughts."

 All proceeds from the sale of this year's single will go to Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org), and HRC (www.hrc.org). 

To download the 2011 Holiday Single, click here.

We are excited to have our entire catalog up now on Bandcamp. You can download all of our music (including all past Holiday Singles) and purchase t-shirts as well.

 Songs by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Annette O'Toole 

 Guitar, Cello, Slide Guitar, Programming: David Roze 

 Vocals: Adriana Roze, Paul F. Tompkins, Jesse Tyler Ferguson 

 Accordion on "Penny For Your Thoughts": Gee Rabe (www.geerabe.com) 

 Musical saw: Joel Dickman 

 Produced and Engineered by David and Adriana Roze

So, Uh, Where's That New Album?

Hi. Yeah, wow, look at that. It's the end of 2011 already. I think we said we'd have a new album out, oh, what, this summer? Yeah, that didn't happen.Want to know why?

Yup. This guy. I don't mean David. I mean our amazing, incredible, beautiful, spirited, spritely child.  I think, on some level, it was impossible to estimate how impossible it would be to get anything done with him being the young and precious age he is. We are trying to savor this, and he is savoring us, and there's a whole lot of savoring going on, and the music right now is reluctantly being pushed aside. Things are progressing, just much, much slower than we anticipated. The music is there, a bag of bones waiting for some flesh. The new songs are in fragments and thoughts and some even have fully-recorded skeletons, but none of them are ready to walk out the door. They would certainly shiver in the cold.

We are looking at alternate ways of releasing music right now. One that fits better with our needs as artists. There really are no rules right now in music, so if we have to put out one new song at a time in 2012, we will. We would rather do that than wait another year to get the final album to you. I am one who likes to write albums in a narrative, novel-like format, so perhaps this story arc will just span several releases, and then we can collect it later, perhaps in vinyl. We shall see.

But hold tight, dear listeners! There will still be a new release in 2011! We are hard at work on the 2011 Holiday Single, and man, it is going to be awesome. There will be wonderful guests joining us in song and we are really looking forward to sharing the mic with such creative, talented people. More info very, very soon!

Hunt For The Heart Video is Being Distributed by Radar Music Videos!

We are very excited to announce that the "Hunt For The Heart" video is being distributed by Radar Music Videos and will be seen all over the world, notably at such awesome places as iTunes, Hulu, Playstation Vidzone, Indieflix, and many more venues (possibly MTV in our future!). We will keep you all informed with links when we have them! Big thanks and kudos to our director, Mathias Erixon of Oddity, for making such a beautifully arresting animated video.

Want to know how to get our music right now? Go to our download store here (self-determined pricing) or just use this link to our CDBaby wares!



We are at this very minute in the process of gathering ourselves up from a year taking care of a new baby, and are starting a BRAND NEW project that we hope to unveil to you in the coming weeks. To keep up with us and our new music ventures, please consider following us on Twitter and liking us on Facebook. Our music is also on Spotify, so please enjoy listening there as well!

2010 Holiday Single - Boys Don't Cry & Nature Boy

Hello friends,

Happy Holidays to you!  It's been a bit of a quiet year for us musically.  As you might know, we had a baby boy this year, and it has profoundly touched our lives (and kept us very busy!).  We decided this year in honor of him, we'd do a few songs for the holiday single about boys.



The first song, "Boys Don't Cry" by The Cure, is one that we used to perform a lot live but had never gotten a chance to record until now.  It's a simple but unusual arrangement that we've always really liked. "Nature Boy" is another classic that, we think, has one of the simplest and most profound lyrics in all of music history: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."  If there's one thing we want to pass on to our little one, that is it.  We were happy to have saxophonist Joel Dickman joining us on this one.

To download the songs, visit the 2010 Holiday Single page.

We hope this finds you well and we look forward to releasing an EP of new songs for you in the new year!

Love and Light,
Adriana & David

Family Photos

We had another beautiful and fun photo session (as a follow-up to our pregnancy shots) with the talented photographer Marisa Guzman-Aloia, this time with our little baby!  Just wanted to share a few pics from that session and recommend Marisa.  She is fantastic! You can follow her on Twitter at @mga_photo.

  

As you can see, we are doing well.

Announcement

Hello friends,

Sorry for the delay in updating.  As I'm sure you can understand, we have been quite busy welcoming our new son into the world.  He was born on June 5th and we couldn't be happier.  He is beautiful and healthy and magical, and we are so amazed to know him. 

Despite being quite occupied by this little creature, we do hope to be bringing you new music in the coming year, including a holiday single in December!  We have started a new EP and hope to have it released by next summer.  Stay tuned here for more info and I am always updating on Twitter whenever possible.

Much love,

Adriana, David, & the RozeBud

Some Recent Pictures

Hi friends,

Just thought we'd share a few pics of our impending bundle of joy with you that we recently had taken by the wonderful and talented Marisa Guzman-Aloia.  Please go check out her website!

As you can see, we are, respectively: hopefully, conscientiously, deliriously, laughingly, and lovingly awaiting our little family member. 

Thank you for your love and support during this special time.

-Adriana and David