Household Ink Records

09/01/2025

Headless Household archival dip project...
"Open-Heart Sandwich," from "Basemento" (featuring alto saxist David Binney...

David Binney Avenija, Dick Dunlap Chris Symer Tom Lackner Headless Household Household Ink Records

https://www.householdink.com/headlesshousehold/

https://open.spotify.com/track/6oTGHl7HKHKMps66cILkf1?si=fc097ffb30ff42ef

Headless Household · Basemento · Song · 2010

07/23/2025

Big thanks to the big, listening crowd who showed at SOhO Restaurant & Music Venue for our Lucinda Lane gig this week!

We had a great time in that special room, and so appreciate the fine musicians who helped flesh out and give a strong heartbeat to the music: James Connolly Austin Beede, Nate Birkey, John A Schnackenberg, Brett Larsen, and Phil Rodriguez.

Nicole Lvoff and I also had a chance to road test some new songs headed for album number two, soon to be in progress.
We hope to get back to SOhO soonish - sooner than the 6th month since our last show here.

(thanks to Glen Casebeer Dunlap for the phine photos!)

Gail Hansen Eislyn Snyder

07/18/2025

Gig Reminder:
Lucinda Lane hits SOhO on Monday, July 21, at 7:30. C'mon down if you'd like.

Musicians at the party: Nicole Lvoff (voice) and Joe Woodard (guitars, songs) will be joined by the rhythm section team of bassist James Connolly (aka Jim) and drummer Austin Beede, trumpeter-singer Nate Birkey (who plays with his own band at SOhO the night before, July 20), saxist John A Schnackenberg, trumpeter Phil Rodriguez and accordionist Brett Larsen.

And much thanks to the Santa Barbara Independent and writer Alice Dehghanzadeh for a wunnerful article in this week's paper.

Their long-awaited debut album, ‘Summer Is Over,’ will be performed, featuring a self-described "IndieBossaJazzTwang" sound.

07/12/2025

Lucinda Lane Heads to SOhO, July 21: Summer is In

Lucinda Lane, Santa Barbara's premiere self-described “IndieBossaJazzTwang” band, makes a rare live appearance, at SOhO, on Monday, January 21 (7:30 p.m.). The Lane released its long-awaited debut album, "Summer is Over," in January. It’s all over the digi-verse, and actual CDs are available for purchase and signage at the show & on assorted portals.

Core members Nicole Lvoff (voice) and Joe Woodard (guitars, songs) will be joined by the rhythm section team of bassist James Connolly (aka Jim) and drummer Austin Beede, trumpeter-singer Nate Birkey (who plays with his own band at SOhO the night before, July 20), saxist John A Schnackenberg, trumpeter Phil Rodriguez and accordionist Brett Larsen. And more tba?

C’mon down or over.

(Photo by MacDuff Everton)

SOhO Restaurant & Music Venue, 1221 State St. (upstairs in Victoria Court)

See Santa Barbara Independent story, December 2024, https://www.independent.com/.../summer-is-over-and.../ .

Linkages:
www.householdink.com/lucinda_lane

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5puhortbSqrrCCtfuyowWe?si=CwNgCrfUQaCc2ZeklHd39w

Bandcamp:
https://lucindalane.bandcamp.com/

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/

07/06/2025

Headless Household archives dip:
"Angry Poodle"
from "Free Associations" (1999)

https://open.spotify.com/track/0eblyFQdQFQ0dZfKWg41Yc?si=AsTd73KBSF6GxW-JrWXWAA

Headless Household · Free Associations · Song · 2010

07/01/2025

Lucinda Lane Heads to SOhO, July 21: Summer is In

Lucinda Lane, Santa Barbara's premiere self-described “IndieBossaJazzTwang” band, makes a rare live appearance, at SOhO, on Monday, January 21 (7:30 p.m.). The Lane released its long-awaited debut album, Summer is Over, in January. It’s all over the digi-verse, and actual CDs are available for purchase and signage at the show & on assorted portals.

Core members Nicole Lvoff (voice) and Joe Woodard (guitars, songs) will be joined by the rhythm section team of bassist James Connolly (aka Jim) and drummer Austin Beede, trumpeter-singer Nate Birkey (who plays with his own band at SOhO the night before, July 20), saxist John A Schnackenberg, trumpeter Phil Rodriguez and accordionist Brett Larsen. And more tba?

C’mon down or over.

SOhO Restaurant & Music Venue, 1221 State St. (upstairs in Victoria Court)

See Santa Barbara Independent story, December 2024, https://www.independent.com/2024/12/12/summer-is-over-and-lucinda-lane-has-a-new-album-in-time-for-the-holidays/ .

Linkages:

www.householdink.com/lucinda_lane

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5puhortbSqrrCCtfuyowWe?si=9r7X_PXKR7GOGha4CbaQxg&nd=1&dlsi=1b4a57d2f49545fe

Bandcamp:
https://lucindalane.bandcamp.com/

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/

05/14/2025

Lucinda Lane's "Summer is Over" Alphabet Jukebox Project -
As part of the slow-mo CD release agenda for the "IndieBossaJazzTwang" band Lucinda Lane's debut album "Summer is Over," we will be posting a song a week, in alphabetical order (thanks to Brad Nack for the idea).

Ease into the comfy chair ballad "Soft as an Easy Chair (for KC)," a sincere love letter to the great Karen Carpenter. The Lane's chanteuse Nicole Lvoff channels the spirit of Karen on guitarist Joe Woodard's ode.

As the lyric opines:
"She was loved to death, preaching death to love's imposters."

Take special note of a beautiful trumpet solo by Nate Birkey--who did his own version of the song on his debut album from 2020. Pianist Sebastian Morgenroth also added his feathery finery to the track.

ps Lucinda Lane finally has another gig coming up--at SOhO on Monday July 21. See you there!

Nicole Lvoff, Joe Woodard, Dana Welch, Austin Beede, Randy Tico, Jesse Rhodes, Emmet Sargeant, Lois Mahalia, Nate Birkey

www.householdink.com/lucinda_lane

https://youtu.be/kaIMy1A3PR4?si=Ms5GanA6vycUjBSs

Lucinda Lane, "Soft as an Easy Chair (for KC)" (Joe Woodard)from Lucinda Lane, Summer is Over (Household Ink Recordshttps://www.householdink.com/lucinda_lane...

04/18/2025

Lucinda Lane's "Summer is Over" Alphabet Jukebox Project -
As part of the slow-mo CD release agenda for the "IndieBossaJazzTwang" band Lucinda Lane's debut album "Summer is Over," we will be posting a song a week, in alphabetical order (thanks to Brad Nack for the idea).

This week's model, the retro twang/pop "Pure Fun," which dares to suggest there isn't as much of a gaping gap between 1959 and 2025 or between sincerity and kitsch as might be imagined.
Yes, as the Lane's chanteuse Nicole Lvoff reminds us, "pure fun is hard to find/when you've got a foggy mind." But fun wins out in the end.

Check out Tom Ball's wunnerful harmonica solo and Zach Gill's saloon-meets-salon piano...

Zach Gill's Stuff

Nicole Lvoff Dana Welch Emmet Sargeant Austin Beede

www.householdink.com/lucinda_lane
https://youtu.be/F7LOz3__wF8?si=_E3e1WOo4Fp7xF8o

Lucinda Lane, "Pure Fun" (Joe Woodard)from Lucinda Lane, Summer is Over (Household Ink Records)https://www.householdink.com/lucinda_lane/copyright 2024Nicole...

04/11/2025

Lucinda Lane's "Summer is Over" Alphabet Jukebox Project -
As part of the slow-mo CD release agenda for Lucinda Lane's debut album Summer is Over, we will be posting a song a week, in alphabetical order (thanks to Brad Nack for the idea).

This week's model, the popular bossa-oid number "Mr. Saturday Night," featuring a sleekly cool tenor sax solo by Tom Buckner and some accordion flavorings from Brian Mann. This was the second single released from the album, and seems to have struck a chord or two with folkx.

As the saying goes:

"There's no getting around, no sense in getting out of town/
Remembering the get-around from when I got around/
Making the scene ain't what it used to be/
So life goes on into the endless Saturday night"

(p.s. this one's for you, Harper.)

Nicole Lvoff Dana Welch Emmet Sargeant Austin Beede

www.householdink.com/lucinda_lane

https://youtu.be/uRQ_nXI5fsY

Lucinda Lane, "Mr. Saturday Night" (Joe Woodard)from Lucinda Lane's debut album "Summer is Over" (Household Ink Records)https://www.householdink.com/lucinda_...

03/21/2025

With the sad passing of Great American musical guru Garth Hudson, we thought about songs from the flapping, Flapping catalog with an obvious debt to The Band. For instance: "something for nothing," featuring Glen Phillips on lead vocal, Brian Mann on accordion, Madalena Fossatti on trombones, Bill Flores .. And more.

www.householdink.com/flapping

https://youtu.be/h6VBfu5IJBg?si=79Vym6E2suPmTqFJ

"Something for Nothing" (Joe Woodard), from the album "seeyoutonite," by flapping, Flapping, released May 2020 on Household Ink Records."Something for Nothin...

03/08/2025

Looking forward to hearing the wunnerful Gilles Apap at the Lobero Theatre on Saturday and fondly remembering all the time he kindly joined us in the madcap Headless Household, on record and at Center Stage Theater back in the day.
Here is the man Gilles on the tune "The Eiffel Tower Made Easy," from the album "Free Associations."
The Household tips its hat to the Gilles!

Gilles Apap Julie Christensen Nate Birkey Dick Dunlap Emmet Sargeant Chris Symer Tom Lackner Tom "drumface" Lackner Update Zone

www.householdink.com/headless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfUkc70hEI

"The Eiffel Tower Made Easy" (Joe Woodard), Headless Household, from "Free Associations" (Household Ink Records, 1999/vocalist, Julie Christensen; Turner, tr...