On Oct. 13, Paleface celebrated the release of “One Big Party” with a special guest performance alongside pals The Avett Brothers at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

On March 31, the party continues with a performance in Greenville's Tipsy Teapot, 409 Evans St.

Paleface is a high-energy, indie-folk duo featuring Paleface himself and darling drummer Monica “Mo” Samalot. Their Ramseur Records follow-up “One Big Party” was released on Oct. 12. The album is a fun, cheerful romp, written by Paleface and produced in Piermont, N.Y., by Paul “Ena” Kostabi (Cults, The Willowz).

The band is now touring in support of the album, first in the U.S. and then in Europe.

Paleface says he wanted “to keep this album very simple”, a trait that Mo greatly admires in him as a singer and songwriter.

“For me, ‘less is more,'” she says, “and I so admire how PF can craft a song as if he was simplifying a fraction to its simplest form.”

But simple doesn't mean shallow. The album's title track was written after Paleface encountered a woman down on her luck one afternoon in a laundromat.

“I was doing my laundry one day, and this woman was sitting on the bench with a cast on her arm, swigging malt liquor out of a paper bag,” Paleface said. “She said she had been beaten up by her crack-head boyfriend, had just been discharged from the hospital, and was waiting for her daughter to pick her up. I wasn't sure what was real, but she was definitely a mess — anyone drinking malt liquor in the laundromat at two in the afternoon has got some damage.”

He told the woman, “what a mess I had made of my life and how things started to improve for me when I quit drinking.” The woman told him, “I just wish things were different.”

Paleface went home and wrote the bittersweet song “One Big Party.”

Mo sings the song on the album, and even though it is a cautionary tale against seeking “a party every night,” the balance of the song's simple melodies and Mo's sweet, ethereal tones keep the song from being too heavy-handed.

Schooled personally by Daniel Johnson and a big influence on artists such as Beck and Kimya Dawson (the Moldy Peaches), Paleface was discovered by Danny Fields (The Ramones, The Stooges, MC5) on the Lower East Side in New York City in the '90s and has two major label releases under his belt. He's toured with the likes of The Breeders and Billy Bragg, and his songwriting, vocals and instrumentation are featured on three albums by The Avett Brothers.

Paleface's first release on Ramseur Records, “The Show is on the Road” was released to critical acclaim in April 2009. Soon after the release, it landed on the CMJ Charts, and PASTE Magazine featured the duo as “Band of the Week,” calling the tunes “songs you'd be glad to hum for the rest of the week.” Paleface and Mo spent the next year touring in support of the album, including performances at festivals such as Pickathon, Riverbend and Bristol Rhythm and Roots as well as showcases such as Tennessee Shines at Bijou Theater, Non-com and South by Southwest Festival. The Denver Post featured Paleface as one of the “Top 10 Live Performances of SXSW 2010.”

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