The Inner Banks’ Songs From Disko Bay has been getting tons of spins around the country, and is charting on stations from Providence (WXIN) to Boise (KBSU) to Tacoma (KUPS). This week the album leaped onto the CMJ Top 200 charts, as well!

Also, check out recent press here.

We’re dotting a few i’s still, but the album is basically done and due for release this Fall.

It’s been a long time in the making but you know how life gets in the way…

The last few months have been good fun and intermittently lots of work (but mostly just waiting around). We mixed the record over several months with Hugh Pool over at Excello Recording in Williamsburg, and had it mastered with good friend Arthur Winer at Canaveral Skies (now in Pasadena, CA, but once long ago based here in Brooklyn). Mike Mozer at Interspace Station is helping us finish up the design.

Thanks so much to those guys– and to the rest of you: please stay tuned for further release info!

Good things happening in the world of Arliss Parker these last few weeks. A few highlights:

• NPR’s Second Stage featured the group in one of its podcasts, and you can read the accompanying review here. (“…Handsome Like a Lion offers a brief escape from the real world. And without any lyrics to interpret, each song’s setting can be decided upon by the listener. So while the digital pitter-patters of the EP’s loveliest song, ‘Taken to Antrim,’ can conjure up the warmth of a summer picnic, it can just as easily evoke raindrops on an autumn day.”)
• CMJ’s top 200 radio charts found the CD at #81 last week, and both the chart and number of spins has increased each week thus far.
• January 9 marks Arliss Parker’s return to Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, for those of you looking to hear the band live.

Arliss Parker will celebrate its DAG! release “Handsome Like a Lion” the evening of Tuesday, December 2, at Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Glasslands Gallery.

Also on the bill will be Laura Stevenson and the Cans, and Ty Otis, as well as other special guests to be named soon– save the date!

The Inner Banks has tracked a new set of songs and recently began mixing them with Hugh Pool over at Excello (Brooklyn, NY). The full-length album should be finished in December and released in Spring 2009, following up their self-titled debut from late in 2006.

On November 25, 2008, DAG! Records will officially release the debut recording of Brooklyn folktronica musician Arliss Parker, entitled “Handsome Like a Lion.”

Take a sneak listen at Last.fm

Birds of America, a new Craig Lucas film featuring the Inner Banks‘ “Acoustic” and “Buried West,” is set for DVD release October 21, 2008.

The film stars Matthew Perry and Lauren Graham (pictured), Hilary Swank, Ben Foster, Ginnifer Goodwin and Gary Wilmes.

PLOT: A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.

View trailer on youtube

Skills Like This, featuring The Inner Banks piece “Electric,” has struck a deal with Shadow Distribution and will open across the country, beginning with the Angelika theater in NYC on March 20th, 2009.

The film, directed by Monty Miranda, has won top awards at SXSW and Jacksonville and has been screening at several other festivals all year.

PLOT: Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.

Official “Skills” Site

“Skills” Myspace Page