Roman Candle's recent interview-performance on "The State of Things" is available as an mp3 download here. (8-26-06)

Roman Candle is currently featured by Paste Magazine as a "Paste Recomends - Best New Music" album (Aug. 06 issue). The Wee Hours Revue is also being played at "Paste Recommends" Listening Stations across the U.S. (Click Here for a list of independent music stores). "Something Left to Say" is currently featured in this month's PASTE magazine CD sampler. (8-11-06)

Roman Cande was recently reviewed in PopMatters (8-09-06):

"But for now, you need to hear Roman Candle. Go get The Wee Hours Revue."

Roman Candle will perform LIVE on "The State of Things" Aug. 18 - time TBA (8-03-06)

New acoustic shows have been added in
Portland, OR. Visit our shows page for info
(8-01-06)

The Boston Globe recently called The Wee Hours Revue an "arresting debut... a smart-bomb stunner whose material moves with cool ease and crisp authority amid multi-layered hooks and moods." Read the whole review here. (7-26-06)

The band was in the studio this week with Chris Stamey and Patrick Park recording tracks for Patrick's upcoming record. (7-22-06)

Roman Candle just finished their Nashville residency with Thad Cockrell and Dawn Kinnard. On the last week of their residency, they were reviewed, featured, and/or "critic's picks" in all four Nashville papers: Tennessean, The Scene, All the Rage, and City Paper

Roman Candle was recently a featured artist on myspace.com and received over 200,000 plays in six days. (7-10-06)

The band is in the studio with Chris Stamey and Thad Cockrell, recording a song for the dB's & Friends Christmas record - out this December. The album will feature tracks from Big Star, Whiskeytown, and others.(7-03-06)

The Wee Hours Revue is currently featured in the July-August issue of No Depression magazine. (7-1-06)

Roman Candle was recently
featured on the cover of the Independent.
Read the full text of the story (6-21-06)

Nashville Scene recently reviewed "The Wee Hours Revue: "This twelve song set is a triumph." They also chat about "Why Modern Radio is a-ok"

The band is featured this week on MSN Music Magazine. (6-20-06)

TWANGVILLE (blog) features Wee Hours Revue as "Picks for 06"

The Nashville Scene recently said of roman candle's new demos from "Oh Tall Tree in the Ear":

"The crisp, assured preview tracks posted on MySpace suggest an early challenger for next year's best release." read full text here

Roman Candle is currently in the studio recording their follow-up to The Wee Hours Revue. Look out for upcoming song samples on this website and the band's myspace.

In the April Issue of Harp Magazine, famed journalist Mark Kemp, names The Wee Hours Revue: "One of the best roots-rock records of the decade."

There are some (brief) video clips available from Roman Candle's recent show at the Hiro Ballroom here.

Download recent performance of roman candle on BBC radio 2 (Feb. 10. 07)

Paste Magazine named "The Wee Hours Revue as the number 38 -- out of 100 --
best records of 2006.

Roman Candle will be playing live on BBC2 Feb. 10. The band will be performing on Bob Harris's Saturday program (23:30 UK and 6:30pm eastern U.S.)

U.K. Shows Annonced: The band will be making it's "full band" U.K. debut in early february with 3 shows in London.
In other news, the BBC2 has recently been playing Winterlight on Bob Harris's programmes.


Roman Candle and Thad Cockrell's "Christmas Time is Here" (available on the dB's and friends Christmas record) received a 4 star track review today from Pitchfork Media....

Editor-in-Chief of Paste Magazine, Josh Jackson, recently named "the Wee Hours Revue" as on of the Top 10 "most overlooked" albums of 2006. Others included M Ward and Josh Ritter.

For all NPR listeners, "Winterlight" is currently being used as a "musical interlude" on various shows.


Famed Brooklyn alt-journal The Brooklyn Rail reviews "The Wee Hours Revue:"

"Find an autumn roof and bring a sixer of your favorite beer and this album. You’ll thank me (and Roman Candle)." -- S.D.

"Another Summer - Live at Cats Cradle" is featured in Paste Magazine's December issue as a reccomended live track. This version is from a little known live album roman candle recorded for emusic back in 2004 in Carrboro, NC. The song (and album) are available exclusively at emusic.com.
By the way, this live album is available for free to anyone who tries their free music trial. (emusic is a good company and this is generally not a bad idea) Click on the logo and search for roman candle.

The Independent recently named rc's cd release party in June as one of their favorite live shows of the year.

The band has a song on the new dB's & friends Christmas record. "Christmas time is here" was written with Thad Cockrell, and produced and recorded by RC and Chris Stamey. The band also produced Keegan DeWitt's "Christmas Lights" on the record.

Rolling Stone calls the record an "extremely excellent... dark horse" album also includes songs from Big Star, Whiskeytown, and others.

The band just returned from an East coast tour with Indigo Girls. Among other highlights, they had the honor of playing
Radio City Music Hall.

The Oct. Issue of Paste includes Roman Candle as one of the bands in in their "Four to Watch" column.

Pitchfork Media reviews The Wee Hours Revue. Read the full text here.


Minneapolis blog, Tiny Mix Tapes, recently reviewed the wee hours revue. Click here to read. (Sept. 7, 06)

The Daily Tarheel recently wrote a four star live review of roman candle at the cats cradle. Click here for the full text: (Aug. 28, 06)

"The band's buzz made for a packed house... Roman Candle is fast becoming the town's new "it" band, evoking comparisons to acts of Chapel Hill's indie heyday."


Mann'sworld blog recently posted some video footage of Aug. 25 Cats Cradle show on YouTube. Click here for videos of Something Left to Say, Why Modern Radio is a-ok and Baby's Got it in the Genes

The September issue of Paste Magazine gives The Wee Hours Revue 4.5 stars (out of 5). Full review by acclaimed critic Bud Scoppa is available here. (8-24-06)

Editor of 'Perfect Sound Forever features "why modern radio is a-ok" on his Ye Wei blog. This is really worth the read. (6-2-06)

Roman Candle's CD Release party for the triangle area was held June 22, at Cats Cradle The band played the Wee Hours Revue in it's entirety, with special guest performances by Thad Cockrell, Caitlin Cary, members of Chatham County Line, and The Old Ceremony.