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Daniel Ahearn

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Daniel Ahearn’s Bio

Daniel Ahearn's timeless fragile songs are "road music for a new breed of pioneers" (Sound Collector). Ahearn collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright and producer Michael Rozon (Brazzaville, Melvins) for music and a sonic landscape to accompany Wright's readings of his powerful 2009 book of poems, Wheeling Motel The recording, Readings from Wheeling Motel is available digitally via iTunes and Amazon and Bandcamp.

Daniel is also recording Midwestern, his 2nd solo album follows with producer Michael Rozon, who worked on the 2008 release, Pray For Me By Name.

Pray For Me By Name was Ahearn's first release under his own name. He has recorded in Brooklyn with Burakumin and in Brooklyn and LA with Ill Lit. Ill Lit's 2007 album, Tom Cruise, produced by Michael Rozon charted at KEXP. The track "Los Angeles" was featured in the winter 2008 season of ABC network's "Men In Trees."

Ahearn wrote the stories and sings them on half the tracks for the new Misc full length, Happiness Is Easy (April 2009 release on Badman Recording). He joins Dylan Magierek, members of American Music Club, Tracker and Weinland on the recording.

"Somewhere squarely between Wilco and the Flaming Lips (though these two bands could use a little of what Ill Lit is selling), Ill Lit delivers a deceptively upbeat message of heartbreak and loss of hope, complete with broken electronics and layers and layers of sweet harmonies" ( Indieworkshop.com, May 2006)

Ill Lit's earlier releases on Badman, i need you and WACMusic tapped into an edgy, dark layer of earth just beneath the freeways of an urban beat-driven Los Angeles.

"Inspired, adventurous, otherworldly" (Magnet)

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Select dates Spring 2010