Catch Stu’s interview on Weekend Edition @ NPR.

Waylon of Elephant Journal interviews Stuart about SGRnR and other things.

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Sex, God, Rock n’ Roll: Songs from the TV Series is now available on iTunes!

Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll : New Comedy Series Debuts On HDNet

Zen Buddhist-indie rocker Stuart Davis is launching a new comedy series: Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll.  Season One of of this ground-breaking tv show debuts April 26 on HDNet across the U.S. and Canada.  Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll is written, directed, and hosted by Stuart Davis, and features edgy humor from the open-hearted maniac.   Each episode follows Stu performing stand up comedy, news, sketches, and his acclaimed music.  A twisted mind and a sensitive soul, Davis has made a career out of parsing tricky topics, and Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll finds this ‘Punk Monk’ at his multi-faceted best.

“We are excited to welcome Stuart Davis and Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll to HDNet.  Stuart is one of a kind, and we are thrilled he is on HDNet.”
-Mark Cuban, President of HDNet

Davis has studied his heroes (Ricky Gervais, Amy Sedaris, Jon Stewert), but is finding a unique voice with his ’spiritual’ brand of comedy.  SGR&R is a delirious dive into life’s Mysteries through the mind of a Cosmo-centric comedian.  It’s no wonder Davis has become known as the Twisted Mystic.

“Without exaggeration, Stuart Davis is one of the most fascinating and exceptional songwriters in modern music.”
-San Jose Metro

While Davis is a happily hyphenated artist (writer-director-actor-comedian-songwriter), he’s first known for his music.  The sound track to Season One of SGR&R (’Songs From The TV Series’) is being released simultaneously with the debut of the tv show.  The first single, Twisted Mystery, hits radio in April and is also featured on Showtime in the series I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single.  Davis will be touring nationally through the summer to promote the TV series and the new collection of pop songs.

Filmed in HD in front of a live audience in Boulder, Colorado (take that, Mork & Mindy!), SGRR will also have a web-based home at www.sexgodrocknroll.com where fans can find exclusive content for members only.   The SGR&R subscription site includes interviews with spiritual figures, unreleased sketches, and regular vlogs from Stu.

“Davis may be the best songwriter you’ve never heard of.”
-Des Moines Register

Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll airs Sundays on HDNet beginning April 26.

“Davis subtly sneaks religious dialogue into popular culture. Most surprisingly, the music is damn good. Critics, you can sigh with relief.”
-Miami New Times

A formal announcement is a couple weeks away, but we can safely tease that singer/songwriter/multimedia-artist Stuart Davis is soon to announce that his television show Sex, God, Rock ‘n’ Roll has found a network and will begin airing in the US and Canada soon!

Stu twittered today that as part of the deal, “This morning I am taking blood, urine, and brain wave tests for insurance for the tv show. I told the doctor my brain is ‘waving, not drowning’”.

Along with the show announcement, expect a mini-concert & debut screening to take place in Stuart’s hometown of Boulder at the Boulder Theater (tentatively planned for May 15th).

When the announcement is made, you’ll find it on www.sexgodrocknroll.com, and we will also repro it here.

“YEAAAAH! You’re about to get pregnant!”*

*with knowledge, we believe

Related news: Part 2 of an audio interview with Stuart Davis is up at personallifemedia.com

Stuart Davis’ June 2007 performance at Immersive Studios, captured in high-def and in surround sound as part of Immersive’s Seven Voices concert series, is at last available as a DVD+CD set. I say “at last” but the truth may be that I just noticed and it was actually released about 4 mo.s ago. Regardless, buy “Stuart Davis Live on the Immersive No. 7 Soundstage” here.

And here’s the commercial for the entire Seven Voices series.

Audio player is being weird with this file in Firefox, so here’s a link to the upload directory as well:
Not Another Lifetime

Fascinating blog post up by our Mr. Davis confronting religion and criticism of religion from the usual transcend and include perspective.  I found it well written and powerful and well worth checking out.

Buddhist Geeks’ Vince Horn and Ryan Oelke interview musician/multimedia-artist Stuart Davis in Episode 98: Stuart Davis: Bodhisattva Rocker.

The 25 minute audio download is available for free from iTunes.

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Stuart Davis and Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll are the cover story in today’s Colorado Daily! Not this particular today, but a recent today a couple weeks ago. View the story online.

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And that, gentlemen and wild women, is a wrap. This evening, Saturday December 6, marked the sixth and final (for now) recording of Stuart Davis’ Sex God Rock ‘n’ Roll before a live (and oh so pretty) audience in Boulder, CO.

Watch the show’s website, sexgodrocknroll.com, for updates on the effort to sell the program to networks here and abroad, and for the upcoming opportunity to buy downloads of the series before it airs anywhere else.

You may also join the Facebook page for Sex God Rock ‘n’ Roll if you’re on Facebook.

Recording of the brand new, sleek, sexy, and scintillating comedy news show Sex, God, Rock ‘n’ Roll with Stuart Davis is underway, and there are clips of the making of the first episode on the accompanying website, www.sexgodrocknroll.com.

And a reminder to Boulder CO area fans that tickets are available for each of the upcoming episodes.

Also, check out some of the opening credit and commercial-break sequences created by Evan Lentz at Evan’s blog, blog.evanlentz.com.

Stuart Davis launches new Boulder-based television series;
Sex, God, & Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The show – dedicated to spirituality and entertainment – will be filmed this fall in Boulder, Colorado.   Sex, God, Rock ‘n’ Roll’s format is an hour of comedy, news, and in-depth interviews with spiritual teachers and unconventional icons.   In addition to Davis’ spoken word comedy, cultural commentary, and music,  KEN WILBER will join Stuart via satellite phone in every episode.  Sex, God, Rock ‘n’ Roll is being filmed in broadcast High-Def.  The series will immediately air over dozens of internet channels, and will be shopped to national networks upon completion.  Davis is an ordained Zen monk and acclaimed performer who’s known for a deft rendering of taboo topics in his music, comedy, books, and video.  Sex, God, & Rock ‘n Roll will move the sexual conversation in America beyond the merely puritanical or salacious.  Davis also aims to celebrate America’s unique variety of spiritual depth, which he says goes far beyond the fundamentalism and new age fuzziness it is has been home to.

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STUART DAVIS PERFORMS AT THE UNITED CENTER SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

Chicago Blackhawks Invite Stuart Davis and Band to Perform at their

Inaugural Chicago Blackhawks Training Camp Festival, Chicago, Illinois

September 20, 2008 Chicago Illinois- For one day only fans can watch Stuart Davis and his band perform live on stage at the United Center on September 20, 2008 at 9:45am – 11:15am at the Chicago Blackhawks first ever Training Camp Festival. The Festival will include a 5K Run/Walk/Skate, a 3-On-3 Street Hockey Tournament and a public Blackhawks Practice, plus live music and an interactive games area. Admission tickets to the festival are $5 and can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com or at the United Center Box Office.

Thanks to Todd for the heads up on a snafu with the older albums Real Audio files.  Those are back online now, though I am working on getting all clips replaced with 30 second .mp3 samples as on the newest album pages.

Marc Phillips takes You Inside The World of Stuart Davis
TONEAudio issue #16, pages 57-61

“I have known about singer-songwriter Stuart Davis for over a decade, ever since a friend of mine bought me the Nomen Est Numen CD as a Christmas present. I’d never heard of Davis before, and I assumed it was another one of my friend’s pet projects, another struggling unknown musical act he had decided to befriend and support…I was ready to throw Davis into the same camp until I actually sat down and listened to the CD. I immediately noticed the intelligent lyrics, which were evenly balanced between the playful and the knowing…”

Download the pdf of TONEAudio issue #16

Check out this really great writeup slash story about Stu playing the Mill from AmesProgressive.org.  Its a really engaging piece that digs into whats beneath the surface for a lot of fans right now – the new album, the distribution deal, and one of my favorite things; being a music pimp to your friends.

The current issue of online audiophile magazine TONEAudio features a positive, substantial review of Stuart Davis’ new album Something Simple ( “consistently excellent” ), and reviewer Marc Phillips promises there is more to come:

“Stuart Davis is one of the most intelligent and spiritual men in the independent music scene. His lyrics are literate and clever… His clear, confident singing voice is unusually expressive and digs deep into your brain. …[Davis is] contemplating the universe with wide-eyed wonder — and a devilish grin.”

“I’ll be writing a feature about him in the next issue. Until then, you should get ahead of the curve and buy Something Simple before Stuart Davis is totally fucking famous.”

Download the pdf file of TONEAudio issue #15 and turn to page 25
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Coming Later: Download the pdf of TONEAudio issue #16

…but he likes the bonus audiobook disc. From PopMatters.com

“[Stuart Davis'] newest record (or at least the version I received) contains a bonus sampler of his 2006 audio book Love Has No Opposite… Stuart has no shame or, apparently, fixed religion, which makes for some really interesting streams of thought in his aural prose. Sadly, with the possible exception of “Sugar Bullets” and its keen innuendo, his music doesn’t often hit the same level that his mind is at. Something Simple is indeed something simple, and though there are the odd tracks or turns of phrase that force you to question the state of things, it all comes off like a Christian pop or adult contemporary album (check “Sky God”).” Continue reading “Zen and the Art of Sodomizing a Robot in Front of Your Ex-Girlfriend” at PopMatters.com