For the most updated press and tour information, please visit http://www.myspace.com/carolbui or http://www.carolbui.com

Contact Information:
For booking inquiries, contact Carol at booking AT carolbui DOT com
For press inquiries, contact Caroline Borolla/AAM at caroline AT aaminc DOT com
For radio, contact Justin Gressley/AAM at justin AT aaminc DOT com
Label contact is Steve Brydges/54º 40' or Fight! at steve AT fiftyfourfortyorfight DOT com

RIYL: Jeff Buckley, Helium, Shellac, Ambulette, Throwing Muses, Sonic Youth, Shannon Wright, June of '44

Jeff Buckley was once pitched to a Columbia Records A&R man as a "Heritage Artist" in the same vein as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. It is in their shadow that Carol Bui emerges as perhaps the most singular and distinct voice of the Washington, DC music scene. Her self-released debut, This is How I Recover, fused lyrical guitar lines with poetic phrasing and revels in its ability to dish finely crafted narratives within a framework of heavy friction post-punk rock.

This is music for people who listen to records.

Carol's second full-length, Everyone Wore White, is the product of a collaboration between Carol and Aloha's TJ Lipple, who is prominently featured on drums. It's smarter, bolder, and more confrontational than anything you've heard in recent years, colored with scratchy strings, agitated guitars, and a cathartic voice that tells of displaced spirituality and psychosis. Yet melody is never sacrificed; it is a tight union of beauty and terror.

Everyone Wore White also features guest appearances by Chad Clark (Beauty Pill, Dischord Records) and Daniel Hart (St. Vincent, The Physics of Meaning, ex-Polyphonic Spree). The release is set for October 2, 2007 via 54º 40' or Fight! Records (The Life and Times, 31 Knots).

Carol is touring with her band nationally throughout the fall and winter to support this release.

Bands she has shared the stage with include Beauty Pill (Dischord), Maserati (!!!, LCD Soundsystem), David Karsten Daniels (Fat Cat), Pattern is Movement (Hometapes), The Moaners (Yep-Roc), Hail Social (Polyvinyl), Des _ark, The Spinto Band (Bar/None), Beauty Pill (Dischord), St. Vincent (Beggars Group) and many others.

Selected Press (visit carolbui.com for more)

"Her intricately sloppy guitar style, with its bluesy grit and jarring additive rhythms, makes me want to mosh and self-mutilate. Whoever "discovers" this girl, takes her out of Fairfax, and gives her a big contract might have an icon on his hands."
-Daniel Patrick, DC Pulse

"This Is How I Recover is a remarkable album; it doesnt show promise, it delivers on it. Carol Bui deserves attention, and she wont be self-releasing her work for long."
-Whitney Strub, Popmatters

"It's smart and raucous, introspective and loud, and proof that the revolution's unofficial credo - i.e., women can indeed make sharp, intelligent, and universally appealing rock music without relying on the crutches of militant feminism - still lives on."
-Joon Kim, Delusions of Adequacy

"...pure, unfiltered rock attitude and raw talent...Bui is the authoress of rock songs that live up to the potential of the genre, a dying art given her contemporaries...Thank you, Carol Bui, for making an album that demonstrates rock's essentials with beauty, personality, and wit."
-Andres Carrera, Upbeetmusic.com

"Washington's Carol Bui plays guitar like a girl--a pithy, no-BS, hard-rocking girl who favors fretwork dissonance over pretty jangle."
-Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper