The Shivers (aka Keith Zarriello)

Posted: January 10th, 2007 | Author: Nghia | Filed under: music, nyc | 4 Comments »

Pop your collar. You’ll need it, its getting cold here in NYC. More than I can stand really. Now listen to this ‘Beauty’ of a song by The Shivers. How ironic is the name in this moment in time. Singer/songwriter Keith Zarriello (aka The Shivers) croons over a bluesy acoustic guitar. Haunting. Perfect. (A change from all the techno that Justin’s been pumping in my ears lately.)

I don’t know much about the guy, is he from Queens or Brooklyn? I could only find a couple of old interviews about him here and here. There needs to be a Myspace page or something. Fine things are going to happen for Mr. Zarriello in the near future. You can’t keep this sort of songwriting talent down. Get his 2004 album ‘Charades’ and new album ‘Phone Calls’ on CD Baby.

The Shivers – Beauty (highly recommended)
The Shivers – Half Invisible (watch out, there’s a surprise 2/3rds through the song)

Dates below:
Thursday, January 18th – Club Midway, NYC
Thursday, Feb. 8th – Arlene’s Grocery (CD Release Party for “Phone Calls”)
Thursday, March 8th – Mo Pitkins, NYC
Saturday, March 17th at 1pm – Okay Mountain Gallery SXSW Austin, TX

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4 Comments on “The Shivers (aka Keith Zarriello)”

  1. 1 justin said at 1:37 pm on January 10th, 2007:

    he’s from brooklyn. phone calls hasn’t been released yet according to the label’s site. also check out the track “soho party” via hype machine.

  2. 2 chris said at 11:30 am on January 12th, 2007:

    the shivers have a myspace page- it’s http://www.myspace.com/shiversnyc
    they have instructions there on how to get the phone calls cd from the band. and it’s a full band, not just keith, i saw them arlene’s.

  3. 3 Anonymous said at 4:09 pm on January 20th, 2007:

    the guy’s from Queens

  4. 4 Anonymous said at 8:07 pm on January 23rd, 2007:

    Keith lives in Queens, but the band formed in Brooklyn.

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