A lot of my "that's where I heard it first stories" revolve around record stores because, frankly, I used to spend a lot a lot of time in them. This story is no different. The same night I found (with an extraordinary sense of glee that has stuck with me for, what, nearly 20 years now) Hunters & Collectors' 2-disc live set Living In Large Rooms and Lounges (utterly essential, in my opinion) and realized that one of my favorite bands from college was not only still recording, but still viable a half a world away, [...]
Quelques albums de 2011 que j'attends impatiemment Wire - Red Barked Tree (11 janvier) Cheveu - 1000 (11 janvier) 16 Horsepower - Yours Truly (18 janvier) The Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde (18 janvier) Tennis - Cape Dory (18 janvier) Destroyer - Kaputt (25 janvier) Cold War Kids - Mine Is [...]
Check out a new column I penned, 'Talk Talk', for Reverb about local music that includes: 16 Horsepower, Candy Claws, DeVotchKa, Git Some,Tennis, Wentworth Kersey, and Wovenhand. Phewwww. You can read the column here .
Mea culpa: non avevo mai ascoltato con tanta attenzione i lavori dei Woven Hand (e dei precedenti 16 Horsepower ). L'altra sera ho avuto l'occasione di assistere ad un loro concerto gratuito a Bologna e devo dire che sono stati in grado di colpirmi fin da subito (cosa che non era successa con gli ascolti distratti dei loro dischi). Il protagonista è senza dubbio il leader David Eugene Edwards: si dimena (sullo sgabello) come posseduto da qualche incantesimo di antichi sciamani indiani, sputa versi come un Nick Cave in estasi spirituale e si [...]
Funny how your being changes in a second, once chemicals and germs runs through your body and shake your brain up. Woven Hand's show last night in Barbie club, Tel Aviv, was supposed to take over me, dissemble me, chew me up and spit me on the ground. I was supposed to devote myself to them like a dog devotes to his owner after he kicked the poor bastard's head, a devotion and respect reserved only to those the master who's in charge of the time a dog goes out to pee, eat and sleep. Woven Hand was supposed [...]
It's been a while since I just wrote about a song (the others are here and here ), and even though this won't actually get posted for a week or more, tonight is made for a night of meditating on "Wayfaring Stranger". This weekend was horribly overshadowed by death with an internet/real life acquaintance losing his wife many decades before he should have, and our tech guru, Trevor, losing a pet. I know some of you have no idea how sad losing a pet can be, but anyone who's ever lost [...]
Tummasävyistä vaihtoehtorockia soittava Woven Hand saapuu 31. toukokuuta Helsingin Tavastialle. Kulttisuosiota nauttineen alt-country -yhtye 16 Horsepowerin ( @ Spotify ) vokalisti David Eugene Edwardsin nykyinen kokoonpano Woven Hand perustettiin vuonna 2001 alunperin miehen sooloprojektiksi, mutta vuosien saatossa Woven Handista on muodostunut Edwardsin pääbändi. Vaihtoehtorockia, folkia ja americanaa sekoittelevan yhtyeen kappaleet ovat synkkiä tutkimusmatkoja ihmismielen syövereihin ja kristilliseen mytologiaan. Erityisen tunnistettavaksi Woven Handin soundista tekee vokalisti/kitaristi Edwardsin hieman Mark Laneganin ja Nick Caven mieleen tuovat vangitsevat lauluosuudet. Woven Handin kaksi ensimmäistä albumia olivat vielä selkeästi Edwardsin soolo-albumeita, mutta viimeistään 16 Horsepowerin hajoamisen jälkeen [...]
AON's Bite Sized series features exclusive performances and clips of live sets shot at Comet Ping Pong. Featuring a combination of touring bands and local talent, our hope is that this series helps to give you a taste of what goes on at a venue on the rise in the District. DC is probably still most [...]
This weekend, my wife's brother got married: a wedding a long time coming, and as such, planned to the last detail. His blushing bride wore vintage lace in cream and brown, as befit the season and their shared love of the natural world, and for moment there, time stopped, like it should, when he in his best grey suit turned to watch her come up our impromptu aisle, her flower-girls tight against her, unsure of the attention. The minister was lighthearted and blessedly brief, the speeches fine and poignant, and throughout it all, [...]
In a never ending effort to give you, the reader, the most current and up to date coverage of the Americana scene as ninebullets.net sees it I am off for Denver, Colorado for the Suburban Home Records 14th Anniversary Party. That's right, I'm going for you. Not for the booze, not for the party, not cause 5 of my favorite bands are playing under one roof. Nope. Not for that at all. I'm going strictly as a journalist and as a professional I'll aim to cover the events unfoldings in the same manner my journalistic/writing hero, Hunter [...]
16 Horsepower était un groupe de folk rock, inspiré par la country et les autres musiques traditionnelles américaines, formé de David Eugene Edwards (chant), Jean-Yves Tola (batterie), et Pascal Humbert (basse). Ils ont splitté en 2005 après avoir enregistré 4 albums studio (et 1 EP), que je découvre en ce moment. Leurs textes sont tout le temps très engagés (avec pas mal de références religieuses), et même si vous ne comprenez pas ce que Edwards raconte, il vous suffit d'avoir des oreilles en état de marche pour sentir sa rage dans "Black Soul Choir". Qu'est-ce que c'est [...]
I am most comfortable on the road. Something about the security of a car and the openness of highways calms my nerves. I am able to extricate myself from my own head and rest my inner monologue. Even if it's just for 30 minutes or an hour, I liken it to a good night of sleep. So today I ventured down to Princeton, New Jersey. I wasn't looking to spend much money at the Record Exchange, I just wanted to find a couple items I might be able to turn around and sell. Also, I'd get to be in my [...]
We recently came across the Sad Bastard Book Club on the excellent Ninebullets blog, and on hearing a couple of the tracks posted there, we immediately went online here to Devil's Ruin Records to order the CD.Depending on what you believe, the album is based around the band's imaginings of the life story of a suicide victim that lived in their cramped apartment before them, and whose bloodstains
It's been a cold, rainy and lazy Sunday here in Chicago. The better part of the day I've been sitting here in my room searching for new music in the blogosphere, lurking on last.fm and listening to some pretty mellow and sad bastard tunes. Perfect rainy day listening in my opinion. I thought I would upload my playlist to share with you all. Enjoy! 1. I Can Not Have Seen the Light - Magnolia Electric Co. 2. Won't Be Long - Ferraby Lionheart 3. Wisconsin - Bon Iver 4. My Sympathy [...]
All Photography by therealAaronDunn *** Warning to our beloved readers… The following special presentation contains imagery and links that may not be suitable for youngins, our more "sensitive bears", or people wasting time at work. If you are easily offended by nudity, two photographer music-freaks jibber-jabberin', you are at work (tsk, tsk), or you are home-schooled 12 year old who never heard the word "nipple" before, you may want to come back a different time, day, or year. *** I'm very excited about today's [...]
So, we are getting tired of all this new music, and starting to listen to some old stuff again. But that doesn't stop me from guiding you through my 50 best records of this year. The sequel, starting with number 40 40. Turner Cody - First Light ( B.Y Records ) Sounds Like: Born too late, but okay, we can still sing along with your (anti)folk songs; Benji Cossa [...]
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Musik kann man hören, über Musik kann man schreiben (glaube ich zumindest) und zu Musik kann man tanzen. Doch kann man Musik zeichnen? Ja! FlipBook Songs sind ein Projekt des Grafikers und Illustrators Renaud Forestie aus Toulouse, der 6 Lieder zeichnerisch interpretiert und sie in ein kleines interaktives Flash-Wunder packt. Hier mal zum genießen: 16 Horsepower - The Partisan [...]
It's amazing how difficult it can be to see your friend inside a psych ward. And how much more overwhelmingly helpless you feel when you are trying to help and take care of them when they are finally let out. It's hard to be reminded that you can't always be what you want to for everyone you care about. MP3: • 16 Horsepower - Wayfaring Stranger A band's place in myspace .
16 Horsepower - " Horse Head " from Hoarse [2001] Whenever I speak with fellow aficionados of 16 Horsepower, we can all agree on the importance of the crazed, drunken preacher with hellfire in his eyes coming out of frontman David Eugene Edwards, just as we can agree that this band has rekindled the fear of the Lord in our souls. But I never hear about the importance and soul-crushing weight of Pascal Humbert's low end: on Secret South 's opener "Clogger," the whole album starts with a massive, speaker-rattling bowed contrabass. It's [...]
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