While recent reports show CD sales dwindling - if not nose-diving - you would hardly know that from the spate of new releases this week, faithfully compiled by Largehearted Boy . Must owns include: Steve Malkmus & the Jicks, Born Ruffians, The Gutter Twins, and What Made Milwaukee Famous. Also worth considering: Jim White, These United States, Cadence Weapon, Howlin' Rain, White Hinterland, and a whole lot more! And what? Bauhaus has a new album? And it's white? ... You had better run quickly and pick these up - the apocalypse approaches! Hopefully, there's still time, though, [...]
New Wax Portland, Oregon quintet A Weather makes a hushed brand of indie-folk that is comparable to Kings of Convenience but sets itself apart from any blatant comparison. With dueling vocals by frontman Aaron Gerber and singer/drummer Sarah Winchester, the harmonies on the band's new album Cove are lushly intimate and meld beautifully with sparse percussion, acoustic strumming, and delicately placed organ and keys. The album is fittingly titled as its material feels like warm shelter amidst rough seas. Gerber's voice, which comes off a little [...]
Welcome to Friday. The end of the week. This week, it's also the end of the month. It's also leap day. Once every four years, or something like that. The pickin's was kinda slim for this week's mixtape, and I had to really forrage around for some new stuff to post. In the end, there is stuff from artists I'm pretty excited about before, but after a few listens each, I'm not sure about these new tracks. I guess that's what the mixtape if for- a week's worth of listens sometimes improves my disposition on a song. Anyway, I've got [...]
Here's another installment in our monthly quest to get some quality new tunage into your portable music playing device of choice. As always, thanks to the record companies and PR pimps who are hosting these gems for us. Load 'em up and crank 'em. The Explorers Club - "Do You Love Me?" mp3 The Teenage Prayers - "I'm In Love Again" mp3 Bad Flirt - "Heart Of Darkness" mp3 Throw [...]
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>> To quote Wikipedia, "Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content. The style originated in South London in the mid 1970s." But if the tag hadn't already been bestowed some 35 years ago, it would certainly be a ready characterization of the understated sounds of Portland, Ore.-based A Weather . The band's beautiful full-length debut has a persistent but slippery allure. Populated almost entirely with murmured bedroom ballads driven by brushed drums, guitar and electric piano, the set somehow succeeds in not repeating the same tricks over and over again. Team [...]
MP3: A Weather - Shirley Road Shirley When we last A Weather , I was enjoying their then recently released "Feather Test" single and loving it. Here they return with "Cove", coming March 4th on Team Love . They still sounds the same, except a little better and thankfully with more than 2 songs to offer us. A wonderful offering of dream pop goodness, pick this little guy up when you see it in your record shop. [...]
Why did it get warm yesterday all of a sudden? I do not trust this, its January. Also my mom told me theres a tornado moving through where I go to school. Tricky weather. I like it when Al Roker throws it to the local weather person and the person pretends like Al is just talking to them like "thanks Al". Al can't hear you! Here are some songs to check out. The Shaky Hands - The Sleepless Handsome Furs - What We Had [...]
>> The final solicitation of 2007 to catch our fancy was a pitch for A Weather , a Portland, Ore.-based quintet. A Weather 's serenity and domestic intimacy recall for us the quiet rock of Track A Tiger , although we expect there are more on-point comparisons if we stop and think (perhaps Rocketship crossed with The Softies ?). The verse of A Weather's "Spiders, Snakes" quietly marches and purrs and yearns, envisioning a tryst consummated while Bedhead plays on the hi-fi. The chorus offers some relief in the form of bright [...]
Here are two songs from A Weather's forthcoming album Cove, which will be released by Team Love Records on March 4, 2008. The Portland band's sound is soft, dreamy folk-pop. A Weather - Spiders,... **Click on the link to read the full post, download mp3s, and comment.**
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It's that time again, when Seattleites get to discover the best of Portland's burgeoning music scene. On the last Friday of every month, KEXP sponsors PDXplore at the Sunset Tavern in lovely Ballard. This month we are showcasing A Weather and Laura Gibson . A Weather is one of Portland's up and coming new talents. They are signed to Conor Oberst's Team Love label and have opened for Bright Eyes to a crowd of 1200. Check out their MP3: [...]
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MP3: A Weather - The Feather Test MP3: A Weather - One More One Night Stand A Weather is a Portland band that I discovered like a minute AFTER I moved. Rats! They just released a 7 inch inch for the song "The Feather Test" on Team Love and if you ever needed proof that vinyl sounds better, get this. The songs certainly are special and beautiful on their own, but on wax they just get beyond warm. It's touching. [...]
A couple of emerging artists we've been lucky enough to interview - A. Weather and Liz Isenberg - have scored themselves opening slots with some major acts. Portland band A. Weather had a nice write-up in Willamette Week music blog Local Cut last week, which talks up their song "Oh My Stars": Regardless, the contrast between the guy/girl vocals on "Oh My Stars" (an expression I've always been
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