Here is my highly-subjective, personal list of favorite albums of 2011. Wild Flag – Wild Flag | CD Vinyl MP3 Download "Romance" (mp3) Rarely do supergroups like this one meet their expectations. But the members of Sleater-Kinney, Helium, and The...
The Ex – Catch My ShoeDownload "Cold Weather is Back" and "Eoleyo" The Express – The ExpressDownload "Nobody Knows" Family Lumber – Look to the SidelinesDownload "No Worries" Figurines – FigurinesDownload "New Colors" Fleet Foxes – Helplessness BluesDownload "Helplessness Blues"...
Here's another, seemingly random, collection of videos for you to all enjoy. First, Hayes Carll and Bonnie Whitmore sing "Another Like You" from Carll's new album KMAG YOYO . The duo performed the same song live in the WDVX studio over a year ago when they joined me for an interview on the air. After he played it, Carll told me it was the first time he'd ever performed the song publicly. Of course, I had plugged the input cable for my audio recorder into the wrong jack and didn't record the first note. [...]
A beguiling album of thoughtful country, folk and blues Friedman's latest, recorded in 24 hours with only one overdub, fits even more deeply into the singer-songwriter realm than 2009's Weary Things . His strummed acoustic guitar is backed by the electric leads of producer David Goodrich and the fingered and bowed stand-up bass of Stephan Crump. Friedman's narrative vocal tone brings to mind Leonard Cohen, but the instrumental conversations lean to languid improvisation, and his lyrics aren't as poetically elusively. Friedman's a Brooklyn hillbilly whose hard-scrabble living in the [...]
Here are The Wheel's Still In Spin's suggested new releases for this week. Andy Friedman – Laserbeams and Dreams. Download "Coming Home (Drifter's Blessing)" (mp3). This singer-songwriter's influences can be recognized from the blues-styled lyrics to the Leonard Cohen delivery of his deep voice. This album was supposedly recorded within 24 hours, which gives the songs an immediately tangible feeling. Maritime – Human Hearts. Download "Paraphernalia" (mp3). This four-piece band gets closer to the sound that made We, The Vehicles one of my favorite albums of 2006. Human Hearts has a dizzying [...]
Andy Friedman is mijn held. Andy maakt prachtige albums, schrijft gedichten en tekent ook nog eens voor bijvoorbeeld The New Yorker . Je zou hem een echte Renaissance man kunnen noemen. De drie albums van Friedman zijn niet uit mijn Cd-speler te branden. Taken man, Weary Things en Laserbeams and Dreams staan vol met prachtige songs en laten horen wat een fantastische songschrijver Friedman is. Zo kom je zijn teksten vondsten tegen als 'Real New Yorkers only love the city when they leave' of 'The sky is Brooklyn Dodger Bleu'. En wat dacht je van [...]
Noted songwriter Andy Friedman returns with his third album release.
Former New Yorker cartoonist and Brooklyn-based hillbilly poet Andy Friedman makes a return concert trip to Charlottesville as he rolls into town with his band The Other Failures in tow for a show at the Gravity Lounge tonight (January 22). 8pm. $8. Their performance here in town comes just days before the official January 27 release of the group's brand new album Weary Things on City Salvage Records, the label he co-founded and which also serves as the current home to recordings [...]
Taken Man is New Yorker illustrator and singer-songwriter Andy Friedman's debut studio album. The album was produced by musician Paul Curreri and includes special guest appearances by Curreri, Devon... **Click on the link to read the full post, download mp3s, and comment.**
Andy Friedman is alt-country. But not just because Nashville won't have him or because his music has too much integrity to be just more anthemic slop featured on commercial country stations. No, he's alt-country because he's really saying something with each and every song and that's something that even the best alt-country simply doesn't do. He's using the medium of pedal steel, guitar and tears in a beer to express either deeply personal, poetic stuff ("Self-Portrait..") or unpopular political ideas. Andy Friedman's new record, his debut studio release, is called Taken Man [...]
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