April Smith and the Great Picture Show play sassy pop music heavily influenced by the 30s and 40s, juke joints and cabaret, sort of the Andrews Sisters meets Tom Waits. In the summer of 2009, Smith sought to raise $10,000 from her fans to record and release her new record ...
MP3: April Smith and the Great Picture Show - "Colors" The Brooklyn singer-songwriter April Smith kicked off her tour last night at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ. The tour is in support of the upcoming album, Songs for a Sinking Ship , from her band, April Smith and the Great Picture Show . Sinking Ship is scheduled for a release on February 23. Check out an MP3 from the album above and her tour dates (each of which are either with Langhorne Slim or Fanfarlo ) after the jump. [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: April Smith and the Great Picture Show : "Colors" [mp3] from Songs for a Sinking Ship (out February 23rd) other April Smith posts at Largehearted Boy Brother Gruesome : "NakedGirls.com" [mp3] from Brother Gruesome EP other Brother Gruesome posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
I know this blog's read from Athens to Zurich (really, I check the stats) but do we have any readers in, uh... Baltimore? Well, we're about to find out because we have a pair of tickets to check out Langhorne Slim along with April Smith, this Friday night at Ottobar in our sister city to the north. Raise your hand in the comments to this post, jump up and down, do [...]
Filed under: Free MP3 Download of the Day Artist: April Smith and the Great Picture Show Song: April Smith and the Great Picture Show, 'Colors' Album: 'Songs For a Sinking Ship' [ iTunes ] Sounds Like : Jenny Lewis , Jenny Owen Youngs Download: 'Colors' (MP3) [Get [...]
We've followed the rise of Brooklyn's April Smith & The Great Picture Show for a few years now, catching her striking live performances from Philly to Austin and listening as her sound has evolved from hearty and hooky indie rock to a more distinctive theatrical mix of sassy and swinging retro pop, raggedy ragtime and what April calls "vocally-driven- cinemelodic rock". With a voice that swoops and soars with reckless but pitch perfect abandon, Smith transcends contemporary borders with a jaunty beat, carnival organ, and jangling guitar edge melded [...]
Langhorne Slim released Be Set Free earlier this year and back in September, Muzzle of Bees recorded a set of performances which they are now releasing each week with the latest being the video see above for "Be Set Free". Langhorne Slim will be touring across the U.S. in January/February of 2010 with April Smith and the Great Picture Show . 1/21: Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells 1/22: Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar 1/23: Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe 1/25: Dekalb, IL @ Otto's 1/26: Milwaukee, WI @ [...]
Back in July, CoS contributor Joe Stahl wrote , " April Smith, with her band, The Great Picture Show , is just inches away from hitting the mainstream beat. Some might say centimeters. She's that close." As it turns out, the April Smith in reference, with her band, The Great Picture Show have a new album, Songs For a Sinking Ship , due out on March 23rd. The 11-track affair was produced by Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson, Jenny Owen Youngs) and includes quite the eclectic instrumentation, including a piano, upright bass, drums, guitar, horns, [...]
April Smith , with her band, The Great Picture Show, is just inches away from hitting the mainstream beat. Some might say centimeters. She's that close. Already her music's found its way onto feature-length films, such as the Rob Schneider-led Wild Cherry , in addition to popular television shows like MTV's The Hills and Newport Harbor . On the road, she's opened up for Carrie Underwood, Sara Bareilles, and the Go-Gos, and that's just naming a few. As if that weren't enough, [...]
Hello from Minneapolis, where I have just arrived to some beautiful weather (suck it New York!)! Last night I had the privilege of attending one of the Deli Magazine Best of NYC Festival shows at South Paw in Brooklyn. It was a pretty phenomenal line-up, I have to say. While I missed most of the first act, Mia Riddle, I liked the little bit that I heard. Gotta love girl-powered folk rock. I'm sad
It's that song that's stuck in your head. It isn't the most complex thing you've ever heard. If you were to listen to each part separate it wouldn't be anything too remarkable. But that's where all that catchiness comes from. It starts off with just a few simple sounds. Once you have those firmly stuck in your head, a new part is added. The song isn't made great by complex instrumentation, but from simple functioning parts making a whole. Throw in the right set of pipes and you'll have yourself with a tune you'll be humming for the rest of [...]
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