Arrica Rose (Photo By Piper Ferguson) A great song available for free download over at our featured blog, Buzzbands.LA . Kevin says: "Arrica Rose straddles the line between wounded folk songstress and nostalgia-laden dream-popper, a dichotomy that served her music well on 2011?s “Let Alone Sea,” one of those long-players with enough sonic and emotional shifts to held your attention from front to back." He goes on to add: "On the newest effort from her band Arrica Rose & the …’s (say “dot dot dots”), “Without My Love,” our protagonist seems [...]
The last of the Brothers Gibb turns a bittersweet 66; may these five covers ease the pain.
Our thoughts and prayers go out this weekend to 62 year old Australian-born pop superstar Robin Gibb, founding member and long-time lead singer of disco trailblazers the Bee Gees, who is reportedly fighting for his life in a London hospital after a long struggle with cancer. In his honor, we're recovering a June 2008 feature which mines my origin as an audiophile and pays tribute to the seminal work of the Bee Gees through an expanded set of folk-tuned coverage. Gibb and his brothers may have spent their careers on the far end of [...]
ARRICA ROSE AND THE …’S Let Alone Sea pOprOck Records It's rare to come across a recording that has synced the three pillars of memorable modern popular music—song, style, and personae. Arrica Rose and her band, the ...'s, new record Let Alone Sea is as close as I've heard in ages. It's winning as a piece of song-craft. Melodies that soar and poetry that conveys real emotion. Songs you can sing and share knowing the hooks will do their work. But this isn't a [...]
► The Echo's birthday month — the venue blows out 10 candles in December — swings into high gear with an Aquarium Drunkard-presented bill featuring the Soft Pack , Abe Vigoda , So Many Wizards and Slang Chickens . ► Genre-bending hometown heroes Ozomatli hold forth at Club Nokia. ► Sara Bareilles and Joshua Radin play to a sold-out Palladium. ► Arrica Rose & the ...'s hold forth at the Hotel Cafe, preceded by Jim Hanft. ► And Ocote Soul Sounds — the collective helmed [...]
Fare for your Wednesday: ► Arrica Rose & the ...'s celebrate the release of their new album "Let Alone Sea" with a date at the Bootleg Theater's bar, supported by Chop Love Carry Fire . [Previously on Rose ; previously on CLCF .] Also at the Bootleg, The du Bouchet Center for the Performing Arts presents a night of musical comedy, with tunes from Army Navy . ► Wallpaper plays a surprise show (free, 7 p.m.) at Bardot. ► Shannon Hurley celebrates [...]
Those ellipses L.A. songstress Arrica Rose has tacked onto her band name represent tacit acknowledgment to the many contributors who worked on her third release, "Let Alone Sea." But the punctuation in Arrica Rose & the ...'s (say: "dot dot dots") could also be a metaphor for her songwriting skins. Rose takes her pointed confessionals and precise phrasing into pop, classic rock and Americana territory over the course of the album's nine originals, hitting home with the folky, understated "Nothing Nada Nothing" and the breathy, spy-pop "We Made Out Alright." She wraps the whole burrito by marrying "Video [...]
Let Alone Sea is the third full-length by Arrica Rose & The ...'s (which is apparently pronounced "The Dot Dot Dots," not The Ellipsis). Set for release on August 22 and described as "part folk, part dream-pop and vintage rock," the album has a sensual and haunting sound that lies somewhere between Elysian Fields and [...]
We're home from the folkfields after a two-week hiatus, tanned, rested, and ready to explicate the current state of folk as represented by this year's mainstage and sidestage lineups and their accompanying buzz. While we gather our thoughts [and CDs] for our annual post-fest megapost, here's the best of what landed in the mailbox during our absence. With its tender mix of old-timey reconstructions, traditional tunes, original songs, and recorded field narratives, On The Brooklyn Road - an incredible new country roots album from [...]
Arrica Rose, the wonderful woman who brought us I Heart and the first, um, Arrica Rose material , is back with a new album, titled Antebellum . The EP was released November 15 (last week) and features three intense tracks. It's comfort music as winter descends upon us. On Antebellum , Rose expertly pins her fragile voice against the echoing background. Check out "Sail Away" below. I can feel it in my bones. Arrica Rose & the ...'s - "Sail Away" [MP3] [...]
I somehow managed to reach full-bore adulthood without hearing a lick of Tom Waits . Which is probably all for the better: as I've noted many times , my long-standing preference for melodic voices is only now giving way to a mature appreciation of the unique beauty that springs from powerful truths filtered through broken instruments. And anyway, the Tom Waits songbook is eminently adult, both in the way it looks at the world through bleary, jaded, ancient eyes and the way it rattles about with themes of alcoholics, lonesome trainwatchers, [...]
Remember the delightful and passionate singer/songwriter Arrica Rose , whom I featured back in May ? It's okay if you don't (not really,) but you better get to know her this time. She runs a non-profit organization by the name of I HEART Inc , whose goal is "to empower independent artists and their communities by encouraging the artists to use the resources at their disposal (their creativity and their fanbase) to help raise money for charitable organizations." At the same time, the artists are encouraged to connect with like-minded, creative individuals in order to inspire change [...]
Arrica Rose's short EP Pretend I'm Fur is a somewhat uneven affair, but a good listen that is sprinkled through with some stellar tracks. This short, 6 track EP falls well within the singer/songwriter genre, and mixes influences from indie, folk, soul and rock to create a very easygoing listening experience. Rose currently hails from California, where [...]
Arrica Rose - Misery [Bee Gees]
the dimes-watching the wheels (John Lennon cover) Portland Band (see Portland's Best Kept Secret Post) Sonoa-Everything In Its Right Place (Radiohead) Bell X1- Heartlands (U2 cover) Don't Let Me Down-Bearfoot (Beatles) Spike Drivers Blues -Laura Veirs aka [...]
Following up her highly successful previous album (with the dot dot dot's), La La Lost , Arrica Rose is back on the indie folk scene with Pretend I'm Fur , a seven-song EP, released May 11, on pOprOck records . After the stunning, lo-fi La La Lost , Rose seems to take her songwriting up a notch in attitude, as more upbeat (yet just as heartfelt) tunes shine through on Pretend I'm Fur . Rose mixes in soulful melodies with an air of [...]
As the past recedes, the process of discovery and uncovery continues unabated. Though what's written is written, mailbags still swell, and readers still follow up on our work here at Cover Lay Down with news of covers from far and wide. Happily, there's (Re)Covered: an ongoing feature in which we return to subjects gone by in order to continue to bring you the newest and the best in coverfolk. Today, our tenth installment in the popular series. Cover Lay Down was [...]
A short one-shot occasional today, as part of our New Artists, Old Songs series -- a feature in which I have the rare privilege of introducing some artists so far under the radar that most of them haven't even hit the rest of the blogosphere, so new that they haven't yet recorded more than a single cover or two, and so incredible I just couldn't wait until their next album to write about them. Today's featured artist: Arrica Rose and the...s [...]
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