Sharon Van Etten Editor's Note: I don't do "Best of" or "Top" lists, but I do like things … as hard as it might seem to believe. I'm going to post a few editorials between now and the end of the year about the various things I've liked about 2011. For me to do a post on all the songs I liked that came out in 2011 I'd have to type for about 20 hours straight. I'm going to pair down the list through a couple of parameters. [...]
After making up the summer mix i came away craving some lyric heavy songs. Those ones that help hold the heart rather than moving the feet. This week is a slow build but it still delivers Stornoway- Fuel Up I don't know how i missed Stornoway last year but i did. I'm on such a [...]
Arron Dean I've been interviewing folks for a long time - artists among them. After a while, it becomes difficult to keep having the same conversations over-and-over-and-over again. Many times the interview process seems like a struggle especially when - at its core - what I want to know is what makes an artist tick and how they craft their work. That's the aspect of musicians that intrigues me. As someone with little musical talent (thus my deejay background) I know good music when I hear it but I couldn't even [...]
Arron Dean Editor's Note: South African-born, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Arron Dean has provided DeadJournalist.com an exclusive, first-person view into the process behind his song-writing process. With this continuing series of artist Op-Ed's we continue to bring you the undiluted voice of the artist the best way possible: directly from the source. What Is My Creative Process? by Arron Dean When asked what my creative process was, I realized I hadn't a clue. I'd never really thought about it much. [...]
by teepoo Welcome to the weekend and another Top 10. Wow, Bedouin Soundclash and Coeur de Pirate have finally been slipping its way off the charts to make way for these new songs. The chart is based on YOUR views. Remember support your favourite single song posts by sharing them and maybe they'll end up on next week's chart! Position Last Song Link 1 - [...]
At times during Arron Dean's new(ish) album, MPLS, it feels like if you breathe out too hard, it's liable to blow the entire song away. The South African born singer-songwriter originally moved to Boston to play jazz, then to New York City, but soon found himself in love with the Midwestern United States, and moved...
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Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Armand Margjeka : "Alive" [mp3] from Margo Margo (out August 9th) search for more v posts at Largehearted Boy Arron Dean : "The Extraordinary Things We Fear" [mp3] [...]
Check out some new releases by Indian and international artists; we've got full CDs to stream for free on NH7! //veracious (2011) //orangenoise 6-track debut shoegaze EP from the Karachi band. Stream here . MPLS (2010) Arron Dean 12-track acoustic rock album [...]
Arron Dean Time for another installment of Sunday Morning Videos, with this week's special guest our Music Overload segment. I can't post a unique post about everything I hear, watch or am recommended, so here's it is in one place. It's bad for SEO but so much faster ... Pandit - "Artichoke" Blair - "Hearts" W-H-I-T-E - "Fountain" (Amen Dunes Remix) Bridges and Powerlines - "I Remember Blue Sky" [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Arron Dean : "To Mary, Love John Watson" [mp3] search for more Arron Dean posts at Largehearted Boy Chamberlin : "Fools" [mp3] from Bitter Blood (out February 1st) search for [...]
photo: Dean Levitt Singer-songwriter Arron Dean was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, he writes UK tinged folk songs mixed with Americana ad a bit of country. His album MPLS is a travelogue, a musical diary about being on the road and recording the songs in Minneapolis, Nashville, San Fransisco and New York City. He was trained as a jazz player, so it's no wonder that he comes up with original tunings (think: the more basic stuff [...]
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by teepoo With his latest release MPLS on the go, Arron Dean shows us that music can be made whenever there is time to spare. Whether he is waiting for his laundry, or on hold on the phone, he thinks up a great song to write. MPLS is no exception. It was recorded in Minneapolis, Nashville, San Fransisco and New York City with people Arron had just met on the road providing for different influences such as folk and blues. Take a listen to [...]
From a farm in Gauteng, South Africa, Arron Dean arrived in the USA to play his first love jazz in the Big Apple, before joining the New York punk scene and then falling in love with the Midwest and recording MLPS a personal melancholic collection of country-folk, inspired by missing his loved ones and "playing to empty rooms". Arron Dean – Minneapolis More at Reverbnation , Facebook and Twitter [...]
As I noted earlier this week, we don't hold with ordered lists at year's end, preferring instead to recognize the diversity of greatness we hear and rediscover as part of an ongoing process. But in keeping with our ongoing mandate to bring you our subjective best in folk and acoustic coverage, in the hopes that you might pursue our recommendations and passalongs to support those artists directly, it seems fair to note which songs still remain high on our playlist, echoing through our head long after we introduced you to them through the pages of this blog. [...]
Yup, that's with two R's not two A's. Just like his name, Arron Dean is not your typical singer/songwriter. Inspired by jazz while growing up in South Africa, Arron made his way to the US and ended up doing what most people do, drop his jazz ambitions for the next best thing; New York punk rock. After a few years, the crowd surfing waves waned and his band broke up. He then set his sights on Minneapolis to escape the drug and alcohol addictions brewing with his Brooklyn base. His acoustic guitar became his instrument of [...]
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