It's pretty amazing how many great releases came from Bay Area bands this year, and we were pleased to interview many of these groups on our podcast in 2008. This week's episode features music from twelve of this year's best as featured on our show during the past twelve months. If you like what you hear, check out our feature episodes spotlighting each of these bands. This will be our last podcast of the year, but we'll be continuing regular blogging right into 2009. Happy holidays! About [...]
As the tragic passing of Four Tops' lead Levi Stubbs led to many re-visits to the Motown group's superb catalogue (Stubbs' soulful cries and the urgent stomp of "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" can still give goosebumps), feelings of depression boiled back to the surface concerning how good R&B was back then and how underwhelming it's current state is. Thankfully, every once and while, something new
Fairly often, honest-to-goodness readers--not publicists or booking agents--email us with pleas for coverage on certain shows. Not because they have a vested interest in the act's success, but because they have a genuine interest in seeing an artist, and they think others should check out the performance, too. On that note, we present Reader Recommendations. An apple a day... (Brook Lane) A friend of DC9 checks in this afternoon, offering up tonight's Bart Davenport gig with Cocky Americans [...]
Publicado hace algunas semanas, Palaces es el nuevo álbum del californiano Bart Davenport . Sus discos, en general de alto nivel, pueden ser mejores o peores, pero siempre esconden en su interior verdaderos tesoros. A Young One , un homenaje al soul de Filadelfia o Jon Jon (maravilloso pah pah pah ) son dos ejemplos. * Bart Davenport-Jon Jon * Bart Davenport-A Young One
A Young One - Bart Davenport Or... Burt Baccarac? :) This truly draws the line for me between corny/catchy... and an SNL skit. What Is Said About This Fellow: "He can sell you a bill of love that from anyone else would seem corny and make you believe again - in the long summers of blissful youth, in dancing the night away. Bart Davenport grew up in Berkeley California, where he lives today. In 2007, you may have seen him fronting the electro future-funk trio called Honeycut, or you may have heard their [...]
This Friday at Cafe du Nord , Berkeley's Bart Davenport will finalize the release of his fourth solo album Palaces . This album, released on Antenna Farm Records, is a collaboration with Kelley Stoltz , and is just another reason for Berkeley to be proud to shelter Davenport. Harp says about the album, "Refreshingly unhip and unpretentious, Davenport will remind you of why you loved so many of your dad's old records: because they made you [...]
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Esce oggi per Antenna Farm Records il quarto album di Bart Davenport intitolato PALACES , terzo per l'etichetta di Oakland, questa volta con l'aiuto e il contributo di Kelley Stoltz. L'universo musicale di Davenport è un mix accattivante di folk anglofono, bossa nova e anche un tocco di quel Phillysound cosi mellifluo che si appiccica addosso. Si acquista direttamente da Antenna Farm store . Direttamente dal sito dell'etichetta è possibile scaricare due tracce da PALACES e rispettivamente Jon Jon e A Young One .
Everyone in life has a mission. I sincerely believe that. And no doubt did Romanian Jewish scholar Heimann Hariton Tiktin . See, despite having been born into a rabbinic family, and thus destined to become a rabbi himself, he found his true vocation in becoming an academic and focusing on the mechanics of the Romanian language, effectively making him one of the founding fathers of modern Romanian linguistics. See? Mission! Which leads us to Bart Davenport, who is still abreast on his own mission to make us mellow and carefree with another [...]
I initially wrote about Bart Davenport ( here ) because he didn't fit into any of the convenient genres and thus didn't seem to receive his fair share of press. His style hasn't changed much since that first post and he's still on SF's Antenna Farm Records . What has changed in the four years since that post is the arrival of Flight Of the Conchords. Their send-ups of 60's lounge soul, while extremely funny, also points to the staying power of a genre that favors smooth sounds over clattering guitars and hummable vocals [...]
fast noch geheim, "house with no home" heißt das neue album, kommt am 09.09.: Horse Feathers - Curs in the Weeds ein splitalbum mit pontiak steht auf dem plan, "kale" wird es heißen: Arbouretum - Buffalo Ballet (John Cale cover) es ist zum glück nicht mehr lange hin bis zum 09. september, da "the [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bart Davenport : "Jon Jon" [mp3] from Palaces (out September 9th) Bart Davenport : "A Young One" [mp3] from Palaces (out September 9th) other Bart Davenport posts at Largehearted Boy Chris Cotton : "Going Home" [mp3] from The Big Sea (out September 2nd) Chris Cotton [...]
I adore Dan Friel 's Ghost Town and you can too, since Important Records have a slew of MP3s from the album for you to enjoy: Buzzards , Appliances Of Bremen , Desert Song and Horse Heaven . Meho Plaza , anyone? More distorted goodness for you, then, with I Sold My Organs . Apparently Luke Doucet was in Woodstock on [...]
I am an absolute sucker for lemon pie. I love lemon pie. The combination of sweet and tart, plus the gelatinous texture of the yellow filling is unequivocal heaven to my palate. I could probably eat a whole pie in a single sitting. It's probably the only food-type thing that I could ingest beyond the threshold of satiation. But the tragedy in this tale of love and adulation is an allergy to eggs which keeps me from eating the usual meringue topping which accompanies a proper lemon pie. Yes, who would have thought [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bart Davenport : "Miami Afternoon" [mp3] from Bart Davenport (reissue) Bart Davenport : "Beg Steal Borrow" [mp3] from Bart Davenport (reissue) other Bart Davenport music blog posts at Largehearted Boy David Myles : "Cape Breton" [mp3] from On the Line David Myles : "Holy [...]
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