Filed under: Exclusive , Spinner Interview , Q + A Ben Sollee (left) and Lukas Nelson (Rick Diamond, Getty Images) SXSW veterans Lukas Nelson of California-based rock band Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and cellist, composer and singer/songwriter Ben Sollee gave us their survival methods of choice to help us all get through the rockin' festivities in Austin, Texas [...]
Today's download comes from Lexington, Kentucky based singer-songwriter Ben Sollee from his interview/performance on World Cafe on January 2nd of this year. You can listen to the full session here. Below, download "Unfinished." The song is from a new, free collection of Cafe performances available for a very limited time during the month of February. ... Continue reading
This is the first of what I hope will be a series of free music Fridays. To kick off this series we have a free Newport Folk Festival sampler pulled together by Paste magazine. This sampler has some amazing performances from many artists that that we have highlighted in this blog including Of Monsters And Men, First Aid Kit, and Dawes. I high recommend you check it out.....you sure can't beat the price! Here are the performers and songs from the sampler....... Blind Pilot - Always Joel Rafael - Racing And Chasing [...]
J ustin Paul Lewis is a Louisville, KY based songwriter who recently got connected with Ben Sollee to record a small batch of songs together, on his upcoming EP Rinse, Repeat, Rewind . He is sharing the first single from the EP, titled "Salt," a really wonderful, sweet (no pun intended), Americana / Folk track. Lewis is a talented songwriter with a strong voice, who released a wonderful Daytrotter session back in September. Look for Rinse, Repeat, Rewind in late December or January.
Lots of tickets to give away this week, including but not limited to punk torchbearers Andrew Jackson Jihad, our friends Social Studies, and ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, who, contrary to my assumption, do not have the longest band name in existence . If none of these are up your alley, fear not: there's tons more. To enter any contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged[dot]c om with your full name in the body and the concert you’re entering the contest for in the subject line. You may only submit your name [...]
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Gearing up for their show at The TLA on Wednesday, local song-crafters Modern Inventors have released the single to their upcoming debut album Trains & Aeroplanes as a free download on Soundcloud. "Hello" is a catchy, well-built rock song with hints of Wilco and The Hold Steady woven throughout the guitar riffs and punchy drum line. The band ... Continue reading
The producer on Ben Sollee ’s sophomore album, a collaboration with Daniel Martin Moore titled Dear Companion , was the king of My Morning Jacket, Jim James. The producer on Ben Sollee’s most recent effort, Half Made Man, was Ben Sollee. “If you want something bad enough, you gotta do it yourself,” he sings on “DIY”, an energetic alt-country track that embodies the idea behind this PledgeMusic-campaign-funded, self-produced album, of which he says, “each song is its own portrait of a piece or a part of me.” The subject matter populating Sollee’s folky, autobiographical canvas include [...]
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” -Willy Wonka Bat For Lashes – “All Your Gold” I've spent many nights hanging out on the beach with past girlfriends. I've yet to share the sand with Natasha Kahn - clearly I haven't lived yet. Ben Sollee's Backyard Brunch Session Biscuits 'n' Ben. What more do you want? Divine Fits – “Would That Not Be Nice” It's wild what darkness, a little pink light, [...]
David Chaitt has two loves: music and food. He can whip up a mean meal, but he's not so musically inclined. However, he's got a killer pad in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, complete with a wide-open backyard (jealous?), and every now and then he invites some musicians and friends over to jam and chow down. With some A/V help from Dominick Mastrangelo and NYCTaper , the whole event gets recorded and uploaded, and thus you have Backyard Brunch Sessions . For three years, Chaitt had been trying to get cellist extraordinaire Ben [...]
WE'VE GOT A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THIS SHOW FOR YA! BEN HAS A NEW ALBUM OUT AND SILVER TONGUES ARE SICK, SO THIS SHOULD BE A HOT ITEM. JUST COMMENT BELOW WITH THE LAST BIKE RIDE YOU WENT ON (IN HONOR OF BEN). WE'LL PICK A WINNER TOMORROW AFTERNOON. GOOD LUCK. WFPK Presents Ben Sollee with Silver Tongues and Luke Reynolds $35 Reserved Gold Circle Seat, includes a physical copy of Half-Made Man on the night of the show. $25 Reserved Seat, $20 General Admission, [...]
Ben Sollee returns with Half-Made Man, easily his most expansive, large-sound sounding record to date. The genre chameleon took some time to talk about the way an artist connects with fans in the new media age, deconstructing characters, and modern dance.
Ben Sollee's Half Made Man is in stores today, so I thought I'd share a track off it. Here's Ben stopping by WNYC to do a performance of "DIY."
"I wanted it to have a raw, real-time performance quality," Ben Sollee says of his new album Half-Made Man (September 25). "This is kinetic expression. I dug deep into myself and asked the musicians to go there with me. To my ear, it sounds like musical search party; we often find what we're looking for in between defined styles and genres." That adventurous attitude seems second nature to the Kentucky-bred, cello-toting singer-songwriter, a musician who has toured with fellow string virtuosos Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck and, at [...]
Cellist and singer-songwriter Ben Sollee 's new album, Half-Made Man , will be out next week (9/25) and we've got the premiere of his track "DIY" which you can stream below. Ben's album, which was funded through Pledgemusic , can be pre-ordered here . Ben also just released a video for Half-Made Man track "Unfinished" ( via NPR ) and you can watch that below. Also down there is a list of Ben Sollee tour dates -- no NYC currently on the horizon, unfortunately. Continue reading "Ben [...]
With Fall officially creeping in, much of the new music making it's way out seems to reflect the mood floating around. There's a comfort in the songs, even when they're disconnected like the collaboration between Thom Yorke & Flea (Atoms For Peace), but more so in Frightened Rabbit and Band of Horses's new tunes. We also get what is possibly my favorite punk song of the last five years courtesy of FIDLAR and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart cover Magnetic Fields. And then there is Ben Sollee, who has now been on The Weekly Feed more [...]
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: Candy Bars : "Violets" [mp3] from On Cutting Ti-Gers in Half And Understanding Narravation search for more Candy Bars posts at Largehearted Boy Decomposure : "Readymade" [mp3] from [...]
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: Candy Bars : "Violets" [mp3] from On Cutting Ti-Gers in Half And Understanding Narravation search for more Candy Bars posts at Largehearted Boy Decomposure : "Readymade" [mp3] from [...]
[photo by Dominick Mastrangelo ] The Backyard Brunch Sessions is in its third year of summer events and it continues to draw an incredible roster of performers to a very intimate and unique setting. Last weekend, Ben Sollee played a BBS that was brought indoors because of inclement weather. But the experience remained the same - an opportunity for a small selected group of people to experience an abundant amount of talent from up close. For us, very close. Ben Sollee is one of those performers whose rare combination of stage presence, likeability [...]
We have a pair of tickets to give away to Rollo & Grady readers for Ben Sollee this Monday at The Hotel Cafe. To enter the contest, please write an email to rollogrady@gmail.com. Include "Sollee" in the subject line and your full name & email address in the body of the email. We'll pick the winner Friday afternoon. Tweet
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