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Tweet vaso link It's hard for me to call any of the projects of the guys from Black Elk Speaks "local" anymore since 3/4ths of them relocated to New York City. That said, I met them when they were still local, so they'll always have that soft spot in my heart. And this project, done solo-like by Jack Frederick, goes double since he used a picture of my nephew at the zoo from last summer as the cover art for [...]
"Turiya" is the type of track that you listen to at the end of a long day; with a cocktail at sunset; staring into a smoldering fire. It's the most melodic background noise you could want. San Francisco's Barn Owl were once described in LA Weekly as producing a "… brand of drone-noise akin to placing your ear against the Dalai Lama's stomach and catching the sound of his reincarnation juices flowing" Well, with "Turiya" track from their new Lost in the Glare lives up to that creative (and picturesque) description. [...]
The boys in Black Elk Speaks announced new music on their Facebook a couple of weeks ago, which turned out to be a (free) five-song EP entitled Meltdown. The whole release is marked by the band's penchant for oddity; they can go from sounding like a lounge act to hip-hop over the course of the...
We've already announced two of the three bands who are playing our upcoming Tympanogram Presents show at Bug Jar on Friday, October 22, but if you've either missed it, or haven't been paying attention, let's recap: Opening the show is Rochester's Black Elk Speaks, followed by Hosannas, who are out of Portland, Oregon. And while [...]
Today, Vanity Fair premiered New Jersey's Railroad Earth's second single "Black Elk Speaks". Their One Haven Music debut will drop October 12th. The self-titled album was produced by Angelo Montrone in association with Michael Caplan (The Allman Brothers Band, Los Lonely Boys, Keb' Mo'). Railroud Earth is a perfect trifecta of a bluegrass [...]
There's a certain amount of pride that I feel when artists from the Rochester area send us their material. I like that bands that might not otherwise have an immediate outlet can get my attention with their proximity. It gives me more of an incentive to listen when I can go and see them 5 [...]