Last year , EAR FARM featured 43 bands in our Band of the Week feature... ranging from relative unknowns (such as The Laughing and Bombadil ) to interviews with indie-rock legends (see The Wedding Present and Silver Jews ) to everything else in between. In 2009 we set out to one-up ourselves, and as it turns out we've done just that. This year EAR FARM featured 45 bands as Band of the Week, again flexing our genre chops across the entire spectrum of what we consider to be the best music being [...]
Last year , EAR FARM featured 43 bands in our Band of the Week feature... ranging from relative unknowns (such as The Laughing and Bombadil ) to interviews with indie-rock legends (see The Wedding Present and Silver Jews ) to everything else in between. In 2009 we set out to one-up ourselves, and as it turns out we've done just that. This year EAR FARM featured 45 bands as Band of the Week, again flexing our genre chops across the entire spectrum of what we consider to be the best music being [...]
If it's mid-October in New York City, then it's CMJ Music Marathon time... five days and nights of music, film, informative panels, and parties that guarantee a good time, if your idea of a good time involves nonstop live shows from up-and-coming musicians from a variety of genres. Thing is, since you're reading EAR FARM, we're going to go ahead and assume that CMJ 2009 is your idea of a good time. Ours too. And it just so turns out that fourteen of our previously featured Bands of the Week are playing the festival [...]
Warpaint Here's our guide for next week's CMJ Festival in New York. Look for Warpaint, Rough Francis, Electric Tickle Machine, Sin Fang Bous, Japandroids, The Megaphonic Thrift, The Very Best, Speech Debelle and The xx to generate the biggest buzz. Air Waves (Myspace) Hometown: Brooklyn, New York Label: Catbird Records Air Waves - Knock Out Alec Ounsworth (Myspace) Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Label: Anti [...]
Monday 3/9 * Cursive, The King Left, Peasant @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ( MP3: "Exposure" by Peasant) * Black Lips, Gentleman Jesse And His Men, Georgiana Starlington @ Bowery Ballroom Tuesday 3/10 * Pela, Holly Miranda, Neckbeard Telecaster, River City Extension @ Mercury Lounge ( MP3: "Slow Burn Treason" by Holly Miranda) * Talib Kweli & Hi Tek @ Blue Note [...]
Black Swan Green played Mercury Lounge this past Tuesday night with The Morning After Girls (overrated) and EAR FARM was there to witness our recent Band of the Week alums thrill with a live performance that delivered on all of the promise of their excellent debut album and then some. Loud. Awesome. Black Swan Green. Check out pictures from the show below as well as an MP3 and their upcoming tour dates. [...]
Monday 1/26 * Andrew Bird, Christina Courtin @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ( MP3: "Tenuousness" by Andrew Bird) * Lady Sovereign @ Pianos (show cancelled ) Tuesday 1/27 * Black Swan Green, The Morning After Girls, My Best Fiend @ Mercury Lounge [EF Pick of the Week] ( MP3: "Darker Self" by Black Swan Green) * [...]
Band: Black Swan Green From: Brooklyn, NY Sound: brooding atmospheric rock that crushes and soars in equal measure Similar Artists: Atlas Sound, Galaxie 500, Ride, Interpol, A Place to Bury Strangers Listen Now: "Darker Self" A bildungsroman is a genre of literary importance that came to prominence during the German Enlightenment. In novels of this manner, such as David Mitchell's Black Swan Green , the author generally explores the psychological, [...]
If you're out to find out who the next hot bands are -and let's face it, you are- you've come to the right place. Last year we listed The Ting Tings, Duffy, and Dead Confederate among the top acts to watch out for in 2008, this year we've got an entirely new crop of future superstars. Check it out below, along with our Top Ten Breakout Bands of '08, and please leave your own suggestions for bands to watch out for in '09 in the comments. EAR FARM's Top Ten Breakout Bands of 2008 [...]
If you're out to find out who the next hot bands are -and let's face it, you are- you've come to the right place. Last year we listed The Ting Tings, Duffy, and Dead Confederate among the top acts to watch out for in 2008, this year we've got an entirely new crop of future superstars. Check it out below, along with our Top Ten Breakout Bands of '08, and please leave your own suggestions for bands to watch out for in '09 in the comments. EAR FARM's Top Ten Breakout Bands of 2008 [...]
Black Swan Green is a new shoegazery dream pop band from Brooklyn that's going to immediately score points with fans of music that blends the textural adventures of Atlas Sound with soaring vocals à la James and the wandering guitar melodies you'll find in bands like Interpol and Ride. Frankly, there should be music listener shorthand for bands like this , because if you're into dark, brooding, listless, emotive rock...say, perhaps, you're searching for a modern Galaxie 500...look no further. You've got a friend in Black Swan Green. Alright, let's not get ahead [...]
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