Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Caravan of Thieves Video: "Raise the Dead" Highlight: "We like writing songs about ghosts and afterlife, but this was the first one that had a big communal sing-along, clap-along feel to it," vocalists Fuzz and Carrie Giovanni tell Spinner. "It needed to be, since it's about throwing a big party for all the deceased and honoring them for their life's achievements. We perform it live this way, get off stage, unplug completely, get the crowd [...]
When a band lists their genre as "Gypsy Swingin' Serenading Firebreathing Circus Freaks", it calls for a bit of further investigation. When that band happens to be Connecticut's Caravan of Thieves , then the theatrical description seems all too fitting. The gypsy-jazz/folk-rock quartet was formed by married couple Fuzz and Carrie Sangiovanni. With the addition of Ben Dean and Brian Anderson, they released their debut album, Bouquet , in 2009, followed a year later by the live record, Mischief Night . Their unique sound digs deep, and [...]
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I have mixed feelings about Christmas. Having grown up Jewish, I always felt a little besieged by what I long considered other peoples' holiday. These days, as a professional culture vulture and cohost to a humanistic Jewnitarian household, the commercialism grates on me, though the threat of otherness has faded. I've even learned to live with the constant name-check of someone else's savior which permeates even the most innocuous of shopping mall soundtracks. But I have always loved the trappings of the holidays: the garish colorful world of [...]
The shops may think that Christmas starts in mid October, but we all know that in reality you should only start preparing on 1st December with that first choccy in the advent calendar. So as a way of starting off the musical advent (and I'm in no way religious, but enjoy a reason for a gluttonous festival as much as the next man), we have a little Christmas/winter indie mixtape from the kind folk over at XO Publicity . A little change from the Slade/Wham/East 17 that you"re all hearing elsewhere. We've always done a [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: XO Publicity has put together a free and legal album of holiday music, XO for the Holidays: Volume II . Since today marks the unofficial opening of the Christmas and Hannukah season in the US (and since my wife will finally consent to holiday music being played in the house), I thought it a good day to share some festive music. THe BAcksliders : "Christmas (Doesn't Have To Be So [...]
For this edition of Track By Track, Caravan of Thieves guitarist Fuzz shares a quick factoid about each track on his band's debut album, Bouquet. Fuzz is probably best known to our audience as the Deep Banana Blackout guitarist, but his latest project shows a completely different side of his musicality. Bouquet features gypsy-flavored songs with gorgeous harmonies that swing. The disc is currently available through CD Baby and iTunes . Caravan of Thieves have spent plenty of time on the road [...]
Caravan of Thieves tour dates Gypsy folk/rock band Caravan of Thieves are on tour now in support of their debut " Bouquet ". Check out their music on myspace and catch them at a show below: September 2 EVANSTON, IL S.P.A.C.E. September 3 [...]
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