Brooklyn-based artist Sophia Knapp will release her upcoming album, "Into the Waves," on February 28th on Drag City. After singing and playing guitar in NYC psych rock all girl band Cliffie Swan (ex LIGHTS), this will be Knapp's debut solo album. Co-produced and co-arranged by esteemed piano and film composer Eric Gorman and Jay Israelson, the album will feature musical contributions by Bob Brockman (TLC, Mary J. Blige, Cee-Lo) on bass guitar, Robert "Chicken" Burke (The Duke and The King) on drums and vocals by Bill Callahan. Knapp has 2 upcoming shows in NYC, the first [...]
Cliffie Swan "Dream Chain" Sophia Knapp, the lead singer of Cliffie Swan, has a very old-fashioned sort of voice. It's overtly feminine but not remotely wispy and light, and confident without being particularly brassy or bold. It's just this lovely, right-down-the-middle tone, with phrasing that perfectly articulates the melody without embellishment. She sounds like the kind of lady who takes karaoke very, very seriously and decided to write an album full of the type of tuneful, wistful 70s soft pop, classic rock and country that she loves to sing. "Dream Chain" is particularly great as a [...]
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: Chad VanGaalen : "Peace on the Rise" [mp3] from Diaper Island search for more Chad VanGaalen posts at Largehearted Boy Cliffie Swan : "So Long" [...]
This is what I imagine the home movies of David Lynch's formative years to be like. California Baby captures summer days on Quaaludes, ill-fated youthful excursions, intergalactic gang signs and futuristic auto shows, all under the watchful eye of strangely benevolent alien lifeform. What did you do on your vacation? Cliffie Swan . The name is new, but perhaps you remember them as Lights, whose two prior releases cast a vaguely eerie pall over the good vibrations of psychedelic summers past. Along with the new name comes the trio's second [...]
MP3: Cliffie Swan - Fire Night Welcome to a new feature! Everyone loves new features right? Well, I think they're pretty cool at least. HOT TRAXXX is essentially kin to "The Best Song Ever", except it features more current music (re: under 5 years old? I don't know yet, you know we like to keep shit loose here) and are digested further by us in our personal lives, maybe we've been listening to a song a lot? We should check our iTunes play count? Whatever, before it gets nuts: just [...]
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