Damien Jurado ::: Photo by Josh Lovseth The Neptune Theater with its many green-eyed sea gods looming over the great room and ghosts lurking in backstage corners was probably Seattle's most appropriate setting to introduce Damien Jurado's most ambitious, and so far widely appreciated release to date, Maraqopa. Though releasing his own cassettes led to a [...]
Damien Jurado - "Life Away From the Garden" . I did not collect sports cards except in my early teens, when I lugged around a binder of Pro Set hockey cards. I didn't collect them because I was interested in hockey: I collected them because they were little treasures, cheap enough to collect. Glossy hologrammed treasures, that came in packets of eight. I'm older now, but sometimes I think that buying records - those shiny CDs, beautiful black 12"s - is motivated by the same thing. Hoarded treasures, lined up on a shelf. Unlike hockey cards, records [...]
Damien Jurado: Maraqopa - Damien Jurado is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington. I've followed Jurado's work since his debut on Sub Pop all those years ago. There are very few singer/songwriters who evoke the same imagery and tell a story like he can. In many ways, he's in a class by himself. This is what has kept people like me coming back every 2 years or so for as long as we have. The emotion in his voice drips from every lyric and creates a landscape in the listener's mind that's hard to shake. [...]
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Damien Jurado hat sich mit folkigen Klängen einen Namen gemacht. Das neue Album des US-Songwriters beginnt mit einem ungewohnt rockigen Jam. Auch wenn man es ihm nicht ansieht, gehört Damien Jurado zum Alten Eisen der US-Songwriter-Garde. Vor bald 20 Jahren landete sein Demotape bei Sub Pop. Nach der Jahrtausendwende wechselte Jurado zur Indie-Institution Secretly Canadian , wo vor wenigen Tagen sein zehntes Album "Maraqopa" erschienen ist. Wie bereits den Vorgänger hat Jurado auch das neue Album im Studio seines Labelgenossens Richard Swift [...]
In Part One of this week's Best New Releases, there are many lead singles off of new albums, bonus tracks and flashback tracks from artists like fun, Princeton, Grimes, Wild Nothing, Dirty Ghosts and Perfume Genius. We decided to split last week's new releases into two posts, since we wanted the Part One installment to [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Damien Jurado Words : Drake LeLane Seattle Folk pioneer Damien Jurado releases Maraqopa this week. Another week in the shortest month sees plenty of fine releases fall into our laps. From Damien Jurado's magnum opus to the sophomore release from the sugared razor blades of Sleigh Bells, it's not a bad week at all. There's also new releases from Lambchop, Grimes, Frankie Rose, Tindersticks, Perfume Genius, Cursive, Leland Sundries and a Deluxe Master reissue of 19952s great Vee Vee [...]
With the recent release of Maraqopa , Damien Jurado's 12th studio album Seattle Times music writer Andrew Matson received four cover songs from Damien's wife Sarah featuring musicians and bands from the Seattle area. The four part series started with Jon Russell of The Head and The Heart (who just recently did a fantastic show for Austin City Limits ) covering "Beacon Hill" from 20102s Saint Bertlett followed by Pickwick with "I Am The Greatest of All Liar" from Jurado's lesser known Holding His Breath EP from way back in [...]
Well, this is pretty sweet. Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk was the party responsible for bringing singer-songwriter Damien Jurado to Sub Pop way the hell back in the late '90s. And now Enigk has recorded a smoothly pretty version of Jurado's quite-nice 2008 song " Last Rights ," a propos of absolutely nothing. Stream Enigk's cover below. Read More...
While a number of notable singer-songwriters, such as Bill Callahan , recently paid their debt to Leonard Cohen in the run-up to his latest release, Damien Jurado has been similarly honored as a new record hits shelves by a few fellow Pacific Northwest musicians influenced by his work. Dolerean's Al James, The Head and the Heart's Jon Russell, and Pickwick have all turned in reverent cover tunes from the Jurado oeuvre to the Seattle Times newspaper. This take, however, is a favorite: "Last Rights," Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk's [...]
In 2010, Seattle folk troubadour Damien Jurado teamed up with producer Richard Swift to craft one of the most immersive, and best, records in his 15-year career: Saint Bartlett . With Swift's bleak, dream-folk production breathing new life into already robust anatomy, the record was atmospheric, anthemic, evocative, and, because it was a Jurado album, it got only a fraction of the acclaim it deserved. But Jurado has gotten used to his relative obscurity, and it hasn't stopped him from joining forces with Swift for round two, in what the duo [...]
Skip to Yahoo! WebPlayer Damien Jurado - Museum Of Flight Seattle has always been known for the music. And recently, the successes of a variety of indie-folk bands and a rise in soulful acts from the Emerald City have solidified what many people have always known: Seattle's got it when it comes to great music. But in an off year for Fleet Foxes, and as new acts from Seattle are growing and [...]
Seattle Folk pioneer Damien Jurado releases Maraqopa this week. Another week in the shortest month sees plenty of fine releases fall into our laps. From Damien Jurado's magnum opus to the sophomore release from the sugared razor blades of Sleigh Bells, it's not a bad week at all. There's also new releases from Lambchop, Grimes, Frankie Rose, Tindersticks, Perfume Genius, Cursive, Leland Sundries and a Deluxe Master reissue of 1995's great Vee Vee from the so-far-still-reunited Archers of Loaf. Playlist: New [...]
DAMIEN JURADO ( Jackpot Records , 3574 SE Hawthorne) Seattle troubadour Damien Jurado's latest, Maraqopa , comes out February 21, and it's a staggeringly great album, full of sorrow, hope, strange sounds, and breathtakingly beautiful music. Jurado performs a very special in-store show today, so go and get your heart ripped out by one of the greatest songwriters alive. NED LANNAMANN My Heart Beats by Veronica Falls VERONICA FALLS, BLEACHED, GHOST ANIMAL [...]
Damien Jurado - Working Titles
Since Maraqopa came out yesterday, I thought this would be a good opportunity to plug the interviews I did with Damien Jurado and Richard Swift for my "day job." (That's in quotes because it's actually a nighttime gig...irony, right?) During the FPK After Dark conversations , a number of topics were discussed. We talked about everything from Swift's time in Starflyer 59 to Jurado's love for the Grateful Dead . And [...]
Album of the year is coming early this 2012.
Happy Presidents Day week, everybody. A commanding list of new releases awaits you in stores today. Among them is the latest by our recent guest and longtime friend of KEXP, Damien Jurado , whose Maraqopa would be good enough to get him elected President of Seattle if there were such a thing. Our Music Director, Don Yates, says the new album "sounds like nothing else in Jurado's illustrious catalog. It's a dynamic and expansive set of adventurous psych-folk with a variety of haunting, well-crafted songs featuring trippy guitar work, atmospheric keyboards, swelling strings and various [...]
This is the first really serious week in the good stuff all coming out on the same day... I don't know if we will even ever have the time to work our way through this all but I have my fingers and toes crossed! Archers of Loaf: Vee Vee (remastered with bonus CD) Barna Howard: Barna Howard Battles: Dross Glop 2 [vinyl] Bonobo: Black Sands Remixed Bright Moments: [...]
Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from the week's music releases : Archers of Loaf: Vee Vee (remastered and expanded) "Harnessed in Slums" [mp3] Bad Weather California: Sunkissed full album stream [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Archers Of Loaf, Bright Moments, Guy Capecelatro III, Chief Boima, Cursive, Dot Hacker, Ducky, Grimes, Damien Jurado, Lambchop, Damon Moon And The Whispering Drifters, Onward, Soldiers, Royal Canoe and Terry Malts. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
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Madonna producer unloads on CD disaster
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