Am I the only nerd who gets really annoyed when people misuse the phrase "winter of our discontent"? It doesn't mean that things are fucking sad, assholes. Winter = END, therefore the phrase means "now is the end of our unhappiness". All the bullshit was made into a glorious summer, and everything got totally awesome. What don't you get about that? While we're at it, "wherefore art thou" means "why are you", as in "Romeo, oh Romeo, why the fuck do you gots to be Romeo? Shit would be mad easier if you wasn't." Now that I've [...]
Here are some more of the albums that were in consideration for my Top 10 and that I think were especially good in 2008. The first three here would probably all be tied for #11 if I were going to continue ranking. THE SNOW MAGIC - Dark Dark Dark This album winks at its morbid themes like an Edward Gorey print (example: the Gashlycrumb Tinies ) in a way that would certainly charm the likes of Tim Burton and Danny Elfman, but even more charming [...]
They're Indie. They're Gypsy. They're Folk Pop. They're Dark Dark Dark. Similar Sounds: Regina Spektor , Coeur de Pirate , Frightened Rabbit Popular Tracks: . Ashes . Junk Bones . Dig The Grave . [...]
When Colin Meloy sings about the gruesome Shankill Butchers, he does it with a rakish grin and a wink that lets you know it's all in fun. Marry a similar fascination with the macabre to accordion and strings in the gypsy style of Beirut; trade rainy, grey Portland for frigid, grey Minneapolis; and add Nona Marie Invie's lilting vocals, and now you have the ensemble of Dark Dark Dark . Their first full-length, The Snow Magic , dresses ghosts, graves, and other gloomy subjects in jaunty three-quarter time melodies. What little percussion appears is provided by [...]
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(photos from touring with Dark Dark Dark in Belgium and France) On tour with Dark Dark Dark in Europe: - Dark Dark Dark playing at a tiny 300 year old bar in Gent, Belgium. Meeting an eccentric local artist and his dog Willy and staying at his house. Leaving Brian Kelly there on his way to Berlin. - Walking around Gent in the rain and wondering why everything was closed on a Monday. And then realizing it is Armistice Day. - Sitting in while [...]
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Dark Dark Dark machen Musik für Zigeuner- und Seefahrerherzen. Sehnsüchtig, schwermütig und nostalgisch. Den Instrumenten, die Dark Dark Dark verwenden, haftet etwas nostalgisches an. Banjo, Akkordeon, Cello und Klavier erinnern an eine Zeit, in der es noch keine Rockbands gab. Vielleicht geht die Musik des Quartetts aus Minneapolis so direkt unter die Haut, weil sie unverstärkt ist. "The New York Song" schunkelt im Walzertakt als wäre das 20. Jahrhundert eben erst angebrochen. Dark Dark Dark - The New York Song [...]
Dark Dark Dark (nice name btw) is a strange band from Minneapolis with a unique sound. For starters, the band utilizes mostly a banjo, piano, strings, accordion, and vocals (yeap, no guitars or drums in most cases). Their music is something between late 1800's and early 1900's, mixing Balkan traditional music with gypsy influences and down-tempo old folk songs. It all sounds too old-fashioned for
Within the packaging of their debut album, the Minneapolis-based Dark Dark Dark opted to include an eight-page booklet of photographs that featured a few pictures of the group in settings that proved more reminiscent of the late 19th century than the present, a stark contrast from the technologically dependent promo shots that most bands utilize today. Courtesy of photographer Timothy G. Piotrowski, the style most often indicated a nostalgic feel that was primarily attributed to his fascinating use of blended monochromatic and yellow shades. It also helped that the individuals featured in the photos usually had no visible expression on [...]
While it's easy to find enough Christmas albums that you could listen to nothing else the year round, finding Halloween music is a little more challenging. Sure you've got Bobby "Borris" Pickett's Monster Mash and Michael Jackson's Thriller but that's about where the short list ends. That being said, I've found an album that is appropriately dark and magical to help fill the void for you this year: The Snow Magic , the debut album from the aptly named Dark Dark Dark . The band's sound pulls heavily from Eastern European music, [...]
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Sounding like a haunting mix between hobos traveling during the Great Depression and East European gypsies, Dark Dark Dark creates an image of sepia-toned photographs of long-forgotten wayfaring musicians just trying to make their way in the world. And no wonder, because Dark Dark Dark are basically following the tradition of those musicians themselves. According to their label's band bio, the members (Nona Marie Invie, Marshall LaCount, Jonathan Kaiser, and Todd Chandler) met while traveling across America, not actually intending to form a band. They played to earn their keep and ended up as the [...]
by ryan s. Jolie Holland's new album drops tomorrow and we got an interview covering a cast of characters from the last half century to psyche you up for it. Jolie Holland has been Joan Burroughs incarnate in her dreams and never stops her trek towards new experiences that sometime lead her to midnight swimming and lighthouse shows. The album is a deep and poetic reflection of an open and adventurous individual whose song writing requires more than the casual listen. As with every artist, it's a relative relationship for the [...]
Twin Cities: - New Replacements on the way? ( link ) - Mates of State recently performed a studio set at The Current. ( link ) (Inter)National: - The Hood Internet have released a Tobacco vs. Aesop Rock EP. ( link ) - Caribou has won Canada's Polaris Music Prize. ( link ) - Uncoached lists 10 Awesome Acting Performances By Famous Music Stars. No mention of Will Smith in Wild Wild West though. ( link ) - [...]
Download: Dark Dark Dark - "Colors" Minneapolis-based Caberet-folk trio Dark Dark Dark played in the Windy City last night to an appreciative crowd of about 50 people. Here's what venerable alt-weekly the Chicago Reader said in Previewing last night's gig at the Heaven Gallery : Minneapolis-based Dark Dark Dark makes lulling cabaret-folk with a chilly edge, floating haunting male and female vocals over an ocean tide of accordion, banjo, cello, and upright bass. On the quartet's full-length debut, The Snow Magic (Blood Onion), front woman Nona [...]
(photos from Being Here Is Better Than Wishing We'd Stayed , and installation by the Miss Rockaway Armada at Mass MoCA , larger photo gallery of the installation here ) Well we have finally finished our stay and installation at Mass MoCA. Being Here Is Better Than Wishing We'd Stayed is now open through April 2009. We all had a blast, and are extremely grateful to the museum and it's staff for offering this opportunity. Spending time together with some old, and old-new friends in [...]
(this is kind of the opposite of what the rest of my summer is going to be like, photo from the NY Press cover shoot ) So I am headed off for the summer, again. I'm presently on my way to rejoin the Miss Rockaway Armada on the Mississippi River in Andalusia, IL. I will be trying to post from the river, but am not sure how that will go down. Every time I go out of town for a while I try to find a Sucka-substitute, but it never works [...]
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