Dawn Landes is one of my favorite people, hands down. If she wants to cover Tom Petty, then I'm all ears. Thanks to the folks at Live & Breathing for their wonderful work.
Dawn Landes, Ray Rizzo and friends are going to be performing tonight at theRudyard Kiplin and are inviting the rest of Louisville...not just to join them as audience, but to join them on stage as performers. Hootenanny-style! The fun gets underway at 9pm and is a suggested donation of $5. Continue reading Dawn Landes, Ray Rizzo, Brian Schreck, Roadie & others @ Rudyard Kipling TONIGHT - 12/27 at Backseat Sandbar .
Hem have released a holiday track from their upcoming album Departure and Farewell called "Identical Snowflakes". I'm not really a holiday music person, but I am very much a Hem person - the New York based indie rockers rank high on my list of most-favorite-bands-ever. "Identical Snowflakes" is what you'd expect a holiday track to be; sweet and lovely, but with the added bonus of Sally Green's gorgeous vocals and the band's signature harmonies. You'd have to be completely heartless not to love it. Hem - Identical Snowflakes [via [...]
On the subject of retro-pop how about this from trio Dawn Landes, Annie Nero, and Lauren Balthrop collectively The Bandana Splits . The Bandana Splits - Sometimes And a Smiths cover too. The Bandana Splits -Everyday Is Like Sunday
Dawn Landes, Annie Nero, and Lauren Balthrop cover Morrissey's 'Everyday Is Like Sunday' in their new girl group the Bandana Splits.
Apparently, it's Sam Cohen week on the ole blog. Tuesday, I posted about the former Apollo Sunshine musician's psychedelic-infused solo project Yellowbirds . Now today, we have The Bandana Splits: a doo-wop flavored girl-group project produced by Cohen. The trio of singers is comprised of Brooklynites Lauren Balthrop, Annie Nero, and one of Everybody Taste's favorite folkies, Dawn Landes. Try a single serving of the fabulous debut via "Sometimes"—an irresistibly upbeat harmony and tambourine smothered gem that immediately lifts the spirits. The album, Mr. Sam Presents The Bandana Splits , is out now and you can snag your [...]
The 78 Project : Dawn Landes (Official Teaser) I don't often write about 'teasers' but I happen to know a few folks behind this project, and have heard first hand of it's awesome vision. When Alan Lomax went around the south in the 1930's recording every blues musician who'd sit for a session, they 'discovered' folks like Lead Belly , Muddy Waters and more. Now, this project takes the device he used - a straight-to-laquer, one-take record recording PRESTO and asks their musical friends to sing into a mic. [...]
I was a media specialist the morning the towers began to fall: sole captain of a prep school video collection, and proprietor of the largest viewing space on campus. And so it was that the students came to me, one by one and together, by class and by cluster, as the word spread from teacher to teacher; so it was, indeed, that I ended up presiding over a grand experiment in media literacy, as the hour passed, and the cycle of not-news - that long hour of uncertain newscaster conjectures that accompanied the static, repetitive footage on every channel [...]
. Mother Falcon - "Fireflies" [mp3] Like an upbeat Quick Said The Bird, Mother Falcon are incredibly talented musicians who understand the importance of being part of a whole. Nothing escapes from the ether yet at the same time every note in this song is incredible. The vocal round-about does me in more than any [...]
The Bandana Splits are the doo-wop inspired singing trio of Lauren Balthrop, Annie Nero, and bowling champion Dawn Landes. In the appropriately retro video for "Sometimes" the gals play old time-y Brooklyn soda jerks who turn their shop into a concert hall after mopping up. The song comes from their self-titled debut LP produced by Sam Cohen of Apollo Sunshine. Read More...
photo by ti-rouge I made this mix for my dear friend Amy who has- as our friend Andrea put it- a clapping fetish, but it turned into something that I really enjoy listening to. As implied, the theme of this mix was clapping. When I started collecting them for the first time I really examined which tracks included actual clapping, synthesized clapping, a tight snare hit, or just a catchy beat and decided to include them all. Since not all the songs contain actual clapping, [...]
Simply sweet and slightly dreamy, this one falls right into line with what Landes does best.
Everybody Taste is taking a short vacation until Thursday while I visit with my newborn niece. While I'm out, here's a collection of Tom Petty covers we posted back in 2010. Tom Petty is my musical godfather—my Mr. Miyagi, Professor X, and Master Splinter. He opened the door to my musical tastes and education and, metaphorically at least, popped all my musical cherries: my first cassette tape, first CD, first concert, first used piece of vinyl, and even first song learned on the guitar ("American Girl"). To celebrate the legendary songwriter and his rich yet [...]
With an unmatched focus on environmental sustainability, Pickathon Music Festival 's only vice is some wonderful noise-pollution for neighboring Portland, Oregon. Taking place in Happy Valley, OR between August 5th and 7th, the indie-roots festival bypasses the normal list of festival regulars , to establish an eclectic family-friendly bill of banjo pickers, acoustic outfits, soul legends, and other bluegrass greats. For its 13th installment , Pickathon already tapped Mavis Staples, Bill Callahan, Lee Fields & The Expressions, plus the Fruit Bats and others, and are now completing the lineup with 11 new acts - pushing the [...]
A whiskey-soaked crowd showed up at the Casbah to see Justin Townes Earle. Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.
Sunday night's billing at Mississippi Studios was precisely the kind the venue was built for. Featuring a pair of New York-based troubadours, the lineup showcased the continuing vitality of folk and country—what Gram Parson's called "Cosmic American Music"—in an era of exploding diversity and experimentation in the pop culture arena. Brooklyn's Dawn Landes opened the set, sort of wandering on to the stage and asking if it was okay to play yet. "Nobody told me when to go," she shrugged. Appropriately, she opened her set with "Sweetheart of the Rodeo," a song [...]
Bluebird Theater | Denver, Colorado | 16 February 2011 | Full Set The lovely and talented Dawn Landes stopped in Denver again last week to open for Justin Townes Earle . The Bluebird was packed for the show with a wonderful crowd, eager to hear some great music. The show opened with the enthralling and exciting "Sweetheart of the Rodeo", a true story about Landes' grandmother . Ms. Landes stood atop a [...]
Speaking of Josh Ritter, his wife and fellow singer/songwriter Dawn Landes will be stopping in Portland this weekend along with the great and underrated talent Justin Townes Earle. Catch them both at Mississippi Studios on Sunday, February 20th. The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on the "rehab album" which included a few paragraphs on Earle and his songwriting: Though artists have certainly written good songs while in recovery, writing songs about the recovery process itself is a trickier matter. "They get very cheesy very fast. With that language you're dealing [...]
by teepoo Welcome to this week's edition of COVER SATURDAYS, where we bring you the week's great covers that we were found and sent to our mailboxes. Enjoy! When Doves Cry (Prince cover) by robyn Kitzu- Kid A (Radiohead Cover) Dawn Landes- Young Folks (Peter, Bjorn and John Cover) more after the jump Bonjay- Jamelia (Caribou Cover) Jonsi- [...]
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This gentle take on 'Young Folks' dispenses with the ubiquitous whistle and is much better for it, letting the lyrics some to the forefront. The track as a whole is charming, but the vocals are the real highlight. Dawn Landes , an astonishingly talented singer-songwriter, sounds like an American Laura Marling, her clear voice tinged with joy and sorrow. Whilst Landes isn't a new talent, she is one who deserves far more acclaim than she receives. Dawn Landes – Young Folks (Peter, Bjorn & John Cover)
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