Austin City Limits Music Festival has announced its lineup for the 2012 edition of the festival. Set to headline this year's lineup: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Black Keys and Jack White. Three day tickets and single day passes are still on-sale for the festival for the festival set for October 12th through the 14th. Pick them up here while they last. Check out the full lineup below: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and ...
Hailing from the frigid confines of Saskatoon, Canada, one might think a band like The Deep Dark Woods would be happy touring the warmer climes of the Southern United States. Not so claims singer... Continue reading "Ryan Boldt of The Deep Dark Woods on the Rough Streets of Saskatoon" >

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Thrice Farewell Tour w/ O'Brother, Animals As Leaders Sunday, May 13 The Masquerade - 695 North Avenue NE in Atlanta 30308 Admission $17.99 / Purchase Tickets With two of my favorite acts, Torche and Mastodon, performing on successive nights, you'd think that I'd be going on and on about how this Friday and Saturday night will make for one of the best live experiences of the year. And it will be. But I'd be lying if I didn't say [...]

First Aid Kit at The Wellmont Theatre (11/18/11) Photo : Matt Fricovsky ( more ) May 30 The Orion Experience Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 05/02/12 12:00 PM Mercury Lounge New [...]
The past few weeks have seen 9b Radio sit in a more mellow groove so I decided to up the rock level of this week's show. It certainly didn't hurt to have Truckstop Darlin' and Tin Horn Prayer send me brand new songs and when you combined those with Sunday Valley, an unreleased track from the Bohannons the rock kind of upped itself. Even the requests fit the overall feel I was going for last night so good job to the listeners. Now! Go put some ears on the archived stream of the show . Below is [...]

If you have spent any length of time in the heart of a Canadian forest, you will understand that The Deep Dark Woods have a fitting name for their music. Deeply rooted, predictable, majestic, haunting and beautiful, it is somewhat ironic that the quintet call Saskatoon their home given that the modest prairie city is not known for its qvast wooded areas. While Saskatoon is home to a meagre quarter of a million people, TDDW are a common name in the Canadian folk world having won a number of the country's top folk awards [...]

Live music picks for WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 through MONDAY APRIL 9, 2012. WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 / NADA SURF / THE OPERA HOUSE / 735 QUEEN E / $16.50 / 19+ I've mentioned in the past that one of the perks of writing this weekly post is that I discover bands that I otherwise wouldn't have found. Nada Surf , out of New York, is a prime example. They've been on the scene since 1992 and have developed something of a cult following. This isn't surprising because, quite [...]

We've compiled all of this week's tour date announcements in one handy column... We're consistently impressed with The Roots and their ability to somehow find the time to not only be the hardest working band on late night, but also record and tour. If they've figured out some secret formula to slow down time or duplicate themselves I think we'd like to know about considering we all log time at full time jobs and manage to crank out content. Even when the Philly-based hip hop crew has some down time they manage [...]

"We're the Deep Dark Woods from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan" growls singer/ guitarist Ryan Boldt through his – newly trimmed but impressive – beard at the beginning of the show - and that's about as far as he goes all night. In talking, that is. This is a band that lets the music say it for them, living up to the image of the silent and wronged heroes at odds with the world that form the poetry of their songs. Their songs are melancholy - telling stories of alone-ness and tragedy, with driving roots [...]
The Product The Deep Dark Woods Bury Tomorrow
So the other day my close personal friends The Deep Dark Woods (don't you know all Canadians know each other?) posted on their website and social outlets about a live download they are giving away. Well after I feigned hipster nonchalance I casually grabbed a copy of it...I mean whatever...might as well... Okay, so honestly I was excited and rightfully so. The download is 8 tracks and does a great job of spanning their discography and shows a range from uptempo jams (of which their live show is known for) and their amazing downtempo balladeer tracks. The recording [...]
Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it's original air date and is available for streaming here . Also, don't forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page . Below is the playlist for January 19, 2012 01. Hank Williams III - Pills I Took 02. Willy Tea Taylor - Wandering Boy [...]
Getting lost in those Deep Dark Woods. Hailing from the deep dark woods of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, this rugged outfit makes its Sugar Hill debut with The Place I Left Behind, a 13-song, hour-long affirmation of the band's reputation as solid leaders in the American roots music scene. This is the group's fourth release and first since 2009's fine Winter Hours but the wait -- as short as it's been -- has been more than worth it. The opening "Westside Street" is...

Originally, the podcast and Ninebullets Radio were supposed to (mostly) feature different songs. Then, I was asked to do an extra hour on the show at the last minute and the two ended up being extremely similar track listings. Sorry about that but look at it like this; in a week the archive of the radio show will be gone forever but the podcast is available (for better or worse) forever. The Episode 24 podcast will ring out 2011 here on ninebullets. In preparation for this show I literally (yes, I am properly using [...]

I know, I know. Lists are annoying and trying to assign rankings and value to art is subjective at best. That's why these records - 25 from releases that really made an impact on me in '11 - aren't branded with any type of distinction other than "favorite." These are records, not songs, that warmed my heart, eased my pain, inspired my creativity or simply helped tap my toe or nod my head. They never asked for anything more than a listen, and I was more than happy to oblige. That being said, there [...]

2011 zit er bijna op. Het is dus de hoogste tijd om de score van het muziekjaar 2011 op te maken. Wat zijn de albums die ons het afgelopen jaar kippenvel bezorgden? Het beste van 2011 volgens Peter 1. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything's getting older MP3 Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells – Let's Stop Here 2. PJ Harvey - Let England shake MP3 PJ Harvey – Hanging In The Wire [...]

This track has seriously been on repeat for about 2 weeks and qualifies for "Best New Music" already. You know him, but do you know him as a "solo artist"? Ryan Boldt of The Deep Dark Woods looses none of the prairie roots magic with his own material in comparison to the DDWs. The track is "Mary Hamilton's Last Goodnight" and is a spectacularly slow and waning Canadiana track. The signature vocals of Boldt that immediately bring you to those achingly beautiful tracks from his day job as lead of the Saskatchewan indie heroes The Deep Dark Woods. [...]
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Tweet Canadian crooners Deep Dark Woods offer harmonies that are delivered with such an enchanting seriousness that upon hearing their brand of folk rock I simply fell head over heels. The first track to catch my attention is "Sugar Mama" - a song about growing older, taking chances and rekindling old flames. "Come on sugar mama take a chance with me/ I'm a lot older than I used to be" is enough to charm me; I'd head out with [...]

now, normally i wouldnt make a change to my top records of the year, but while i was compiling it, i made a grave oversight. the sad thing is, is that i listened to the record in question the morning i made my top 14 of the year list. that record is, as if you havent guessed, the deep dark woods' the place i left behind , which in my opinion is a minor sad bastard masterpiece. i use the term "sad bastard" very loosely, keep in mind. so, without interrupting the continuity too much [...]

► If it's the first Sunday of the month, that means Daniel Ahearn and the Sunday Night Jones will be playing at the Satellite. L.A. band Taylor Locke & the Roughs and Canadian alternative folk-rock band Deep Dark Woods [See "West Side Street" ] also join in on the fun. ► Judson McKinney celebrates the release of his album "Drink the Wine" with Count Fleet , the Lonely Wild and Fort King at Bootleg Theater. ► Local '90s punk rockers Wax headline [...]