Hannah Cohen - New York songwriter, photographer and one-time model tip-toes quietly in the shadows of heartbreak and loneliness with her delicate, artful folk/pop, adding a healthy dollop of tear-stained melancholy to the sweet/tart confessional confections...who figured despair could sound quite so sultry? // Release : Child Bride (April 24, Bella Union) // Sounds like : Producer/ instrumentalist Thomas "Doveman" Barlett (Antony and the Johnsons, The National) keeps the tone ethereal and dreamlike, immersing Cohen's airy, cool and detached vocals in a warm bath of strings, plucked guitars and haunting piano chords and [...]
Photo by Matt LuemOn March 22 and 23, a collective of young, folk-rooted composers who were drinking buddies back in Vermont will perform at the Walker's William and Nadine McGuire Theater. If you re

mp3: Sharon Van Etten - Serpents The lovely and amazing Sharon Van Etten returns this February with the new LP Tramp , marking her debut with Jagjaguwar . Check out the new track "Serpents", which features members of The National, Wye Oak, The Walkmen, and Doveman. She definitely keeps good company these days, as the album also includes collaborations with Zach Condon (of Beirut) and Julianna Barwick. We cannot wait for this album! [Via P4K ].

Para seu terceiro álbum, Tramp , a cantora nova-iorquina Sharon Van Etten se cercou de ótimas companhias. O sucessor de Epic , álbum elogiado lançado em 2009, foi gravado na garagem/estúdio de Aaron Dessner , guitarrista do The National , e conta com participações especiais de Zach Condon ( Beirut ), Jenn Wasner , vocalista do Wye Oak , Matt Barrick , baterista sempre frenético e sorridente do The Walkmen , a cantora new age Julianna Barwick , Thomas Bartlett , da Doveman , e [...]

Tramp will see daylight shortly. Sharon Van Etten recently dropped by KCRW. Purchase Sharon Van Etten items via Insound. MP3: Sharon Van Etten - Serpents

New Jersey native Sharon Van Etten released quite an impressive track off her new album, Tramp , today.

Justin Bond & Thomas Bartlett ( more by Dominick Mastrangelo ) As you may have noticed in What's Going on Sunday , both Allen Toussaint and Justin Vivian Bond played shows at Joe's Pub on Sunday. Allen's show, entitled "A Southern Night", is part of "the Joe's Pub New York Voices series" and happens again three times this week. All three are still on sale (11/21, 11/22 & 11/23). The singer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and producer [...]

12/1 @ Le Poisson Rouge. Wanna attend with a guest? If so, then leave a comment! A winner (18+) will be randomly chosen on 11/25 @ NOON. Buy tix here. Follow Le Poisson Rouge on Twitter. Visit Doveman at his official site. Like Doveman on Facebook. Purchase Doveman items via Insound. MP3: Doveman - Breathing [...]

The singer-songwriters breaks the news of her star-studded new full-length, Tramp.

Sharon Van Etten's follow-up to 2010's Epic — her highly anticipated first release via her new label , Jagjaguwar Records — now has a release date (February 7), title, tracklist, and epic group of indie collaborators. As it turns out, the 12-track LP, Tramp , was not only recorded with the National's Aaron Dessner, but also features guest spots by the likes of Zach Condon, Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak, Matt Barrick of the Walkmen, Doveman, and Julianna Barwick. Today's press release notes: The shimmering sound of Tramp [...]
The soundtrack to the 1984 movie 'Footloose,' covered by Doveman back in 2008 and rereleased to coincide with the remake to the movie.

photos by Toby Tenenbaum , words by Rachel Kowal Glen Hansard, Sharon Van Etten, a Dessner Other Voices , an annual musical festival held in Dingle, Ireland, may not be nearly as old as the town's pubs, but it has already become a rich, meaningful tradition since its inception in 2002. Though typically held in a tiny church, Other Voices jumped across the Atlantic and landed in [...]

9/23 @ Le Poisson Rouge. Wanna attend with a guest? If so, then leave a comment! A winner (18+) will be randomly chosen on 9/20 @ NOON. Buy tix here. Follow Le Poisson Rouge on Twitter. Visit Doveman at his official site. Like Doveman on Facebook. Purchase Doveman items via Insound. MP3: Doveman - Breathing [...]

Marketa Irglova, Doveman and Glen Hansard at City Winery (02/02/10) Photo : D. Caplan ( more ) Hey folks, are you a fan of the artist known as Doveman aka Thomas Bartlett ? Well, if you are, then you probably already know he's been doing a monthly residency at Le Poisson Rouge entitled The Burgundy Stain Sessions . Throughout the course of his regularly sold out musical salons, Doveman has had all kind of eclectic guests come down and play with him including [...]

7/29 @ Le Poisson Rouge. Wanna attend with a guest? If so, then leave a comment! A winner (18+) will be randomly chosen on 7/25 @ NOON. Buy tix here. Follow Le Poisson Rouge on Twitter. Visit Doveman at his official site. Like Doveman on Facebook. Purchase Doveman items via Insound. MP3: Doveman - Breathing [...]

words by Rachel Kowal , photos by Lionel Bergeron Lisa Hannigan @ Rockwood Music Hall Though penciled into the calendar at Le Poisson Rouge well in advance, Doveman 's monthly salons (aka Burgundy Stain Sessions) are typically characterized by spontaneity and surprises. The cast of musicians is constantly shifting as new people are introduced and former collaborators quietly fall off the roster. Traditionally, little about the shows is scripted - at least until [...]

Last Friday night, Celebrate Brooklyn began a summer of music and art at Brooklyn's Prospect Park Bandshell with a show from the magical and mysterious Andrew Bird . For the most part, the evening was a huge success. The music was great, the accommodations were great, the sound was even great. That is, if you made it into the amphitheater. If you plan on seeing any music at Prospect Park this summer, I highly suggest you read the following list of suggestions. They will [...]

Doveman , who often plays with both Justin Bond and Martha Wainwright , has four more upcoming salon shows scheduled at Le Poisson Rouge . Last month (after he was joined by Rufus Wainwright and Sean Lennon at the West Village venue) we mentioned that he plays the venue again on June 24 . Since then, Lisa Hannigan has been added as an announced guest. Tickets are still on sale. Doveman also plays on July 29 ( tickets ), September 23 ( tickets ), [...]
Here's a short playlist I made a few weeks back after seeing The National open for Arcade Fire in Chicago (I promise to write something about that soon). It seems like there's been a slew of one-off songs lately featuring the unearthly baritone of one of my favorite leading men, Matt Berninger, so I decided to throw all the ones I could find together. They're all varying degrees of awesome, but some stand out a titch more than others. The Forms song, for example, is hands-down one of my favorite songs of [...]

NY Times: You have a new CD out in March called "Justin Vivian Bond: Dendrophile." Explain. Justin Vivian Bond: A dendrophile's a person who gets an erotic charge out of nature. I am one! This is a record for the tree-hugger community. I do Bambi Lake's "The Golden Age of Hustlers" on it, and also a duet of the Carpenters' "Superstar" with Beth Orton . As for Vivian, that's my self-given middle name. Justin is a very male-identified name, and I wanted something that would balance [...]