This week is a particularly exciting one for KEXP listeners because today marks the release of Live At KEXP Volume Eight ! Featuring performances from April 2011 to April 2012, the 19-track compilation houses live performances from some of KEXP's newest discoveries alongside longtime favorites, including songs from Alabama Shakes , Of Monsters and Men , Tame Impala , Dry The River , Brendan Perry and Robin Guthrie , Mark Lanegan Band , The Lumineers and more. Here's the tracklist: 1. Alabama Shakes [...]
London quintet Dry The River made waves over the past few years touring in their home land, yet just held the release of their debut album, Shallow Bed , earlier this year. What started as Peter Liddle writing songs in a hall at college has become a rock band comprised of badass guitar riffs, questioning lyrics, layers of strings, and charming vocal harmonies. Last Thursday Dry The River played their second Minnesota show to date supporting First Avenue sell-outs Alabama Shakes. They threw down some fire; the heavy percussive elements in “Demons” [...]
Photo By Stacy SchwartzAlabama Shakes and Dry The RiverFirst Avenue, MinneapolisThursday, August 2, 2012See Also: Slideshow: Alabama Shakes and Dry The River at First Avenue "Sometimes I don't know w
Lollapalooza is coming up. As always, Glorious Noise will have a posse roaming Grant Park in search of warm felafels and cold beer. Along the way we try to stumble across some good music. There are a lot of bands on the line-up that we don't know much about. So we threw out some questions to help us all get to know the Lollapalooza line-up. From Matt of Dry The River: 1. What’s the best part of playing festivals? Sunshine. You cant get that in England. Especially not indoors. [...]
NME recently "asked indie and metal bands alike... to name their greatest metal album ever," and while the bad news is that many of the answers are on the shittier side (of possible answers to this question - I don't think anyone names an album which is actually bad), the good news is that most [...]
FIRE AND FOREMOST, Y'ALL: In retrospect, it is in your best interest to check out that Wake Owl track first. Clearly all of this squizzness contained herein is delicious but holy balls of Thor, if 'Wild Country' isn't the best thing you hear today, we'll eat our hat. Carry on... * The following is an accounting of all the tabs open on this computer, a list of things we find worth your time. Please gander through these bits with us, won't you. If my [...]
John Lindquist Patrick Wolf doesn't really look old enough to be celebrating a decade of anything save no longer being a teenager but despite having just turned 29 less than a fortnight ago, the dramatic/romantic English singer-songwriter has been making music and releasing records since his debut EP in Fall 2002; his first full-length Lycanthropy followed in Summer 2003. If he decides that it's occasion enough for a world tour , I'm certainly not going to argue it. Neither his last album - 20112s [...]
Hi, my name is Matt. And thank you for looking at my list. I'm the staff member that tends to lean towards the atmospheric, embellished, vastly over-extravagant kinds of songs. I like to get lost/lose myself to the music. Over the next sequence of 20 songs, you'll be delivered to far off places where the floor is [...]
The Guardian So yes, been away a little while - San Francisco was lovely, thanks for asking, I've just started putting up photos on Flickr - and yes, there's a bit of a backlog of stuff to get through. But there's also a dollop of jet lag to get over, so I'll just ease back into this if it's all the same to you. We may as well start with the only thing that I actually listened to from all the RSS/Twitter/email items immediately: yesterday's livestreamed Blur mini-concert from atop a [...]
Sunday at Beach Break Live 2012 provided solace from the rain at last, the sun reared its beautiful/overdue shining face midway through the morning and immediately it was time to hit the beach, for the first time. The stage situated on the beach was a simple one, playing host to a variety of acoustic acts who all believed that they we going to all do an Ed Sheeran and become immensely popular. Sadly, the talent on show meant that if they were to do a Sheeran, it would take 100x [...]
Reaching the halfway mark of the year is an exciting time for a music fan, especially for a year that has so much potential with forthcoming records. Let's be honest, 2012 hasn't quite shaped up to be the best of years, especially after a far more incredible 2011. In the end though, I will always take the bad with the good, and this year has had plenty of interesting records to look back on. As a music fan, I absolutely love to see lists of top albums because it's a very accessible and convenient way of discovering new bands and [...]
For those of us who work on The Wounded Jukebox, music is jammed into every corner of our lives we can spare. After the day's work comes the best part of our days; when we get to discover and revel in new sounds and the people who produce them. Often this comes in the form [...]
Sasquatch ::: all photos by Josh Lovseth Well, it has been weeks since I have logged into wordpress for this website. I haven't felt inspired or motivated to do much of anything, let alone string together snarky comments about a festival that you paid too much to be at apparently had no trash cans after 1pm. Learn [...]
Hacienda Hands on the Mainstage ::: Photo by Josh Lovseth Saturday's Sasquatch was marked by both the bigger names and the up-and-comers in our schedule really showing up for the crowd. Pickwick -> Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band on the Sasquatch Mainstage Pickwick's selection to open the Saturday mainstage put the band on their biggest [...]
The maladjusted, much-maligned Friday Films page returns with some more videos fr0m London acts we heart: Breton - Jostle (Live) This yellowy, captivating live video accompanies the release of Breton's latest double-A single (out on FatCat on 2 July) and was recorded by and for the wondrous French site La Blogotheque in Paris. Jostle (which can be heard properly here ) is from current album Other People's Problems , while Foam is just a lovely bonus track (and is listenable [...]
Dry the River 's singer and guitarist Matthew Taylor was kind enough to answer our Quickfire Questions ahead of their appearance in Wales at students' festival Beach Break Live this summer. You'd never guess what late singer he was obsessed with. (At least we never would have thought it for a moment!) And what album he'd bring to have a party with in heaven. Read on... 1. What song is your earliest musical memory? My Mum had 'Bad' and 'Dangerous by Michael Jackson' on vinyl [...]
No one has played a piano as delicately as the opening to Husky's "History's Door" since Sufjan waxed philosophical about a UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois back in 2005. The progression here rings of the neo-folk movement that rocketed bands like Mumford and Sons and Dry The River to the top of the building. Husky pursue the same set of imperatives as the aforementioned bands, a sparse arrangement that unwinds toward something more and more uplifting. The final act features rolling drums and a doubling of the chorus [...]
Wednesday's offerings: ► Jack White returns to L.A. for the first of a two-night stand at the Wiltern behind his solo album "Blunderbuss." ► New Zealand icons the Clean , now into the fourth decade, visit the Echo, with the Black Watch and Regal Degal opening. ► U.K. harmonizing fol-rockers Dry The River headline the Bootleg Bar, supported by Marvelous Toy, Noah and the MegaFauna. That's Dry the River's video for "New Ceremony," above. ► Musician, comedian and master improviser Reggie Watts entertains at the Fonda [...]
Appuntamento con gli Hot Chip e tanti altri protagonisti, lunedì 2 luglio al Circolo Magnolia di Segrate (Milano), in occasione della seconda edizione del festivalino Grazie A Dio È Lunedì. Gli Hot Chip stanno per pubblicare il nuovo lavoro In Our Heads in uscita il prossimo 12 giugno. Già uscito il primo singolo Night & Day di cui vi proponiamo il video. Con gli Hot Chip on stage ci saranno anche Kurt Vile and The Violators, Breton e Dry The River . Continua [...]
Waking up at a festival isn't too tough. Waking up, opening your tent and realizing you're in the "overflow" (a cute word that covers up the debauchery of the gypsy camp, ghetto-like, if you will, atmosphere of the place) is the tough part. A few sun-burnt party-kids passed out over here, an absurdly large pile of empty beer cans and garbage over there, and, not so far off, music from a stereo plays songs made amazing on stage the previous day; the wonderful few that will attempt the ever so lofty goal of the "Four-day-no-sleep-rock-the-fr ee-world-or-die-trying", still going strong. [...]
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