Noise Pop 2013: Damien Jurado @ The Chapel 3/1/13 - photo by Debra Zeller Friday night's Noise Pop Festival offered a chance to see a clash of styles within a couple blocks of each other, both in terms of the music played and the venues. First, I caught The Bay Bridged's Noise Pop Happy Hour at Bender's featuring Golden Void , Wild Moth , and DSTVV , and then hitched over to another Noise Pop performance from Damien Jurado down the [...]
Every year I find a plethora of music that would fit perfectly on my year end music lists. Unfortunately, a large majority of the music I discover is from years before and therefore disqualified from my arbitrary year end list making rules. That's why I've decided to make a list of the favorite artists and songs I discovered last year whose music was actually released previous to 2012. There can only be so many Rodriguez's out there, so the majority of my list consists of bands from the past few years who forever reason [...]
As someone who dabbles in the accordionistic arts (by the way, did I mention how cool I am? ), I may get a little testy with you if you suggest to me that accordions are nothing but loud, obnoxious noise machines. I mean, they can be, if that’s what you’re going for, but accordions are far more versatile instruments than people give them credit for. Walt McClements, known for his participation in such projects as Dark Dark Dark and Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? , seems like a man who understands [...]
As we bring you our second slew of our Best Songs of 2012, keep in mind that as the numbers get closer to 1, our decisions were just that ...
Mixtape: Singer-Songwriters of the San Francisco Bay Area (Podcast #293) With its rich history of folk musicians and lyrical rockers, the Bay Area has long been a source of terrific singer-songwriters. Even today, while much of the buzz around local musicians focuses on some of our weirder (or, perhaps, more "now") rock subgenres, there continue to be numerous talented folks crafting lyrically-rich, deeply personal music. For some reason, 2012 seems like an especially strong year for local songwriters, with well-received new albums this year from beloved veterans like Mark Eitzel [...]
Lauded director Woody Allen and his film crew descended upon San Francisco recently to begin work on an upcoming movie, giving rise to the sport of Woodyspotting . Here's how it works: San Francisco residents take to Twitter to report on Woody's latest filming location. Simple, right? As a tribute to the acclaimed filmmaker, we've compiled a collection of songs inspired by his often oddball, but nonetheless illustrious, film career. (Note: you’ll have to be logged in to Spotify to enjoy it) 1. Bhi Bhiman , [...]
New Antenna Farm artist Dana Falconberry is playing with Antenna Farm mainstay Emily Jane White at the Hemlock on Tuesday, 8/21/12 . Dana Falconberry put out an EP called Though I Didn't Call It Came on Davis's Crossbill Records last year, and the follow up, Leelanau , comes out on Antenna Farm in October. Nylon Magazine premiered the first single off of Leelanau , "Lake Charlevoix", last month. It's a pretty, [...]
André Gomes É a primeira empreitada da Beep Beep Eventos. A 23 de Outubro, Carnaxide recebe no Auditório Municipal Ruy de Carvalho a folk tingida de negro de Emily Jane White, em digressão de apresentação do seu terceiro álbum, Ode To Sentience . Os bilhetes custam quinze euros e estarão à venda em breve. Original Website: Bodyspace
No tragedy is too tragic until White has her way with it. 2012, Antenna Farm 7.6 / 10.0 “I’ve seen a glimpse of mortal hell”, sings Emily Jane White on her album, Ode To Sentience. If this statement had come at the album’s beginning rather than eight songs in, [...]
Songstress Emily Jane White has been busy of late, releasing her third LP Ode To Sentience on June 12th and touring Japan and the U.S. . Now she's back with the second single off the new album, a track called "Oh Katherine" that premiered recently over on My Old Kentucky Blog . "Oh Katherine" is a stirring, string-laden folk song providing only more evidence of Ms. White's prowess. The lilting number pulls you in with an intoxicating mix of her warm and comforting voice and [...]
Dark, gritty, and heavy on the shadows...I'm talking about the Brick & Mortar's stage lighting. But that could easily be used to describe Emily Jane White's recent US-release Ode To Sentience . This show was special, mainly due to the fact that Emily decided to play her entire album from start to finish for the lucky audience. She was even nice enough to tack on an intimate version of Wild Tigers I Have Known from her 2009 debut, Dark Undercoat . She is one of a kind... MP3: Emily [...]
Earlier this week we posted Volume One of the Best New Releases for the Week of June 12th, featuring songs from Jaill, The Tallest Man on Earth, Guided By Voices, and many others. This, Volume Two, features singles from new LP and EP drops by Hot Chip, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sea of Bees, Phoebe [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Emily Jane White 's new album Ode to Sentience is out now on Antenna Farm Records and it's streaming all throughout release week at AOL Spinner . Armed with little more than acoustic guitar and her fragile alto and known for her finger-picked folk that mixes in elements of traditional country, classical, and rock, along with intuitive lyrics and elegiac vocals, she continues to bring her live show on the road throughout June, hitting cities such as New York, Brooklyn, Providence, and others coming up (full dates below). For [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Day Sailor : free and legal Day Sailor EP [mp3] search for more Day Sailor posts at Largehearted Boy Dots Will Echo : "I'm a Monkey" [mp3] from Drunk is the New Sober [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including the latest from Hot Chip, The Tallest Man on Earth, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. As always, be sure to check out Largehearted Boy for more new releases out this week. What are your favorite new releases this week? Dent May// Do Things dentmay.com // facebook // [...]
Following an 18-year hiatus, soul singer Bobby Womack returns to top this week's list of new releases with The Bravest Man In The Universe , which easily ranks among the legendary singer's best albums to date. Following the approach he took with the late Gil Scott-Heron’s excellent final record, producer and XL Recordings head Richard Russell, along with co-producer and Blur/Gorillaz-leader Damon Albarn, adds moody electronics and trip-hop beats to create, what our Music Director, Don Yates, calls "masterful set of electro-soul" whose "spacious, modern production makes a surprisingly effective showcase for Womack’s grainy, deeply soulful vocals [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Giant Giant Sand, Guided By Voices, the Hundred In The Hands, Jaill, Dent May, Wymond Miles, Noah & The MegaFauna, Stepdad, the Tallest Man On Earth, Emily Jane White and Bobby Womack. Also, vote for your favorite of today’s new releases.
A few weeks back we brought you a chill-inducing Townes Van Zandt cover from Emily Jane White and Marissa Nadler. Today we're back and focusing the spotlight firmly on Ms. White, whose luscious debut, Ode To Sentience , drops today on Antenna Farm . When we posted that cover, I promised to bone up on my Ode To Sentience science, and lucky thing for me I did, because it allowed me to field an eleventh-hour call from Ms. White's handlers, [...]
Ode to Sentience (June 12, U.S.), the third album in as many years from critical darling and brooding "dark folk" singer/songwriter Emily Jane White , is another finely-crafted edition of self-described "reflective, contemplative songs." Recorded in her home town of San Francisco, White's stark, haunting music has found an appreciative audience in Europe where Sentience was released last year, a more welcoming home, perhaps, to the album's lushly ethereal atmospheres and tense, fleeting beauty. "I'm drawn to writing sad songs", she says matter of factly. "I'm OK with that." This is, after [...]
White has pushed well past rote singer-songwriter territory on this lushly layered, solid record. Folk singer Emily Jane White's last album, Victorian America, was an expansive, lush and bittersweet post-Katrina album that expanded here acoustic songs into larger soundscapes. And while her new record, Ode to Sentience, may not be as ambitious or far reaching, it's best parts still revel in the same sort of layering and detail. The thumping echo of electric guitars on "The Cliff", the haunting pianos and strings of "Requiem Waltz", and the pedal-steel twang...
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