Oh Michael, Look What You've Done: Friends Play Michael Chapman is a new covers compilation organized by the 71-year-old legend of British folk music's wife, Andru, and Josh Rosenthal, of the seminal acoustic label Tompkins ... read more
Have you ever been to a record store while on vacation? Like if your buddy takes you to their music shop? In an inexplicable way, any musical pick you serendipitously find has a strange ability to become a straight away favorite, seemingly long lost and inevitably yours. It has a memory attached to it. When [...]
Meg Baird is a singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence as part of storied psych-folk outfit Espers, a Philadelphia collective whose three full-lengths crystallized the sound of the more somber and sonically kaleidoscopic elements of the mid-aughts “Freak Folk” scene. Between Espers' second and third records, Baird released Dear Companion , an understated but deeply affecting solo record consisting primarily of covers and traditional songs. Those who fell immediately under Meg's spell had to wait an excruciating four years for the follow-up, Seasons on Earth , which arrived on Drag City [...]
I am becoming more and more confident in talking on the radio. I am slowly developing my voice - my on-air personality. There is still room for improvement; namely in the transition from Stuarto's show to mine, but I'll get there eventually. Last Friday's show was centered around indie-folk again, with plenty of psychedelic folk, orchestral folk, and folk-pop as well. As started last week, two songs will be featured at bottom. "Notorious Lightning" by Destroyer off Your Blues "Shanty for the Arethusa" [...]
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Multiple skins of the folk world go under the scalpel of scrutiny.
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A reviewing round-up of releases from the fledgling London-Winchester label, Critical Heights.
"Playing with the queen of hearts, knowing it ain't really smart..." As I tend to keep my promises, here's part 2 of a royal megamix. Enjoy and buy some albums if you like what you hear ok? Dave Edmunds - Queen Of Hearts MP3 The Birthday Party - King Ink MP3 Sparklehorse - Homecoming Queen MP3 Cannibal & The Headhunters - Zulu King MP3 Palace Songs - Agnes, Queen Of Sorrow MP3 Elvis Costello - King [...]
Jeff Elstone Singer-songwriter Meg Baird has a new album coming out on Drag City on September 20th called Seasons On Earth . You have two chances to see the incredibly talented singer-songwriter soon; Meg opens for Thurston Moore at the First Unitarian Church next Tuesday, August 30th and she'll have her record release party at Johnny Brenda's on Saturday, September 24th. Below, download a new song - "The Finder." The Finder by Meg Baird from Seasons On [...]
Na Rob Young's Electric Eden heb ik het iets minder dikke boek Seasons they change van Jeanette Leech over 'acid and psychedelic folk' gelezen. Er is overlap met Young 's boek als het gaat om de Britse folk, maar dat is geen bezwaar, omdat Leech ook veel aandacht besteedt aan Amerikaanse en Europese artiesten die zij onder de noemer psychedelische folk schaart. Het boek biedt een fascinerend en veelzijdig overzicht van op avontuur ingestelde folkartiesten in de periode die loopt van circa 1965 (Holy Modal Rounders, Donovan, Fairport Convention) tot nu (Devendra Banhart en Joanna Newsom, [...]
Sharon Van Etten won a slew of admirers with her sparse, intimate tales of heartbreak and loss on debut album "Because I Was In Love." Among those new fans was feted songwriter Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver , who recently covered the Brooklyn-based singer's track "Love More," which is the heart-wrenching closer on her sophomore release "Epic." The Tennessee native enlisted members of Philadelphia psych-folk collective Espers and Brooklyn rock duo She Keeps Bees to flesh out her self-described "sad prairie folk songs" on the new record, and Van Etten's new-found cohorts [...]
The question of who invaded Britain in prehistoric times was much debated by earlier generations of scholars. Bloody battles were imagined, in which one race virtually exterminated another and populated the country anew. Mysterious "Beaker folk" were said to have arrived in the third millennium B.C. introducing metalwork and burying their chiefs in barrow tombs [...]
Ghosts , The debut album by UK duo Smoke Fairies really killed my plans for this Saturday. I planned on listening to the many cd's and lp's and mp3's waiting to be played and maybe shake my world. They ruined it. Indeed, my world was shaken. But it was only one album, that I've heard about five times today, and nothing else. Well, I also played the first albums by Trees , the 70's UK folk band, but that was just because I was searching for references. [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Brendan Benson and Will Oldham, aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy , could barely say "mama" when Graham Nash released his critically-acclaimed solo album, 'Songs for Beginners.' Fleet Foxes ' Robin Pecknold wasn't even born yet, neither was Nash's own daughter Nile. All four, along with a bunch of other musicians, appear on the new 11-track 'A Tribute to Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners,' out May 25 on Grassroots Records. "I wasn't ever a [...]
I Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Unknown Happiness From a Summer to Another Summer (KK, 2000) Tanakh - November Tree Dieu Deuil (Alien8, 2004) Shalabi Effect - Blue Sunshine Pink Abyss (Alien8, 2004) Minus Story - Wont Be Fooled Again The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance (Jagjaguwar, 2004) [...]
10. Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beats MP3: Castanets - Down The Line, Love Castanets on Myspace Support The Artist. Buy.Buy.Buy. Previously On SOTR: Castanets ---------------------------- 9. Espers - III MP3: Espers -The Road [...]
If Americana, alt-country or whatever you may call it is your thing, do head over to the Bird List , where thirty of the ´web´s leading aficionados of twanglike music´ picked the best albums of the year. I participated as well, but my list didn´t make much of an impact on the final outcome I guess. Oh well. Maybe I´m just not twang enough. For the record, here´s my personal top 15 of 2009, as submitted to the Bird List ´s totally cool politburo. On the whole, I [...]
Se ano passado lancei o Top '08 em antecipação, este ano já venho com algum atraso. Sem mais conversas, vou publicar a lista daqueles que, para mim, foram os 30 melhores álbuns de 2009. Em registo semelhante ao de anos anteriores, começo por divulgar a lista dos 10 primeiros a contar da posição #30, sem pôr em causa a qualidade de outros álbuns que por aqui foram divulgados e que não constarão
Espers - "Caroline" Wooden Shjips keep their evenings quite busy. This week at The Independent they'll play alongside Philadelphia ethereal folk band Espers , and Oakland's Colossal Yes (Thursday, 8pm). Tickets are reasonably priced at $13 and are still available . Wooden Shjips - "For So Long" A live recording of Colossal Yes' last Noise Pop Festival performance at the Swedish American Music Hall is available to hear on Wolfgang's Vault . [...]
Philadelphia's most ethereal rock band, Espers aren't taking the US by storm so much as drifting through a few of its major cities, riding on a chilling late Autumn breeze and a cloud of grey and pink smoke. With a total of six shows (three to each coast), this is a tour nearly as wistful as the group's fourth album, III . When that album dropped in October, reviewers couldn't help but point out how much sunnier it seemed compared to the group's previous offerings. Yeah, in the way that The Wicker [...]
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