Tips for your Tuesday: ► Buzz Bands LA's monthly songwriter series continues at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park , topped by Chicago-bred, L.A.-based songstress Haroula Rose (pictured), freshly returned from Athens, Ga., where she was working on recording her next album. Rose figures to have some new songs, and she'll be joined by Geronimo Getty , Harley Prechtel-Cortez and Sloan Martin . ► Com Truise heads up a big Check Yo Ponytail 2 night at the Echoplex, with Teengirl Fantasy , Soft Metals [...]
Chicago-born, L.A.-based songstress Haroula Rose will headline the next installment of Buzz Bands LA's monthly songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe . Rather than our traditional second-Tuesday-of-the-month date for the series, this show will happen the first Tuesday, Feb. 7 (so we don't conflict with your Valentine's Day plans, naturally). Rose, whose debut album "These Open Roads" earned comparisons to the likes of Lucinda Williams and Jenny Lewis, recently began working on her next album in Athens, Ga., with highly regarded songwriter/producer Jim White. She'll preview some of the new songs and play selections from [...]
If I had to come up with a musical combination guaranteed to make me swoon, it would include indie-folk music, an acoustic guitar, and a leading lady with a voice as intimate as her lyrics. Fortunately for me and everyone else with a pair of ears, there's Chicago-born songstress Haroula Rose. Haroula Rose - Close My Eyes To See (Luke Top Remix) With an amazing debut album (available on vinyl) , a brand new remix, and not [...]
Mondays are for getting brightened up. La Sera – Please Be My Third Eye Lightning Love – Deadbeat (via bandcamp) Haroula Rose – Close My Eyes to See (Luke Top remix) Bear and Moose – I'm back Class Actress – Weekend (via soundcloud) + mixtape Ryan Hemsworth – Three Hours In (via soundcloud)
Mondays are for getting brightened up. La Sera – Please Be My Third Eye Lightning Love – Deadbeat (via bandcamp) Haroula Rose – Close My Eyes to See (Luke Top remix) Bear and Moose – I'm back Class Actress – Weekend (via soundcloud) + mixtape Ryan Hemsworth – Three Hours In (via soundcloud)
Sunday's merriment: ► Night 2 of KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas boasts a lineup that includes Jane's Addiction, the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Death Cab for Cutie and Noel Gallagher, along with the likes of Foser the People and Grouplove. The evening will be webcast right here . ► Bring a toy, hear some cheer at the Satellite, where the Satellite Holiday Recital and Toy Drive for Children's Hospital will feature songs from Steven Wilkin of Vanaprasta, Nathan Willett of Cold War Kids, Nicole Simone, Monte Mar, Useless Keys, Rob [...]
Just some recent songs I took a bit of a fancy to. Siskiyou travels to Bonnie Billy country, Haroula Rose does the folky duet thing very well, and High On Stress sure digs the Mats a lot. Widowspeak dreams back to the indie eighties, Wounded Lion plays barbwire pop with a delightful chorus (" LVXLCDM " anyone?), while Centro-matic fondly remembers the Mary Chain. Broaden that musical horizon why don't you, pop kids. Siskiyou - Dear Old Friends Haroula Rose - Free To Be Me [...]
ECHO COUNTRY OUTPOST FROG LEG CHICKEN WING VEGGIE FRY WITH MOOMAW, CROOKED LETTER I, RUTHANN FRIEDMAN, GOLD PAINT, WHITMAN, MIWA GEMINI, CHRISTINA ANTIPA, PAULA FRAZER, CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES, HAROULA ROSE, AND FORT KING ON SATURDAY JUL, 16TH AT THE ECHO COUNTRY OUTPOST, 1930 ECHO PARK AVENUE, LOS ANGELES. 1:30PM/ $7/ ALL AGES
Sunday's touts: ► Buffalo Springfield goes for round two at The Wiltern. ► Twee pop fanatics get a special Part-Time Punks at the Echo's later show tonight. Aberdeen will be playing their first L.A. show in eight years [see our interview with Beth Arzy ] along with fellow Sarah Records labelmates 14 Iced Bears in addition to Phil Wilson of the June Brides. ► British band Stornowa y brings their alternative indie folk-flavored pop to the Troubadour. Go early and catch Sacramento's charming [...]
With her remarkable debut album, These Open Roads, singer/songwriter Haroula Rose has found her defining purpose.
Today's alliterative installment of Weekend YouTube will take a look at a few videos from artists I've reviewed recently on the site. The videos are for songs I didn't share the first time around to give you a deeper feel for some of these albums. I featured Nashville's Caitlin Rose last month . This is the title track from her new CD Own Side Now . Israel Nash Gripka's new release Barn Doors & Concrete Floors was featured yesterday . [...]
Seems like an age ago when I put up a short piece on Haroula Rose's début EP Someday mentioning talk of a full length release, well this it These Open Roads adorned by her angelic voice and melodic songwriting skills, it features a dozen tracks with contributions from a strong supporting cast including DBT's John Neff on pedal steel and the vocal talents of Orenda Fink (Azure Ray). Haroula Rose - Brand New Start [...]
Every Wednesday, I feature a brief review of at least one album that has been submitted to me through the ReviewShine website. I have cleverly titled this recurring segment "ReviewShine Wednesday." Ari and Mia are actually Ariel and Mia Friedman, sisters from the Boston area who specialize in their own special brand of folk music that draws from bluegrass, jazz, and everything in between. Ariel honed her skills on the cello at Northwestern University, while Mia's less formal training on the fiddle included stints studying [...]
The dimly-lit Hotel Café was comfortably full to watch singer-songwriter Haroula Rose play some songs off of her newly-released debut album, These Open Roads. I arrived a tad late, thanks in full to the glorious L.A. traffic, but was still able to see the majority of her set—and walked away impressed. Playing in support of Ms. Rose's record-release were talented singers in their own rights, Sara Lov, Patrick Park and Mariana Bell. From my standpoint this was a night of very solid music. Relationship inspired songs like "The Leaving Song" and "Another Breakup Ballad" were the [...]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIbbkY Uv0g8 This soft singing lady is Haroula Rose. She's playing a residency at Hotel Cafe. The remaining dates include a little grab bag of sounds from chill to crazy: February 1 with Sean Rowe, Sara Lov, Patrick Park, Mariana Bell February 8 with The Sweet Hurt, Ethan Gold, Pedestrian February 15 with Kim Churchill, Mountain Man, Whispering Pines, Jeffertiti's Nile
You don't have to be sagging under the weight of the digital age to embrace the notion behind "Simple Time," a new song from Haroula Rose . "Simple time, simple time / Come find me again," the L.A.-via-Chicago songstress pleads in the song off her new album "These Open Roads." Her finger-picked guitar gets a deft production touch on the album thanks to Athens, Ga.-based Andy Lemaster, who's not only worked with the likes of R.E.M., Bright Eyes and Azure Ray but helmed L.A. quartet Mezzanine Owls' 2006 album "Slingshot Echoes." Rose's album features contributions from Drive By Truckers' [...]
The gently wistful These Open Roads , arriving January 18, is the self-released debut of Chicago-born, L.A.-based singer/songwriter Haroula Rose . Produced with graceful understatement in Athens, GA by Andy Lemaster (Bright Eyes, Maria Taylor), These Open Roads is and evocative work of hushed, simple pleasures, the perfect accompaniment to pre-dawn, contemplative solitude. Rose's voice, a near-whisper of plaintive resignation and sensuality, has the peculiar effect of drawing you closer even though the invitation is so subtle that it's almost too easy to miss. And that would be a shame. [...]
Some artists just have a knack for creating intimacy on their records. That's certainly the case with These Open Roads, the debut full length album from Chicago-native Haroula Rose (out January 18th). The singer-songwriter's songs are well-suited for setting the mood in television and movies. Her work has already appeared on the hit How I Met Your Mother, and there are no doubt more to come.
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