by Andrew Sacher DOWNLOAD: I Is Another - "Prayed For You" (MP3) Jonah w/ Far at Mercury Lounge in 2009 ( more by Chloe Rice ) Jonah Matranga of Far, Onelinedrawing, New End Original, Gratitude, and who also has performs under his own name, has yet another project in the works. This one is a collaboration with Ian Love (Rival Schools, Cardia, Burn) and [...]
It's December. It's Christmas. So for this week's Midweek Bootleg we're getting all festive with curious cover c/o Far and a couple of their pals from Deftones and Will Haven . Yeah, we're those annoying pricks who get really, really, REALLY into Christmas. We're the pricks who insist on organising the office Secret Santa. We're the ones drinking nothing but eggnog and mulled wine for the next five weeks. We're the ones posting weird Christmas cover songs in our (mostly) weekly Midweek Bootleg feature. [...]
XPN Welcomes five-piece Philly folk-pop band Low Road as they reunite tonight in celebration of the Tin Angel's 20th Anniversary. Low Road's popularity in the nineties, ignited by frontman Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner's prevalence in the Philly music scene, led to two albums on Caroline Records. The band will be playing a sold-out show at 7 pm, but ... Continue reading
Ci sono “quelli lì” (chiamati in questo modo perché sono pochi e sono immediatamente identificabili) che hanno un posto particolare nella tua mente come punti di riferimento musicale. Quelli che conta poco la qualità di quello che tirano fuori ma che di primo acchitto appena li vedi dici oh! Un po’ come quando senti parlare di tuo cugino e fortunatamente non è per un evento di cronaca. Matranga, di nome Jonah, è uno di quelli lì. Ma mica per altro, non perché sia un genio o un profeta, perché bene o male hai amato alla follia il suo gruppo [...]
Jonah Matranga with Far in 2009 ( more by Chloe Rice ) Far/Onelinedrawing/Gratitude/N ew End Original frontman Jonah Matranga has been playing some house shows this month and in November he'll do a couple club dates including one in NYC at Mercury Lounge on November 11 with We Are The Woods . You can get tickets to that show directly from Jonah or via Ticketmaster whose on-sale begins Friday (10/12) at noon with an AmEx presale starting today (10/10) at [...]
Matisyahu at The Bell House (02/22/09) Photo : D. Caplan ( more ) Nov 11 Jonah Matranga / We Are The Woods Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 10/10/12 12:00 PM Mercury Lounge New [...]
Touring can be hard on musicians, especially when a show falls through. So how hard must it be when one falls through on the day of the show? That's exactly what happened to Mikee J Reds and Jimmy Holland (who's own Loitering With Intent is coming up in a few weeks). In Manchester with nothing better to do, the pair took me up on my offer of recording a session. After finding a place to record - the cellar of The Garratt, in the city centre - we got to work. The result? Well, I think it turned [...]
So che era tanto tempo fa. Un'epoca fa che il mio amico Gianni si presento con il primo disco dei Far. Era quel momento in cui c'erano quei dischi nu metal belli, fighi ma l'etichetta e il suono cominciava un po' ad andare stretto a tutti e allora riprendevamo in mano i dischi dei Fugazi quell'hardcore lì, per dirne uno. Il disco dei Far fu presentato con "questo lo chiamano emo", solo dopo prendemmo coscienza del fatto che di quella scena lì avremmo imparato a seguire i nomi, i "quello suonava con" o "quello aveva creato i". Jonah [...]
The history of Jonah Matranga (Far) and fellow Sacramentoers (Sacramentans?) Deftones are inextricably linked. If you're not hip to Far, I highly recommend a visit to YouTube with a couple of beers at the ready, or, for the cool kids amongst you, jam the entirety of their incredible 1996 album Tin Cans With Strings To [...]
Oberhofer at 4Knots 2011 (07/16/11) Photo : Jon Klemm ( more ) Feb 10 Fri Black Onassis Mercury Lounge New York , NY 07:30 PM Buy Tickets [...]
Jonah Matranga released Voices + Dedication , an album made up entirely of cover songs, on January 1. He covers tracks by the reunited Mazzy Star , the slightly less recently reunited Hum , Bob Dylan , The Beatles , Bruce Springsteen , Elliot Smith , Tom Waits , and others. You can purchase and stream the entire album at his bandcamp . He's got a few upcoming dates including on in the NYC-area on March 7 at Maxwell's [...]
Jonah Matranga @ the Gershwin Hotel in 2008 ( more by Tim Griffin ) Jonah Matranga is starting a tour of the UK on 11/25, but first he's visting the east coast. Catch the California-based Far frontman at the Gershwin Hotel in NYC tonight (11/21) and at Watermark in Asbury Park, NJ on Tuesday (11/22) (thx Kristian ). I'm not sure where the Occupy Wall Street protestors are currently gathering, if anywhere, [...]
Jonah Matranga (of onelinedrawing , Far and New End Original ) covered one of our favorite straight-ahead "goodbye" pop-punk songs, Alkaline Trio's "I'm Dying Tomorrow", and you can hear the exclusive stream over at the Alternative Press Web site . It's much more subdued, as you'd expect it to be, but the sincerity shines through even easier than the original. A Tribute To Alkaline Trio is out August 30 on Pacific Ridge Records . Godspeed!
In the latest in our series of exclusive tour blogs, Mikeé J Reds will be regularly producing blogs whilst on his joint UK tour with Jonah Matranga (of Far.) Reds and Matranga recently released a split EP together and are touring throughout the UK to promote the release. In this lengthly update, Reds talks us through his and Jonah's shows in London, Stoke, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. May 28th After Southampton, we were to drive to the town of (UK TV Show) The Office - Slough. The [...]
Photo by Justin Quinnell Some people have a natural ability when it comes to songwriting, and even though he's had a lot of time to perfect it - Jonah Matranga is definitely one of those. The Massachusetts-born musician moved to California in '87 and has been there cranking out kick-ass tunes ever since. More recently, he's dropped his Onelinedrawing moniker and has embraced some pretty innovated
I love it when a plan comes together. Als je me wat beter kent, weet je dat ik zowel een zeer grote house als alternatieve muziekliefhebber ben, maar niet zo heel erg diep in de Urban, R&B en Hip-Hop zit. Maar toch is er ook wel het een en ander in dat genre waar ik wel degelijk van gecharmeerd ben. Ik was erg verrukt toen ik laatst een ontdekking deed die al deze muziekstijlen met elkaar verbond. En die ontdekking is Skylar Grey. En en Skylar Grey kennen jullie allemaal natuurlijk al. Niet? Nou, ik denk [...]
Maxwell's have announced a couple new shows worth noting. First, The Lemonheads will be stopping by Thursday, April 28th. Tickets are on-sale now via Ticketfly . If you missed it
This is not an April Fools Joke, we are currently running on the new and improved KATA ROKKAR website. My good friend Scott Coello from CRIBBLE has made an interactive landscape of awesome for all you Kata Rokkar readers to traverse with ease and joy. We've added some features but all in all, we've kept the charm that makes us what we are. Kata Rokkar will now be even more of a force that focuses on not only the local Bay Area scene but the rest of the musical soundscape. With [...]
Jonah Matranga has announced a string of UK dates. May 26th - Kingston New Slang (w/ Frank Turner) 27th - Southampton Hamptons 28th - London Relentless Garage 29th - Stoke Harry's Bar June 5th - Newcastle Trillians
Jonah Matranga free song, new album "You're All Those Things And Then You're None" Jonah Matranga is giving away a free track " Happy " from his new album " You're All Those Things And Then You're None." which you can get here in all sorts of incredible ways.
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