My interest in writing about music has been re-invigorated recently by a number of things. I think part of the reason is that I haven't been going to as many concerts and thus I'm not suffering music fatigue. I think that another part is that the music I've been exposed to this year has been pretty good and has kept my interest. One last thing that I'm going to attribute to having a positive effect is that I'm having a good deal of enjoyment in sharing offline. So with all those factors and other reasons, I sat down and thought [...]
50. Horse Feathers - Cynics New Year - Justin Ringle and his angelic voice touches us again this year with Cynics New Year, yet again another quiet but enchanting record of subtle string folk and Ringle's superbly mellow, rainy day voice coupled with poetic songwriting spanning the sonic space similar to an open field on a gray wet day. Cynic's New Year shines on tracks, The Last Waltz, Where I'll Be & Fit For the Country . Listen: Horse Feathers - Where I'll Be | Buy: Cynic's New Year [...]
Field Reportwith the Farewell Circuit and KalispellTurf Club, St. PaulNovember 16, 2012Chris Porterfield stood on stage at the Turf Club Friday night, his head bowed down as he tuned his guitar betwee
Kalispell - Methodist Lift T his beautiful little album has been sitting inside my computer for far too long without me talking about it. Kalispell is the musical project from Eau Claire, Wisconsin's Shane Leonard. Leonard, studied english ed at Wisconsin - Eau Claire and formed a band, Lowtel, with a few guys you might know of, Sean Carey (Bon Iver) and Jeremy Boetcher (S.Carey) and John Dehaven. There's obviously something in the water over there in Wisconsin, because Kalispell's album Westbound (out in May of 2012) is one delightfully gorgeous album. Similar in [...]
Eau Claire WI's Kalispell made their visit to the Stone House on a wonderful August afternoon during a recent string of shows. Kalispell is the mastermind of one Shane Leonard. From his bio: Imbued with the kind of countrified instrumentation heard most often in stringbands and old country music, armed with lyrics of a poet's caliber, and delivering songs that shape-shift their way through a range of lush sounds and emotion, this is music moving ever-onward while remaining keenly aware of the past. [...]
Our best of August mix is ready and even though it is typically a slightly quieter month for new releases, we can still offer you more than 20 cracking new tunes together with a few 'hot off the press' new ones. The result? A brilliant mix to keep you going as we enter autumn (aka the fall for our American friends). Either way, just enjoy. Check the side bar for all our other monthly mixes too. Download Imagination Head – Sand Castle mp3 An absolute gem of gently swelling prog-folk spun [...]
Folksters Kalispell's long player Westbound is now available for free download on Bandcamp (although of course, a donation of any amount is appreciated), but still - free! Having availed ourselves of their album we are happy to report that it is a real gem of laid back folk - listen/download the brilliant Marion, MT as a taster below that tips its hat firmly in the direction of the Low Anthem's creaky, organic traditions and is as mesmerising as anything we've heard in a good while. We're not [...]
As you may have noticed there are some new digs around here. It was time to change things up a little. There we're a few guest mixtapes submitted this week but I decided to go with mine. If you want you can download @ohmonet's mixtape here 140MB .zip . Thank you @ohmonet . The other guest mixtapes we're total rubbish. Anyway let's get on with it. Here is your mixtape coming all the way from windy London. Have a nice weekend and go buy some music ! (iTunes link) [...]
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Do you like The Low Anthem ? We do too. That's why this debut LP from Eau Claire's Kalispell has been in steady rotation for the last month plus. The thing I have always loved about The Low Anthem is the ability to use silence and space to get the most out of their music. Kalispell has that same ability, but with an extra helping of twang - something that always makes the HearYa folk smile. On Marion, MT the word emerge ever so slowly from Leonard as he opens up his soul. The song has generous [...]
Words // Scott Pingeton I think you're gonna dig this one, so listen up. Kalispell is the work of Shane Leonard, and it brims with the earnestness you may have come to expect from fellow Eau Claire Wisconsin locals Justin Vernon, S. Carey and Chris Porterfield. Westbound is a gorgeous and deeply personal record, perhaps influenced at least in part by the circumstances around Leonard's move from Massachusetts to Wisconsin. I think Kalispell's bandcamp page paints a better picture than I could: It's like when good friends gather, perhaps around [...]
The details are a little bit fuzzy, but at some point, someplace, for some reason, Shane Leonard of Kalispell talked to The Daredevil Christopher Wright's Jason Sunde. It was somehow recorded and then put onto the world wide web via DCW's Web site. From the discussion - J: What if we really were under a bridge right now? What would you do? S: I'd feel pretty nervous, I think. It's just that I'm supposed to get home right away after work... Obviously riveting stuff. [...]
Saturday night’s production was refreshingly thoughtful and unpretentious as far as rock shows go. I wouldn’t go so far as to call the afternoon quiet because there were plenty of head-bob inducing moments (Daredevil Christopher Wright’s “A Conversation About Cancer” is always a raucous endeavor), but there was a distinct lack of the kind of pelvis-pummeling psyche-enveloping bombast you might expect from such an event. Instead, the music seemed to strike an accord with the space in which it found itself, rather than trying to take it over. Kalispell, project of local musician Shane Leonard, were the first [...]
The WUEC folks have done it again; we are on the verge of another day-long indie rock concert featuring local and regional bands, which is most importantly, an all-ages show . Sure, we did have to abandon the ghost that is The Stone's Throw to keep it that way, but while I would do plenty to see the likes of Daredevil Christopher Wright and Zoo Animal beckon the phoenix from the ashes, I would do plenty more to ensure the seeds of Eau Claire's future music culture were properly sewn. That's right, The Daredevil Christopher Wright are [...]
Words // Scott Pingeton New Years Resolution: Be better about reading emails + listening to artist submissions Somewhere along the way, reading through the blog's email started to feel like a chore...most likely because I get more emails about dub-step remixes and wanna-be pop stars than stuff that I might actually listen to. As a result of all this riff-raff, some worthwhile emails fall through the [...]
December 1st, 2011 - The Daredevil Christopher Wright, Caroline Smith & The Goodnight Sleeps and Kalispell played House of Rock.
Revival Records celebrated their 1-year downtown birthday with an in-store show featuring Wisconsin Built and Kalispell. Greeted with vinyl deals on the sidewalk, and inside with cupcakes and candy, patrons lined the record aisles to listen.
Link: www.ivestheband.com For fans of: Dashboard Confessional, Eisley, Plain White T's Releases: "The Incredible Story of Mr. Birch" Take note: Opened for Dashboard Confessional and Atomic Tom. Additionally, went on a 40-city national tour with Eisley. Received commercial airplay on 94.9 FM (San Diego) and KROQ (Los Angeles), among other stations, and college and specialty airplay in Albuquerque, Kalispell, Tacoma, Fort Lauderdale, and [...]
Moro, Kalispell, and Bro. Stephen play an intimate house show on Gilbert Ave.
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