Christopher Paul Stelling shows off folk music’s tough side with a red hot barnburner.
We made it. I made it. Winter could not take us. I want to both berate nature for having inflicted all those cold, hellish months on me and thank it profusely for having whisked them away with chirping birds and blooming iris' and sunshine. This is the conundrum of the Midwest clime and it is one that baffles me every damn year, despite 30 of them here. Here, when it turns cold, you grit your goddamn teeth and steal yourself against the wind and you pray it's one of those [...]

Bucks County native Langhorne Slim is no stranger to the Horseshack studio in Rock Island, Illinois where Daytrotter Sessions are recorded. Making his first appearance in 2006 , Slim (real name Sean Scolnick) has become a frequent guest of the in-studio audio archivists and recently recorded his fourth Daytrotter session following the release of his latest The Way We Move LP. For Daytrotter members, the session is available for streaming and as a download here . During a show in Denver last week, the local musician and his [...]

As we told you late last year , Memphis purveyors of alt-country Lucero are heading to The Fillmore this Friday, April 12, as they continue to tour in support of their most recent effort, 20122s Women & Work . But now, we have even better news: the fine folks at The Fillmore were nice enough to offer up a pair of tickets for us to giveaway to one lucky reader. To win two tickets to Lucero's show this Friday, April 12 at The Fillmore, be the [...]

It baffles my mind that Langhorne Slim can keep bringing this kind of energy every night. They gave the people what they wanted; a foot stomp'n, banjo play'n, hootenanny of a night! Recently playing on Conan , Langhorne Slim have been on the road promoting their vivacious new album "The Way We Move." Once again proving they can stand out among the rest.
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Nick Cave returns to Seattle with The Bad Seeds... but without the mustache photo by Kyle Johnson What a fantastic time of the year for shows in Seattle! As the weather heats up, so does the frequency of shows it seems. With just about something for everyone this week, we start off on Monday night with yet another great evening with Mudhoney , this time at Easy Street Records. Jamie Lidell, Empress Of, and Ludwig Persik are at Neumos and Talib Kweli and The Physics are performing at [...]
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: The April Verch Band : free and legal That's How We Run album [mp3] Barbara Browning : "Bela Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus cover)" [mp3] Broken Deer : [...]
For a short period of time, Langhorne Slim is offering a free 5 song EP This Is The Way We Move via Noise Trade!
The recent UK release of Langhorne Slim & The Law's excellent album The Way We Move has belatedly, but firmly, put them on the MM radar and sent us scurrying off to discover his back catalogue. Honky tonk, blues, folk, country and raw acoustic beauty all make an appearance and demonstrate that we have a band that are not only masters of all trades, but one with a songwriter at the helm with the rare ability to get you up and stomping round the barn one moment and the next to stop you dead in [...]
While commercials can be the nuisance that puts an extra two minutes between you and the shocking results of The Biggest Loser weigh-in, they can also be surprisingly effective vehicles for embedding that one song in your head. A few weeks back, the Oscar telecast saw a couple new additions to the recent crop of commercial-delivered earworms, including Nashville artist Keegan DeWitt’s “Say La La” on JC Penney’s “Dear America” spot. DeWitt worked with friend Matt Miadich, who directed JC Penney’s Oscar ads and went to bat for the song. [...]

It was announced yesterday, that Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls will be taking the stage at this year's Newport Folk Festival . He'll be performing on Saturday , July 27 joining Langhorne Slim , Trombone Shorty , Iris DeMent among other recently announced artists who will take a stage that day. Turner has a new album, Tape Deck Heart , scheduled to be released on April [...]

Fare le cose con semplicità, senza tanti orpelli ed abbellimenti pretenziosi. Cogliere l'essenza della popular music, musica semplice per gente semplice (che non vuol dire stupida, attenzione). L'ex bambino prodigio Langhorne Slim sa perfettamente quello che vuole e sa come ottenerlo: una strumentazione quasi interamente acustica, una band rodata con cui ha un feeling epidermico (David Moore, Jeff Ratner e Malachi Delorenzo, per l'occasione ribattezzati The Law) e con la quale sprigiona energia e voglia di far muovere deretani, sin dall'iniziale tripletta The Way We Move – B ad Luck – Fire che [...]

Last week Langhorne Slim & The Law released their most recent album, The Way We Move in the UK via Ramseur Records . The album was recorded in a mere four days, working in the remote Catskill Mountains, north of New York City. The results are a raw, organic record that benefits from a straight-up, straight-forward songwriting approach. Nothing is obfuscated or confused, instead everything is laid on the line - heartfelt, honest and powerful. Musically, the record ranges from the uptempo folk stomp and joyful piano of album opener and title track, The [...]

Since we're in the middle of awards shows / Superbowl season, advertisers have had lots of opportunity to fill their ads with hip, indie bands, which of course brings us to another edition of Commercial Watch (as Sufjan puts it "selling out never looked so good" ). Watch / listen below: 2012 World of Red Bull MP3 Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia Yia & Pappou) *** Hyundai Santa Fe: Epic Playdate [...]
vid Video: YouTube - Vimeo Photos: Flickr Audio: zip download (right-click, save as) This is another one of those painfully late Toad Sessions which crashed into the bottleneck created when we recorded five sessions in a very short space space of time at the end of 2011 and then ended up putting most of them on ice when the label took over my life in early spring. Nevertheless, this is a lovely [...]
Hey all, it's finally time to top the list. I had originally intended for this to land yesterday, but due to your awesomeness we ran out of bandwidth...so here we are, atop the mountain of music, these are what I thought was best of the year. 10. Spirit Family Reunion - No Separation Spirit Family Reunion - I Am Following The Sound S pirit Family Reunion released their first full LP this year, and as if they didn't already hold [...]