Little Wings ' Kyle Field left the Bay Area for Southern California last year, and it's been teased that Field's newest album, LAST , might be his final record. If that's true, it's a loss for music, but you can see him at The Chapel tonight, 4/26/13, with Herman Dune and Joseph Childress. Stream LAST in its entirety over at Vice. Herman Dune, Little Wings, Joseph Childress The Chapel April 26th, 2013 9:00pm, $15 Related Posts: [...]
How do you promote a posthumous album by an artist who passed away over 40 years ago? In the case of Jimi Hendrix, whose People, Hell & Angels LP shot towards the top of the Billboard charts recently, you don't have to look far to find someone willing to cover his music. On last night's episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, soul singer Janelle Monáe performed Little Wing with The Roots to help promote People, Hell & Angels - though it wasn't Monáe or The Roots who stole the show. [...]
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After many years of nomadic life as a surfer, painter and musician, Kyle Field (a.k.a. Little Wings) seemed to have settled down in the Sunset District of San Francisco but recently relocated to Los Angeles. Last, the 10th album by Little Wings, is another intimate collection of campfire indie folk that finds Field grappling with depression and restlessness against the backdrop of nature and the outdoors. Highlights include the hazy “Where Is the Worm” and “Knock on Every Door”, the emotive “Country Skull”, and the soulful “Sandy Baby.” Whether or not this is truly Little Wings' last album as the [...]
Mixtape: Fourteen Songs about Love for Valentine's Day (Podcast #300) In case you've managed to avoid this news until now, February 14th is Valentine's Day, the greeting card industry holiday that can compel even the least romantic to confront the topic of love. Over the past few years, plenty of our favorite indie rockers have explored the excitement and complications of love in terrific songs. Here, we've collected fourteen tracks about love's many facets, including the swooning romanticism of Real Estate , Cass McCombs , and [...]
Hoy recibimos el aviso de que Kyle Field ha liberado su nuevo disco, a muchos quienes ya lo conocíamos nos emociona mucho, porque su manera de hacer música es impresionante en todos los sentidos, lleva el paisaje de su lugar de origen como las nubes transportan el vapor del agua, y ese mismo paisaje cambia [...]
So, all things considered January got off to a rip-roaring start where new tunes are concerned. Here is our selection of our best of the month's downloads (27 in all) and a few new tunes too - more than 30 to pick from, so blow those January blues away with these babies. Prissy Clerks - Bruise or Be Bruised Mix of fuzzed up punk and slacker indie with garage pop undertones managing to balance a confused, dark isolation with some tender sweetness. Download The Chaw – The Whole Night [...]
This might be Little Wings' last album. Or at least that's what it seems we're supposed to think about the new double-LP by Kyle Field, the doe-voiced, traveling Californian whose first band included M. Ward, ... read more
"Doom Room" has a new video, and it's a bit weird. I like it. It's off Little Wings ' new LP, LAST . "Doom Room" features heavily bearded Little Wings brainchild Kyle Field, clad in shorts and a straw hat, wandering what appears to be the southwest; maybe rural California not far from his home in San Francisco. Listening to Little Wings can be a confounding experience. Lyrically, the songs weave in and out with little twists and turns that shouldn't seem to work but do so with [...]
Little Wings (aka Kyle Field) most recently reappeared on the MM radar with an exceptional cover of I May Smoke Too Much for the recent Kris Kristofferson tribute album The Risin' Cost Of Livin' High and Lovin' Hard (that we posted about here ). So it was nothing less than serendipitous to discover that on February 5th Little Wings will release a new album, LAST . Recorded over the course of a year and split between recording sessions in Sacramento at the Hangar and at his home studio [...]
Bobby Long has debuted "In Your Way," the first single from his new album, "Wishbone." The album is set for release via ATO Records on February 19th. Check out "Sandy Babe," off Little Wings ' new album, "LAST," out via Rad on February 5th. The Living Sisters' "Run for Cover" is set for release January 8th but the first single, "Can you Get to That?," is available now. Anders & Kendall will release their debut LP "Wild Chorus" on February 19, 2013, via Nine Mile [...]
Little Wings aka Kyle Field is a master of the fragile song. His voice exists in a perpetual breaking point, at once a weighty baritone and a barely there sigh. It's maybe something that grows ... read more
Poor Moon - "People In Her Mind" Organizers for the Huichica Music Festival have announced the lineup for the festival's third installment which will take place in Sonoma County over June 1-2 at the Gundlach Bundschu winery. The scenic and intimate festival will include performances by Beachwood Sparks (who have a new album coming out this year), Poor Moon , and Occidental Brothers Dance Band International as well as Bay Area favorites [...]
Little Wing , um dos maiores clássicos do rock, confeccionado por ele que é, muitas vezes, eleito como o melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos, Jimi Hendrix . Uma faixa que já ganhou inúmeras versões, em vozes diversas, de Eric Clapton ao The Corrs , de Pearl Jam à Corrine Bailey Rae , de Allman Brothers ao... Skid Row , e agora ganha mais uma versão, digna de um legado como o de Little Wing . Janelle Monáe , revelação do soul, complementou sua performance [...]
WVZ/WVZ/WVZ/WVZ (feat. Aubrey Trinnaman) by Magic Leaves You know what’s all the rage right now? Band names inspired by nature. You’ll nary see a lineup quite as bucolic as tonight's at the Presidio Yacht Club in Sausalito, wherein a flock of small-winged sparrows will magically fly through a gate and then above leaf-heavy trees, towards that rare occurrence of a moonbow. Or maybe some bands will play some songs. The evening will begin with the mellower mountain folk of Sparrows Gate and Little [...]
Feb 28, 2012, 6:58am
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Ltd Ed of 300 LPs in covers that were hand-painted by Kyle Field of Little Wings, who is as renowned for his art as he is his incredible songwriting. A split release with the awesome Gnome Life Records in Big Sur, CA(www.GnomeLifeRecords.com), Made it Rain was originally released on cassette as part of their Echomancy [...]
Originally released on cassette as part of Gnome Life ’s beautifully designed Echomancy series, Little Wings ’ Made It Rain LP is now out on limited-edition vinyl, with only 300 copies in existence, in partnership with People in a Position to Know Recordings . Each record comes in a cover hand-painted by Kyle Field himself, whose artistic talents rival his songwriting abilities. Recorded live in The Dream Yurt in Big Sur in the middle of a rain storm, [...]
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #14 LITTLE WINGS - BLACK GRASS The almost-retired pseudonym for label owner, artist and musician Kyle Wilson is Little Wings, who released his first album in four years in February on his own label, RAD Records. ‘Come Fall’ is a good summation of the kind of sound ‘Black Grass’ was sold to me for; with a shuffling acoustic rhythm and thick, anguished yet gently elated vocal, polished Devendra Banhart-esque lo-fi recording style and similarly European tinges, I get the impression Kyle Wilson isn’t going to stop churning out these simplistic, rural folk [...]
2011 zit er bijna op. Het is dus de hoogste tijd om de score van het muziekjaar 2011 op te maken. Wat zijn de albums die ons het afgelopen jaar kippenvel bezorgden? Het beste van 2011 volgens Peter 1. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything's getting older MP3 Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells – Let’s Stop Here 2. PJ Harvey - Let England shake MP3 PJ Harvey – Hanging In The Wire [...]
Mixtape: Twelve Bay Area Highlights from 2011 (Podcast #263) We might be biased, but, from this vantage point, 2011 reconfirmed that the Bay Area continues to have the most vibrant music community nationwide. The SF scene cranked out a ton of amazing albums this year, and our final podcast of 2011 highlights twelve great releases from Bay Area artists over the past twelve months. This isn't a "Best of" list per se, but these acts did create some of our favorite music in 2011. We'll be doing more year-in-review coverage over the next few [...]
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