Lost in the Trees put out one of my favorite albums of 2010, and the NC band is due to release its new one, A Church That Fits Our Needs , March 20 on Anti-. This is the first video from the record, which finds bandleader Ari Picker working through the carnage of his mother's 2009 suicide. It's a tribute, of sorts, and it takes the band's orchestral folk sound to new heights. As NPR noted when it debuted "Red" this week, there's a David Lynch feel to the video, and that haunting/beautiful sensation permeates the entire [...]
Una de las gratas sorpresas de 2010, el grupo de folk/pop orquestal Lost in the Trees , ha anunciado el lanzamiento de A Church That Fits Our Needs , sucesor de All Alone In An Empty House . Además comparte un tema para que vayamos degustando su nuevo material. El álbum es en gran parte en respuesta a la muerte de la madre de Ari Picker , líder del conjunto, quien se quitó la vida en el verano de 2009. "Picker se concentró [...]
David McCrindle A rumour that will undoubtedly surface over and over again over the next few months about Minneapolis young toughs Howler is this - drummer Brent Mayes is the scion of one Prince Rogers Nelson. Even if it were true, it would be irrelevant as future-funk is the furthest thing from Howler's mandate as you can get. The fivesome face unabashedly backwards in time, staring straight at the '50s rock and '70s punk - in particular the garages and dive bars across America where rock'n'roll was being cultivated. And if they [...]
Words: Simon Opie It's time to celebrate the failure of Guy Fawkes to eradicate all the MPs in seventeenth century England. These days maybe we'd all celebrate a rather different outcome but more importantly, it's also time to check in again on what are the best albums of 2011 so far. This playlist showcases albums that will certainly make my 'Best of 2011' listing. Listen to all the tracks below. YOUTUBE EMBEDDED PLAYLIST: [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List YouTube.com There are plenty of scary music videos out there, but many of them are from artists you'd expect to go the horror route: Marilyn Manson , Nine Inch Nails , Tool , etc. But there are also many videos that are even more unsettling and off-putting, simply because it's unexpected. Whether it's possessed children starring in the clip of an '80s ballad, pop [...]
Lost in the trees is no stranger to Earmilk , I've blogged about them in the past and I recently stumbled upon an awesome concert series of the band playing live with the North Carolina School of Science and Math orchestra. The series includes 13 songs from various releases by the band, so if you have the time sit back and enjoy these, you wont regret it: 1. "Introduction" Click here to view the embedded video. [...]
shit, i didnt even know you could already buy/download what will probably end up being my favorite record of the year, richmond fontaine's the high country via their bandcamp site. on top of that, for those that prefer a hardcopy aka cd of the record, you can order it via their site until the 9th - it officially comes out on cd on the 20th. stream it down there... The High Country by Richmond Fontaine [...]
Richmond Fontaine - Lost In The Trees (The Line of Best Fit Session) from The Line Of Best Fit on Vimeo . good buddies or blokes, as they may say, from across the pond, the line of best fit have scored a super awesome video of richmond fontaine performing "lost in the trees" off their upcoming the high country - a record i will be talking about, at length, next month. you can order a limited edition 73 of "lost in the trees," now, or wait until 9.9 [...]
170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting is a terrible name for an activist group, but at least it's to the point. It also promotes a cause that's very dear to me. And, courtesy of ANTI- Records, they've assembled a great lineup for a compilation you can get free by signing up for the campaign with your e-mail address, which I encourage you to do.Raise Your Voice! features Tom Waits, Wilco,
Guelph - "That's a pretty good way to start off a folk festival." So said Old Man Luedecke after hearing a song by Lowlands , his partners in the "That Lucky Old Sun" workshop on the Lake Stage. Of course the Hillside Festival hasn't really been a folk festival for some time now, but it has held on to the general folky, hippie-ish vibe and has continued to book folk performers even as some of the festival's emphasis has shifted towards hot new indie rock acts. The lineup for the festival was generally pretty [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Sophie Howarth | Felix Kunze, Redferns It's been 17 years since Tori Amos made the first ceremonial phone call to the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network's (RAINN) Sexual Assault Hotline, using her high profile to bring much-needed attention to this shockingly common yet sadly secretive issue. But the singer also acknowledged her own pain in the song ' Silent All These Years ' in hopes of inspiring others. [...]
Which is great news! I don't have many other details, except that the album will be released sometime in September. But I have a track from the album that is pretty damn great! TA708 Richmond Fontaine - Lost in the Trees by Trash Aesthetics
Portland's chief exponents of literary rock, Richmond Fontaine have announced the release of Lost in the Trees , their new single and first from the upcoming album The High Country . The single will be released through Trash Aesthetics/Decor Records on August 29th. Richmond Fontaine will be touring acoustically this summer and have shows at the Port Eliot and Truck festivals amongst others lined up; they also have a special single launch planned for July at The Prince Charles Cinema in London. Entitled An Evening of Film and Music curated [...]
The summer is here, and that means that the men are hot, hot hot. Two years ago, we had our list of hot women , and the temperature is now ripe for the opposite sex. Here are our list of the 88 Hottest Men in Indie Rock (we love you Jack White!). Sufjan Stevens Click here to view the embedded video. [...]
After seeing the amazing lineup for Hopscotch , you have probably been trying to figure out how in the heck you will be able to see all the bands you want. Luckily, this festival takes place in downtown Raleigh, so all show are but a walk , a rickshaw , an R-line away. They have released 14 new bands to the schedule and have added 3 new venues - White Collar Crime , The Union and Fletcher Opera Theater in Progress Energy Center. The show I am most excited about will be [...]
--Hey hipsters this isn't 2008 there's nothing "Ironic" about your mustache anymore. This includes pulling your hair over your lip/drawing a mustache on your finger it's been done... the novelties worn off-- . . . After finishing up with the night cruise posts i'm in the mood for some songs where the instrumentation carries the songs a little more than the lyrics. I'm sure as i piece this one together i'll stray a little from that format but that's basically [...]
Today's double dip is the 7 piece folk orchestra Lost in the Trees hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina this 7 piece band includes harmonic percussions, soulful violins, cellos, guitars, xylophone, tubas, accordions and probably a bunch more , so you can tell already this bands got it going on. The mastermind behind this pink squishy genius is Ari Picker lead singer, song writer and guitarist. I had the pleasure of seeing them perform a couple months ago at the Drake Hotel in [...]
This past weekend, I attended Days 2 and 3 of the Nelsonville Music Festival in Nelsonville, Ohio, which took place at Robbins Crossing at Hocking College. The festival's three-day lineup focused primarily on folk artists, but as you'll see, the 2011 slate was a rather diverse sampling of genres. Compared to other music festivals I've [...]
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Joshua Black Wilkins It was an unfortunate on many levels when, last September, Justin Townes Earle got into a dust-up in Indianapolis while on tour for last year's Harlem River Blues . Beyond the obvious downside of getting arrested for battery, public drunkenness, and resisting arrest, he had to cancel a string of dates in order to enter rehab - including a date in Toronto - and while his American commitments were rescheduled and fulfilled later in the Fall, his record (the police kind, not the musical) made [...]
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