Hotly anticipated on the back of 2011 breakthrough album Smoke Ring For My Halo , Kurt Vile’s latest – Wakin' On A Pretty Daze – immediately establishes an overtly colourful tone right from its opening title track. Clocking in at nine minutes-plus, the song has it all: prolonged jams, striking nods to Neil Young, and a laid back eminence that is all too easy to become lost in. As Philly-dweller Vile’s fifth studio album duly unravels however, it becomes ever more evident that the elements responsible for making this introductory wig out oh so appealing [...]
LA from The Byrds to The Eagles This is a great BBC documentary that makes a nice companion piece for our Southern California series from last year. Here is what the BBC website has to say about it.... Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture, and telling the story of how Los Angeles changed from a kooky backwater in the early 1960s to become the artistic and industrial hub of the American music industry by the end of the 1970s. Alongside extensive and never before [...]
EmptyMansions Reveal Neil Young Cover Listen to “Down By The River Now” HERE New Project From Sam Forgarino of Interpol Out Today Band on Tour Now EmptyMansions' founder/primary songwriter, Sam Fogarino (Interpol) wrote most of the songs for his debut, snakes/vultures/sulfate while on tour promoting Interpol's fourth and self-titled album, from mid 2009 to late 2011. Lyrically, the songs are the result of, Sam, reading much postmodern fiction by writers such as Hubert Selby Jr (‘Sulfate’); discovering an appreciation for aerial dance and a fascination with outer-space (‘Lyra’); the TV-drama [...]
After more than thirty years in the business, Billy Bragg has earned a reputation as one of folk's elder statesmen. The rough punk edges have been sanded down and the brash Essex accent has softened on Tooth & Nail, his first album of original material since 2008 . Gone is the barricade-jumping, hard-living Bragg of old, perpetually thumbing his nose at the establishment and Maggie Thatcher. The intervening years have calmed him down, and this is most apparent on his new album. The 12 [...]
Alas, we're not too impressed with the new Phosphorescent album to be honest, muchachos . Except for one remarkable track called The Quotidian Beasts that is. Ramshackle and doom-laden, it's yet another recent example of the ongoing influence of Neil Young's Ditch Trilogy , and I guess that isn't so bad. Quality never goes out of style, you know? Phosphorescent - The Quotidian Beasts
Throughout the early part of the aughts Devendra Banhart was best known as the face of the of "freak-folk" movement, thanks in part to the fact that he looked as if he had stepped straight out of the Haight circa 1967. Earlier this month the talented singer-songwriter released his eighth studio album and debut for Nonesuch Records - Mala . The 14-track effort features Banhart's familiar mix of wispy folk and Tropicalia sounds, with bits of synth-y dance beats. Banhart will kick off an extensive world tour in support of the [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List , Spinner Says Arcade Fire Vinyl and Cocktails is a site that pairs good music with good drinks. As a guest post for Spinner, editors Cameron and Levi were kind enough to share their picks for the 25 albums you have to own on vinyl. Here is their list, and follow their adventures here . Below is a list of what we consider [...]
Field Report's Chris Porterfield performing live BY JORDAN MAINZER The third guy’s a charm. That is, Field Report’s Chris Porterfield is the third and latest spin off from retrospectively super indie supergroup DeYarmond Edison, the early 2000s band that also included Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the members of Megafaun. Porterfield’s surname-anagram band released their excellent self-titled debut last year and played most of it on the night of March 5th at Evanston SPACE. A six-piece band, Field Report transformed the intimate sounds of their debut to the bourgeois suburban venue [...]
Five artists came dancing across the water to take on Neil Young's classic - and you can say "What a killer" about each and every version.
We posted earlier about Fink's "Warm Shadow" on the soundtrack for the AMC TV series The Walking Dead and we wanted to highlight another excellent track that has been used in two episodes, recently in last week's episode "Prey" where in the end Andrea was shown with her mouth gagged and sitting "prey" to the Governor's torture chair/chamber. The track is Voxhaul Broadcast's " You Are The Wilderness " by clicking on the pic above of poor Andrea The Walking Dead (AMC [...]
Devendra Banhart has scheduled a North American tour in support of his new album, Mala . He'll begin his travels in Aspen on May 4th and remain on the road through early June. Also on the docket is an appearance at Sasquatch! . For a preview, read our review of his recent performance at SXSW. Devendra Banhart 2013 Tour Dates: 05/04 - Aspen, CO @ Belly Up 05/05 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater 05/08 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent [...]
If we've learned anything from the music of Joy Division and The Smiths, it's that the good people of Manchester, England, can handle bleak, uncompromising music. They were certainly given a bracing shot of it on this autumn night in 1973, as Neil Young opened a seven-date tour of the UK. With the Eagles opening [...]
The Men: New Moon – When putting on the newest record by The Men , one might need to do a double take to make sure the right band is playing. It’s the same one alright, with an evolving, multifaceted sound that leaves the fans and listeners of old a little disoriented. The Men are shaking things up. New Moon takes a sharp turn from the Brooklyn band’s punk rock and hardcore sounds of their past. Since last year’s Open Your Heart they’ve latched onto the pop [...]
Soulive's annual Bowlive Run at Brooklyn Bowl continued last night in Williamsburg. Special guests included keyboardist Marco Benevento, Los Lobos guitarist David Hidalgo, The Shady Horns and opening act The London Souls. For the encore, Soulive welcomed their guests up, with the exception of the horns, for a 20-plus-minute tribute to Neil Young. Soulive, Benevento, Hidalgo and The London Souls kicked off the encore with the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young protest song Ohio sung by Tash Neal. The CSNY cover morphed into Neil Young's Down By [...]
Director: Dave Grohl Cast: Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme, Trent Reznor, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks Certificate: 15 Running Time: 108 minutes Release: March 15 With Sound City , Dave Grohl ventures out on his first filmic endeavour, and one could be mistaken for assuming he has done this before. Stitching together a patchwork of music history, he zeroes in on Sound City, a geriatric dive of a recording studio, awash amongst the monotony of San Fernado's urban sprawl. Through an impressive set of interviews with varying persons of [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Art Gallery of Ontario Patti Smith knows how to commune with the dead. She can even bring them back to life. Arthur Rimbaud to Allen Ginsberg , Amy Winehouse to her late husband Fred "Sonic" Smith of the MC5 -- throughout her two sets at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario last night, Smith paid [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Music Appreciation Kevin Winter, Getty Patti Smith , punk pioneer and unlikely art photographer wants to make one thing crystal clear. "I don't consider my photographs blurry," said Patti Smith. "I think they are atmospheric." Smith was speaking at a press conference this morning about the black and white images in Camera Solo, an exhibition of her photography and personal objects currently on display [...]
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Neil Young has debuted a new, environmentally conscious song as part of his on-going Australian tour with Crazy Horse, called "There's a Hole in the Sky." Preview it here! The tune, performed at the Perth Arena and included in part on a two-minute clip above, references the on-going discussion over a oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S., before evolving [...]
Neil Young headlinar Way Out West i sommar! Senast han besökte festivalen var för fem år sedan, och nu är han alltså tillbaka och har på köpet med sig sitt kompband Crazy Horse. Därmed blir han (förmodligen) festivalens andra headliner, tillsammans med The Knife. På festivalen spelar även Kendrick Lamar, Tame Impala, Solange, James Blake och många fler. Stadsfestivalen pågår 8-10 augusti i Slottskogen, Göteborg och biljetterna kan ni köpa här .
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