MUSIC REVIEW: Kate Tucker - Ghost of Something New EP (Noise Trade) - I'm going to tell all you manly men types with your new mustaches and hippie cologne. You would not want to leave this girl for fear she'd write a killer song which on first listen would turn you into a puddle of salt. So fair warning. Lucky for you she mixes it up a bit on her most recent EP but still delivers sultry alt country angel tinged vocals that are truly aspirational. The shining light of alt-rock maybe. You can be brave [...]
trespasserswilliam.com The new year is traditionally held as a time for fresh starts and new beginnings, but it can also be a symbolic time for drawing things to an end or perhaps more appropriately, wrapping up something to begin something else. Not that that was the only reason it wasn't a complete surprise when Seattle duo Trespassers William took to Facebook this week to announce that the band would be shelved for the foreseeable future. Despite completely winning me over with their second album Different Stars [...]
Chain & the Gang @ Secret Project Robot in Feb ( more by Harriet Roberts ) Like many other venues have been doing, Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg is hosting a Jonathan Toubin benefit which is taking place on January 12 . The benefit's got a stacked bill including Chain and the Gang (whose frontman Ian Svenonius DJ'd a JT benefit at Zebulon on Christmas Eve ), Eleanor Friedberger [...]
With Christmas out of the way, and the year almost over, it's time I finally get around to compiling my Top 20 albums of the year of 2011 (in fact, there are 21 entries). Each album is represented on the mix with a song, and each entry has a link to the artist's homepage or other outlet where the album can be ordered from. Because this list is intended not only to show off my impeccable taste, but also to showcase artists, all data files in the mix have been downscaled to 128kbps. This is not really a chart, but [...]
Don't you love Christmas music? I'm Jewish so mostly it makes me feel like I'm in a mall. But don't you love malls? I've been trying to get my daughter to listen to The Nutcracker , and that's been pretty easy because she's only three and doesn't have a choice. But if Tchaikovsky's not your speed there are always new XMas jams from indie rockers to keep you in the holiday spirit. Once again we've collected this year's additions to the canon since it should only be a Sufjan Christmas so many years in a row. (And once again [...]
We all love lists, and we all love sarcasm. Though, I think its important to reflect upon the last year of music, I'm going to do so through the use of a list. It was a fantastic year full of awesome albums, and I'm going to count down a bunch of my favorites, and give you something to listen to while reading. 35. The Elected - Bury Me in My Rings The Elected - Go For The Throat Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley), made his way back into music with [...]
The trouble with acoustic covers of popular songs is that some earnest singer armed with a guitar will slow down Jingle Bells and whisper the lyrics as if they have a deep meaning. I have no principles that compel me to disallow the notion of whispering songstresses, but on this Christmas mix I've tried to keep them to a respectful minimum. Still, we have the doses of yuletide angst which the acoustic genre prescribes to go with the upbeat welcome of the merry season. Don't be alarmed by the inclusion of three tracks called Christmas Song: they are [...]
Frank Yang In discussing the latest St. Vincent album Strange Mercy , I mentioned that Annie Clark's greatest strength as a songwriter was her creative restlessness; a trait which has over the course of her relatively short career already taken her to more interesting places than some artists even conceive of visiting. If we turn our attention to her live show, that title of "most appropriate single adjective" would probably have to be "control". Just as she has a very specific idea of how her [...]
Frank Yang A little into her show at The Drake Underground on Saturday evening, Nicole Atkins mentioned that this was her first-ever solo show in Canada, and that performances of this format were usually reserved for more casual one-off performances back home in New Jersey during the holidays. Indeed, though Ms Atkins has been no stranger to Toronto stages since releasing her debut Neptune City back in 2007, she's always been accompanied by some iteration of her band The (Black) [...]
Nicole Atkins doesn't come off as your typical Jersey girl. With artfully two-toned hair and genre-bending anti-folk songs, the singer-songwriter offers the eclectic sensibility of a cultured metropolis dweller, an alternative to the celebrated (yet singular) stylings of other Garden State musicians. Atkins first gained recognition with her 2007 debut, Neptune City , and its major single, "Maybe Tonight." Though the album was named after her hometown, the music, delightfully, did not sound like the soundtrack for a strip mall or tanning salon. Instead, Atkins did her state quite proud, offering a series of narratives that reflected the lives [...]
Frank Yang Who: Nicole Atkins What: Jersey girl singer-songwriter who released her terrific second album (and second terrific album) Mondo Amore back in January Why: Though the toured through in support of the record with her band The Black Sea back in February , she's doing an intimate solo tour to close out the year. When: Saturday, December 3, 2011 Where: The Drake Underground in Toronto (19+) Who else: Local [...]
In an age of the disposable pop star, and blog buzz bands that seem to fizzle out as quickly as they rise to prominence, The Chieftains are the rare model of both consistency and longevity. The traditional Irish folk act, who have been putting out albums since the early 1906s, will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2012 with a new studio album and a lengthy world tour. On February 21, the band will release Voice Of Ages , which will see the legendary act collaborating with an impressive roster of musicians from the worlds of [...]
I'm trying to be objective here and it ain't easy. We've been a fan of Nicole Atkins for years now. She was the very first to curate TVD for a week over two years ago. She headlined our SXSW showcase last March. We've gone record shopping together. She took the time to play an in-store at DC's Som Records this summer. We've given away stacks of her LPs and singles. Hell, I even have a spiffy Nicole Atkins key chain she [...]
Nicole Atkins is playing a solo acoustic show at Tin Angel on Wednesday, November 30th at 8 p.m. Tickets to the 21+ show are $14. Last July Nicole and her band, The Black Sea, recorded a live show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Download the 5 song EP, ...Till The Dawn below. ...Till Dawn by Nicole Atkins & The Black Sea
Season 3 of Sun Studio Sessions will debut this coming January on select PBS affiliates in January 2012 and then roll out across the country over the rest of the year. Earvolution had the pleasure of first seeing Nicole perform in 2008 and couldn't think of a better artist to kick-off the new season of Sun Studio Sessions.Nicole has appeared on Conan O'Brien and David Letterman and her debut
"Back in my day, we used to call these CD singles," grumbles the curmudgeonly old critic. A mish-mash collection of remixes, out-takes, and jams from The Antlers , (together) contains only two songs that weren't on this year's exceptional Burst Apart in some form or another. The EP's central hook is the collaborations it contains, but disappointingly, they're collaborations only in a technical sense. (together) features appearances by Bear in Heaven, Neon Indian, and Nicole Atkins, but rather than come up with something [...]
Tweet Listen to The Antlers 's cover of The xx 's song "VCR" below. During the week it was announced that The Antlers will be releasing "(together)" , a new EP on November 22nd that will host collaborations with Neon Indian , Nicole Atkins , and Bear In Heaven , along with outtakes [...]
La última vez que supimos de The Antlers fue a principios de este año cuando la banda presentó al mundo su cuarta producción discográfica, <a href=" http://cucharasonica.com/2011/ 05/the-antlers-entrevista" Burst Apart , un disco en el que se atrevieron a explorar nuevos campos sonoros y con el que han obtenido buenas críticas en los medios especializados. Para continuar un poco con la promoción de este disco y aprovechando también el material ya grabado en las sesiones del mismo, la banda ha decidido publicar un nuevo EP el próximo 22 de noviembre [...]
Tina Tyrell It's saying something when Annie Clark's looks rank a ways down the list of things she has going for her as St. Vincent . If we're keeping score, then you'd have to put her angelic, crystalline coo of a voice and virtuosic, elliptical guitar skills right at the top (though which of the two should come first is grist for hours of debate). And of course neither would be anything without her songwriting acumen, which nimbly treads the terrain between odd and accessible, between abstract and evocative. But underpinning all of [...]
No último dia 06 em Nova York, rolou uma noite de shows em homenagem ao cantor Tom Petty . Entre atores, comediantes e mais um monte de gente famosa que estava no evento, a ala musical foi bem representada por Norah Jones , Nicole Atkins , Nathan Followill , Fabrizio Moretti e Regina Spektor , que é fã do Tom Petty, mas só quis assistir as apresentações e não cantou. Na quinta edição do Petty Fest , Norah Jones fez backings com Nicole e Jessie Bailyn [...]
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