Recommended Show: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 SXIP SHIREY, NOVELLER, & more @ MERKIN CONCERT HALL 129 W 67th St New York, NY 10023 $20, 7:30PM The incomparable Sxip Shirey performs as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival along with Noveller and many others. Jay-Z @ Carnegie Hall Howie Day @ City Winery Scars On 45 @ Joe's Pub Sea Of Bees @ Rockwood Music Hall Savoir Adore & St. Lucia @ Pianos Chamberlin [...]
Stewart O'Nan has become a favorite author in the Muruch household. I (Vic) first fell for his writing in 1994 when his stark and mesmerizing debut novel, Snow Angels, was released, and Brendan loves O'Nan's 2007 novel Last Night at the Lobster enough to re-read it every winter. We both recently read (and loved) O'Nan's [...]
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Artwork by: Steven Juliano || Lovers and Kings: Official | Facebook | Buy Artist, writer, and creative mastermind Steven Juliano, former front man of Long Beach's deadly I Am Ghost and current vocalist for Requiem for the Dead has a new novel entitled LOVERS AND KINGS: BOOK ONE. Lovers and Kings: Book One features 106 full color pages and begins a series of novels based on this epic story! Available for PRE-ORDER starting at noon on February 1st, 2012. Check out the teaser videos below... [...]
This lyric video directed by Hectah, was done on an I-Phone. Spree Wilson has been in the studio for the last year working on his groundbreaking debut project The Spark. He has now re-emerged with his first offering King Sh*t (The Answer) which features his frequent co-conspirator Novel. Spree recounts the road he has taken during his new career to get him where he is, and where he sees himself tomorrow over an epic cinematic orchestrated track layered with drum and bass elements.
Download: KaliRaps "Exhale" ft Reks & Novel (prod. by Statik Selektah) New music from KaliRaps "Exhale" featuring Reks, Novel & produced by Statik Selektah, off his upcoming On Schedule mixtape hosted by DJ Green Latern dropping later this month.
After locking himself in the lab for fine-tuning to his debut The Spark, the always out-of-the-box Spree Wilson has reemerged to release his new single and video, "King Sh*t (The [...]
Spree Wilson is coming out of left field with a unique, refreshing style that's tough to compare to anyone at the moment. His individuality and talent will take him to a successful career in the music industry, there's no question in my mind. Remember "Eye Know"? That shit was in my head for MONTHS. Here we have a new release, and with the help of Novel, I can see this one getting a ton of plays on my end. Thoughts? Download: Spree Wilson (feat. Novel) - King Sh*t (The Answer) Shout out to Molly. Oh, and the video is creative as [...]
Spree Wilson is back with a new track off his upcoming debut project, The Spark .
I should have written about each and every one of Drew Kennedy's prior releases. And I'm not sure why I didn't. Drew hits all my sweet spots. He's a troubadour from New Braunfels, Tx. who combines straight ahead country with bruising rock and sensitive folk. As you can imagine I'm a sucker for the songs on the folkier edge of this spectrum so I've linked to the song "The Captain And The Highway" from the new record Fresh Water In The Salton Sea . Not content to just release a [...]
Today kicks off the 13th annual National Novel Writing Month initiative, which challenges participants to complete a novel in just 30 days.
Last Monday, in an early Christmas present to the editors of this website, #indierocknovels began trending on Twitter. For a few hours people all over the world engaged in clever attempts to synthesize their favorite bands and favorite books, arriving at some portmantastic combinations in the process. Our staff of wordplay addicts submitted more than a few entries of its own, and below we have catalogued our favorite FP creations, along with a brief synopsis of each faux-novel. We hope that we can entertain you as much as we entertain ourselves. The Catcher [...]
Recommended Show: MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011 NOVELLER @ 285 KENT AVENUE 285 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 $10, 8PM It's funny that the Halloween holiday really gets started early, but on the actual holiday, it seems the shows have become more, well, normal. Still, there's no excuse for not finding a good time tonight when Noveller plays 285 Kent Ave. Ween @ Hammerstein Ballroom Yukon Blonde @ The Rock Shop The Magician @ Public Assembly SBTRKT & AraabMUZIK @ [...]
I am susceptible to the singers and songwriters, with their strumming guitars and sparse arrangements, their gift for capturing the heartbreak after a messy breakup, or the joy when flirting turns to courtship turns to love. It's one of the reasons I was drawn to Thomas Calder, aka The Trouble With Templeton, a few short [...]
Long-running under-the-radar multi-talent Novel proves why he's deserving of being mentioned among the Frank Ocean's, Weeknd's and Miguel's of today's acclaimed male soul world with this recent discovery, a remake of The Color Purple 's Academy Award-nominated (and Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Lionel Richie co-penned) "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" that the singer-songwriter-rapper-produ cer effectively manages to flip into something we could see becoming a sort-of left-field current R&B hit if given the chance. Bringing a slightly modernized polish to the song without losing traces of its harmonica-laced bluesy-soul roots, [...]
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Depois de ter retido os ensinamentos de Rhys Chatham ou explorado o punk sónico com os Parts & Labor, Sarah Lipstate tem-se dedicado à melhor composição drone. Um território pouco habitado pelas presenças femininas e que por isso mesmo a torna já numa referência . Paint On The Shadows ou Red Rainbows ficam para trás como dois brilhantes discos que se tornaram incontornáveis para a ainda promissora carreira da guitarrista. Dizemos promissora pois sentimos que o mais recente Glacial Glow aprimorou o que já conhecíamos e mostra boas pistas para o futuro que [...]
Ben Sommers ( facebook/ twitter ) has taken this whole story-telling through music to beyond its normal four-minute boundary to a whole album in the form of Avocado Chip and a accompanying novel. I've embedded a few pages of the novel, but this is a music blog and that is what I'll focus on... Lyrically he's built the album around the fictional town of Staving Jane - a "funny old town" to quote the opening track. He weaves the stories of greed and triumph between twisted musical genres, breaking paths down to strike on anew. [...]
" Lost Memory of Skin is a major new work by Russell Banks destined to be a canonical novel of its time . That is not to say it is without problems. It engages the reader in one long wrestling match. It is sometimes marred by condescension. But it delivers another of Mr. Banks's wrenching, panoramic visions of American moral life, and this one very particular to the early 21st century. It tells of a plugged-in, tuned-out Internet culture "lost in the misty zone between reality and imagery, no longer able to tell the difference." And it explores [...]
Sarah Siskind - Novel can mean something new. Novel can also be a story to tell. Revered Tennessee songwriter, who counts Alison Krauss and Bon Iver as admirers, sees both in her latest D.I.Y. solo project...Siskind's '09 album Get Louder was lauded as "a masterpiece" by Bonnie Raitt and was the recipient of a Nashville Music Award for Best Americana Album...An extended stay in Colorado allowed Siskind to think about a new solo-only strategy for her songs: writing, recording and playing all the instruments herself, sometimes using makeshift percussion -- oatmeal [...]
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