The inaugural First City Festival will take place August 24th and 25th at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival grounds are at same site as the famed Moterey Pop Festival in 1967. The lineup includes Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, MGMT, Neko Case, Beach House, Deerhunter, Devendra Banhart, Purity Ring, Dr. Dog, Father John Misty, Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, Okkervil River, The Hold Steady, Delta Spirit, The Black Angels, The Antlers, Dodos, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Lucero, Tennis, Akron/Family, Bleached, Guards, Blitzen Trapper, and more. General admission and VIP passes will [...]
In case the overwhelming lack of lounging around time hasn't tipped you off, festival season is upon us, in a big way. And last week, our former festival-that-could known as Austin City Limits revealed it's now two-week spanning lineup, full of up-and-comers and big-namers to boot. (Did I meet my dash quota in that sentence – I'm not sure). This year's lineup, while polarizing to many, boasts some of my favorites, from some Columbia grads who made it big (Vampire Weekend), to a fiery-haired musical heroine (Neko Case), to the band that shaped my college years (Wilco), to [...]
Okkervil River : Blue Tulip [ purchase ] When it comes to mothers, I am incredibly lucky. My mother is a wonderful woman—she was a great mother to me and my siblings, immediately considered my wife to be another daughter, and has been a great grandmother to my kids and my nieces and nephews. My wife is amazing—she is my best friend, and has been everything I could have hoped for as a mother for our kids. And my mother-in-law is also a remarkable woman who has welcomed me into [...]
Filed under: News AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Depeche Mode , the Cure , Muse -- this year's expanded Austin City Limits Festival will feature something of a European invasion with five of eight headliners at least partially coming from across the Atlantic Ocean. Also among the list of headlining performers announced Tuesday were Atoms for Peace , Phoenix , Lionel Richie and Wilco . The festival in Austin, Texas, [...]
Lovestreams est le nouveau projet solo de Will Sheff , chanteur du groupe américain Okkervil River . Aujourd'hui il nous présente son nouveau morceau There's Video à travers ce clip qu'on pourrait croire fait maison dans un style très paranoïaque et glacial que l'on doit à Scott Coffey .
Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff recently announced a new synthy solo side project called Lovestreams, and he's planning on posting his songs online one at a time rather than gathering them into an album-sized bundle. After debut single " Shock Corridor ," the second Lovestreams song we've heard is the slow-building "There's Video," which comes drenched in both sex and sax. Cleverly, Sheff has chosen to debut it in the form of a video. Sheff's actor/director friend Scott Coffey has filmed Sheff trudging around New York, using an old digital video camera and its in-camera effects to make [...]
Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff just shared a video from his new solo project Lovestreams. Will said on twitter that he was trying to be romantic, but it's definitely a scary, brooding kind of romance. [via BlackBook]
by Fred Pessaro // BBG A giant marble room is a bit of an odd space for a band with amplifiers, but last night (4/8) that was the setting for an Okkervil River show at Grand Central Station (yes, the train depot). The Austin-based band played to the historic room for a show sponsored by Jack Daniels as part of the #JackLIVE series , a set of free shows across the country open to the public and featuring [...]
Jonathan Meiburg (of Okkervil River and Shearwater) covers Roy Orbison's 'It's Over' in the desert.
DOWNLOAD: Lovestreams - "Shock Corridor" (MP3) Will Sheff at SXSW 2012 ( more by Tim Griffin ) Jack Daniel's is "serving up great whiskey and great live music at legendary American Landmarks" with their new concert series . You can click that link to find the closest one to you (it happens in NYC, San Diego, San Antonio, and LA) and for those in NYC, you'll get yours on April 8 at Grand Central Terminal with [...]
Frank Yang Solange may have initially garnered attention thanks to her surname, but her recent ascension to the forefront of what's being regarded as a new wave of R&B artists has been almost entirely on the back of her own talent; well, hers and Dev Hynes' . The Lightspeed Champion/Blood Orange producer-songwriter was my gateway drug to the work of Ms. Knowles; obviously, I knew who she was, but I suspect like more than few filling the Danforth Music Hall on Friday night for Solange's Toronto debut, it wasn't until her adoption [...]
Graphics By Madeline Rosemurgy When I was first asked to do a '20 Faves' feature on The New Pornographers , I jumped at the opportunity. The Vancouver-based band united as a supergroup in the late ‘90s and has since gained a solid following of devout fans. The three leaders include alternative country solo artist Neko Case , solo artist A.C. Newman , and Dan Bejar of Destroyer . Additional members include Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Kurt Dahle, Todd Fancey, and Blaine Thurier, who exhibit their artistry through side projects as well. Taking it one [...]
Escucha: Okkervil River - "It’ll Never Happen Again" (Tim Hardin Cover) El músico y compositor folk de Oregon, Tim Hardin , será conmemorado por el sello Full Time Hobby , con una recopilación tributo titulada Reason to Believe: The Songs of Tim Hardin . El álbum de trece covers cuenta con un grupo de caras conocidos y jóvenes talentos, específicamente Okkervil River , Mark Lanegan , y Alela Diane . La discográfica nos presenta un adelanto de esta recopilación, con el cover [...]
From the comp Reason To Believe – The Songs of Tim Hardin out February 26th on Full Time Hobby.
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Fleet Foxes, Beirut, Okkervil River Song: Yellow Red Sparks - Yellow Red Sparks [download here ] What's so good? [...]
I was introduced to Nick Drake in like 1994, when Rhino released the Way To Blue compilation, and for me, it was a total, world-changing revelation. It inspired me to explore a shadowy basement of largely forgotten depressive singer-songwriters, at the forefront of which were John Martyn, Tim Buckley, and Tim Hardin. Of that group, Hardin was the darkest and most profoundly sad (no small accomplishment, considering the field). He's probably best known for writing "If I Were A Carpenter" - covered by Johnny Cash and Joan Baez, among a host of others - but his catalog is [...]
We'll never get a new Tim Hardin album, but here's the next best thing. Full Time Hobby, 2013 9.1 / 10 Tim Hardin was a singer-songwriter who reached his peak back in the...
It's no secret that we're huge fans of AV Club's Undercover series. Launched back in 2010, they've gotten an impressive array of indie-rock bands to come into their Chicago office and tackle songs from the likes of Wilco to Sufjan Stevens to Kenny Loggins to Adele. The pop culture site recently polled its readers to help formulate a new list of 25 tunes for an upcoming edition, offering up 68 song choices broken into categories like Ladies of the '80s, Whistling Songs and We Used2 Like U (pre-1985 U2). Earlier this week, the site revealed the results with the [...]
Lovestreams is Will Sheff of Okkervil River's new solo project. So we threw "Shock Corridor" at you last week and now we have the music video, by Devin Greenwood. The tune is a lot to get used to for old school Okkervil River fans, but after some adjustment "Shock Corridor" is a very interesting change of pace. No word yet on whether or not this LP will see the light of day or when that would happen. For a little background info from Will Sheff himself go ahead and scroll down after this music video, which [...]
Things that we never expected to hear: Okkervil River's Will Sheff has an electronic side project... and it's actually quite good. Sheff released a song under the name Lovestreams earlier this week, and we've been rather enjoying it here at Flavorpill central, despite initial reservations about what in god's name it might sound like. The track makes Sheff the latest in a long-ish line of guitar-wielding types who've decided that they're rather like to twiddle knobs on the side, with wildly varying degrees of success. With that in mind, we thought we'd amuse ourselves looking at some such artists, ranking [...]
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