February is a short month, but I still found a bunch of bands that I really liked! And one I really hated (but I won't say who). February 1 - The Toothaches February 2 - The Fair and the Foul - Like their name, I found The Fair and the Foul has two musical sides. One tends toward acoustic-driven folk, with simple melodies. The other is pulsating with interesting rhythms and vocal crescendos. It was the latter that made me listen to The Fair and the Foul more [...]
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Photos by Lexi Namer What blizzard? The weather couldn't stop a crowd from coming out February 8 to enjoy the infectious energy of The Wild Honey Pie favorite Kishi Bashi , whose particularly rousing rendition of "Bright Whites" had the snow-dampened audience whooping, clapping, and dancing along. Opener Plume Giant set a close, cozy mood, warming the stage with their multi-instrumental, complexly-harmonied take on an easy folk sound. No better way to thaw out than with sounds of summer. Kishi Bashi [...]
Violinist, singer and composer Kishi Bashi performs at the First Unitarian Church tonight. Using his violin as a starting point, Bashi creates entirely new universes in his compositions with swirling loop sequences, layered vocals and atmospheric synth backdrops. In addition to touring and collaborating with of Montreal, Regina Spektor, The Barr Brothers and Sondre Lerche, ... Continue reading
Plume Giant is a trio of multi-instrumentalists/vocalis ts who recently relocated to the city after graduating from Yale. From their theatrical grace to their retro-fitted instrumentals and rich vocal harmonies, they're not really like anyone else in the city. They bring a refreshing finesse to the table and a lot of fun to the stage. With Calithump and its magnetic a capellas and swaying ways of a 60s summer daydream, Plume Giant easily charmed their way into the hearts of the NYC music scene. Probably the most endearing act to join the local folk parade this year, they've earned [...]
Some heart-warming pop coming through on this new Plume Giant video for the track "We Got It Made," which was shot and directed in New Haven, Connecticut. The song's got a pretty joyous finish, and it's honeyed throughout with some tight vocal harmonies that bring some nice personality to the table. Pick up Plume Giant's latest album on iTunes .
Today was the premier of Plume Giant's video for their track "We Got it Made", but it would be foolish of me to first, pretend I knew anything about them before today, and second, to ignore the utopia that is created when real musicians get together. But first let's talk about the video, I know that I use this word today already, but lately ever since the fall started, the magic and whimsicalness in artist has flourished, and this video is full of it, plus it reminds me of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. At first I [...]
DETAILS ABOUT THIS SHOW + STREAMING COMPILATION OF ALL 14 BANDS HERE . The 2012 Deli's CMJ festivities will be kicking off on Tuesday, October 16th at The Delancey, with an extensive showcase of some of the city's best rootsy acts. This year, we've booked fourteen artists, most of them local, who'll be giving us a good taste of folk music beyond the run-of-the-mill, split between both floors of the Lower East Side venue. Headlining the main floor we'll have the magnetic concoctions of dream-roots duo [...]
DETAILS ABOUT THIS SHOW + STREAMING COMPILATION OF ALL 14 BANDS HERE . The 2012 Deli's CMJ festivities will be kicking off on Tuesday, October 16th at The Delancey, with an extensive showcase of some of the city's best rootsy acts. This year, we've booked fourteen artists, most of them local, who'll be giving us a good taste of folk music beyond the run-of-the-mill, split between both floors of the Lower East Side venue. Headlining the main floor we'll have the magnetic concoctions of dream-roots duo [...]
DETAILS ABOUT THIS SHOW + STREAMING COMPILATION OF ALL 14 BANDS HERE . The 2012 Deli's CMJ festivities will be kicking off on Tuesday, October 16th at The Delancey, with an extensive showcase of some of the city's best rootsy acts. This year, we've booked thirteen artists, most of them local, who'll be giving us a good taste of folk music beyond the run-of-the-mill, split between both floors of the Lower East Side venue. Headlining the main floor we'll have the magnetic concoctions of dream-roots duo [...]
Innovative Philadelphia electro-pop group Gemini Wolf is opening for The Octopus Project tonight at North Star Bar. Gemini Wolf, which is made of Megan Cauley and Michael McDermott (who perform under the names Pandar and Mikronesia, respectively) released a 2011 LP Infinite Sand Dunes following their 2010 remix album, Rare But Serious Side Effects. The 21+ ... Continue reading
Plume Giant is Oliver Hill (guitar, viola, voice), Nolan Green (guitar, harmonium, voice), and Eliza Bagg (violin, harmonium, trinkets, voice). Their sound is very much that of America with vocal harmonies, double fiddles, and tambourines, harmoniums, melodicas, and so on. After coming out with a self-titled EP in of 2010, the band is releasing their debut full-length, Callithump , today. To mark this big moment for the band, they have given MOKB the pleasure of streaming the album in its entirety along with giving away two of the standout [...]
Fresh from their graduation ceremony at Yale this past spring, the new-to-Brooklyn trio Plume Giant is hitting the road in support of their full-length album "Callithump." The record comes after an eponymous EP in 2010, and shows off the band's jovial fusion of folk and fiddle, highlighting playful harmonies with their male-female vocals combination. "Callithump" was recorded over an 11-month stretch around tour and exam schedules, and will be released on August 28, with a US tour to follow. Fellow local folkies Tall Tall Trees will join Plume Giant for their record release show at the [...]
A few years back I wrote about a band called Plume Giant . They sent IHYEB a copy of their EP and I thought they had a very retro-folk sound and I really enjoyed their vocal harmonies and light instrumentation . Since that first EP, Plume Giant and their sound have grown up a bit. Last October, Plume Giant went to Kickstarter to raise funds for a new album and it worked. They were able to successfully raise $10,365, almost $3k more than their $7,500 goal. Callithump, the groups first full-length album, is the [...]
Minus The Bear at Bumbershoot (09/03/11) Photo : Drake Lelane ( more ) Aug 12 Bird Call, Talain Rayne, Shira Goldberg Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 07/18/12 12:00 PM Mercury Lounge [...]
6am Repeat is a recurring feature here at Folk Hive in which we stream the latest track that plays incessantly in the earbuds when we awake at that hour and imbibe massive amounts of coffee and cigarettes in preparation for the advancing day. Consider it your jam of the day — a sweet, sweet gift from me to you. I love you, dude. Best song about drugs and love with a mini-choir in the background there that I've heard in a long fucking time. [...]
A Tree Falls Productions , our little house concert series here in rural Massachusetts, has grown since we first presented Danny Schmidt in our living room, and so has its reputation: both of the headline performers for our upcoming Spring/Summer season concerts came to us, making booking as easy as checking the calendar and saying "yes, please!" Our newest performing space, a restored hundred year old carriage house just up the road, has ample room for 50+, and for our increasingly infamous potluck meals, and we're eager to fill the house, the better to support [...]
i like one/two sentence emails cause frankly thats all i can handle at this point, and thats exactly what plume giant provided. words, words, words, and more words are lost on me. just cut the shit people. give me a song or two, or at least a place, that isnt myspace or reverbnation that i can listen to something. anyway, plume giant hails from the great state of connecticut, new haven to be exact. they play a lovely version of folk that consists of just a viola, violin, guitar and 3 voices - there's actually a little bit [...]
i like one/two sentence emails cause frankly thats all i can handle at this point, and thats exactly what plume giant provided. words, words, words, and more words are lost on me. just cut the shit people. give me a song or two, or at least a place, that isnt myspace or reverbnation that i can listen to something. anyway, plume giant hails from the great state of connecticut, new haven to be exact. they play a lovely version of folk that consists of just a viola, violin, guitar and 3 voices - there's actually a little bit [...]
I get emails all day and night from people who want me to listen to their music and write about it. And most of the time, I listen to a few seconds then put it in the archive folder of my Gmail. Something happened the other day though. I was trying to empty my inbox, but instead opened an email from a New Haven based folk group named Plume Giant . I didn't remember seeing it in my inbox, so I read through it and listened to their attached song Fool Hall [...]
If my internet music blog was a baseball team, I feel like I would be a middle of the rotation starter, something like 14-8, ERA around three and three quarters. The evidence: I eat innings (my nearly uninterrupted streak of Lazy Saturdays). I struggle against left handers (I don't get bands that are ostensibly awful but that the critical community loves; see: Animal Collective). I pitch to contact (I love me a good remix). Most importantly for the metaphor (and this post), I have three go-to pitches: 1) Cut fastball = I think this album/band/song [...]
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