It's holiday music time, and I am pretty worn out on the holiday standards by this point in the season. So, how about we give you a little gift of new, free holiday music from the folks over at Noise Trade. What's the rub you ask? If you want to download these records to your hard drive, it'll cost you an email address and a discretionary tip for the artists. It doesn't mean you can't just stream them though by just clicking on any of the images below. Enjoy the new holiday tunes, and we here at No Country hope [...]
Just because. From Rosie Thomas' A Very Rosie Christmas . A merry merry to all DC friends -- and a happy new year. Rosie Thomas - "O Come Emmanuel" (from A Very Rosie Christmas )
I can't believe it's that time of year again! The time of year to overindulge on materialistic things and copious amounts of food... and, of course, spend quality time with your dearly loved ones. All of that warm and fuzzy shit got me in the mood to compile this playlist of a wide variety of indie songs that cover a broad spectrum of what the holidays are all about. So take off your boots, snuggle up with a blanket and hot cocoa next to the fireplace, and enjoy this indie holiday music playlist before the [...]
all photos by Brittany Brassell Sufjan Stevens has been writing heartfelt, provocative Christmas music for 10 years now. Each year, he completes a "volume" with a different theme or direction. All of these volumes have been conveniently collected for fans into the Songs for Christmas and Silver and Gold album collections, which hold volumes 1-5 and 6-10 respectively. But in all that time, Stevens has had plenty else to keep him busy. Whether its the banjo-driven soulful folk music of albums like Seven Swans [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 121 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by Boats, Hayden, Erin McKeown, Low, Paul Westerberg, Sufjan Stephens and more! So much more! DATE: 12-07-12 WRITER: Don Loder Merry everyone ya mugs! We're gettin' closer ta dat magical time o' da year junky, an' here's me wit' anotha glowin' shot o' SWAG ta keep yer overhead down; so yer spendin' yer money on otha people instead of yerself. Dis [view more]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Ben Thomas : free and legal The Bewildering Light (Christmas Album) [mp3] search for more Ben Thomas posts at Largehearted Boy Cheatahs : "The Swan" [mp3] from Sans EP [...]
Ghostland Observatory will lazerize WaMu this weekend / photo by Christopher Nelson We've got another great week of shows in Seattle, with a ton of variety. This is a city where you can see a good show just about every night of the week, and this one is no exception. Starting on Monday night, we've got some great Northwest connections back in town with former Fleet Fox Josh Tillman's new project, Father John Misty , performing at Neumos. On Tuesday, there's a psych fest at Neumos with Black Moth Super Rainbow, Lumerians, and Pictorials . [...]
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► Sweet Hearts , the charming duo comprised of Priscilla Ahn and Charlie Wadhams (and pictured above), headlines the Bootleg tonight. Surf-pop husband-wife duo The Parlour Suite supports. ► Geronimo Getty , the country-fried project of Aaron Kyle (Le Switch), celebrates its EP release with a show at 1642 (1642 Temple). ► Singer-songwriter Rosie Thomas returns to the Hotel Cafe for her first L.A. show in five years. Grab her song "Where Was I" below. ||| Download: "Where Was I" [...]
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Active Child @ Music Box 11/9/11 credit: Andrew Youssef http://amateurchemist.blogspot .com/ There is always good music to be heard somewhere. If you're in the LA area this weekend, consider these recommendations. Friday, April 27th - Active Child , Balam Acab, Superhumanoids @ The Glass House ♩ Active Child - Hanging On (from You Are All I See ) [...]
Tak a máme tu další věc od Sufjana Stevense . Tentokrát jde o 7'' split singl s Rosie Thomas k příležitosti "Record Store day" , který byl v sobotu 21. 4. První skladba Where were you? je vlastně předělaná nebo spíše variací na Where was I? od Rosie Thomas z její poslední desky With Love . Sufjan bohužel opět použil svůj oblíbený(?) auto-tune, přesto, že by mu zde ohromě slušel jeho originální jemný hlas, ale nezmodifikovaný. Škoda, protože je to pěkná něžná věc. Bohužel auto-tune to zabíjí. [...]
Happy Record Store Day 2012! Here are my picks: Battles - Dross Glop 4 You get the Gang Gang Dance, Hudson Mohawk + the stellar Patrick Mahoney & Dennis McNany remixes on wax. The Pharcyde - Bizzarre Ride II The Pharcyde: The Singles Collection When opened, the package plays an audio recording saying “Oh, Shit!” Plus vintage Pharcyde photos, a 120 piece puzzle of the original cover art and a 21” x 28” poster of [...]
This week's mixtape Friday Mixtape was curated by @ColinCrane1234 . Check out Colin Crane's website , and his non-profit the Pulsera Project . Colin writes: This is a mix that has been slowly born with the changing seasons-a transition from the melancholy of winter to a celebration of Spring covering the world in a technicolor blanket, giving new energy to the dreams and visions that had been hibernating for months in the cold. Magic is the flowering of the human potential; let’s pull out our wands. There is a solid [...]
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Rosie Thomas (@onerosiecheek) is something else, I’ll tell ya. When she opens her mouth to sing, an incredibly rich, honeyed voice pours out of her, but when she opens her mouth to speak, well, I heard someone once told her she sounded like a bug. Her voice is high-pitched and squeezed with the nasal tinge associated with Midwest accents. While this dichotomy is slightly jarring, her talent is undeniable, and her performance at Joe’s Pub on Saturday night held the full room in rapt attention. She first stepped out onto the stage disguised [...]
With Love is the Sixth album by American singer-songwriter Rosie Thomas. Sam Beam also appears on this album. The album was made available for pre-order in early February 2012 on Rosie's Bandcamp and released commercially on February 14, 2012, available as a digital download, on CD or on Vinyl. Read more »
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Well, Rosie Thomas has done it again, stolen my heart with her simple tales told in hums and harmonies. Her latest album "With Love" was fittingly released on Valentine's Day this year, and it addresses the issues of love, relationships and heartache that she has become famous for tackling. Thomas manages to write overly sweet love songs that somehow aren't annoying and to write heartbreaking tunes that always feel real. I have never heard another vocalist who can imbue their voice with tears in the way Thomas does. I know she isn't [...]
Sufjan Stevens and Rosie Thomas Now Playing – twice every week, a roundtable of our writers will give their views on some of the recently-released new tracks. It’s as simple as that! If you want to tell us what you think of the song, feel free to leave a comment below. Track: ‘Where Were You?’ by Sufjan Stevens and Rosie Thomas [...]
In high school, I had a bit of a drive every morning to get to school. I can still remember the feeling of freedom the first day of Junior year when I drove myself to school - no carpool, no parents, just me and my music. The good thing about my commute was that for those twenty-five minutes five days a week, nothing else mattered. Driving down along the greenery of 280 was my chance at 7:15 (7:18, 7:19...) every morning to get lost in thought and just let it all settle. This time was mine, and no one else's. One [...]
It's really not that unusual or left-field that 20102s The Age of Adz was a heavily-electronic affair; while most people became fans of Sufjan Stevens through indie-folk albums like Michigan and Illinois , he was making electronic music long before on early records such as Enjoy Your Rabbit . Rather than a departure from his signature sound, then, Adz was arguably a return to Sufjan's roots. And to those that didn't like his electronic opus, Sufjan's 2010 All Delighted People EP featured folk-based tunes like “Enchanting Ghost,” ensuring that Stevens [...]
Well, if you were not a fan of Sufjan Stevens' turn on Age Of Adz , then you should probably just turn away and go out the way you came. But, if you in any way enjoyed Sufjan Stevens' experiments with trashy beats and auto-tune, then get ready to fall in love. Record Store Day will bring a split 73 of Sufjan Stevens and Rosie Thomas, titled Hit & Run Vol. 1 , and the Rosie Thomas side (which is basically a collaboration with Sufjan), "Where Were You?" is available for stream below. We'll keep our eyes peeled [...]
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