Living room tours are all the rage this spring. While house shows are nothing new, we've gotten a number of great touring artists coming through town to play your neighbor's front room—and it's a fine antidote to dark, noisy clubs with bar-priced drinks. Also, some of the people who host these living room shows have dogs. Dogs make all shows better. The Undertow music collective is responsible for a lot of these shows we're seeing (the company's creative director Mark Ray lives here in Portland, where he works at the North branding agency). Will Johnson of [...]
You might not recognize Jeff Ryan's name, but you've probably heard his drumming on a number of acclaimed releases in the past few years. Playing on albums by Sarah Jaffe, St. Vincent, Pleasant ... Continue reading "Jeff Ryan, Drummer for Sarah Jaffe, St. Vincent and Others, Releases a Solo Album This Week" >
L.A. RECORD alum Chelsea Wolfe will be doing a special show at the First Unitarian Church on Friday with Deradoorian and Sarah Jaffe ! Wanna go? Just email us at rsvp@larecord.com with subj CHELSEA and we'll pick a winner!
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As I've mentioned on many occasions, I keep a running playlist throughout the year. You've seen bits and pieces of it here but as 2012 comes to a close, here is the final product. Full of the singles that I listened to on repeat to the tracks I put on every mixtape this year and now with the added bonus of being influenced by the year end lists of my friends and contemporaries. It's all over the place genre-wise, but I think it is a pretty solid collection. Amanda Palmer - [...]
Instead of just presenting our favorites, as much as we love to rattle on about the songs and records we loved here, we've asked some experts- people we have befriended in the process, those we admire and respect, our favorite musicians- what records they loved in 2012. FRANK TURNER : JIM LOCKEY & THE SOLEMN SUN - DEATH Frank Turner is a folk punk hero. If you're reading this, you've probably heard of him. He is pretty much our favorite musician and [...]
Sarah Jaffe performed "Mannequin Woman" and "Talk" on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Watch both songs in the video below: ...
I know I waxed philosophical about the value of an album as a whole earlier this week but don't get me wrong- I treasure my iPod and it is jam packed with playlists with every theme under the sun. Including a "Best of..." for 2012. Here is the ten I've chosen from that ...pretty extensive list that has soundtracked my year. Melanie and Barlow contributed ten of their carefully cultivated choices each to help round it out and here's our official Best Tracks of 2012 . [Tiffiny] Apologies, I Have None - The [...]
With their own mix of alternative rock, ska, reggae, and bohemian jams, Boston natives, State Radio , brought their hometown passion to the Bottleneck on Thursday November 15 th . People of all ages took shelter from the cold and warmed up with beer. Lots of it. In fact, the majority of the audience appeared to be adults, and the majority of them appeared to be drunk. Either they were drunk or they just really enjoyed screaming the lyrics out of tune. For me, this just made the show more entertaining. If you’re familiar with State Radio, the drunkenness [...]
Scott Lucas & The Married Men Welcome to the weekend! Now that the election is over and the campaign commercials have finally stopped like all those voices in our head, it's time to celebrate. And there's plenty of great music on tap this fine weekend to forget about all the partisan ugliness, including Royale at Quenchers, Angela James at the Empty Bottle and Grandkids at Subterranean, just to name a few. Pick your poison. [...]
"Glorified High," the first single off Sarah Jaffe 's sophomore album, The Body Wins , is an electronic-tinged gem in ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media /sarah-jaffe/glorified-high-ca nnabinoids-remix-prefix-premie re/68984/
Throughout the year, I keep a running playlist on my iPod with my favorite songs. Back in June we did a half way list , but lately I've been making amendments to my choices. And, since we just happened to have passed the 3/4 mark of 2012, it was a good excuse for a post. Apologies, I Have None - 60 Miles Apologies, I Have None - 60 Miles This one came to me from Barlow, who I immediately messaged to get the name of the band [...]
From the amazing string score on the opening track Paul it sets the stage for an album that is nothing like Miss Jaffe has released thus far.
Rhett Miller cut his teeth with the alt-country Old 972s, but years before the band released Too Far To Care, the catchiest and most compelling distillation of its cow-punk-meets-Brit-Invasion template, Miller put out his own little-heard first solo album, Mythologies. Now 2,800 miles from Dallas, where he got his start, Miller is a family man [...]
Ben Nichols, Buxton: Sat., Sept. 8, 8 p.m., TBA. Walter's, 1120 Naylor St., Houston. Big Business: Mon., Oct. 8, 8 p.m., $12. Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, Houston. Big Drunk & The Runaway ... Continue reading "Upcoming: Ghostland Observatory, Tyga, Minus the Bear, Ben Nichols, Sarah Jaffe, Etc. " >
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: Carolina Chocolate Drops : 2012-06-27, Charlotte [mp3,ogg,flac] Carolina Chocolate Drops: "" [mp3] search for more Carolina Chocolate Drops posts at Largehearted Boy Drive-By Truckers : 2004-10-29, Madison [mp3,ogg,flac] Drive-By Truckers: "Steve [...]
The fact that Jaffe seems to be experimenting with musical possibilities is both the strength and weakness of the disc. It keeps the listener from getting bored. However, it also keeps Jaffe from probing very deep into any particular territory. Denton, Texas native Sarah Jaffe creates atmospheres more than songs. Some are sparse declarations of delicate emotions, such as the gentle "Paul". Others are more layered treatments of piano, drums, and electronic instruments, such as the moody "The Way a Sound Leaves a Room". And some are downright busy with musical gingerbreading, such as the silly "Glorified High". And [...]
We're just a few days past the midway point for 2012, the year of our Lord. It has been a phenomenal year for new music so far and I thought I would take a moment and reflect on the best songs we've been given so far. This was a hard list to narrow down. I did rank them in order of greatness, but I spent a lot more time on narrowing it down to the best 25 new songs than I did on the specific order in the list. In order to include more deserving artists on the list, I [...]
As mentioned in our first "Best of 2012 So Far" post here , picking and choosing a list is a difficult task. There is always crying and self doubt and hours of rethinking involved in making Best Of lists and this was no exception. However, these are the albums we've been listening to start to finish from the first half of 2012. Apologies, I Have None - London Apologies, I Have None - Clapton Pond [...]
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