Jun 25 J-Roddy Walston & the Business Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 06/12/13 12:00 PM Mercury Lounge New York, NY 09:30 PM Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 06/12/13 12:00 PM [...]

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Wassaic Way

Here's our first taste of Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion 's Wassaic Way , a new album the husband-wife duo recorded at Wilco's Chicago studio with Jeff Tweedy and Pat Sansone co-producing. Featuring performances from both Wilco members along with multi-instrumentalist Charlie Rose and Vetiver drummer Otto Hauser, the set came together over a few months of sporadic rewrite (or "powwow," as they put it) sessions with Tweedy, whose contribution to her iconic grandfather's posthumous music on Mermaid Avenue made him "a part of the bigger Guthrie family," Sarah Lee says. The result, per cat-punning opening cut "Chairman Meow," reveals [...]

We're in the midst of a short Spring series featuring this year's early tributes and cover compilations, thanks to an unusually strong crop of those full-album sets which so often stand as the coverlover's archival foundation. Last Friday, we kicked off our series with a look at The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver , sharing three tracks from the album and a Covered In Folk mixtape of relatively recent folk homage for comparison; today, we explore two different approaches to The Everly Brothers from The Chapin Sisters and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Dawn McCarthy, [...]

This lovely duo with a remarkable heritage (Sarah Lee is the youngest daughter of folksinger Arlo Guthrie and the granddaughter of Woody Guthrie ; Johnny’s aunt is married to John Steinbeck’s youngest son) recently toured the UK, in support of their excellent Bright Examples album. They will be back in the UK in January for a special one-off show at Celtic Connections, Glasgow on Wednesday January 25 celebrating the centenary of Woody Guthrie's birth - 'Woody at [...]

A recent release that I kinda dropped the ball on is Bright Examples , the sophomore full-length from Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion . Produced by Vetiver's Andy Cabic and Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Devendra Banhart), the record introduces psych curtains to the duo's country-rock window treatments, resulting in a dozen doses of peaceful easy feeling that will echo up and down the canyon for days. Of course, it never hurts your cause when you can call on members of The Jayhawks for a favor, and Gary Louris and Mark [...]
It wasn't hard to pick the lead single for this week's Best New Releases feature. It is a great track, and our song of the day, "Love and Leave," from Chicago indie band Scattered Trees. The dreamy, lush track is a near instant MP3 hit, and contains an ironic anthemic quality, not to mention sounding [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

Ya saben como es el asunto. Streams y mp3 para que acompañen la semana. Lo que me gustó: The Cave Singers: No Witch The Cave Singers: "Swim Club" [mp3] Download audio file (swimclub.mp3) Cotton Jones: Sit Beside Your Vegetables [...]

Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion "Never Too Far From My Heart" (from Bright Examples out now ) Having a famous last name in the music biz can be a blessing or a curse. More often than not, the forbearer often outclasses the younger by a large margin, which can often put a stench on the family name: think Mick and Chris Jagger, or Jose and Ozzie Canseco. However, the one family that manages to sidestep this stereotype is the Guthrie clan. Her grandfather is the legendary [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from ALSO, Arbouretum, Banjo Or Freakout, Julianna Barwick, Bass Drum Of Death, the Builders And The Butchers, the Caribbean, the Cave Singers, Count Fleet, Danielson, Darwin Deez, David Dondero, Rachel Goodrich, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, Marcellus Hall, Loch Lomond, G. Love, the Low [...]

Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from the week's music releases : Adele: 21 full album stream ALSO: Music Belongs In The Background ALSO: "True" [mp3] ALSO: [...]
Filed under: The Hit List As a forward-thinking music fan, you're likely anticipating the new artists who will be releasing music in 2011. In our guide to 20 musicians to watch out for in the new year, we present the worthiest up-and-coming acts, which we guarantee you'll be hearing a lot about not only on our pages but also through your favorite music delivery system.

We're long overdue for a comprehensive look at the Guthrie legacy here on these pages. And with Arlo's infamous long-form Thanksgiving narrative Alice's Restaurant Massacree riding the airwaves this weekend in anticipation of next week's inevitable all-Christmas-all-day switch-over, it seems there's no time like the present. Thinking more deeply, though, Woody's songbook also bears out well as a soundtrack for giving thanks. So many of his narratives point to the dustbowl world, with its depression-era desperation for that which we take for granted today, from freedoms to support structures, [...]

I know it's been a while... and I'm sorry. I've been rather busy and distracted lately with not a lot of time to write (or listen really). I'm hoping things can get back to normal a little from this point forward with a couple of posts a week. I've stockpiled some great new music recently, and I still have some stuff in the hopper that I've been meaning to get to for a while. I'm going to do my best to get "back in the swing of things" from here on out. In fact, here's a song called [...]

I have no idea why this show flew so far under the radar and I have no idea what (or really where) the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa is but I do know this: This Friday night (as in 2 days away) Sara Lee Guthrie (daughter of Arlo, grandaughter of Woodie) and Johnny Irion are playing there. Doors are at 8:00 and the ticket price is $15.00 at the door.I about swallowed my tongue when I saw this listing pop up on TampaShows.net today and can saw I am genuinely excited [...]