San Jose Mercury News (MCT) -- SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - The philosophical riddle is posed so often it has grown mossy with cliche: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It turns out the answer is yes, it makes an amazing sound, although the eruption of this joyful noise may not occur for centuries, when it is sliced into pear-shaped tones at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company. Just...
News Artisan News conducted an interview with keyboardist Janne Wirman and guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho of Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM.
This is a collaboration from Sweden to Canada and back. In Sweden we have MF/MB/, energetic, noisy youngsters doing kraut, techno rock, in Canada we have Rob Batke from electronic post-rock band "Faunts". Under his moniker "Artisan Loyalist" Rob has turned the MF/MB/ track "The Window" to the perfect hybrid between Familjen and Siouxsie and the Banshees.MF/MB/ - The Window (Artisan Loyalist Remix
News "Road To Khitai", the first-ever video from ARTISAN, a Norwegian project and media experiment led by Jens F.
Joshua Marcus plays folk that makes you want to weep. The local acoustic artisan can churn out grievingly beautiful but deviously complex porch-grown Americana both as a burgeoning solo artist and part of a band (after all, he did lead the Fan of Friends helm with emotive polish). It's a talent he'll put on display tonight at the M Room, where'll his old FoF band mates will riff on the axe along with members of Raccoon, National Eye , Dr. Dog , The War on Drugs , American Altitude, Rifle Nice , and [...]
Jens F. Ryland has checked in with the following update about I.C.S. Vortex and Asgeir Mickelson working on the Artisan project: "What a day! It?s exciting to see the first Artisan project evolving like this. As I said yesterday I picked up Vortex and Asgeir and we did the vocals in Toproom studio. I?m not going to say to much about this session... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
30 Jahre ist es nun schon in der Musikszene aktiv, das Duo In The Nursery . Neo-klassisch und cinematoskopisch, bedrohlich und atmosphärisch klingt ihre Musik auch 2011 noch, wie die aktuelle Single «Artisans of Civilisation» vom neuen Album «Blind sound» eindrucksvoll unter Beweis stellt. Link zur Band-Website
Here's another great band from New Zealand. Artisan Guns are a four piece rock outfit that were signed to the famed EMI label after their Bird & Bone EP got much attention from the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, which recognize national songwriting and achievement in altogether greatness. They took 5th place for their song "Autumn" [...]
Last month, Shytown made a little piece of history: it was the first unsigned artist to be featured on Ustream's home page. The promotion came about after Ustream reps saw Shytown perform at the Artisan in Venice, Ca. Impressed, they connected with the group to work out a tie-in with the company. The result was front-and-center placement for this acoustic medley performed live by the group via the site. The medley itself consists of "My Apology," "LA," "Spread the Love," "Selfish," and "What I Wanna Do," most of which are new, unreleased Shytown songs, [...]
The other day, I paid $4 for 6 oz. of ice cream made by local purveryor Fifty Licks . I had been wanting to try their ice cream for a long while and as someone who makes their own (and takes it very seriously) and is bored by/disklikes most commercial ice cream makers (read: I haven't bought a store brand in something like 2.5 years), I didn't think anything of the price tag, which would equal out to roughly $11 a pint - fairly steep for ice cream. But in all honesty, I would have paid twice [...]
sein zweites full length ("it began/ended with sparks", 01.12.) veröffentlicht der junge bursche aus vancouver und kommt mit einem ersten appetitlichen happen: prairie cat - given up "xenophanes" erscheint nun auch weltweit (10.11. auf rodriguez lopez productions ), der kerl hat echt einen deftigen mix aufs parkett gelegt: omar rodriguez lopez - mundo de ciegos neu auf cloudberry und [...]
Each month, I'm going to start providing you with a list of the best music that was released the previous month. In general, I'm going to stay off the beaten track (no U2 mp3's for you, thankfully) although I can't stay away from the new Death Cab. I'm efforting to make a cute little mp3 player on the sidebar, which you can use to listen to these songs anytime. In the meantime, here's the April mp3's that have been in high rotation for me. I was going to go in alphabetical order, but this first one is by [...]
The Artisans (photo stolen from Roque) Today is a great day! Why, you ask? Because about a week after posting a new mix featuring a song by the fantastic band The Artisans , whom I've fallen in love with over the past month (only hearing just two songs!), I come to find out that Roque will be releasing a 3" CDr compiling their entire career output. Now, "entire career output" here only means six songs, but that's four more than I'd ever heard before, so I'm pleased as punch! More pleased than punch, to be [...]
aktuelle releases auf einem unserer lieblingslabels: cloudberry records organisiert sich in 2009 über 3" split cdr's, die natürlich ausgezeichnet belegt sind und damit äußerst beliebt und baldigst ausverkauft, hier die letzten zwei doppelpacks: The Gresham Flyers - Berry Buck Mills Stipe The Pale Corners - Steve Buscemi Ferns - Miss Stormcloud [...]
I know you guys have been jonesing for a little S. Witt. After all, it's been over a year since Witt donned his women's blouse and protested outside The Pitch office. Well, it seems the man we call ... Continue reading "Sterling Witt: The Clambake Saga of Homespun Weirdity Continues" >
Rien que dans leur nom, il y a quelque chose qui me plait immédiatement, comme instinctivement, comme si en 7 lettres on pouvait immédiatement suggérer une façon d'envisager les choses, la musique, la vie. Artisan. Vous avez peut-être remarqué qu'ici on aime les chansons façonnées patiemment au fond d'une échoppe, remises cent fois sur le métier, conçues comme de petites pièces d'orfèvrerie, et dont les multiples détails s'imbriquent comme dans ces petites boites à musique aux détails ouvragés. Rien que dans la première (...)
Image: blackgraphite Run - Artisan About a year ago, a coworker busted me for my (apparently) frequent and unwarranted use of the word "clearly." I guess I often said stuff like, " Clearly , he's not gonna meet his deadline" (followed by an elegant chain of expletives), " Clearly , she thinks that the rest of us are morons" (also trailed by bad words). After getting called out, I became so [...]
1. Loney, Dear - Sinister In a State of Hope - Yep, I saved this song for this very occasion. IMO, it's the most beautiful on the album and fittingly, the closer. There are few things I appreciate more than a fantastic bookend to a fantastic album. Word. [from Loney, Noir | info ] 2. The Earlies - No Love in Your Heart - My brothafromanothamotha Indie Jake turned me on this. Nay, forced! But for good reason. Right now I can see him rocking out to [...]
It's 1:13 pm. I just woke up and I could use a warm bath and a cup of coffee (someone is taking care of this futile demands of mine while I'm writing this). In the meanwhile, I leave you with 6 artists I found this week that balance their sound between indie, pop and electronic + a song from Charlotte Gainsbourg's new record that was written by french duo, Air, in collaboration with Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon and a Looper remix by Pulp that's a bit old (1999) but I feel it fits well within the context of the [...]
New MUSIC. I can't stop listening to these songs.. 1. A instrumental band called Detektivbyran . (For Fans of Beirut and the Decemberists) Detektivbyran - Hemvagen 16a Detektivbyran - 01 Detektivbyran - 05 Be their myspace friends here . 2. Artisan (For fans of radiohead, tv on the radio, notwist and others..) Artisan - Downward Spiral (Amether Remix) Artisan [...]
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