Dos de los integrantes de Atoms For Peace compartieron un video en el que se los ve tocando Black Swan y Stuck Together Pieces en un DJ set que hicieron en Nueva York. A continuación, el video. Black Swan forma parte de The Eraser , el álbum solista de Yorke, mientras que Stuck Together Pieces es una de las joyitas de Amok , el disco debut de Atoms [...]
Even in an era of mega-compilations, Headphone Commute 's ...and darkness came is a giant. Not just for its epic scale, though at 87 tracks its self-description as "colossal" is a un-hyperbolic statement of fact, but for its ambition: " to benefit all of those affected by Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, which has devastated portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Here's a brand new video from The Black Swans for their song "Where are You Tonight?" off the band's most recent and excellent Misra release Occasion for Song . Filmed here in Columbus, it features local Elvis impersonator Billy Cash (aka "The Columbus King") goofing around with Black Swans singer Jerry DeCicca.
Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. Last year we hinted at a project that Malefactors of Great Wealth's main dude JP Olsen (also of Beetkeepers/Burn Barrel) was working on with the Black Swans' Jerry DeCicca. The project, titled "You'll Never See My Face in Kansas City," has reached completion, and we're proud to premiere the two resulting videos for each musician's song. You can read the full background at the project [...]
I'm not sure I can describe the band Why? and do it proper justice. Maybe the best way is to call it folk-hop. Why? (That's with a question mark) makes folk music and spoken hip hip lyrics mesh almost seamlessly. I've been listening to their latest album "Mumps, Etc." for a bit now and I'm loving it every time I continue to hear it. Why? performs at the Canal Club tonight with Naytronix and the Black Swans
Click here to view the embedded video. Ohio's WHY? kicked off the U.S. leg of their world tour at The Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati last night. Hot on the heels of two 2012 releases – the Sod in the Seed EP (August) and Mumps , etc. (October) – WHY? were greeted with great warmth by their hometown crowd. Now with an added drummer and two female musicians/vocalists, the band played in horseshoe formation to a sold-out audience. WHY? performed in the Black Box [...]
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On Friday American Songwriter premiered the video for the Black Swans song "Mask from Memory," from the band's excellent new album, Occasion for Song . I talked to singer Jerry DeCicca quite a bit about the record for an Other Paper story , particularly how DeCicca has been processing the death of his friend and former Black Swans violinist Noel Sayre, and how that grieving process made its way into Occasion for Song . DeCicca delved into a bit more detail about "Mask from Memory," in particular, when speaking to [...]
It's best to be patient with Mako Sica . Well, patient and attentive. If not, you're sure to miss something from the experimental trio. Their songs, if you can call them that, take time - sometimes more than most are willing to give - to build, evolve, shapeshift, etc. Often things begin as a eerie soundscape filled with unsettling noise, but stick with it because those dark sounds untwist and unfold into a climactic wave of kraut slash prog slash some kind of grand statement. As our former scribe Ross Meyerson wrote in his [...]
True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today’s age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a mouse. How perfect is that? We can discover a brand new artist on the opposite side of the globe in seconds without a radio or a music television channel. It only makes sense that a website so dedicated to this gorgeous universe of music would [...]
Besides day two of the Made in America Festival, there's a bunch of shows going on in the Philadelphia area tonight. If you're hitting up the festival today and looking for something to do afterwards (or just feel like taking in some impressive turntable skills), DJ Shadow will be spinning a late night Made in ... Continue reading
The Black Swans, the Columbus, Ohio based country-leaning folk band will be playing a hometown show tonight at The Rumba Cafe to celebrate the release of Occasion For Song , their critically-acclaimed new album out now on Misra Records. Their excellent fifth album deals with death in an unflinching and visceral way that is humbling yet hopeful and incredibly tuneful. Download the emotional first single, "Portsmouth, Ohio" in which singer Jerry DeCicca describes with vivid detail the loss of violinist Noel Sayre in 2008 during a swimming accident here: http://www.bloodshotrecords.co m/resources/mp3_blackswans_ohi o.mp3 [...]
The Black Swans Occasion For Song Misra Records [2012] Fire Note Says: Occasion For Song is a gorgeous and stark eulogy for a departed too soon bandmate. Album Review: [...]
Occasion for Song is remarkable in that it digs into all the different permutations of grief, from the sad to the funny to the strange, in tribute to a lost friend. In 2008, the Black Swans lost founding member and violinist Joel Sayre when he died in a swimming accident. The band isn't so much haunted by this loss as informed by it. The group was in the middle of making their last record, Don't Blame the Stars, when Sayre passed away, and the band took a break from the record as part of the grieving process. In [...]
Reptile Youth The Danish duo Reptile Youth has released the Keep Shelly in Athens Remix of "Black Swan Born White" from their current, self-titled album. Listen to it in this post. Formed in 2009, the duo of vocalist Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen and bassist Esben Valløe, will be announcing a North American tour for later in 2012. Watch the video for the original version of "Black Swan Born White" below. Reptile Youth: Black Swan Born White (official music video) from hfn [...]
July roared in with explosions of colors and a less impressive batch of new album releases, and almost as quickly, exited with a lackluster finale of releases on Tuesday - although there are still some select singles worth noting, mostly by relatively unknown artists. For much of the U.S., the end of July 2012 is [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
The Black Swans latest album, Occasion for Song , was released this and is, as per their quality control, already getting lots of great reaction . While you're at it, read this interview with Jerry DeCicca over at No Depression and plan on hitting one of these shows: 08/24/12 Columbus, OH Rumba 08/25/12 Toledo, OH The Ottawa Tavern 08/27/12 Pittsburgh, PA Thunderbird Cafe 08/30/12 Brooklyn, NY The Rock Shop 09/01/12 Providence, RI Fete Lounge 09/04/12 Washington, D.C. Sixth and I Historic Synagogue 09/08/12 [...]
The Black Swans know heartbreak firsthand. While the Ohio-based mope-rockers have always taken a decidedly sullen approach to things, the death of founding member and violin player Noel Sayre just before the Fourth of July in 2008 gave the band's distressed songwriting something tangible to latch onto. Occasion For Song , the band's fifth full-length album and first post-Sayre, is a heart-on-sleeve memorial to The Black Swans' fallen bandmate. It's also the band's most shatteringly personal offering to date. Sayre's death glues the record's nine tracks together, and the band isn't shy about laying all that hurt [...]
It's a relatively quiet week for new releases, but there are two albums with KEXP ties that are making splashes this week. The first of these two is O' Be Joyful , the second album from Charleston, SC, duo Shovels and Rope . First collaborating in 2010 on the murder ballad album Shovels and Rope , the album's name soon took on a second life as the moniker for the duo of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent. Like its predecessor, O' Be Joyful features Trent and Hearst's whiskey-soaked harmonies laid over classic country instrumentation. [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including the latest from The Black Swans and Shovels & Rope . If you're a Blur fan, you probably already know about the 21-disc box set being released today, Blur 21 , as well as remastered editions of the band's seven studio albums. As always, be sure to check out Largehearted Boy [...]
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