Piety & Custom is a No Words collection series compiling past-posted songs. You can find the first one here . Download (ZIP) / Request Immediate Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1) Mary-Anne Paterson [...]
Download / Request Immediate Removal This has a similar format to last year's Halloween playlist : poetry, sound effects, bizarro classical, vocal exercises, and a folksong for good measure. 00:00 : Marita Günther • "Lend Me Your Ears: Phonotation of Words" ~WITH~ David Talcott • "Loop No. 3" 01:13 : Heinrich Heine read by Claire Luce • "Why Are All the Roses So Pale?" ~WITH~ University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio • "Summer Idyl" 02:29 [...]
My parents recently became acquainted with a family overseas through Ancestry.com. This is how I came to know Derek Jenkins , my alleged distant cousin, who has since become my spirit animal. He is an Arkansas native but has spent the past few years in Hamilton, Ontario, where he just picked up a weekly radio show/podcast dubbed "Brilliancy Medley." It is a broadly themed affair of vernacular music and spoken recordings, and I consider it No Words' spiritual kin. I assisted Mr. Jenkins with the website—you can take a gander here . The following tunes were culled from [...]
No Words would likely not exist without the output and reaching influence of Glasgow-born Herbert Jansch , founding member of The Pentangle , who passed away only four days ago. Below I have collected mostly instrumental pieces by Jansch and his Pentangling contemporaries staggered with a few vocal pieces and traditional ballads. R.I.P. Bert Jansch, 1943 — 2011 Download (MP3) / Request Immediate Removal 00:00: John Renbourn • "The Earle of Salisbury" • 1968 01:19: The [...]
Here's a playlist of folksongs recorded in the 1950s. Enjoy. Download (ZIP) / Request Immediate Removal 1. Connie Converse • "Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)" 2. Peggy Seeger • "When I Was Single" 3. unspecified Russian choir • "The Gusli Serenade" 4. Elizabeth Cotten • "Freight Train" 5. Molly Drake • "Poor Mum" 6. Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton • "The Devil's Questions" 7. Dan Haugaard • "Byssan [...]
Childballads - Cheekbone Hollows Dear Felicia, By the time you read this, I will have left you, our apartment, my job, and the country for greener pastures, namely France. With any luck, I will have already landed in Paris by the time you open the envelope, read the letter, scan the accompanying drawing, count the enclosed money, and curse my heart. Let me explain. In the past, whenever I thought about my own death I could find solace in the concept of nanotechnology. Specifically [...]
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Drums, Drugs, and Hospital Drips Soft Paws - Chief Joseph Wears a Crucifix Little Beaver - Funkadelic Sound Sic Alps - Message from the Law Sweet Jane - Heartbreak The Glands - When I Laugh Hornet Leg - Night of the Phantom The A-Cads - Down The Road Galactic - Cineramascope (feat. Trombone Shorty and Corey Henry) Tame Impala - Lucidity [...]
We cannot thank you guys enough for coming out to our show last Wednesday. The bands were great: Typefighter warmed our hearts with new songs and familiar favorites (I'm still partial to "Ocean Floor" and "Out In The Yard"), Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray kept things fun and folky, and even threw a Tom Petty [...]
On Saturday night at the Rock and Roll Hotel, Stewart Lupton - the Icarus of D.C. rock mythology - took a look back at his career thus far, and said it was good. Then he resolved to keep pushing forward as a musician and poet, and as Lex Paulson began chiming in with a familiar [...]
Happy New year everyone, hope you all survived the debauche of the holidays. December is always tough to keep focus, what with everyone in celebration mode. But as the date shifts from nine to ten, it's time to hit the ground running, and here at AON, we're all eager to get to work on what's next. This [...]
Before the Walkmen were the Walkmen, they were Jonathan Fire*Eater; before the scorching screams of Hamilton Leithauser's vocals, there were the frenzied slurs of Stewart Lupton's. A lightning bolt of musical tenacity and originality, Jonathan Fire*Eater took the unusual path of shunning mainstream success, lasting only a year into their contract with Geffen Records before disbanding. But they live on nevertheless—in their recordings, the sounds of the Walkmen and Lupton's Child Ballads. Jonathan Fire*Eater - "Give Me Daughters" (from Tremble Under Boom Lights ) The Walkmen - "We've Been [...]
Friday night was anything but warm and intimate. Sure, the seating was cozy, but the stage and speakers hit heavy for the most part. John and Paul Thornley started off and brought the rhythms with some surprise harmonica melodies from Stewart Lupton, the younger Thornley strummed so hard he actually broke two strings and had [...]
So I was poking about eMusic and I came across this odd little ep. I grabbed it because the name appealed to me, which almost never works out well. ("Hmmm, 'a fever you can't sweat out?' that's an interesting album title, I might buy it...") But in this case I've been pleasantly surprised, in an odd way.The ep is in a style of music I thought I'd moved past. Rough, demo sounding songs by vaguely
The Decemberists – Always The Bridesmaid | Insound Vinyl | from the band Vinyl and more | at indie record stores This album was released digitally as a complete EP. The band also delivered it on vinyl as three 12"s. In classic Decemberists style, these music ranges from the chamber folk of "Valerie Plame" to the stripped down acoustic splendor of "Raincoat Song," while the melodies gallivant from sing-songy to indelible. [...]
If it's Christmas at You Ain't No Picasso, that means it's Mixmas! These twelve days give me a chance to turn You Ain't No Picasso over to the musicians I cover and allow them to showcase and talk about some of their favorite songs through a themed mix. This is the fourth year of Mixmas; [...]
Tonight in DC there's good sounds all around town. The Red and the Black have a new favorite of mine, Hooray For Earth along with No Compromise . The Black Cat has the Radar Brothers and Aerialist while DC9 has The Childballads , The King Left , and Howlies . Over in Fredericksburg, VA the Third Floor has a stellar night of music with Ra Ra Riot , Princeton , and Carlos, I'm Pregnant . Up north in Philly the [...]
All sorts of goodies this week... Tonight! Tuesday, 12/2 : Snowden (with Twin Tigers and Illinois) @ DC9-$12 When we saw Snowden this year at the Monolith Festival, we said "What makes them interesting is that the band has a great shoe-gaze fuzzy pop sound with a pretty hefty backbeat. And that was the sound in the middle of monolithic stones, imagine how it will fill DC9...Keep an eye cocked towards the bassist, she's amazing to watch. [...]
(Photo by Piper Ferguson ) The Child Ballads , a great little band out of DC, doesn't play live very much, so you kids in NYC would do well to head out to Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn on Thursday for their 9 pm show. You may recall the name of TCB's lead singer/songwriter, Stewart Lupton , as the lead singer of that little group from the 90s who influenced, well, everyone called Jonathan Fire*Eater . Lupton's new band has a vastly different sound than JFE, more stripped down and [...]
Tonight there are three sweet shows throughout the region. In DC the Velvet Lounge has The Childballads, Dame Satan, and Foreign Press. Up in Philly Fillmore at the TLA has The Dandy Warhols and Darker My Love while The Electric Factory has The Mars Volta. That's about it unless you all have any suggestions... mp3: The Childballads - White Chocolate Tea And now something completely different: Retreadin 2007 Part 4 (0) Tobacco of Black Moth [...]
No Words
Molars
owl and bear
Rollo & Grady
All Our Noise // We Are Live
Everybody Taste
So This Is What The Volume Knob\'s For
The Wheel's Still In Spin
You Aint No Picasso
Pasta Primavera
Between Love & Like
The Corner Laughers “Poppy Seeds”
