Responsible for showing the world The Globes , Brite Futures , The Lonely Forest , and many other KEXP favorites, EMP's Sound Off! competition is a must know – especially if you live in the PNW. Now in its eleventh year, Sound Off! is an underage "battle of the bands" of sorts. Selecting some of the most promising music from the 21 and younger crowd from the PNW, 12 bands are judged on a set of live music at Seattle's EMP. The 12 bands are split into three semi-final rounds where they compete for the [...]
Mixtape: Twenty Bands at Noise Pop 20 (Podcast #271) Noise Pop 20 is just weeks away. From February 21st through the 26th, over one hundred bands will take over SF's venues for six days celebrating independent music. True to form, this year's Noise Pop Festival includes an eclectic mix of veterans and emerging artists, and you'd be wise to buy your tickets soon, because many shows are starting to sell out. To get familiar with many of the bands performing at Noise Pop this year, here's [...]
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The Lonely Forest had one of our favorite releases last year with Arrows, and with Arrows' debut on vinyl just this past Tuesday, we've invited the band to hang out with us all week in a celebration of what we tend to call in these parts a "crowning achievement." We've been talking records all week with the guys in the band and we still have a chance for one of you to get your hands on a copy of Arrows on vinyl. Today, as [...]
The Lonely Forest had one of our favorite releases last year with Arrows, and with Arrows' debut on vinyl just this past Tuesday, we've invited the band to hang out with us all week in a celebration of what we tend to call in these parts a "crowning achievement." We've been talking records all week with the guys in the band and we still have a chance for one of you to get your hands on a copy of Arrows on vinyl. Tomorrow we'll debut an exclusive [...]
The Lonely Forest have created the type of record that you used to play over and over again and never got tired of. It's a lost art these days in a world of single downloads and rampant piracy. It sometimes makes you wonder why bands even record 10 songs anymore—that is, until you hear Arrows. These Washington state natives have made a tremendous album stylistically picking from three decades of musical references, the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. "Discovered" by Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla and signed to his Atlantic Records [...]
Ancortes, Washington's The Lonely Forest just put out their 2011 album, Arrows , on vinyl this week. In conjunction with the vinyl release, they gave MOKB a acoustic version of album track I Don't Want To Live There for your downloading delight. You can download and stream the song below. Arrows is available now through Trans Records . You can purchase a vinyl copy of the album here .
Today marks the release of the The Lonely Forest's 2011 release, Arrows on vinyl and we've invited the band to hang out with us this week in celebration of what we tend to call in these parts a "crowning achievement." It tuns out however that we'd be remiss if we didn't give you guys an opportunity to get your hands on one of our favorite releases from last year, so we're taking a break in this week's proceedings to do just that. [...]
STG presents The Lonely Forest with Seattle Rock Orchestra at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle on Saturday, March 3, 2012. $15 Advance/ $17 Day of Show All Ages Show/ Bar w/ ID Set between ancient forest and the forest-green waters of Puget Sound at the very edge of the continental US, Anacortes, Washington, population 17,000 sees [...]
They had one of our favorite releases last year in Arrows, toured incessantly in 2011 including outings with Death Cab For Cutie, The Joy Formidable, Two Door Cinema Club, and Minus the Bear, and are set to hit the road again supporting Portugal. The Man this coming Spring. But that's not what brings Washington state's The Lonely Forest to TVD for a full week this week. Tuesday, 1/31 marks the release of the band's Arrows on vinyl and we've invited the band [...]
Get your drink and your tunes on with the Jagermeister Music Tour featuring Portugal. The Man and The Lonely Forest
Portugal. the Man has announced a new leg of U.S. tour dates behind last year's In The Mountain, In The Cold . The spring trek, presented by Jägermeister and featuring support by The Lonely Forest, kicks off with a pair of shows in Boise, Idaho in early April and wraps in San Francisco on May 6th. A ticket pre-sale begins Monday, January 23rd via the band's website , with a public on-sale following on Friday, January 27th. Check out Portugal. The Man's complete tour schedule below, followed by a video of [...]
Taking a step back from the indie rock anthems he's best known for as the lead singer and songwriter of The Lonely Forest, John Van Deusen's solo songs as And The Moon Be Still As Bright are a delightful departure. The three new solo songs recorded in Van Deusen's laundry room using Garageband and one [...]
You've made it - our top 25 songs of 2011 are right here. We were blown away by the talent here and perhaps some of the way these songs worked out for the respective artists here could either be sheer luck to have a song turn out so favorably or perhaps it came down to just raw talent. Whatever it is, these songs rocked our day, week, month or heck... even our year. Enjoy the best of the best with our top 25 songs of 2011! 25. The Remainers - House [...]
As our list continues, we not only were able to find some of the best songs this year, but were floored with some new discoveries as well as some returning ones. Enjoy our Top 100 Songs of 2011 as our list continues. 75. Germany Germany - Intro IV (Order/Disorder) Crisp loops and melodies were easy to swallow here. Germany Germany's 2011 album, Adventures , was certainly that. This whole album showed much promise and replayability throughout 2011. 74. The Pear Traps - Home As simple [...]
Kelli Schaefer ::: photo by Dylan Priest Having fallen deep down a used-vinyl sized hole this year, I managed to completely miss most of the national blog buzz bands and mp3s making the press release copy&paste rounds of 2011, those things that so often fill end of the year lists. But considering the immense output from [...]
Lonely Forest should rename themselves crowded, over-stuffed forest with the crowds they are drawing these days. We chatted. They're dope.
Filed under: News , Video , New Music James Bailey The Lonely Forest hails from Anacortes, Wash., and share their mix of gentle pensiveness and subtle grit with fellow Washingtonians Death Cab for Cutie , whose guitarist Chris Walla has lent the band his producer's touch. This new video of the band performing 'Go Outside' off of their most recent album 'Arrows' is a sparse affair, and features the band delivering a [...]
11. The Wombats 'This Modern Glitch' - Much, much too fun to care about the haterz. 12. Panic! at the Disco 'Vices & Virtues' - A hooks-stuffed reminder of what made these so striking in the first place. 13. Death Cab for Cutie 'Codes and Keys' - Fresh enough to lock down their place in [...]
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