The Hunger Games saga is one that is expected to rule the movie theaters. Which means, since the majority of the audience at the movies will be younger, us older peoples get sucked in by the film's soundtrack. Hey, it worked with Twilight so why not this? Down below, you can check out a brand new track from the Decemberists that will appear on The Hunger Games soundtrack called "One Engine." In addition to the Decemberists, artists including Arcade Fire, The Low Anthem, The Civil Wars, Neko Case, Glen [...]
As previously reported, Arcade Fire and The Decemberists are among the artists who contributed new material to the upcoming film Hunger Games . Now, as ArcadeFireTube points out , the soundtrack's tracklist has been posted on iTunes and The Decemberists' contribution, entitled "One Engine", is already available for purchase. You can also stream "One Engine" below (via Hypable ). Spanning 16 tracks, the soundtrack also features Kid Cudi, Neko Case, Glen Hansard, The Low Anthem, The Secret Sisters, and Carolina Chocolate Drops, among others. For their part, Arcade Fire contribute a track entitled [...]
Listen to The Chieftains Celebrate Their 50th Anniversary with The Decemberists on a Cover of Bob Dylan's 'When The Ship Comes In'.
A proposta da revista Mojo de lançar, com cada exemplar, um novo álbum, é o seu principal diferencial. Depois do lançamento recente de coletâneas de covers homenageando New Order e U2 , a publicação convidou um grupo, repleto de promessas musicais de 2012, para revisitar o trabalho do lendário Leonard Cohen , que recentemente voltou aos holofotes com um novo álbum, Old Ideas ( já leu a resenha do álbum? ). O álbum tributo The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered reuniu artistas como The Low Anthem , Cass [...]
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So in addition to Vimeo's still ongoing "Old Ideas With New Friends" series , which has already seen Bradford Cox , Cold War Kids , Cults , and The Afghan Whig's Greg Dulli cover tracks from the great Leonard Cohen, there's also a covers album of Cohen's 1967 debut that comes included in the new issue of MOJO magazine. Contributing artists included Bill Callahan, Cass McCombs, The Low Anthem, Field Music, and ex-Fleet Fox'er Father John Misty , as well as Marc Ribot and My Brighest Diamond, who teamed up for a bonus track version of "Bird on [...]
​City and Colour with The Low AnthemFirst Ave., MinneapolisSaturday, February 4, 2012Along with the metric system and a alternate spelling of the word "color," Canada brings us the lovely music of Cit
Here are the best of our January posts together with a few tasty new tracks. All in all nearly forty great tunes compiled and neatly presented in one lovely mix. As always, don't forget to check out all our previous monthly mixes listed in the sidebar on the left. Download Night Genes – Soaring Through The Chromosomes mp3 (from Like The Blood) Infectiously catchy, military folk stomp. A real gem. Download Cheyenne Marie Mize – Wishing Well mp3 (from We Don't Need EP) A mix of r&b tinged staccato vocals [...]
As is often their wont, Mojo magazine have produced another fine cover disc this month, with a tribute to Leonard Cohen's masterpiece of a debut The Songs Of Leonard Cohen plus a 'bonus' of five extra classic tracks from his back catalogue. The array of artists is mightily impressive from acclaimed new soul artist Michael Kiwanuka to Cass McCombs, Field Music and J Tillman recording under the name Father John Misty . The bonus tracks include Dan Michaelson, Diagrams and My Brightest [...]
The Chieftains , the legendary Irish folk group, have hit their active 50th anniversary. Let that sink in. The Chieftains are now 50 years old. And while the band members continually changed over time, which isn't that strange given the circumstances, sticking together in any form for that long is a certain testament to resilience. To celebrate the achievement, the group is planning to release Voice of Ages ; a compilation effort which includes help from Bon Iver 's Justin Vernon, The Decemberists , The Low Anthem , and more. Listen to [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Firehorse Video: 'Charlie Darwin (The Low Anthem Cover)' Highlight: "Having done work with charities that aid Africa before, I was drawn to and deeply touched by what the Voice Project does," singer-songwriter Leah Siegel tells Spinner. "'Charlie Darwin' is an incredibly emotive and expressive song but also has a simple melody. I felt I could give my own personal take on it while keeping those important elements intact." [...]
Firehorse frontwoman Leah Siegel somehow gets even more delicate than The Low Anthem with her somber take on their song 'Charlie Darwin.'
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So, as the New Year approaches, here are our favourite albums of 2011 for your consideration. Feel free to dispute, argue, or otherwise put us right because, if nothing else, music is as about as subjective topic as it is possible to get. Some of these may not be the "best" albums of the year as far as the critics are concerned, but that matters not, as they were the ones we enjoyed listening to most - give them a try, you might feel the same. 50 Jessica Lea Mayfield [...]
01.Easter - Somethin' American This might be the first time such an unknown song by such an unknown band has ever been given top spot on any of my end of year lists, but they were absolutely brilliant live when they played up here in September, and this song is just fantastic, as are the other two songs on their Soundcloud page. It's less lo-fi than a lot of the DIY stuff I've listened to this year, and the squalling solos which tease Easter's songs to an end evoke loads of old school US indie music. This gives quite [...]
20. Hey Rosetta! – Seeds Lush strings, crunchy guitars and anthemic crescendos propel this ambitious and addictive collection of songs from underrated Canadian indie-popsters. Hey Rosetta - Yer Spring [...]
11. William Elliot Whitmore-Field Songs : Songs about working and struggling and grasping to the only piece of fucking dirt that yours and some SOB trying to cheat you out of it. Thanks WEW. I'm taking bullshit handyman work over the winter just so I can afford to eat Burger King and drink a couple of Miller High Lifes every once in a while, so I'm a disciple of these songs. I wonder what the farmers in Iowa do in the wintertime to survive. Is the suicide rate higher then? He's singing about [...]
Here's the first installment of the Song, by Toad Festive Fifty for 2011 - a collection of the fifty songs I have been enjoying the most this year. The fifty themselves and the precise order can hardly be described as definitive of course, because you know how fluid things like 'favourite' songs can be, but roughly speaking this is the stuff I have been enjoying the most in 2011. Just as a note, in order to make it a broader representation of the bands I've liked the most, I have made it harder and harder for bands to [...]
Here we are at the penultimate podcast of the year, and the one immediately preceding Christmas. I really don't like 99% of Christmas music so there's pretty close to none of it at all on here, although I have made a couple of exceptions as a lazy sort of nod to the season. Let's face it, if the druids can be arsed dancing about like idiots around Stonehenge and people can fall out over half-defrosted turkeys then I can probably make the effort to shove a couple of token musical nods onto a single podcast, can't I. I [...]
Scottish Kate is a great friend of this blog and has often offered her (sometimes pithy) opinions on the world of music - and very good taste she has too. She also runs the always excellent (sometimes pithy), and often provocative blog A Burdz Eye View for all things Scottish (of course), political and musical. Here are her aural selections for 2011. The Burd's Best Songs of 2011 Well it doesn't get any easier. Though given that all my old schticks are in here aplenty [...]
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