TW Walsh is going to broadcast a live mixing session of a new David Bazan song, starting at 8pm. The video will be streaming from Walsh's Ustream . To watch TW Walsh live mix and chat with other viewers: ustream.tv/channel/tw-walsh Broadcasting Live with Ustream.TV Last weekend TW Walsh stated on Twitter that he was going to broadcast a live stream, and turned on his MacBook camera while mixing a song. An hour later [...]
you may not know tw walsh by name, or maybe you do, but you probably, or at least you should, know his work. most of this work is from behind the board, and in this year alone he was worked on what appears to be at least 50 projects - i stopped counting after 20. most notably, david bazan's curse your branches and the man in me , gasoline heart's nostalgia aint what it used to be , mike dunn and the kings of new england's sundowner - more about them coming [...]
As a feature on the site, I will be dredging my own personal archive of taped shows to showcase rare or otherwise unheard performances from artists I love. What started as a typical mid-summer's evening in San Francisco, warm weather quickly shut out by fast moving clouds and wind, I found myself and maybe 40 [...]
If you've missed my romantic and sappy rant on TW Walsh 's 2001 album Blue Laws , one of my most cherished records of all time, then you might be unaware of why I am so excited that you have no excuse any longer to not fall in love with it yourself. Blue Laws is everything that is great about early '00s Indie music; desperately melancholy, incredibly melodic, and instantly familiar. I plead of you to immediately go download it, for free, by following [...]
Equipped with an array of titles - multi-instrumentalist, producer/engineer, software programmer, husband, father - Tim Walsh just may be one of the most methodically prolific American singer-songwriters on the independent music scene today. For ten years, beginning with his reverberating 1999 debut, How We Spend Our Days and 012 elegiac, Blue Laws , Walsh's musical endeavors have increasingly resulted in greater and greater outcomes. In late 032 Walsh found permanent residency as a collaborator in Pedro The Lion as drummer, engineer and co-writer on two [...]
The EP is actually side A of their upcoming album, Get Back, which is expected to be released in October on Chasing Lions which is a blog / label. As some of you may remember, I did a little review for The Soft Drugs and T.W. Walsh, former Pedro the Lion drummer, back last fall (Read [...]
THE SOFT DRUGS are TW WALSH'S band. he was in PEDRO THE LION for several years and wrote and co-wrote songs on their last album ACHILLES HEEL. From the man himself TW: i'm pleased to announce that THE SOFT DRUGS are working with a brand new (the first?) "blog/label" called CHASING LIONS. they've got SIDE A of our new album GET BACK as a FREE 4-song download here: http://chasinglions.com/the-so ft-drugs-get-back send the link to your buddies. if you are a DIGG user, please DIGG the article. it's appreciated. [...]
the Soft Drugs ( myspace ), the current project of TW Walsh , formerly of Pedro the Lion and his own solo projects, are set to release their forthcoming album, Get Back , on the latest in the line of blog-labels[1] Chasing Lions (formerly puddlegum, which, yes, did proceed the other 'gum .) You know I love me some Soft Drugs, so this comes as some exciting news. So you'll have to wait till the fall for Get Back , but you [...]
Our article on the local Boston group, The Soft Drugs, is now up at Ajisignal.com Download: "Don't Sweat It" and "Family of Four" Upcoming Shows: PJ Ryan's Saturday, March 8th TW Walsh solo show at The Red Door in Portsmouth, NH March 17th Oxfam Cafe at Tufts University April 7th Other related links: Official Website Last FM site Myspace Albums on Amazon
Album: In Moderation EP Sounds Like: keeping a sense of humor even after you've messed up more times than you can count. I've been a fan of Pedro The Lion for a few years now so of course when I heard the band was breaking up I was dismayed. I thought the breakup would mark the near total end of both David Bazan's and TW Walsh's musical careers. Thankfully it's done just the opposite, sparking new independent creativity in both men which has totally blown me away. While I feel that Bazan's [...]
Of all the shows I've captured and shared, I don't think I've ever been fortunate enough to record a band's official live debut. Not that you'd know by this recording that the four men who make up the Soft Drugs had never set foot on a stage together before the small one at TT the Bears in Cambridge last month... they were super-tight and totally smooth, which isn't so surprising given the
Here are your Almanac-endorsed show-going recommendations for each night of the week ahead. Lots going on, way more than I'll be able to attend on my own. Shouldn't we have consumer-level cloning technology by now? Tuesday, October 23rd The New Pornographers, Emma Pollock (ex-Delgados), Benjy Ferree @ the RoxyMp3: The New Pornographers - "Myriad Harbour" Mp3: Emma Pollack - "Limbs" Stream:
I've been a reader of TW Walsh's blog for a while, even though, I don't always remember to check it because of the intermittent updating. TW was in Pedro the Lion (and, even wrote one of the best song on Achilles Heel , "Start Without Me") and the Headphones (though mostly in the touring version). He now records and plays some shows under the moniker the Soft Drugs ( myspace ). He used to (and occasionally still does) record under his own name . Soft Drugs - [...]
TW Walsh's first release as The Soft Drugs is available for free on online, it's complete with all the album art and everything. In Moderation is licensed under creative commons - which is totally awesome of him. If you are wondering who TW Walsh is, he used to play and write with David Bazan in both Pedro The Lion and Headphones (neither of which exist anymore), he also released a few solo albums under his own name. You'll for sure dig him if you are into [...]
T.W. Walsh aka the Soft Drugs has just released a brand new song for free on his website. The track is called Family of Four and is highly reccomended listening for your "Friday night is so close and yet so far away" listening. [mp3] The Soft Drugs - Family of Four.mp3 Previously: My Interview with TW Download The Soft Drugs Entire EP In Moderation FREE!
T.W. Walsh is a musician. Though he is no longer so by career, he continues to make great music and make it available for free under the name The Soft Drugs . TW was half of the band Pedro the Lion along with David Bazan. Walsh also contributed to Bazan's synth and drum only side project Headphones. Before all of this however TW made several excellent solo efforts. Below is a conversation with T.W. from November 17, 2006 and some tracks from 2006's In Moderation [...]
Trying something new here on the 'Nac, where I take a couple discs or artists I've been listening to lately and shine a brief but bright spotlight on them. Reasons can be timely (a tour, a new release), nostalgic (a rediscovered old fave), or entirely random, but it's all music I feel deserves your utmost attention... The world lost Silkworm when the world lost Michael Dahlquist , a prince of a man and one hell of a drummer, a guy who attacked his kit with the same passion he led [...]
TW Walsh, ex of Pedro the Lion, produced two of my favorite singer-songwriter albums of the past decade, and he's got a new project, The Soft Drugs. Lucky for you, he's offering MP3s aplenty: a couple cuts from the EP, In Moderation, plus monthly demos. How is the EP? I'm still digesting. At first, I thought Walsh's fantastic, Neil Young-inflected voice, full of plaintive yearning, wasn't always
If you are a big fan of everything Pedro the Lion like I am you probably are well aware of the new EP from David Bazan "Fewer Moving Parts". So that is obviously what David has been up to since Pedro the Lion parted ways, but what about the other half of the PTL, drummer and sometimes vocalists TW Walsh? Well, it turns out Mr. Walsh is fronting an excellent little band called The Soft Drugs . The Soft Drugs released an EP titled "In Moderation" earlier this summer and its really a instantly [...]
Some free MP3s we've been digging very much. (I promise we'll listen to yours soon -- tips at stereogum dot com.) Shearwater - "Seventy Four Seventy Five" (MP3) Teddybears (Feat. Iggy Pop) - "Punk Rocker" (MP3) The Purrs - "Get...
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