Two Dark Birds - Black Blessed Night ( Von Wildenhaus Remix) Steve Koester is a folk singer who's darknesses and frailty is worn on his sleeve, the kind of sorcery you get from living a life in old mountains like the Catskills. He's got a beautiful album out last year called Songs for the New , and now decided to ask his bandmates to reimagine a few of those tunes. One of my favorite weirdos, Ben von Wildenhaus plays keys for him and took this tun to the [...]
Big life changes including having a child and moving from New York City to the Catskills have proved to be more than enough inspiration for Two Dark Birds frontman Steve Koester. That's probably why the band's sophomore full-length is called Songs For The New—and why the album's sound is more hopeful and outdoorsy-sounding than the [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 79 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by The Darcys, Through and Through Gospel Revue, Bass Drum Of Death, The Spits, Kurt Vile, Hurricane Bells, Marine Dreams and more! So much more! DATE: 10-27-11 WRITER: Don Loder Awrightcha mugs, Good ta see ya. In fact, i's great ta see ya - I ben cooped up in my apartment fer days, layin' low (long story). Anyways, da beauty o' bein' stuck at home izzat I got ta shake as many [...]
Okay, so Folk Core is totally made up, but I wanted to make sure I had your attention. In all actuality, Steve Koester and Two Dark Birds are a lot more folk, a lot more traditional, so much so that you might call them hardcore folksters. Their new record, Songs for the New , comes out next week via Riot Bear Recording , and it's shaping up to be a really beautiful listen, filled with traditional folk elements spun in an entirely novel manner. [...]
We here at MOKB are delighted to premiere the track Black Blessed Night from Two Dark Birds upcoming sophomore effort Songs for the New . Led by frontman Steve Koester and his warm, scratchy delivery that's not unlike a young Randy Newman, Black Blessed Night exemplifies the brighter, fuller sound TDB has developed since their somewhat darker 2008 self-titled debut. Blending indie Americana roots music with an old-world minstrel feel, Black Blessed Night falls somewhere between a Renaissance Festival lullaby [...]
Wow. It was one year ago today that I squeezed out my first post as The Burning Ear and 411 posts later and here we are. It's amazing how fast time flies and how much great music can come out in a year. Birthday's are a time for celebration and gift giving so I've wrangled together a little something for all of you to celebrate with. Over the past 12 months a number of great tracks have found a happy home in my stereo but for whatever reason or another I never covered them on the site. As a 1st [...]
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Download : Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk" Download : Vampire Weekend - "M79" Download : Yacht - "The Summer Song" The show that we wrote about in passive-aggressive fashion has come to fruition. Buzz band Vampire Weekend, having miraculously recovered from their werewolf attack in Salt Lake City (note to reader LauraLee : Thank God you're alright!) to play a sold-out show at the Triple Rock . Doors are at 9 p.m. for an 18+ [...]
The debut album from this new country rock group fronted by formerly Minneapolitan musician Steve Koester is so good it makes me quite ticked off he moved to New York.
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