Peter played to a jam-packed crowd at The Cabin in November Peter Miller is We Are The Willows, and we love his stuff . A Twin Cities man, he defines life in the fast lane. When he isn't hacking the homeland security mainframe, he's day-trading at the NYSE via bluetooth. This plus all the great music he makes amounts to a busy schedule. But, dear man that he is, he took to time to share his top 5 albums of 2011. We hope this list whets your curiosity and provides insight into just what makes [...]
Peter played to a jam-packed crowd at The Cabin in November Peter Miller is We Are The Willows, and we love his stuff . A Twin Cities man, he defines life in the fast lane. When he isn't hacking the homeland security mainframe, he's day-trading at the NYSE via bluetooth. This plus all the great music he makes amounts to a busy schedule. But, dear man that he is, he took to time to share his top 5 albums of 2011. We hope this list whets your curiosity and provides insight into just what makes [...]
Conrad Plymouth - I Am Not Waiting Anymore ( buy ) Moon High - Autumn Leaves ( buy ) Josh Ritter - Wildfires ( buy ) Brown Bird - Fingers to the Bone ( buy ) We Are The Willows - Somewhere, Virginia ( buy ) Real Estate - Green Aisles ( buy ) Grey Kingdom - Love Is Fast [...]
The drive from Tulsa into Kansas City, Missouri was incredibly welcoming. The Midwest greeted me with rolling green hills, trees that don't have barbs or thorns, pop, goulash, and lemon bars fr
"You sound like an angel of the Himalayans and mountains and rainbows!"--A very enthusiastic and very inebriated passerby in Columbia, MO. Thanks...
Once, I played tunes at my grandparents' old folks home for about 12 of the residents and, of course, my glowing grandparents. Playing in Saint Margarita, California felt very similar, except no one
Have you ever had moments where you weren't sure if you were awake or asleep? I kinda feel like that all the time these days. Van sleep isn't the best. Don't get me wrong, its cozy,
I almost got hit by water balloons on the streets of Boise. I guess that's what I get for being that asshole with a guitar playing for money on the sidewalk.
It's been a couple weeks since my last entry and in that time, I've been less of a musician and more of a doting uncle, or a mediocre but proud best man, or a sleep walking kamikaze. Hopefully
Note to self (and you): If you don't want your van to smell like someone pooped their pants, don't allow your mother to give you a dozen hard boiled eggs to eat on the road. They stink up the van lik
I'm feeling a very strong and perhaps inappropriate urge to fire up this tiny little feature today (we've done A Tiny Mix highlighting Hypem favorites before - check it here ) and to title it "Hypem Hard-On". But I'm curious, can I use that word? It's vulgarity does not stress me but as I do not bear that particular body part, can I claim an actual hard-on for these jams? Like, is that okay? Fuck it. I'm gonna spend the next half hour making a graphic featuring a gramophone and the word "hard-on". Noble cause. I just [...]
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Cover Commissions is a monthly series in which a featured artist covers a reader-selected song for this blog. Any artists interested in participating, email me. We Are the Willows first hit the Cover Me radar back in December. Minnesota songwriter Peter Miller's ethereal singing entranced us, sounding like the Beach Boys if you removed everything but the highest harmony. We knew that voice
And I've watched this YouTube video a creepy number of times.
Originally from Eau Claire, WI, Peter Miller moved to Minneapolis for college and then spent the next six years enveloping himself in the excellent music scene, performing and writing everywhere he went. As a result, he began We Are The Willows, a folk-pop exploration and one of Miller's two musical projects (the other being the indie-rock band Red Fox Grey Fox.) He released his debut EP Bravery
We Are The Willows - A Funeral Dressed as a Birthday (mp3) * Atmospheric melancholy from Bon Iver labelmates We Are The Willows. They've made a new EP available as a "name your price" download on their label's site . The above song is from their full-length debut A Collection Of Sounds And Something Like The Plague , which was released in November. Buy @ Amazon *mp3 hosted by label & posted w/ permission of artists' PR Reps ****************************** [...]
We Are The Willows is the solo project of singer/songwriter Peter Miller. His debut album, A Collection Of Sounds And Something Like The Plague (out now on the Amble Down label), is a musical documentation of his life and experience with everyday sounds in the city of Minneapolis, recorded with just a laptop and a [...]
ganz ausführlich hatten wir hier amble down reocrds vorgestellt. ausgespart hatten wir ohne scham we are the willows . denn wirklich was vorzulegen hatte peter miller damals noch nicht. ist nun aber anders. und wer bock darauf hat, mal wieder so ein paar ganz persönliche stories um die ohren geschleudert zu bekommen, hört bei seiner musikalischen unternehmung mit dem wunderbaren namen we are the willows hinein. stammen tut der bursche eigentlich aus eau claire, wohnt mittlerweile aber in minneapolis, wo er tief in die musikszene eingedrungen ist, auftrat, aufnahm, aufsog. im wahrsten sinne des wortes. viele der [...]
Merry Christmas everyone. We wish you and yours nothing but happiness. Hopefully the fat man managed to shimmy his way down your chimney, passed the raccoon nest and left great parcels under the holiday shrubbery of your choice. Our gift to you is these three artists for you to explore: We Are The Willows For those who like: Atlas Sound, Deerhunter We Are The Willows is actually Minneapolis
Cover Commissions is a monthly series in which a featured artist produces a special cover for this blog. Our readers choose the song from a list of suggestions provided by the artist. Any artists interested in participating in a future installment, please email Cover Me at the address on the right.The sound Minnesota's Peter Miller creates as We Are the Willows isn't easy to describe. Here's how
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