"I am a racing horse, I am a grazing horse, I am your favorite horse..." Plain and simple brilliance from the Oldham stable. Palace Brothers - No More Workhorse Blues
One of the things I remember most from this year’s SXSW isn’t a particular artist, a showcase, or party. It’s a Daft Punk billboard. Read More...
One of the things I remember most from this year’s SXSW isn’t a particular artist, a showcase, or party. It’s a Daft Punk billboard. Read More... Original Website: Stereogum
Angel Olsen 's Half Way Home is being released on CD, which is just as well as it deserves to be out there and as accessible as possible. Astonishing critics upon its release last year, her second release on Bathetic Records was a bolt from the blue. From the album's opening track, "Acrobat," Olsen simultaneously announces and differentiates herself in an industry where heads all around were scratched as people sought to place her. New Kate Bush ? No, not nearly as whimsical. [...]
On Wolfroy Goes To Town, the 2011 release of BONNIE PRINCE BILLY and his backing band THE CAIRO GANG, there's been this moment, somewhere halfway through the outstanding track Quail & Dumplings, in which a female voice arose – majestic yet unstable, shivering yet clear and strong, proclaiming "why wait for someday, why make a The post Angel Olsen - Half Way Home appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
In the 2005 film Junebug , Will Oldham's character works for a Chicago curator, on the lookout for "outsider artists" in the backwoods of North Carolina for a big city gallery. It's not a bad metaphor for Oldham's musical career. He's spent much of the past two decades exploring the fringes of Southern musical traditions and giving voice to the raw, primal spirit of Appalachia. His artistic trajectory has been as gnarled and twisted as his mountain-man beard, traveling in and out of one quintessential American genre after another, noisy and raw one [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Paula Court "The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller" is a traveling live documentary, accompanied by the narration of filmmaker Sam Green and Hoboken rockers Yo La Tengo . Live documentary, you ask? Well, don't fret. We can explain exactly what that is. You see, the documentary format is pretty easy to transfer to a live setting. In this case, Green has essentially assembled [...]
John Denver died in a plane crash in 1997 - several years later the compilation Take Me Home: A Tribute To John Denver was released via Badman Recordings. Guiding the artist roster, the compilation sonically concentrated on the somber stylings of the (then) quiet-is-the-new-loud zeitgeist - specifically that of Mark Kozelek, whose Red House Painters [...]
Don & Phil Everly, despite being Rock & Roll Hall of Famers , probably aren’t at the top of your Spotify playlists. If you have any of their songs in your iTunes library, it’s likely one of the half-dozen songs that have reached the upper echelon of our cultural literacy through daily spins on oldies radio stations. But through the 60s and early 70s, they released a series of albums rich with quality songs written by the duo themselves, as well as by some of the best songwriters around, such as Kris Kristofferson, Goffin & King, Randy [...]
Weary Engine Blues is the title of a forthcoming benefit album that pays tribute to Jason Molina who died last week . It will be released by Graveface Records and artists contributing Molina covers include Mark Kozelek, Will Oldham, Allo Darlin', Scout Niblett, John Vanderslice, Jeffrey Lewis, Damien Jurado, Jonathan Meiburg (Sheerwater), Hospital Ships, Wave Pictures , and more. The album will be out April 24 and proceeds will go to help medical and funeral costs for Molina's family. Preorder it here . It comes with a screen print by William Schaff [...]
Graceface Records has enlisted a star-studded collection of singer-songwriters for a new tribute album honoring the late Jason Molina . Weary Engine Blues features contributions from Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie, The Microphones), Will Oldham (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy), Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon), John Vanderslice, Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg, Allo Darlin', and Will Johnson, among others. Below, you can stream Kozelek's cover of "It's Easier Now". The album comes accompanied by a screen print (which you can also see below). It was created by William Schaff as a gift to Molina. Proceeds from the sale [...]
No stranger to collaboration, Will Oldham (the Bonnie 'Prince') once again finds himself working with Dawn McCarthy on the pair's new LP, What The Brothers Sang - a 13 track tribute to the Everly Brothers, out today via Drag City Records. An eclectic selection spanning the width and breadth of brothers discography, the pair navigate [...]
Barnes & Noble Inc. expects to close as many as a third of its retail stores over the next decade, the bookseller's top store executive said, offering the most detailed picture yet of the company's plans for the outlets. "In 10 years we'll have 450 to 500 stores," said Mitchell Klipper, chief executive of Barnes & Noble's retail group, in an interview last week. The company operated 689 retail stores as of Jan. 23, along with a separate chain of 674 college stores. [ WSJ.com ] Barnes and Noble NYC February 2013 [...]
Will Oldham is coming to town as Bonnie "Prince" Billy, accompanied by players from his Chijimi EP: Cheyenne Marie Mize and Emmett Kelly. It's a special performance - just one of three on this mini tour - that will likely incorporate a fair amount of songs the trio played at a sacred music festival in Milan. To read more about the show, as well as BPB's upcoming Everly Brothers covers record with Dawn McCarthy, check out my preview in the penultimate issue of The Other Paper . Deville also typed up [...]
Be it playing a police officer for R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" or horsing around at Zach Galifianakis' farm during a Kanye West video shoot, you never know where Will Oldham might turn up next. This one comes as less of a surprise, but no less enigmatic in execution given the costume: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy performing Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" wearing a crochet beard and mustache. The YouTube clip, apparently filmed off-the-cuff with his laptop camera, popped up on the site of a new project from PBS where anyone can submit their take for [...]
The Brooklyn-based, Nevada-born 27-year-old artist Ivana Carrescia, formerly playing under the name Ivana XL , was known for her signature lo-fi sounds featuring her voice and guitar. Feeling the need to rework her sound, she chose Eddi Front as a stronger, more gender ambiguous nom de plume . She's now offering up a more sombre, stripped-down aesthetic, featuring eerily aloof vocals accompanied predominantly by piano, with the occasional sparse snare or jazz-drenched ambiance of the occasional horn. Making recordings of herself playing music and singing since she was a child, [...]
Think of all the musicians you'd want to smell like. Twin Shadow's Gary Lewis, Jr. probably smells pretty good. Gwen Stefani smells like angel dust and cupcakes (so I've heard). Justin Bieber probably still has that new baby-powder smell caked in. But why smell glamorous, delicious, or creepily under-aged when you can smell like a person of great emotional depth and mighty facial hair. Will Oldham , aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy , has teamed with Sanae Intoxicants to bottle his own unisex fragrance. Blogger Diane Pernet (via Pitchfork ) says Oldham's contribution was mainly [...]
by Bill Pearis Will Oldham and Colm O'Leary in 'New Jerusalem' When not making records, Will Oldham has been known to act occasionally, most memorably in the 2006 indie drama Old Joy , though he has roles stretching back to John Sayles' 1987 film Matewan . His latest is New Jerusalem and his first starring role since Old Joy . The synopsis: Sean, an Irish immigrant to America, returning from military service in Afghanistan, finds his [...]
The Comedy (and James Murphy's cameo in it) may have stole a bit of the thunder of Rick Alverson’s other movie, 20102s quiet and intense New Jerusalem, but the film still feels incredibly pertinent even ... read more
It's not just Angel Olsen’s range that makes her voice so unforgettable; it's the surprise turns she's learned to produce by manipulating it. Sometimes, at the climax of a song, she'll be leaning so lightly ... read more
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