Words // Scott Pingeton New thing here that I'll try to keep going for at least 2 weeks. You tweeters might recognize #ff as the hash tag for "friday follow"...or basically "it's friday, follow these people". That's kind of the idea here too. Cool stuff that's new or old, but I'm digging it and want to share. Wooden Dinosaur - "Good Winter" These Vermonters are one of my favorite New England bands. Songwriter Michael Roberts writes literate, heartfelt folk songs that are [...]
Words // Scott Pingeton Wooden Dinosaur 's Nearly Lost Stars was one of my favorite albums of 2010. A perfect marriage of casual backporch folk instrumentation and songwriter Michael Roberts' poignant, melody-wrapped lyrics. Since the release of Nearly Lost Stars , Roberts has been busy. He's played a bunch of shows with Wooden Dinosaur, toured as a member of The David Wax Museum (including stops at Newport Folk and NPR's Tiny Desk Series), got married, signed to Last Kind Word Records and still carved out enough time to [...]
By Brian Hodge Dave Lamb has got some striking ink. The bearded singer (and guitarist and percussionist) of Brown Bird boasts sailing ships, dark bands and other interesting designs. But the most captivating piece resides on the lengths of his fingers, between his first and second knuckles. It is there you can see the word "COME" clearly scrawled down his hand, the 'c' beginnning on the index and the word unapologetically creeping towards the pinky. On his opposite hand lives the word "HOME." Put [...]
So, this is the first of what will be a quarterly thing on Visible Voice...the seasonal mixtape. I plan to use these mixtapes as an opportunity to share some of my favorite new music. Great tunes by local or not-so-local bands that you should know and, in many cases, tracks that have not been officially or widely released yet. For this inaugural winter mix a cold, snowy Boston is my (our) backdrop and, fittingly for this time of year, many of the songs here evoke themes of reflection. During the cold winter months I find that [...]
mp3: Wooden Dinosaurs - Paper Cars Michael from Brattleboro VT's Wooden Dinosaurs sent me this charming slice of Americana-folk yesterday. Their newest record Nearly Lost Stars, which "Paper Cars" is on, is due out March 5th. I'm eagerly waiting to hear more. You can sample a few other tracks (they are all great) over at their myspace and get in touch with them if you'd like to pick up a copy of the album. He seems like a stellar [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, Robot readers. We've all had a lot going on lately, most notably CMJ. I didn't go to New York, but I've been busy recording a new CD. Hearing so much new music everyday is a great thing, but now that I'm working on my own record, it's hard not to wonder how different bands do what they do: was this song written by one person? Who arranged it? How did they decide to put a glockenspiel there? Whenever I hear a track like this one, I have almost the opposite reaction: how is...
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