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by teepoo Welcome to this week's edition of COVER SATURDAYS featuring the great cover discoveries of the week. There weren't many this week, but most were beautiful takes, others blew your mind with craziness. The Young Republic- Chocolate Jesus (Tom Waits Cover) | MYSPACE Corinne Bailey Rae- I Wanna Be Your Lover (Prince Cover) | MYSPACE more after the jump Picnic Kibun- Two Weeks (Grizzly Bear Cover) | MYSPACE Laura Jansen- Use [...]
The dead of winter is no fun, especially when you're dealing with massive blizzards, chilling temperatures, and the Giants out of the playoffs. Despite the lineups and rumors, festivals seem so far away and our next big holiday is what? President's Day? That's no fun. This is where our Friday Mixtape comes in. New music always kicks ass, but it's even better when fending off the winter blues. Christmas is 11 months away? Psshh... check out new music from Bright Eyes, Social Distortion, and The Radio Dept. instead. Plus, we have a wonderful assortment of covers, compliments of [...]
The Nashville quintet does a back-porch Tom Waits cover.
The Young Republic are all over the place when it comes to making music, but I mean that in a complimentary fashion. In the five videos featured here, the band demonstrates their talent for seamlessly weaving together country, folk, blues, rock, and jazz into melodic, almost poppy songs. The songs are fun and seemingly simplistic, but each member of the quintet brings their own distinctive intricacies to the songs, giving them depth and character. With so much variety to offer, it comes as no surprise that The Young Republic are a band more concerned with EPs than LPs. [...]
In the five videos featured here, The Young Republic demonstrate their talent for seamlessly weaving together country, folk, blues, rock, and jazz into melodic, almost poppy songs. The songs are fun and seemingly simplistic, but each member of the quintet brings their own distinctive intricacies to the songs, giving them depth and character. In this session they cover a classic Tom Waits cut and give their own tongue-in-cheek take on the classic state song "My Old Kentucky Home."
It's been a good eight months since there's been any mention of The Young Republic on here, which must be some sort of record. So it's time for an update. They've been busy - trying to crack their home country, recording not one, but two albums, changing line-ups (bye Nate ...
Yardsale (FINAL SHOW) The Avery Set The Young Republic Saturday, July 17 @ The Vernon Club Doors at 8:00; show at 9:00 $8 in advance $9 at the door A farewell from Yardsale: Well folks, there's no easy way to say this, so we'll just throw it out there - this summer's Yardsale shows will be our last for the foreseeable [...]
In Tall Buildings Three get-this-boy-some-kale-and-an- apple-stat reasons to - I give up, wear a sweater? a sleeveless t? a garbage bag? - and head on over to the Subterranean 2night (I stole that from Prince)... 1. I wasn't fucking around when I said In Tall Buildings' debut was like the friend everyone - no matter how cynical or jaded you may be - needs to have around . Erik Hall's one man band will make you want to be a better person, and that's just in the privacy of [...]
The Young Republic’s new album Balletesque is a lyrical masterpiece; no pun intended. If you could paint a picture with music Balletesque would be a mix of beautiful ballots and toe tapping vocals – swirled together to create an album that you just can’t get enough of. Straight from Tennessee, you can see where this group gets [...]
I've missed far too much music in the past year to make a proper best of list, so instead, here's a list of 22 songs that I've loved from 2009. Listed in alphabetical order, not preference. Even though all of them are bloody good. 4 or 5 Magicians - Preaching to the Converted So 2009 didn't turn out to be the year that 4 or 5 Magicians finally "made it". They did manage to put out their first proper album though, and despite a few missteps, it's an excellent start. [...]
10. M. Ward - Hold Time The sixth album by Matthew Ward saw him hitting a rich vein of form. It's slick without being overproduced, familiar without outstaying its welcome. It’s not bright and shiny and it’s definitely not the cool sound of 2009. It’s just Ward knocking out some great ...
In many ways this actually feels like the first Young Republic album. Their debut, 12 Tales From Winter City was essentially a compilation of earlier self-recorded EPs and as such was more of a cobbled together Best of So Far. Then they released the Idiot Grin EP which just never really floated my boat, despite some excellent songs. That mirrored a band going through something of a rough time - losing members, internal strife and all sorts - which didn't seem to stall them as much as it might have. They kept touring through all [...]
(Photo by Caroline Tompkins ) MP3 : The Seedy Seeds - The Push MP3 : The Young Republic - Napoleon Roses Cincinnati trio The Seedy Seeds might be the sonic equivalent of Columbus dessert staple Jeni's ice cream . Ice cream containing both chocolate and cayenne pepper shouldn't really work, and neither should music containing both synths and banjo. But you'd be surprised on both counts. By mixing banjo, accordion and acoustic guitar with synths, beats from a toy keyboard and [...]
The Excast is so named because I am playing a lot of people's former bands. There's Shane MacGowan's Nipple Erectors, Phil Chevron's Radiators, Shilpa Ray's Beat the Devil and Billy Bragg's Riff Raff. I concentrate so much on new music these days that I often decide whether or not I like a band on the basis of a handful of demos, maybe a single, sometimes a debut EP, stuff like that. And of course, bands don't stumble into the world fully-formed, it takes some of them ages to become brilliant, and a lot of the time the initial [...]
The Seedy Seeds return to Louisville for a show at The Rudyard Kipling with The Young Republic on November 13th. If you haven't seen Cincy's The Seedy Seeds yet, get out to this show! Just check out the video below if you need a taste. Bring your dancing shoes. They are encouraged. The Young Republic out of Tennessee will add a jazzy-country flare to the evening. Not a bad combo! Show starts at 10pm and costs $5 bucks. The Seedy Seeds- [...]
Assuming that bands progress in the same way people do, the last time I saw The Young Republic , they were going through their awkward teenage years. Having just split from a bunch of their original members, the band were starting to find a new sound, one rather more rooted in Americana as opposed to the upbeat folk pop of the early years. They were good and put on a decent show, but there was still a sense that the band didn't really have a clear direction. In the little over a year in between, [...]
This is the sound of a band growing up and getting better and better. It's the sound of a band who despite a quiet Monday gig on a slow London evening, give it their all. It's the sound of a band who know that classical training and expert musicianship may not count ...
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There are perhaps 12 people on this ship who aren't either venue staff or members of one of the two bands, and it's a real shame as I doubt those 12 or so people will see a better show this month.Openers are Coventry's Don't Move , who certainly do move a lot, putting on an energetic peformance unfazed by the low turnout. Don't Move are quite a lot unlike anyone really, playing a punchy jangly pop that recalls The Byrds, The Smiths, The Housemartins and the better songs by Franz Ferdinand, that blends into moments of sharp electric blues [...]
This week marks the start of the Fresh Air broadcast, which is splendid news. There will be a launch party in the Teviot on Tuesday evening, to which anyone fond of drinking, acting the arse and falling over is invited. Ruth from the Bowery and myself will be doing a show every week on Wednesday between 7pm and 8.30pm, and are hoping to have a band live in session every week, if we can. It'll have to be pretty stripped down - anything which will translate well to really simple acoustic should do the trick - [...]
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