'A Separation' (UK Release: 6 Dec '11) // Words: Raman K Exactly a week has passed since I watched the Golden Globe winning 'A Separation' and I cannot shake it from my thoughts. Tense from the immediate opening divorce court scene, shot from the judge's perspective, the film masterfully rakes you into its tragedy. Its screenplay compels you to respond throughout as parent, lover, child, citizen and law enforcer. The signature of director Asghar Farhadi 's creation is that every [...]
McMillan's take on gospel music may not appeal to those who believe in the separation of church and music, but this record is certainly nothing to be ashamed of. John Mark McMillan skirts many of the norms when it comes to modern Christian rock, and it is a bigger genre than most people realize. For those who are unfamiliar, the differences between the music of John Mark McMillan and his counterparts like Hillsong or the David Crowder Band are McMillan's abilities to summon a deeper sense of poetry and an authentic voice amidst a genre that is is full [...]
See that image on the right, there? That's the egg of what is known as a cowbird, a bird which, a little like a cuckoo, tricks other birds into raising its young and therefore is able to avoid doing any fucking work itself. I hope you can see how I would think this a suitable image to illustrate a rant about fucking remixers. I was actually intending to use a picture of a parasite to illustrate this particular post but, honestly, I couldn't stomach the Google image search. It would have more accurately illustrated how I [...]
Dare Dukes Dare Dukes has his newest album, Thugs and China Dolls , coming out on January 17, 2012. He's released "Meet You At The Bus" from the album, to which you can listen in this post. Dare Dukes - "Meet You at the Bus" The eclectic folk artist from Savannah, GA is joined by Marla Hansen of Sufjan Stevens, as well as members of Of Montreal, The Modern Skirts, and TV on the Radio on the album. In Atlanta on January 21, 2012, [...]
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Doldrums w/ Dillon & Boog Brown, Rekchampa Tuesday, January 10 529 - 529 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission is FREE There's a pretty nice list of shows coming up this week (including three album release celebrations), but I was starting to think that there wouldn't be any sort of "main event;" that is, one lineup that I could point to as a can't miss show. But then I checked out Toronto's Doldrums and here we are. Led [...]
Long ago, I gave up ideas of "best." I'm not sure what that word means anymore. So here are favorites from me and Brian. Strictly favorites. And a few other things. Favorite Albums of 2011 - Josh S. 1) Only Thieves - Heartless Romantics More punk than Bruce Springsteen, more punk than the Gaslight Anthem, more punk than you. Please go on a bustin national tour and show everyone who's Boss. [...]
By Matt Jarrard I first met Dare Dukes the same way I first meet most of the people I interact with as a local musician, electronically. This was 2007, so my preferred method of communication and new music discovery was myspace.com. Dare was in the process of moving from NYC to Savannah GA and wanted some tips on booking some shows in Savannah. He introduced me to his songs, and I introduced him to my Savannah buddies. I've always admired Dare's musical and personal style, and anxiously await each record he puts out. The songs [...]
Photo by Chia Chong While this blog is known primarily as an Atlanta-based publication, we have been known to feature artists from Athens and other Georgia locales outside our fair city. This particular post takes for its subject the Savannah-based artist Dare Dukes , who's not only been know to play an Atlanta stage or two, but whose offbeat and ornate banjo-driven folk folk also happens to make for mighty fine listening. They say you can judge a person by the company the keep, and if the same can be said for musicians [...]
Californiano de nacimiento pero establecido en Georgia, el cantante y compositor Dare Dukes tiene una larga experiencia al frente de bandas como The Penelopes o colaborando con formaciones muy conocidas como Soul Asylum, Babes in Toyland o The Jayhawks. En enero de 2012 se publicará Thugs and China Dolls , su segundo álbum en solitario, en el que han participado miembros de Modern Skirts, of Montreal, TV on the Radio y Marla Hansen de Sufjan Stevens. Mp3: Dare Dukes. Meet You At The Bus
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mp3: Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun - "We Were Wild" I haven't really clicked with Atlanta band Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun before, but I'm likin this new single. I think they've got the "spacier" elements under control this time around. Seems partially Rapture-era retro, but keep on delivering the dancey indie rock no matter what the kids say. They're on tour right now with Modern Skirts and everyone is hittin up with Kyle Andrews tomorrow night in Nashville at the Basement. Oh yeah and the new Today The [...]
Photo by Sarah Cass Two of our favorites play The Basement this Saturday – Kyle Andrews , whose record Robot Learn Love we were plugging all summer, and indie songstress Madi Diaz . Her new record, Plastic Moon , drops early next year (you can download her beautiful single "Let's Go" below). Just 7 bucks to see her and Andrews, along with Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun and Modern Skirts .
Dare Dukes spent his life traversing the country and absorbing its culture and idiosyncrasies. A child of suburbia, he had the unique talent of identifying things of interest, even when faced with seemingly mundane circumstances. Now based in Savannah, Dare delivers his second album, Thugs and China Dolls , which he recorded in Athens with members of Modern Skirts , of Montreal , and TV on the Radio . The LP is slated for release in early January 2012. We're happy to present the single, Meet You At The Bus . Its [...]
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by teepoo Dare Dukes is an indie-folk from Savannah, Georgia. I quite like this almost pop tune, Meet You At the Bus with its playful brass instruments. In 2012, they will be releasing a record named Thugs and China Dolls featuring members of the Modern Skirts, Of Montreal, and TV on the Radio, as well as a song produced by Jim White. Dare Dukes- Meet You At the Bus FACEBOOK | TWITTER | WEBSITE
The weather is absolutely gorgeous. I haven't seen Gracie all morning. She's been on the deck and roaming the back yard. The cats are in the sun. I'm the only one holed up in a dark room in the back of the house. Soon enough I'll remedy that! An article in the Boston Globe this morning mentioned that the Pan Am World Wing International congress is in Boston this year. It's a reunion of women who flew as PanAm flight attendants. The article mentioned that the women think the new show PanAm gets everything right except the pilots [...]
[ Smallville ] The problem with making music that closely follows someone else's rules is that invariably, the impressionable producer will also be subject to someone else's imposed boundaries. Because the rules have been drawn up by a third party, it's near impossible for the followers to navigate their way through pre-existing nuances and subtleties. The end result is music defined more by its limitations than its artistic achievements, compositions that are [...]
Ever since I was a little girl, Dolly Parton has been on the top of my list for Dream Next Door Neighbour. Even now, I could imagine being out in my garden, just chilling, maybe feeling a bit contemplative. Then I'd see Dolly over the fence. She'd come over and say hey, decked head to toe in pink and made-up with big hair and crazy nails. We'd shoot the breeze for a while. She'd eventually get my troubles out of me and know exactly what to say. She'd deliver it with such wisdom, incongruous to her image, that I'd know [...]
¡Chicas! Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974 Spain might have still been under the boot of a Fascist government and oppressive church but the cultural revolution still found a way in and caused longer hair and shorter skirts just like in the rest of the civilised world. This cabinet of curiosities from the tail end of the Franco era combines all sorts of styles, from pop to soul, psych to yé-yé, with some classics, some oddities (Marisel's [...]
This is one of the best local triple bills I have seen in some time. Sealions sort of blew me away a couple of years ago when they opened for Judi Chicago at the 529. Check out their debut full length Strange Veins . Modern Skirts latest, Gramahawk , impressed far more than anything of their prior work and was deserving of a mention here before. And if you think that I don't think you should get out for nothing other than [...]
Monday, July 25: YOB, Dark Castle, Demonaut @ The Earl Tuesday, July 26: Bambara, El Fossil, Cars Can Be Blue, Lucy Dreams @ 529 Wednesday, July 27: Animals as Leaders, Intronaut, Dead Letter Circus, Last Chance To Reason, Evan Brewer, Hello Cobra @ The Masquerade Cassandras, [...]
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Bon Iver Thursday, July 28 Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre - 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway in Atlanta 30339 Admission $30.50-$38 / Purchase Tickets Bon Iver is exploding. Blowing up. Getting huge. With the release of his sophomore full-length, Justin Vernon and his musical cronies are making the leap; much the same as, say, Arcade Fire or Death Cab for Cutie or the Decemberists or the National , they are beginning [...]
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