Drums Play Spaceland Monday Night (and It's Free) Ray Davies put on a fantastic show on Saturday night at the Orpheum. If you get a chance to see him on this tour do not hesitate. More on that later. Another great week this week. If you're into buzz bands you might want to check out Drums tonight, The Big Pink on Wednesday, Tape Deck Mountain on Thursday, Neon Indian on Friday and The XX on Saturday. Some of those will be good, but I'm recommending a variety of [...]
Hat tip to Michael Marotta of the Boston Herald for this. Here's his full post . And the nominees are! Album of the Year Manners - Passion Pit The Everyday Visuals - The Everyday Visuals Saving Seamus Ryan - Esoteric Diving for Gold - Session Americana Axe to Fall - Converge Torrent - Will Dailey Oh My God, Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem Act of the Year Will Dailey Doomriders [...]
Erin McKeown Reaches #1 on Amazon.com! Featured on WXPN's World Café and WNYC's Soundcheck Watch "making of" video After just five days on Amazon.com's Top 100 Chart , Erin McKeown 's latest album, 'Hundreds of Lions,' peaked at #1 on the Bestseller MP3 Album Chart . 'Hundreds of Lions', released October 13 on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records , "truly shines," hails Paste Magazine. The accomplishment is the [...]
We're supposedly heading into a slower time of year for live music-- holidays, weather, and the slow new release calendar from here on out are all partially responsible. You'd never know it, though, looking at this week's calendar, featuring long established names like Mission of Burma, They Might Be Giants, Pinback, Black Heart Procession, Erin McKeown, and The Pixies (in Eugene, but not in Black Francis' garage). Heck, even B.B. King's dropping by this week. So with a group like that on the way, we're pretty happy to be able offer up tickets for grabs to a [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2008-11-11, Boston [mp3,ogg,flac] "Always a Friend" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Back Forty : 2009-10-31, Ypsilanti [mp3,ogg,flac] "Thriller (Michael Jackson cover)" [mp3] other Back Forty posts at Largehearted Boy Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-10-31, Bloomington [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
MPress Records' artist Seth Glier's debut 'The Trouble With People' available in stores! Multi-instrumentalist/pianist Seth Glier , discovered at 19 and signed to MPress Records makes his label debut with 'The Trouble With People' , now available in stores. 'The Trouble With People' is both timeless and modern and has drawn comparisons to Billy Joel, Marc Cohn, Gavin DeGraw, Elton John and Paul McCartney. A sophisticated collection that shows surprising maturity and self-reflection, the album weaves understated tales of real people in quiet pain. [...]
Joshua James to Takeover WXPN's All About the Music Blog Folk singer to guest author posts throughout week of November 9 WXPN , the nationally-recognized leader in Triple A (Adult Album Alternative) music and a noncommercial radio service of the University of Pennsylvania, today announced that Joshua James will takeover its All About the Music Blog next week. James will guest author the blog, writing about what he is seeing and discovering right now in pop culture Monday through Friday. "This is a unique opportunity for our readers to connect with [...]
Top Album Releases: October 2009 Nick's Top Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms Black Heart Procession: Six Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 The Flaming Lips: Embryonic Monsters Of Folk: Monsters [...]
MUST-SEE SHOW: 11/23 Jay Reatard @ Brillobox This is worth going to if only to see what all the fuss is about. I've been reading about this guy nonstop over the past couple years, but for some reason, I thought he was a teenager. Turns out he's 29. A few weeks ago he tweeted that his entire band quit on him. Hopefully they'll have their shit together by the time the Brillobox show rolls around. ALSO WORTH ATTENDING: 11/4 OK Go @ Mr. Small's [...]
Pete Yorn to Takeover WXPN's All About the Music Blog Singer-songwriter to guest author posts throughout week of November 2 WXPN , the nationally-recognized leader in Triple A (Adult Album Alternative) music and a noncommercial radio service of the University of Pennsylvania, today announced that Pete Yorn will takeover its All About the Music Blog next week. Yorn will guest author the blog, writing about what he is seeing and discovering right now in pop culture on November 3, 4 and 5. "This is a unique opportunity for our [...]
Hey, if you've been watching the RSS feed, you know I just did some serious housekeeping with the Drake's Takes , and now, for a brief moment, I'm back up to date (we'll see how long that lasts). This week, Drake spotlights the new one from The Flaming Lips , but if you've been reading bumpershine closely over the last couple of months, you know that last week I was most excited about the US Release of Fanfarlo 's brilliant debut "Reservoir". -ed. We're rapidly approaching the point of no return for releases [...]
No Age @ ATP NY in September ( more by Ryan Muir ) tonight in NYC * Lenny Kravitz @ Irving Plaza * Uninhabitable Mansions @ Cake Shop * Nick Lowe, Bill Kirchen @ City Winery * Erin McKeown, Jill Souble @ Union Hall * Boy Crisis, Das Racist, Paenus @ Pianos * The Dodos, The Ruby Suns @ Bowery Ballroom * [...]
last night i got to see my pal jill sobule play with the lovely & talented erin mckeown , whose new album hundreds of lions was just released yesterday. if you like these songs, buy it here ! a few of my favorites : erin mckeown // you, sailor erin mckeown // the foxes erin mckeown // (put the fun back in) the funeral [...]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Daniel Johnston at Highline Ballroom Built To Spill at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Bklyn Raveonettes and Black Angles at Webster Hall Regina Spektor and Jupiter One at Radio City Music Hall Nick Lowe at City Winery Zap Mama at Hiro Ballroom Chris Barron & friends at Sullivan Hall [...]
Today's soundtrack is the new Erin Mckeown record, 'Hundreds Of Lions.' It's one of the most playful folk records you will ever listen to. Ms McKeown writes incredibly clever songs that you will find yourself singing to yourself long after listening. * 'To A Hammer' MP3
Hundreds of Lions has teeth (and, at times, too many). Erin McKeown is one of a few contemporary folksingers who has transcended the pigeonhole that traps most of her comrades. It's hard-earned, though, over many releases and tours with the likes of Josh Ritter and Ani diFranco, on whose label Hundreds of Lions appears. Some of her transcendence comes from her songwriting talent: she excels at writing songs that are just oblique enough to be quirky and fresh while still being universal. However, her success...
We're rapidly approaching the point of no return for releases this year, but mid-October always seems to toss a couple wrenches in folks' year end list plans. The latest from The Flaming Lips fall in that category - you think Pitchfork might want an amendment to their 'Best Albums of the 2000s'? Toss the new one from Neon Indian in as well, in that regard. Elswewhere, there are fine/interesting/worthy releases from Har Mar Superstar , Thao and the Get Down Stay Down , The Heavy , Erin McKeown , Fanfarlo [...]
We're rapidly approaching the point of no return for releases this year, but mid-October always seems to toss a couple wrenches in folks' year end list plans. The latest from The Flaming Lips fall in that category - you think Pitchfork might want an amendment to their 'Best Albums of the 2000s'? Toss the new one from Neon Indian in as well, in that regard. Elswewhere, there are fine/interesting/worthy releases from Har Mar Superstar , Thao and the Get Down Stay Down , The Heavy , Erin McKeown , Fanfarlo [...]
Not quite the stellar lineup of releases this week, but there are still some great records to be had with The Flaming Lips' latest, Embryonic leading the pack. Also not to be completely overshadowed are releases from Thao Nguyen , Neon Indian , Imaad Wasif , Grant-Lee Phillips , and Fanfarlo who's debut finally get a proper US release after being available digitally for what feels like forever. As always, feel free to recommend anything I may have missed. [...]
Long before Katy Parry came to the air waves, Jill Sobule was the one experimenting and kissing girls. In fact, in August, Jill ripped into Katy for borrowing her title . As an MTV kid in the early 90s, I loved Sobule's cutesy ode to experimentation. Granted, I haven't kept up with her since then and have apparently missed albums 3-8, the most recent released earlier this year (and to generally quite positive reviews). With Jill comes Erin McKeown . The jazzy cabaret/rock/swing/folkster has toured with Andrew Bird, Ani DiFranco, Josh Ritter, and released her [...]
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