The latest artist to enter Viva Radio's Me+You studio is Glass Rock and, as usual, we've got a sneak peek for you of their session. Their aptly titled debut, Tall Firs Meet Soft Location , defines the band's make-up. Tall Firs coaxed Kathy Leisen, as the band puts it on MySpace, "out of retirement" to collaborate and create the band Glass Rock. And like those by Tall Firs, this album finds a home on Ecstatic Peace. I think I'll let Ted Shumaker, mastermind and radio [...]
This album grows soft and tall and is rather magical at times. The third song especially, which is called 'possession'; an unassuming three minute combination of acoustic guitar, mellifluous bass and reverbed electric bobbing on the soft swell instigated by the rolling tom drum rhythm.
+Tall Firs (מי?) מגיעים לארץ, ואם גם אתם שואלים "מי?", זו ההזדמנות להשביע את סקרנותכם המוזיקלית, לשמוע על ואת הלהקה האמריקאית הבלתי מתפשרת הזו, ואפילו לזכות בכרטיס חינם להופעה שלה בארץ. מה רע?,
Glass Rock: Tall Firs Meets Soft Location Ecstatic Peace have a busy release schedule this Autumn, part of which is this collaboration between Tall Firs and Soft Location. I liked Tall Firs' 2008 album Too Old To Die Young. This doesn't quite work as well; on the plus side, Soft Location's Kathy Leisen has a haunting voice that's part Cat Power and part Siouxsie Sue. Her voice and the light psych-pop arrangements sound fine [...]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced plans to play Minehead, Englands' All Tomorrow's Parties fest next month. Karen O ' and co. will be playing their debut album, ' Fever To Tell ', in it's entirety when they play the three-day fest. ATP will run December 11-13 and will see performances by Devendra Banhart , Modest Mouse , Deerhoof , and The Mars Volta , among others. You can see the entire line-up below. Go to atpfestival.com for more [...]
So, I don't know if I've already mentioned this enough already, but I'm going to NEW YORK on Sunday for a week of tomfoolery and Big Apple based fun. We've also chosen this week in particular to head across the sea as it's CMJ Music Marathon and there are some pretty fucking cool bands playing. A fair few that we've featured on this here blog in fact. Hooray for us and coolness! But, my problem is I just can't process this list of bands who are playing. There are too many for my [...]
CMJ released the band schedule for its 2009 Music Marathon & Film Festival yesterday, which is about as good a sign of fall hitting New York as the return of apple cider at Greenmarket. The festival runs from Oct. 20 - Oct. 24 and includes various venues throughout the city, and the list of featured artists would probably take all four days to read through. But skimming the selection reveals a fairly equal distribution of well-known acts like Atlas Sound and Deer Tick , anonymous locals (including krautrock-y Jeff Buckley-channelers Pocketknife), twenty-two bands who [...]
The press release below doesn't actually list all the acts performing at CMJ this year, so you're probably better off checking out cmj.sched.org to get a true idea of what's happening during this year's marathon. Of course, sched.org is a little confusing too and it doesn't list unofficial events and day parties (as far as I know), so you'll have to wait a little bit longer for info to trickle out from the blogs and other unofficial sources. Lastly, even though the press release says the schedule is "final", you can pretty much bet that things will shift [...]
After twenty-two bands and three comics over the previous two days, did I have some gas left in the tank for the final day of All Tomorrow's Parties New York? Of course! Most attendees heeded Warren Zevon's advice that they'll sleep when they're dead. Of the bands on the final day, the ones I was most interested in seeing were bands I'd seen before, but in different incarnations or playing different material. The most radical of these were the first two, the Boredoms and Caribou. The Boredoms have moved far on from their days of [...]
words by Black Bubblegum , photos by Ryan Muir some of the stars of ATP NY 2009 What's almost the exact opposite of a soothing set of Seven Swans performed by one of the most delicate singers in indie rock? Try nine drummers (including Hisham Bharoocha , Zach Hill , and Kid Millions among other notables) bashing your fucking skull for so [...]
Describing themselves as "a melancholy blend of Nick Cave melodrama, Shadows twang and Roy Orbison croon", An Axe no doubt have a dark flair to their music. Fittingly, their debut EP Some, When Alone, Cease To Exist (which, as you can above, has some seriously gorgeous artwork) was recorded in a church crypt no less in the midst of winter. The EP is the first of a trilogy; the second already recorded and slated for release in December, and the third written and currently in production. A full album is also in the process [...]
The Mars Volta are set to play the 10 Years Of ATP Festival . The three-day bash, which celebrates a decade of All Tomorrow's Parties festivals , will be taking place at Butlins' Minehead resort in England from December 11-13. The band will join previously announced acts including Modest Mouse , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , and Deerhoof . For more information go to atpfestival.com . Mars Volta [...]
Foreign Born, Warpaint @ Hammer Museum Cowboy Junkies, Son Volt @ Wiltern The Spires, The French Semester, Tall Tales @ Echo Curio The Germs, The Mae Shi, Spider Problem @ El Rey The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, French Miami, The Monolators, Kissing Cousins @ The Echo Jet, Red Cortez @ Key Club The Girls, Rough Kids, Gestapo Khazi, Wet Reckless, Narwhal Party @ The Five Star Bar The Very Best, Rainbow^Arabia, Bersa Discos @ Echoplex Dirty Sweet, Bloodcat Love, White Arrows, Heavy Young Heathens, Night Horse @ Spaceland thenewno2 @ The Grammy [...]
The Very Best Play the Echoplex on Thursday This is one of those weeks where so much seems to be happening on Wednesday and Thursday... Monday 7/13/09 [Pick of the Night] Last American Buffalo / Avi Buffalo / Evan Way / Greg Jong @ Silverlake Lounge (Free) – Get there by 10 to see Avi Buffalo. Evan Way doesn't have the show listed on his Myspace page, so I'm not sure if he's still on the bill. [...]
Below, TWO interviews for the price of one. Call it a recession special, an early Independence Day gift, an informational overload, whatever you prefer, here's EF contributor Victoria Lebron with Le Rug's Ray Weiss and Awesome Color's Allison Busch... Le Rug I sat down with Ray Weiss—lead singer and driving force behind the band Le Rug —in his home, The Market Hotel. We discussed the joys of two drum sets on stage, his ideal backing band (since he is currently without one), his label, Tamur [...]
Thomas Bartlett has been a busy guy lately working with such artists as The National, Bon Iver, Nico Muhly and David Byrne. Aside from lending out his musical skills, Bartlett also has his own project in the works...the yet to be titled Doveman album that was produced by Patrick Dillett. New York's Doveman is: Thomas Bartlett- Plays with Antony and The Johnsons, David Byrne, The National, Elysian Fields, The Frames, Bebel Gilberto & Miho Hatori Sam Amidon - Plays with Samamidon, Stars Like Fleas, Tall Firs, The Amidon Family & [...]
tonight in NYC * Hoboken Fest? * Railbird @ the Living Room * Tribeca Film Festival * Bamboozle 2009 @ Giants Stadium * Tera Melos, Marnie Stern @ The Bell House * Dark Was The Night @ Radio City Music Hall * Aziz Ansari, Jon Benjamin & other comedians @ Union Hall * Vetiver, Papercuts, The Antlers @ Bowery Ballroom * Look & Listen [...]
Recommended Show: SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2009 3RD WARD BLOCK PARTY @ STAGG STREET between Morgan & Bogart Brooklyn, NY 11206 FREE, 2PM Another free daytime show. This time in the heart of Bushwick and featuring performances from The Wild Yaks, Aa, Pterodactyl, Afuche, and Lam. Of course, there is still plenty going on during the nighttime hours as well, check those things out after the jump. Wetnurse @ Public Assembly Ultrabunny @ Death By Audio Kid Koala @ Le Poisson Rouge Vetiver & Papercuts @ Bowery Ballroom Dark Was the Night @ [...]
by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh - "Swedish Couch" DOWNLOAD: Paul Flaherty, C. Spencer Yeh & Greg Kelley - "Track One" DOWNLOAD: Paul Flaherty, C. Spencer Yeh & Greg Kelley - "Track Two" Experimentalists collide when Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad [...]
by Andrew Frisicano Mirah + No Kids @ Highline Ballroom ( more by Kyle Dean Reinford ) Mirah will play a show at NYC's Market Hotel on Sunday, May 3rd with TJO (aka Tara Jane O'Neil ), Tall Firs , and Air Waves . Mirah's latest record, (a)spera , came out on K Records on March 12th. O'Neil's own K Recs [...]
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