Listen to The Chieftains Celebrate Their 50th Anniversary with The Decemberists on a Cover of Bob Dylan's 'When The Ship Comes In'.
Navegando en la red dí con este interesantísimo sitio, donde se pueden revisar grabaciones de presentaciones en vivo de distintos grupos, pero con la garantía de que la calidad de imagen y sonidos no serán cuestionables, y de que además, podrás revisar íntegramente, canción por canción cada concierto. Esta apuesta se llama Moshcam y es definida por sus creadores como un sitio para aficionados a la música, creada y dirigida por fans de la música. Según detallan en el mismo sitio Moshcam , el proyecto nació [...]
The Chieftains vuelven, y lo hacen con un disco que conmemora su 50 aniversario. Exacto, la banda lanzó su primer trabajo en 1963, apenas un año después de formarse en Irlanda, y que saquen un nuevo trabajo en 2012 no es más que la confirmación de que cuando hay buenas ideas, las bandas pueden durar décadas. Y para aportar algo de frescura a esas ideas se han rodeado de un puñado de buenos artistas entre los que estan Bon Iver, Pistol Annies o The Decemberist , con quienes han grabado una versión de "When The Ship Comes In" [...]
It's good that - in the face of the sort of bad publicity even Mel Gibson couldn't generate - the Susan G Komen Foundation have reversed their original decision to punish Planned Parenthood for helping people in difficult situations. Amongst those who sounded their outrage at a cancer charity behaving like right-wing politicians were The Decemberists : The Decemberists are deeply troubled by Komen for the Cure's recent decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, a vital resource in the battle against breast cancer. Providing cancer screenings to low income women is integral to [...]

Faixas como Rox in the box , do álbum recente The King is Dead , e The mariner's revenge song , de Picaresque , sempre revelaram com clareza a influência que o folk irlandês tem na obra de Colin Meloy e seus Decemberists . Agora as fronteiras geográficas (incluindo todo um oceano e um continente) que separam Portland de Dublin acabam de se dissolver, com a colaboração entre os Decemberists e os lendários Chieftains , unidos por um cover de Bob Dylan gravado para o álbum comemorativo [...]

In November, long-standing Irish folk legends the Chieftains announced that they were recording with Bon Iver, the Decemberists, Pistol Annies and more for their new LP, Voice Of Ages . Last month, we heard Bon Iver's collaboration with the group, " Down In The Willow Garden ," and now the Decemberists' contribution has surfaced at Rolling Stone , a cover of Bob Dylan's "When The Ship Comes In." Scope a video of the Chieftains discussing working with all these younger bands down below. Read More...

Boca Chica - Marlene Boca Chica , ou le groupe qui semble se spécialiser dans la catégorie des disques arrivés trop tard pour finir dans mon top de fin d'année. Déjà en 2009 l'album Lace Up Your Workboots avait raté le top 2009 à quelques semaines près : idem pour ce nouvel album reçu la semaine de Noël dans la boîte aux lettres. Get Out Of Sin City reprend les choses là où on les avaient laissées avec l'album précédent, un [...]
1) Gotye - Making Mirrors Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 2. Adele - 21 Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 3. The Decemberists - The King is Dead Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 4. Rufus Wainwright - House of Rufus A massive 19-disc box set of [...]
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Fluxblog. I will be doing a few things to celebrate the occasion over the course of the year, but the main thing is that I will be putting together survey mixes for each year the site has existed. The mixes will be released on the first weekday of each month this year, culminating in revised/expanded versions of the 2010 and 2011 mixes and this year's survey at the start of December. 2002 was an interesting year, with a lot of major stuff bubbling up as the identity of the decade [...]
You didn't hear this from us, but an error recently on the Sasquatch website inadvertantly revealed a partial list of performers for this year's version of the annual festival scheduled to take place May 25-28 at the Gorge. These are all unconfirmed acts, in other words, but we only have to wait a couple of days to see the entire lineup anyway-- the announcement party happens this Thursday at Seattle's Neptune Theater and features Junip, Nada Surf's Matthew Caws, and The Physics. Nevertheless, it's fun to start to think about what kind of dream bill [...]
What started as a joke on Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's Portlandia might turn into an actual studio collaboration. On a recent ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ are-the-shins-decemberists-col laborating/61068/

Since the release of her last album in 2009, Laura Gibson has been busy, playing over 200 shows and finding time to record a new album. La Grande , which came out earlier this week, isn't a huge leap from her earlier work: the album is defined by Gibson's airy voice, which floats above gently strummed acoustic guitar. But the occasional jazzy touch (such as in "Lion/Lamb" and "Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed") and contributions from members of The Decemberists and Calexico provide a little flourish. Laura Gibson performs with Cotton Jones and The Grand Nationals at 9 p.m. at Johnny [...]
It feels like it was only yesterday that we started hearing about The Decemberists. It amazes me to think that the band has released six official studio albums earning a spot amongst indie rocks biggest success stories. Cougar writer Emily added them to her list describing 'The King Is Dead' as "A folky album with [...]

Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory Carpark To hear Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi tell it, the title of the band's third album, Attack on Memory, is meant to be an attack on the memory of what people thought his band was." Of course, with a title that vague, this attack on memory could be attached to any manner of things we'd rather forget. For example, it could be an attack on your memory of all those shitty emo bands that claimed to be influenced by Fugazi, Sunny Day Real [...]

Chairlift – Something (Columbia Records) Caroline Polachek e Patrick Wimberly acertaram a mão. Something é um álbum de hits, de um pop impregnado de referências oitentistas, e de composições sutis. O ápice dessa fórmula é I Belong In Your Arms , uma boa e velha balada romântica com uma batida mais anos 80 impossível. Desde a abertura com Sidewalk Safari até a última faixa, Guilty As Charged , o duo apresenta canções despretensiosas, cheias de influências, sem ser uma salada de ingredientes que [...]

If 2012 is really the apocalypse, we'll at least be serenaded by lots of great music as our world goes up in flames. Yes, it's another great week of new releases filled with KEXP favorites, new and old. In fact, we've long been fans of Nada Surf , who return with their sixth album this week, which according to our Music Director, Don Yates, "finds them injecting some welcome additional energy and aggression into their melodic pop-rock sound via quicker tempos and some bristling electric guitar lines." Fans needn't fear that the New York band is trying to recapture [...]
La Grande sees Portland, OR folksinger Laura Gibson keeping faith with her muse- honed over four studio albums- yet in a more expansive mood. There is still room for otherworldly ballads but also greater variety in tempos, song styles, and instrumentation. Some effects recall her 2010 meditative collaboration with Ethan Rose, Bridge Carols , in their delicate, soft, repetitive layers, but these are equaled by a newfound stridency. The album title references a picturesque transit town in NE Oregon, and much of the content deals with journeys and transitions, with as much forward thinking as reflection. [...]
The 17th studio album from Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball, will be out March 6 via Columbia Records. The Boss will also be a keynote speaker at this year's SXSW and has plans to tour the U.S. and Europe with the E Street Band ... New Multitudes is a Woody Guthrie tribute album created by Yim Yames, [...]

10. ANNA CALVI Anna Calvi [Domino] LEGGI LA RECENSIONE La cantautrice di malcelate origini italiane si è imposta sulla scena britannica e mondiale con un album noir che rasenta la perfezione. La voce robusta ed imponente si staglia nello spazio strumentale cupamente attorcigliato su se stesso, ed intona alcuni capolavori quali "Suzanne And I" o l'incipit da film dei fratelli Cohen "Rider To The Sea". Il disco non perdona e cattura fin dal primo giro [...]
"Marathon Runner" starts out kinda hokey, to be honest…but if you give a minute to get into those first few crisp licks of guitar, it slowly builds into an excellent indie rock song. I can't say enough about the instrumentation - the pulsating riff makes you feel like you are in a cave or underwater with the sound repeatedly washing over you. I almost get a light Decemberists' vibe from the lyricism - there's a lot more storytelling here than you would find in most of Yellow Ostrich's contemporaries back pockets. "Marathon Runner" is every bit [...]