We're excited to partner with the 2012 Noise Pop Music Festival to present three great days of shows at the Swedish American Hall , with a variety of terrific performers in a wonderful historic space. Get your tickets now! Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Portastatic, and Merge Records comes to the Swedish for a rare solo performance on Thursday, February 23rd (7pm, $15-17, 21+, Buy Tickets ). He'll be joined by Portland's Sun Foot , as well as That [...]
Cathedral & Cars - Feathers Enjoy the EP, upon which this song is placed, as much as I have. I don't think you can get it online, but you can stream it on soundcloud . Maybe give them a bell, encourage them to sell it on the net! This song, Feathers, it that reminds me of lifeful, lit-up windows, what they look like from outside, on the cold covered pavements. Good stuff, the weird thing is they're from Bury St. Edmunds (in England) which is relatively near east Essex, where [...]
Like the mythical creature of Edward Lear's poem, Scroobius Pip is an artist who evades simple categorisations of genre. Rising to prominence in 2007 with the meteoric hit 'Thou Shalt Always Kill', Pip and his grime house cohort Dan le Sac went on to produce two stellar albums of spoken word/electronic crossovers to the delight of thousands worldwide. Pip returned to his roots this year with his second solo release Distraction Pieces ; an incisive fusion of beat poetry and visceral hardcore punk. Lazing in the green room of Cork's Cyprus Avenue, State caught up with Scroobius [...]
The Ship's Piano Darren Hayman may not be challenging Adele for the most sales in 2011 but he certainly hasn't let a comparative lack of mass appeal stop him from continuing to make ever more music, both old and new, available. Always a productive chap, even he has stepped up a gear in 2011. So far he has delivered a tune a day for a month (January Songs, available via Bandcamp), a collection [...]
The ever-active Darren Hayman is at it again. Not content with his January Songs project and the Vostok 5 music/ art collaboration this year (not to mention the new Ship's Piano record), he's released 15 more songs linked to the Essex Arms albums, including demos and alternative versions. He's well versed now in the suburban folk sound, hymning the poetry of the county of his birth, its people and its infrastructure, with simple arrangements to complement the yearning in his voice. 'Sting and his Lute' stands out for the title alone while 'Beach Head' is a skanking Hayman [...]
Phish has just posted a note on their official website thanking dozens of companies that helped them throw Wednesday's benefit for Vermont Flood Relief Efforts and also mentioned that the show in Essex Junction raised in excess of $1.2 million (!!) for the cause. Keep in mind that it will take years to rebuild everything that was damaged by the remnants of Hurricane Irene, so individuals can still donate to The Waterwheel Foundation . Be sure to specify that you would like your contribution [...]
Many of us are getting our #couchtour setups ready for Phish's show tonight at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, Vermont and wondering how else we can help out the Green Mountain State recover from Hurricane Irene. Besides the proceeds from the webcast of tonight's show, there are plenty of other ways to get involved, albeit from afar. [via Vermont Flooding FB Page ] One way to stay on top of the recovery efforts is by monitoring Twitter. [...]
Phish = pot of gold? | Photo by @phortin When Phish decides to completely blow your mind with three straight shows, six sets, 70 songs, and over 9 hours of music, it's tough to write about the experience. It really is. I've written a few now deleted paragraphs that just can't do the Labor Day Weekend justice. It was truly some of the best Phish I've ever seen . A few weeks ago I wrote about the Gorge and the most defining jam of 3.0 (to these ears) in the [...]
With Vermont residents still reeling from the state's worst natural disaster in a century, the state's legendary jam band, Phish , will be offering some relief through a September 14th benefit show. The September 14th performance will take place at Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, VT and marks the band's first performance in the state since 2004. To ensure that locals have the first opportunity to attend the show, the September 10th public on-sale will be in-person only with box office locations revealed Friday, September 9th at the band's website . General admissions tickets will cost $75 [...]
For any Phish fan, the question they undoubtedly are asked time after time is some variation of "You're going to see them again ?" or "Don't they play the same stuff?" or "Aren't you sick of them by now?" While the polite reply may be to smirk whilst trying to gently explain that the band is always spontaneous and unpredictable, and never plays the same thing twice, you are probably thinking that this person is simply missing out on the ride of lifetime. Now, I am not trying to slam any non-Phish fan, but wanted [...]
UPDATE: Phish confirmed they will perform at the benefit concert on their official website. The post lists ticket prices at $75 with a special "Friend of WaterWheel" package available for $250. The specially priced ticket includes, "preferred parking, a reserved box seat, a limited edition poster and access to a Vermont craft beer tent." A limited number of tickets are currently on sale via Phish Tickets , ending on Wednesday, Sept. 7 at noon ET. In an effort to assure local Vermonters get tickets, general on-sale tickets will be only sold in-person on Saturday, Sept. [...]
Darren Hayman Capping a ludicrously busy year, Darren Hayman has a brand new solo album of piano ballads called The Ship's Piano out on October. It will be available as deluxe fold out card sleeve CD and on 12 inch vinyl. Darren described the project here: "In November 2009, I had this thing happen to me, where I ended up in hospital with a fractured skull. [...]
Before I launch into the semi-regular comic book news items, I want to throw attention to Turbo Defiant Kimecan , an online graphic novel that's been around since January 2010 and is poised to jump to print later this year. But it's not the print work that's catching my attention, it's how they handled the online publication. The panels jump seamlessly, the art is beautifully reproduced...It's actually fun to read it online, as each mouse click builds suspense. This is the future of comics. Why they're going to print, I don't know. Oh, wait. Yes I do. Because you [...]
Danny Schmidt is touring England and Wales through June and July in support of his seventh album Man of Many Moons , the album is bare-bones affair with limited instrumentation giving centre stage to Schmidt's clean vocal and sweet guitar, there are ten Schmidt originals on the album and an excellent cover of Bob Dylan's Buckets of Rain , the Austin singer songwriter is an artistic all-rounder who not only writes and records wonderful folk music but is an excellent photographer , he designs all of his own artwork for his albums and has produced albums for [...]
Man I Fucking Love Super Chron Flight Brothers Don't tell me you dig off-the-wall shit if you don't have everything they've dropped COP the new Billy Woods mixtape HERE And don't forget to thank me in the comment section TRACKLISTING AFTER THE JUMP - 1. Intro 2. Slaughterhouse [...]
You may have forgotten (six years is a lifetime in this biz), but Gordon Zacharias is still alive and well and doing business as Fan Modine . Gratitude For The Shipper , his latest exercise, will arrive on May 24th, bringing with it a loosely-connected song cycle of impeccably-crafted ornate pop, certain to find favor with fans of Mick Harvey, John Cale, The Divine Comedy and Belle & Sebastien. Admittedly, you may not be familiar with Fan Modine, however, Zacharias has cultivated quite a loyal following of [...]
New Peter Case due May 10th and available now to pre-order on CD and limited pink vinyl featuring demos, out-takes, a live shot & other rarities. Here's the teaser track. Peter Case - Round Trip Stranger Blues UK Tour Dates 11th May The Railway Hotel Southend-On-Sea, Essex 14th May Birchmeadow Centre Broseley , Shropshire 15th May Twickfolk The Cabbage Patch Pub Twickenham 16th May Green Door Store Brighton 18th May The [...]
Peter Case - The Case Files Peter Case has put together a rarities album, The Case Files , that includes tracks from his 25 year career. The album, which will be released on May 10, 2011, includes "Round Trip Stranger Blues" which can be downloaded here: Peter Case - "Round Trip Stranger Blues" The singer-songwriter whose musical biography also includes his work with The Plimsouls, The Nerves and The Breakaways will be starting a world tour on April 28, 2011 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Complete tour [...]
This rather severe looking fellow dressed as Ian Curtis above is 22-year-old Essex producer Lapalux (Stuart Howard), and someone to get very excited about. On his process, Howard says, "I like to have a photo or a picture of something near me when I write music. I see an image and turn it into music." It's a statement that makes complete sense when you listen to his compositions. Howard speaks in the language of environments. His music evokes the imagination, conjuring up imagery of a forest floor turning green at spring's first warmth, of curious [...]
photo: Carrie Elkin Americana singer Danny Schmidt is on tour in Europe this summer, promoting his Man Of Many Moons album playing in Germany, The Netherlands, and the UK. More dates in Germany and Norway will be announced shortly. Live dates: 06/10 Eppstein, Germany @ Wunderbar Weite Welt Café 06/11 Grollo, The Netherlands @ Groeten uit Grollo 06/14 Leiden,The Netherlands @ Q-Bus [...]
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