The A.V. Club is running this great series called One Track Mind , where a classic indie song is discussed with its writer, and then the musician performs it live. There has been about nine episodes so far, and chats with people like Bob Mould on 'Hoover Dam' and St. Vincent on 'Surgeon' . One of the latest installments is with Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann , and the song discussed is "Web in Front" from 1993's Icky Mettle. Bachmann clarifies a few things about the song, [...]
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Date Thursday, December 1st Location Mohawk Doors 900 pm Tickets $10 from Frontgate As the year draws closer and closer to wrapping up, we've all got to take advantage of the great traveling shows that are trickling into our town. Thursday night's show over at the Mohawk isn't just a show to attend because it's one of the last of the year; it's [...]
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Eric Bachmann has been many things throughout his varied career. The former Archers of Loaf frontman was a pioneer of '90s slacker alt-rock. All he ever wanted was to be your spine. In 1998, he turned Nebraska -era Springsteen-inspired folk singer. Now, six albums deep into his folk excursion, Bachmann is as determined and self-assured as he's ever been. Breaks in the Armor is easily the most listenable and fully realized Crooked Fingers release to date. This is a set of dynamic, well paced, and beautifully rendered rock music. And where Bachmann's [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Our knowledge of Eric Bachmann predominantly resides in his roll as the main man in Archers of Loaf , but as years have gone by, Eric's crafted some beautiful records. Some have been under his own name, but most have come via the Crooked Fingers moniker, and Breaks in the Armor might just be his best non-AoL record yet. Bachmann has this greatly affecting voice, and it's this voice that carries album opener, "Typhoon." [...]
Eric Bachmann returns as Crooked Fingers with his passion-filled sixth full length album, Breaks in the Armor.
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Eric Bachmann wrote one of my favorite all-time songs, and I'm sorry to say that it wasn't while he was working with Archers of Loaf , though they have great tracks as well. The song was called "Man O' War," and you can watch the video (and realize why I love it) HERE . Ever since then, I've enjoyed everything he's done, especially his work with Crooked Fingers ; it's got everything to do with his powerful voice. The band has a new album, Breaks [...]
Just because Archers of Loaf are in the thick of a successful reunion , doesn't mean that frontman Eric Bachmann is resting on his laurels. In fact, Bachmann's other project, Crooked Fingers , have recently canned a new record and mapped out plans for a fall tour of North America. The new album, Breaks in the Armor , is Bachmann's sixth under the Crooked Fingers moniker and follows 2008's Forfeit/Fortune . Recording in the [...]
The late 90s were quite a time to be in the North Carolina Triangle if you were a music nerd. One of the Triangle's bigger-name bands, Archers of Loaf ,went on its hiatus around the time of my arrival for graduate school in '98, so they were one I never got to see live. Which I think is why I wasn't so much into them then. On record, I didn't catch the melody and the hooks enough to dig further than Icky Mettle, and on that, I definitely preferred the more accessible tracks like "Web in Front" [...]
The influential North Carolina indie rock group's first and most essential album gets reissued as a 27-track-long double disc.
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Frank Yang Sunday night's Crooked Fingers show had a number of things going against it. For starters, it was a Sunday night. The Sunday night of a long weekend. The Sunday night of a long weekend during Pride. But what it had going for it was that it was a Crooked Fingers show. But even for the Eric Bachmann faithful, the show had the stacked against it somewhat for what it wasn't, and that's an Archers Of Loaf show. Indeed, only the need to transport gear for [...]
Depois de 13 anos sem tocarem juntos, o Archers of Loaf se reuniu para uma nova turnê. A banda lançou quatro excelentes álbums, o último de 1998, até a separação. E depois disso, o vocalista, Eric Bachmann , montou o Crooked Fingers . Em passagem pelo Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - a primeira desde a reunião - eles tocaram Wrong , canção de seu primeiro disco, o clássico Icky Mettle , de 1991, que ganhou o título de melhor disco de indie rock daquele ano, pela Interview. [...]
The late Mark Linkous left behind an unfinished collabo with Azure Ray , a song left off the duo's 2010 comeback album Drawing Down the Moon . Sparklehorse and Azure Ray recorded a demo of "Silverlake", the band's first song together since reuniting (via TwentyFourBit ). Since that session, the song has received a facelift and is out as a single. According to TwentyFourBit, Saddle Creek labelmate Eric Bachmann performed the surgery, pulling together Linkous and bandmate Scott Minor's Knoxville, Tennessee recordings with new tracks. What resulted is the single version [...]
firstly, i cannot express in words the amount of appreciation for the outpouring of support a lot of you have given me. it truly warms the cackles of my ever blackening heart. again, guys/gals i truly, truly appreciate. so thank you. until i can re-download some of the records i was going to talk about, it may be a repost fest for the next week. up first, and this was requested sometime ago, is the archers of loaf at the showbox on 1.2.98 1. intro 2. step into the light [...]
Eric Bachmann at The Great American Music Hall , from the HAD Archive We'll make no secret of the fact that we here at HAD are fans of Eric Bachmann : Whether it be with his seminal days with Archers Of Loaf, his recent work with Crooked Fingers, or his gradually increasing solo output, the man always manages to create a sound that is completely his own. Given that, we were totally psyched to see that Bachmann will be making a solo appearance at Mercury [...]
Even when Crooked Fingers croons like Cookie Monster, he takes you to a time when vocals stood defiantly front-and-center.
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