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 [...]
Mixtape: Twenty Bands at Noise Pop 20 (Podcast #271) Noise Pop 20 is just weeks away. From February 21st through the 26th, over one hundred bands will take over SF's venues for six days celebrating independent music. True to form, this year's Noise Pop Festival includes an eclectic mix of veterans and emerging artists, and you'd be wise to buy your tickets soon, because many shows are starting to sell out. To get familiar with many of the bands performing at Noise Pop this year, here's [...]
5 Songs is a weekly series where we point out the strange, the grand, and the unique connections between our favorite songs. Let's get weird. Words by Chris Growing up in Western Pennsylvania, there was always this weird anti-Ohio attitude that cut deeply. Although without Ohio, none of us in Beaver County, living on the border, would be drinking any beer in high school. So thanks, East Palestine, for your beat-up 7-Elevens. It's a [...]
It's been quite a while since I've delved in the world of album covers in my ongoing album art lover series, but I was inspired by Sharon Van Etten's sleeve for her brilliant new album, Tramp (which is streaming on NPR today by the way) to explore the ever-popular face cover. They say that 93% of communication is non-verbal, which perhaps explains why the face-cover has endured for so long. You can usually get a good idea of the album you're about to hear by the expression and composition of the [...]
Bind Pilot & The Barr Brothers / Mr. Smalls / 2.10.2012 / Doors 7:00 / $13.50 Words by Jim It's always fun to catch a band around town and see them return a few years later, a few years older, and a few fans stronger. Case in point: Blind Pilot . I caught them back in 2009 when they played with (the seriously awesome) Laura Veirs at Club Cafe. Fast forward three years later, the band has a new album and they're playing at [...]
De ondertitel luidt Sings folk songs for children. Kinderliedjes in plaats van nummers voor volwassenen. De tracklist doet dan ook het ergste vermoeden: "Little Lap Dog Lullaby", "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O", "Jump Down Spin Around". Aan alles merk je...
Her set featured: The Fox Jack Can I Ride Prairie Lullaby All The Pretty Little Horses Enjoy the full playback here. Tumble Bee is out now. Purchase Laura Veirs items via Insound. MP3: Laura Veirs - July Flame (Alvin Risk Mix)
The genre of children's entertainment can be sanitized to a point of condescension-we simply don't give kids enough credit. But, every so often, an artist comes along who remembers that kids are participants in the same world, players in the same game, that adults are...albeit, smaller players. On Tumble Bee , Laura Veirs manages to speak the language of youth without falling into the traps of over-simplifying matters or censoring herself. I'm not saying this is a dark or explicit children's album-actually, it'd be better described as a ray of sunshine in the depths of winter-but it's a children's [...]
LAURA VEIRS (early show) ( Mississippi Studios , 3939 N Mississippi) Read our article on Laura Veirs . JEFFREY LEWIS AND THE JUNKYARD, ALMOST NEARLY, AWKWARD ENERGY (late show) ( Mississippi Studios , 3939 N Mississippi) Read our article on Jeffrey Lewis . THE CAVE [...]
Music made for kids-- or at least with kids in mind-- hasn't had the best of reputations. Oh, the kids like it fine, it's not them who've done the complaining. Parents, on the other hand, have often been forced to endure the kind of earworms that may actually kill brain cells. Good news, parents! There is another way. Perhaps inspired to action by those aforementioned negative possibilities and no doubt by the fact that she's a relatively new parent, Laura Veirs seems to have made her new Tumble Bee with both parent [...]
Last week Laura Veirs released the fantastic Tumble Bee (which we gave 8/10) and now she's announced she'll be heading to the UK for a 6-date UK tour this January and February 2012, including a performance at the Queeen Elizabeth Hall in London. Monday 30 January – London – Queen Elizabeth Hall (£15 - £17.50) Tuesday 31 January – Nottinghma – Rescue Rooms (£10) Wednesday 1 February – Manchester – Quay Theatre (£12.50) Thursday 2 February – Gateshead – Sage Hall [...]
Delightful Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has finally, after years of fan and friend suggestion, released an album of children's folk songs. Working alongside Grammy-nominated producer Tucker Martine the duo spent the early part of this year leafing through hundreds of folk songs composed by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers to Woody Guthrie as well as a cover of Harry Belafonte's 'Jump Down Spin Around', and set about compiling and recording a modern-day anthology of little ditties, lullabies and nonsense rhymes [...]
Laura Veirs follows in the footsteps of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and others with a solid collection of songs for children. Laura Veirs follows in the footsteps of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and others with Tumble Bee, a collection of songs for children. The half-hour set is sweet start to finish, with Veirs and long-time producer and collaborator Tucker Martine, giving these songs simple but lush instrumentation that keep classic children's songs fresh. She is alternately comforting ("Prairie Lullaby") and playful (the tack piano romp of "Jack Can I Ride?"). Her take on "Jamaican Farewell", with...
Come ci aveva anticipato lo scorso Febbraio con questa intervista pubblicata su indie-eye.it , Laura Veirs torna con una collezione di canzoni folk per bambini. La nascita di Tennessee, iniziato alle gioie del tour ancor dentro il pancione, ha ispirato a Laura e al marito (e produttore) Tucker Martine una lunga ricerca negli archivi fisici e mentali della vecchia canzone popolare, in alcuni casi ben nota, in altri presa in prestito dal dimenticatoio. Non siate scettici: non troverete ninnananne e filastrocche appannaggio esclusivo di supermamme e supernonne, e non rischierete di essere stroncati dal sonno [...]
5 Songs is a weekly series where we point out the strange, the grand, and the unique connections between our favorite songs. Let's get weird. Words by Chris Carosi It's a drag to think about love sometimes, and these 5 songs take into account the fragility of love in the form of li'l animals, and use them to expose truths about abandonment, sexual congress, and asphyxiation. You go, girls! [...]
Not everyone follows up their acclaimed singer-songwriter albums with a disc of children's music, but few children's albums are as mature, upbeat, or dark (trust us), as Laura Veirs latest, which she tells PopMatters all about ... Slowly but surely, confidently and quietly, Laura Veirs has become a significant presence among American folk artists. The singer who began writing while she was a translator for a geological expedition in China has since released seven increasingly acclaimed albums, toured internationally and settled down in Portland, Oregon with producer Tucker Martine and a young son. Veirs' last LP, 2010's July Flame, [...]
Popmuziek voor kinderen is er in alle soorten en maten. In ons land hebben we acts als de Bende van 4 en De Kinderband . In de USA lijkt popmuziek voor kinderen een enorme markt te zijn, waar acts als Rachel Buchman en Raffi het voor het zeggen hebben. Zo af en toe maakt een act die zich op een meer volwassen publiek richt een album voor kinderen. Zo maakten They Might Be Giants drie erg aardige en leerzame albums voor kinderen: Here Comes Science, Here Come the ABCs en Here Come [...]
Emblazoned upon the artwork of Laura Veirs' new album Tumble Bee is a worrying phrase: 'Laura Veirs sings folk songs for children'. But don't let that put you off. This is an album to be enjoyed by adults too. And teenagers. And those lucky older ones eligible for a free bus pass. Actually, some teenagers may deem it not 'cool' enough for their recherché tastes, but that's pure denial - they'll soon think otherwise. (I should know, being only a few years out of teenagedom myself.) No, it is not the exclusive fare of those mad li... Read more..
Indie rock and children's entertainment have been crossing over in the most weird and wonderful ways in recent times. Whether that be numerous indie mainstays (The Shins, Flaming Lips, Wilco et al) appearing prominently on the Spongebob Squarepants Movie soundtrack or Yellow Bird's lovingly put-together Indie Rock Colouring Book, pre-school tastemakers have never had it so good. Fitting in very comfortably within this climate of kindergarten indie is Laura Veirs ' latest effort Tumble Bee , a collection of trusty standards and refreshing originals aimed directly at discerning youngsters getting tired of the same old nursery [...]
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