"Altos Lugares", which actually means High Places in Spanish, is Rob Barber and Mary Pearson's new video. They are running around a desert in a ghost-like form. It was shot "at dawn in Spahn Ranch, the one-time home base for Charles Manson and the Family" and it certainly feels kind of spooky, but -at the same time- sweet.
High Places' Rob Barber and Mary Pearson are sonic soulmates who finish each others sentences and have found a common ground despite their disparate backgrounds--Pearson grew up in rural Michiga... Continue reading "High Places' Rob Barber and Mary Pearson on Moving West and Ditching Nostalgia" >
Every once and a while, an album comes into your life that serves a need that you didn't realize needed filling. Within the first listen you appreciate it; by the second listen it is speaking to you in a soft whisper telling you everything is going to be alright; by the third listen, it wedges its way into your heart in such a way that you know it's going to be there for a long time to come. High Places self-titled debut is such an album. The Brooklyn based duo released their much-anticipated debut last week. Comprised of [...]

High Places hail from Brooklyn and this was my third time seeing them. The band's sound is full of lovely contradictions. They write music that feels like summertime - and not that loud beach party sort of summertime, but more like a summer you've had and remember. To me, summer has always seemed distant - even in July. Only as I reach its conclusion do I realize how much has really happened. High Places grab onto that feeling and take it somewhere new. As Rob Barber tends childlike, tempests of burping and jingling percussion and