Live music picks for WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 through TUESDAY AUGUST 30, 2011. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 / THE WAR ON DRUGS / THE DRAKE HOTEL / 1150 QUEEN ST W / $12 / 19+ Brooklyn-based band Caveman and London, UK's Porcelain Raft warm up the crowd before Philadelphia four-piece indie-rockers The War on Drugs take the stage. Adam Granduciel (vocals/guitarist) leads The War on Drugs, who play confident textured sets of ageless rock with a blend of Americana, anchored by Dylanesque lyrics and [...]
La Blogotheque 's take away video of Colin Stetson has a note, "If ever there was a time to not write about music and to simply listen, this is it." Wholeheartedly agreed. The second volume of Colin Stetson's 'New History Warfare' series on Constellation deserves every bit of praise, including perhaps the best album of this year and Pitchfork's remark 'Once in a while, I can convince myself that it's impossible to say anything truly new in music. [..] But then I'll come across a new record that sounds like nothing else I've [...]
There are a lot of factors that can negatively contribute to your appreciation of a live act at SXSW. The risk factors include: fatigue, exhaustion, intoxication level, extreme climate conditions, improper venue and obstructed visualization of the stage. The risk factors can make your experience and interpretation of a performance completely different than a fellow comrade. That being said, here are my personal picks of shows that turned out to be the most pleasing. Below, are the best web videos I could find for each artist. Seryn, Lost In the Trees and Typhoon's live shows I attended had much [...]
New History Warfare Vol 2, Colin Stetson. Confesso que não sei por onde começar para descrever o segundo disco a solo do saxofonista Colin Steson. Para quem não conhece, e deve ser a maioria, Stetson, para além de um disco a solo, já colaborou como meio mundo que tem bom gosto musical. Destacam-se as colaborações com Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson (que participa neste disco), Beirute e Arcade Fire, entre outros. Agora gravou um disco para a Constellation com a colaboração de Ismaily Shahzad e de Efrim Menuck. Mas o que se pode escrever sobre Stetson. Dizer que toca saxofone é [...]
It looks like our friends over at La Blogotheque got to spend an intimate afternoon with Colin Stetson, everyones favorite free-jazz bass sax virtuoso turned indie sensation. Fresh off of collaborations with Laurie Anderson and Tom Waits, Colin Stetson has been making waves with his lauded release New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation Records). Check him out in the clip below as he practices deep mantra inducing tones and allows us all, for once, to be thankful for whoever Stetson's PR agent is, for turning the indie-blog world onto avant-guarde squealy jazz musings. [...]
Colin Stetson : Take Away Show Part 1 Sharing for the pure power and ballerness that Colin Stetson posses to flippin’ circular breath a baritone sax. Just unrelenting. Sure it’s different nor will it ever be on a mixtape of mine but damn. I bet his neighbors are thrilled. View: Part 2
[ watch part II here ] ________________ previously : mp3: Colin Stetson :: Fear of the unknown and the Blazing Sun
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