PopMatters spotlights a few additional 2012 albums that didn't quite crack the Best 75 list . Artist: Sharon Van Etten Album: Tramp Label: Jagjaguwar Image: http://images.popmatters.com/m usic_cover_art/e/etten1.jpg Display as: List List number: Display Width: 200 Sharon Van EttenTramp "Singer-songwriter" can be a damning epithet, since the music world is overpopulated with individuals wanting to express themselves with their guitars. The expectation of expressiveness too often ends up pigeonholing female musicians in the confessional genre (that dogs women in film and literature as well). Though Sharon Van Etten fits squarely within this sometimes...
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Sharon Van Etten + Flock of Dimes Carnegie Lecture Hall / 04.28.2012 / Doors 7:00 / $12-$15 Words by Brendan We're big fans of Sharon Van Etten around here. Same goes for Wye Oak , so when we heard Sharon will be stopping at the gorgeous Carnegie Lecture in Oakland with special guest Jenn Wasner from Wye Oak -playing as Flock of Dimes -we could barely contain our excitement. The show is now only a few days away, [...]

Photo by Dusdin Condren Sharon Van Etten's latest album, Tramp , is one of our favorite releases of 2012 thus far. A combination of both gentle folk and hauntingly earnest indie rock, Tramp sounds like a classic without dating itself. It's a melancholic record with upbeat and downtempo moments, but it always manages to draw the beauty from beneath its plaintive face. For those in the Baltimore/D.C. area, I highly recommend catching Van Etten's performance at the Ottobar this Thurday, 4/19. The Ottobar is located [...]
Sharon Van Etten has been giving off nothing but good vibrations. She made her debut performance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and released her critically acclaimed Tramp via Jagjaguwar. Check out her new video for "Leonard," directed by Sam Zimman, who gives us a glimpse of what the world would look like through a [...]
SHARON VAN ETTEN, THE WAR ON DRUGS ( Aladdin Theater , 3017 SE Milwaukie) Read our article on Sharon Van Etten . MR. GNOME, POINT JUNCTURE WA, SUN ANGLE ( Doug Fir , 830 E Burnside) Cleveland's husband-wife duo Mr. Gnome are a force. Blending a love of creepy surrealism with metal chops, they meld crushing, soaring beauty with towering walls of dark, hard rock. That tends to be a solid combination in general, but [...]
Ok I have had the date March 27th marked on my calendar for sometime now in anticipation of the Sharon Van Etten & The War On Drugs Co-Headlining show at The State Room in Salt Lake City, Utah. Well it turns out that March 27th falls on the same day I have my Hockey Championship game and can't make the show (Yes I know, I am a Canadian Homer). Now I have 2 tickets to the show that I have to give away to one lucky winner, here in the Salt Lake City area. If [...]
Sharon Van Etten - Leonard
Sharon Van Etten spins a kaleidoscope while on a journey of love in her last video, "Leonard."

There are streaks of Vashti Bunyan in Sharon Van Etten 's lulled, willowing voice, and Will Oldham in her dimly lit recordings. No effects, no tricky vocal lines or harmonies. The raw power of Etten's dark melody — the way she holds the sad notes and sighs them out like a line of twisting cigarette smoke — is stunning. A patient guitar and harmonizing vocals shuffle along underneath Etten's prayerful ascending voice and then lilt back down like leaves. Just a few days following her highly lauded performances at SXSW where she played the NPR showcase and [...]
We seem to be getting overwhelmed by high quality videos at the moment so it would be churlish and not a little selfish of us not to share some of the best with you. Kicking off is the wonderful video for the delicately beautiful Tuck The Darkness In from the Bowerbirds new album The Clearing . a Next we have Cheyenne Marie Mize and a video for her adventurous track Wishing Well from [...]
il video di Leonard di Sharon Van Etten , dal nuovo album Tramp , uscito a Febbraio per Jagjaguwar.

In this edition: Pick up the dub-step/hip hop compilation from Philosophy Major, go see France Rocks Austin at SXSW, and this week's videos. Philosophy Major - Altered States Vol. 1 Philosophy Major is a collective of North Carolina dub-step, hip hop and trip hop artists who have released a free compilation called Altered States Volume 1 . It's a great sampling of material from artists who call the underground, home. Fans of the [...]
Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Acoustic, Female vocalists, Indie folk - Sharon Van Etten's track "Leonard", from her third LP "Tramp", is arguably one of the strongest cuts on the album. The visuals for the track, directed by Sam Zimman, features scenes from the road through kaleidoscopic lens with a ghostly rendering of Sharon's face. Tramp is out [...]
Check out the b-side to her "Leonard" single.
Sharon Van Etten is back with a new music video for her single, "Leonard", in support of her newest release, Tramp. You can see Scenestar favorite, Sharon Van Etten, when she headlines at the Avalon Hollywood on Tuesday, Mar. 20...
Tweet vaso link I'm still beating myself up over the fact that I wasn't able to turn out a review for the newest, and stunningly beautiful, Sharon Van Etten LP Tramp . She's currently on tour, and the album has been getting deservedly rave reviews. If you have not checked it out yet here is the latest video for the song "Leonard." Don't let the seemingly upbeat guitar strumming fool you, this song is about heartbreak. Van Etten sings "he's smart, he leaves me wanting [...]
Maybe only 2nd to Grimes in the female buzz factor recently, Sharon Van Etten has exploded up recently, and for very good reason. Her recent record Tramp was superb, and now single “Leonard” gets a video. The hook on this really get the gal to show off those bombastic vocal chops. We take a kaleidoscope view over the city streets as we get to go first -person and ride around with Sharon. Sharon Van Etten - “Leonard”

“I’m looking for something that’ll… break through. You know?” James Woods’ Max Renn yearns in David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic Videodrome . Oh, how things have changed. In today’s day and age, we’ve already drowned in media. It’s swallowed us. We’re nothing but a bubble amidst one infinite, engulfing abyss. Intimidated? You should be. With each passing second, you’re losing opportunities to take advantage of a culture that’s moving ahead and at an exhausting rate. You could very well be alone… left behind… abandoned. Terrified yet? Yes? Well, that’s more like it. -Michael Roffman [...]
Maybe there's too many videos this week? Today, we got new ones from Cymbals Eat Guitars , Sharon Van Etten , and Washed Out , from his most recent Daytrotter session . Watch them all below. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Definite Darkness Sharon Van Etten - Leonard Washed Out - Flower Anthem (Daytrotter Session)