Video: We Are Augustines - Chapel Song

Weekly Playlist 78 features The Cast of Cheers, St Lucia, We Are Augustines, Zulu Winter, The Antlers, Beirut, and Snakadaktal The Cast of Cheers - Go Getter St Lucia - September We Are Augustines - Chapel Song Zulu Winter - Moments Drift The Antlers - Drift Drive Beirut - The Rip Tide Snakadaktal - Dance Bear

Brooklyn indie rock trio We Are Augustines pull into The Phoenix in Toronto on March 30th with Band Of Skulls . The group are touring hard in support of their 2011 sophomore album Rise Ye Sunken Ships . To help you get in the mood, have a look at We Are Augustine's award-winning video for "Chapel Song": I have a pair of passes to give away for the show. They can be yours if you hit me up: Email Twitter [...]

Indie, Rock, Folk, Acoustic - We Are Augustines is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based musicians Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson. The band formed from the ashes of Billy and Eric’s former band Pela. Their album ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships’ was released in August of 2011 and 2012 should also be a big year for them with [...]

We write from our hearts, which happens to be something that we strongly demand from any bands that are covered on these blog pages. There are few rules to earn your place on The Recommender, except that you have to be bloody good and write your music with integrity. If we like you then we write you, and today's recommendation has our hearts properly hooked. We're certainly not the first online commentators to point this duo out to people, because they've enjoyed a building swarm of online coverage as we lead up to their debut album. They've earned [...]

• We Are Augustines - Book Of James
• We Are Augustines - Headlong Into The Abyss

The end of the so-called “winter that wasn’t” will soon be upon us, as February has come and gone, and the month of March is now here. However, there’s way more to celebrate than just the impending arrival of the spring season. Check out the shows TVD will be giving away free tickets to this month… Maybe the luck of the Irish will be on your side, and you’ll be one of the TVD readers going to see one of these upcoming 9:30 Club shows. [...]

We Are Augustines from Brooklyn (yes, another band from that area of NYC) have popped up on my radar just recently, even though they released their debut 'Rise Ye Sunken Ships' last year in America. (The US release info gave me pause, as in "how the hell have I not heard about these guys before?" I've embedded the official video for the lovely 'Chapel Song' below.) They're just getting around to releasing in 2012 in the UK next Monday (5th of March) on Oxcart Records, and they're giving away the track 'Augustines' in exchange for [...]

27th February will see the release of Chapel Song , the new single from Brooklyn's We Are Augustines. Following on from the success of their debut single Book Of James, the single precedes the UK release of the bands debut LP Rise Ye Sunken Ships (released in the US last year), which will see the light of day on these shores on March 5th. The band play a decent amount of European shows over the next few weeks in support of the release. You can check them out [...]

We Are Augustines by Julia Stryj By Julia Stryj I arrive at the Picturehouse in Edinburgh to interview We Are Augustines just after their sound check for their gig as support to Frightened Rabbit. When I meet the “lovely and beautiful” (I am sure that is how bassist Eric Sanderson described her very correctly in an interview I listened to) Arwen, their manager, she apologises right away and tells me that everything is running behind schedule. The band hasn’t even started their sound check yet. Billy McCarthy (vocal/guitar) [...]

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Ein kleiner netter Song für den kalten Sonntag – das Video ist schon einige Monage alt, aber die Single erscheint erst jetzt in England, warum auch immer. Sehr angenehmes Lied, wie ich finde. (Danke an Franky für den Tipp!)

The internet broke twice yesterday, first around noon when At the Drive-In tweeted out their unexpected reunion news, and then roughly seven hours later when COACHELLA unveiled its incredible 2012... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

Wasuppppp. Want to go see NYC's  We Are Augustines with Hamilton folk-gazers The Rest this weekend @ Wrongbar? Of course you do, cuz those are two killa bands. Which is why it's awesome that courtesy of Embrace Presents we're giving away two passes to the show . In order to win, email us at shows@goldsoundzblog.com or via twitter and tell me: What band has a song called "Saint Augustine"?

Your picks for Tuesday: ► Buzz Bands LA's SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe goes off with Nik Freitas , the Sister Ruby Band , Ben Heywood of Summer Darling and Adeline & the Philistines . The festivities start at 9; details here . ► We Are Augustines , the new project from Pela's Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson who were explosive when they visited the Roxy back in May, swings back through L.A. for a show at the Bootleg Theater behind their album "Rise Ye Drunken [...]

Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Aliya Naumoff We Are Augustines have gone through a lot to release their debut album, 'Rise Ye Sunken Ships.' Two of the band's three members, Billy McCarthy (vocals/guitar) and Eric Sanderson (bass), were previously in Brooklyn indie group Pela , who splintered in August 2009 for a multitude of reasons. McCarthy, at the same time, was reeling from the [...]

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Happy Monday!  It may almost be Labor Day, but this week New York City will host some of the its biggest outdoor concerts of the summer.  While Santigold , Cee Lo , Janelle Monae , Toro y Moi ,  Das Racist and more will be playing the Afro-Punk Festival , Head and the Heart , Gogol Bordello , and The Roots are playing Governors Island as a part of the Dave Matthews Band Caravan . Daytrotter's Barnstormer 5 is also [...]

We Are Augustines is what is left of the shattered Brooklyn band Pela. The enduring Pela remnants comprise of Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson. Following the release of Pela's debut Anytown Graffitti , the band dismantled after singer-songwriter McCarthy's brother committed suicide.  "Book of James" is about McCarthy's brother's struggles with addiction and subsequent suicide. Here are "Book of James" and "Chapel Song" that will be on their debut album  Rise Ye Sunken Ships (June 2011).  In addition, the tonsil hockey video for "Chapel Song" and a short documentary on the making of the album.  Another song you can [...]

• We Are Augustines - Book-Of-James.mp3
• We Are Augustines - Chapel Song

New York is a never ending orgy of musical talent. I suppose this blog is kind of like the seedy next door neighbor who is always listening in on the action and telling everyone about it. We Are Augustines are another promising band from the big apple. Chapel Song is an uplifting indie power ballad, complete with horn section that takes this soaring song to even greater heights.  If I was to play the name-game, I'd say they sound like The Killers stripped back to the bare essentials, and with less eye-liner. [...]

Music videos by bands performing in the area during the upcoming week. Highlights include videos by The Go! Team [pictured], The Boxer Rebellion, We Are Augustines, and many more... As part of our new Video Arcade Series , Foundwaves is posting music videos by some of the bands performing in the area each week.  Bands with videos to add can send them to press@foundwaves.com. The Go! Team - "Tornado” (dir. James Slater) Click here to view [...]

I am not someone who gets very worked up over most new releases. Sure there are a select few... new Radiohead albums obvs, other releases from some of my dearest favorites or perhaps a band releasing an album after a long hiatus (the Strokes, however, do not apply here). But this year I am just a teensy bit OVERWHELMINGLY anticipating the release of the debut album from NYC band We Are Augustines (Bill McCarthy and Eric Sanderson formerly of indie rock group Pela), entitled Rise Ye Sunken Ships . Due out for [...]