Video: 'Laredo' by Band of Horses on Q TV

It's been a wild ride for Band Of Horses in the past four years plus. It doesn't feel that long ago, but ENS remembers seeing BOH on their very first trip through the Queen City back in 2006 . Yeah, that was when we really didn't know how to do live reviews and Joe was taking pics on a tiny point and shoot camera. Thankfully we now have the services of Keith Klenowski at our disposal, and get pics like the one above to help us preview the return of BOH to Cincinnati. Not [...]

Plaid-shirt wearing beardies Band Of Horses have gone all cinematic for their third opus, and in the process, they’ve lost some of the darker edginess that made us love them in the first place. There’s not a whole lot wrong with Infinite Arms . From sweeping album opener, ‘Factory’, it’s clear that they’ve opened their lens wide, with lead Horseman Ben Bridwell taking a big, anthemic, wide-screen approach to song-writing (much of Infinite Arms was penned in a cabin on the Canadian border in Minnesota). So far, so admirable. But after a dozen [...]