By Jennifer Marston on February 22, 2011
Any live clip from The Old 97′s is a treat, and frontman Rhett Miller just made our week with a new one. OK, technically NP made our week, because it’s currently streaming a collection of songs Miller performed when he dropped by The Afternoon Show.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams, New Music, Tours | Tagged Rhett Miller, The Old 97's
By Jennifer Marston on February 16, 2011
Roots rockers The Felice Brothers have signed with Oxford, Mississippi-based imprint Fat Possum, joining the likes of the Smith Westerns, Wavves, and Andrew Bird. And a new album is on the way!
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Posted in News, Tours | Tagged Andrew Bird, Fat Possum, Smith Westerns, Team Love, The Felice Brothers, Wavves
By Jennifer Marston on February 14, 2011
The label whose family includes Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Shelby Lynne, and Willie Nelson celebrates an epic ten years with an epic series of vinyl releases.
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Posted in New Music, News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Drive By Truckers, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, Hayes Carll, Johnny Cash, Lost Highway, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, Ray Price, Robert Earl Keen, Ryan Bingham, Shelby Lynne, Whiskeytown, Willie Nelson
By Jennifer Marston on February 4, 2011
You knew we wouldn’t get too far into 2011 without hearing that the Wilco boys are planning to spend the majority of their year on the tour bus. OK, the band hasn’t quite announced any epic tours yet, but the first dates are up, including another installment of the Solid Sound Festival.
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Posted in News, Tours | Tagged Solid Sound Festival, Wilco
By Jennifer Marston on December 4, 2010
We’ve seen many incarnations of Conor Oberst over the last number of years, from the emotionally overwrought twenty-something who spawned an entire generation of asymmetrical haircuts to the laid-back singer-songwriter telling tales from the road. And while the latter is more palatable now that I’ve outgrown my black hair-dye phase, today’s news of a forthcoming Bright Eyes album has very intrigued as to what Oberst has up his sleeve this time around.
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Posted in New Music, News, Upcoming Releases
By Jennifer Marston on November 29, 2010
Join urban sensibilities with the delicate strains of indie-folk and you get Leland Sundries‘ new EP, The Apothecary. And in the video for the track “Elegy,” Nick Loss-Eaton and director Scott Variano further fuse the pastoral and the metropolitan together by venturing into one of New York City’s many hidden oddities—Staten Island’s Tugboat Graveyard.
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Posted in News, Videos | Tagged Leland Sundries
By Jennifer Marston on August 5, 2010
A Place to Bury Strangers releases a montage of grainy live footage for their latest music video, off last year’s Exploding Head.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams, New Music | Tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, Mute
By Jennifer Marston on July 19, 2010
Whether it’s Julian Casablancas performing “I Wish it Was Christmas” with the Roots, Bright Eyes smashing the hell out of a trumpet onstage, or Ben Harper, Beck, and Billy Gibbons joining Will Ferrell and Conan for a rendition of “Free Bird,” late-night television affords us a wealth of entertaining performances (and just sheer entertainment) as far as musical guests go.
Ergo, each week, we round up every show’s scheduled performances and place them in a handy little list.
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Posted in News | Tagged Late-Night TV
By Jennifer Marston on July 19, 2010
Broken Social Scene’s new video is both the visual accompaniment to Forgiveness Rock Record‘s “Meet Me in the Basement” and a hefty political statement about the recent riot-addled G20 Summit in Toronto.
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Posted in New Music, News, Videos | Tagged Broken Social Scene
By Jennifer Marston on July 13, 2010
West Coast rap legend MC Eiht jumps on board to lend his voice to this electro-funk-flavored remix.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams, New Music
