Music, No More No Less
Songs that we think you should hear without all the pomp and circumstance. Thomas County Law // Iron & Wine The Beat // Baby Jesus Wanli // HYUKOH Pain // The Texas Gentlemen Sense // Ritual Talk Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine? // Jake Xerxes Fussell Black Van // Kitty, Daisy & Lewis Tomorrow // Miner
Continue reading #HotTakes | Week of 08.14.17
Leave a CommentSongs that we think you should hear without all the pomp and circumstance. Lucky Penny // JD McPherson There’s No Leaving Now” (Feat. yMusic) // The Tallest Man on Earth If After All // Common Holly Dancing Devil // Small Leaks Sink Ships Make It Me // Max Gomez Silence Overgrown // Kane Strang John The Gun // Hiss Golden Messenger
Continue reading #HotTakes | Week of 08.07.17
Leave a CommentThis is a sad post, because it’s about a really fun band calling it a day. This is a happy post, because they’ve got one show left – tonight! – and it promises to be a good one. The Digs have been doing pop-punk right for a couple years now, but they’re going to all start doing other things instead, so they’re throwing one last bash tonight at the Middle East Upstairs, along with Hey Zeus, Psychic Dog, and The Pickup. You’ll be able to grab their latest album, Kinetic, from whence hails this song, as well as their older…
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Leave a CommentThe Boston to Berkeley Tour brought punk rock superstars Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, The Bouncing Souls, and Jake Burns from Stiff Little Fingers together for an epic show. Rancid played to a setting sun and a raucous crowd. Pits erupted and punk after punk surfed their way to the stage as the band played several new songs that were just as good as everyone’s old favorites. Rancid finished their set with their arguably most well known song “Ruby Soho” and the crowd continued to beg for an encore until the Dropkick Murphys took the stage. As one would expect in Boston,…
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Leave a CommentToday we focus the WFMO X Music Savage Show “Song of the Week” spotlight directly on the fantastic debut single, “Driving Around,” from the talented L.A. musician Kelsey Kerrigan’s upcoming album due to be released this fall. Kerrigan began work on the record at Sunset Sound Recorders while pursuing a degree in audio engineering and production at Los Angeles Recording School. A fateful meeting with Ryan Adams (Yes THAT Ryan Adams) would help to shape the sound and style of her work, providing a musical compass to keep the song-writing on track even while immersed in her studies. It would seem as though everything is falling into place now that the album is complete and…
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Leave a CommentSongs that we think you should hear without all the pomp and circumstance. Televised // Melville The Night David Bowie Died // Lilly Hiatt Race to the Bottom // Ha Ha Tonka Bad Woman // Satellite Mode Driving Around // Kelsey Kerrigan Demon To The Dark // Son Little
Continue reading #HotTakes | Week of 07.31.17
Leave a CommentThis week’s WFMO X Music Savage Show “Song of the Week” spotlight is on the fantastic song, “Time’s Always Leaving,” from Brooklyn, New York’s The Lone Bellow. It’s the first single released from the band’s third studio album, Walk Into A Storm, which will be released September 15th on Descendant Records/ Sony Music Masterworks. The Lone Bellow started as a solo project by Georgia native Zach Williams who began songwriting in 2005 to help cope with his emotions during a particularly difficult family crisis. For the next few years the musician wrote and performed songs as Zach Williams & The Lone Bellow. Williams moved to…
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Leave a CommentPress Play! Summer is in full force, July has been a great month to us. We’ve got the reemergence of Wolf Parade!! new song from St. Vincent, records from Arcade Fire and Toro y Moi, and tons of stuff in between. There’s a little bit of everything in this mixtape, from the indie pop persuasion, to the folk contingent, even a pinch of hip hop. I Hope you dig our mix, and please as always let us know what songs should have been on the mix.
Continue reading Mixtape | July 2017
Leave a CommentHEY YOU GUY-Y-Y-Y-YS!!! Did I get your attention? Yes, I did just open this post with the opening phrase of everyone’s favorite educational television show, The Electric Company, for no other reason than that sums up how we are feeling that our favorite time of the year is only one sleep away. We have been eagerly anticipating the music extravaganza about to unfold this weekend and have counted the days for eight thousand six hundred and eighty eight hours to the moment we are all back at the folk fort. If you have any doubt on the truth of the statement…
Continue reading Newport Folk Festival 2017 | And So It Folkin’ Begins
Leave a CommentPhoto credit: Jesse Riggins This week’s WFMO X Music Savage Show “Song of the Week” spotlight is on the fantastic track “Never Been Wrong” from Waxahatchee. It’s the latest single from the brand new album, Out in the Storm, released July 14th via Merge Records. Waxahatchee is the project of Alabama-born, now Philadelphia-based, musician Katie Crutchfield, a talented singer-songwriter who began creating music as a child in her hometown of Birmingham. She wrote and recorded her debut album, American Weekend, in one week and released it in 2012 to critical acclaim. Crutchfield’s innate capability to connect with the listener through her deeply personal and emotionally charged…
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