Yer Spring Bandages Tonight, Canadian orchestral indie rock band Hey Rosetta will be playing in our fine city. Expect massive compositions of strings, vocal harmonies and energetic music that will lift our night with giant sized music. I’ve been a big fan of these guys for a few years now Hey Rosetta has a knack for writing and performing songs that have a certain arc to them. Their structures tend to be a mild and mello beginning verses building with intensity and ultimately bigger chorus’ leading to epically proportioned bridge. This simple arc, makes me believe they will be one fantastic…
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Portland, Oregon’s Typhoon has been getting some attention since the release of their EP, A New Kind Of House, out last month on Tender Loving Empire Records. This cut, Summer Home, is an orchestral and lush song befitting of such a large band. Its a beautiful mix of strings, brass, and percussion with a gentle vocal track all put together into one creates this very exciting sound and one that I’m supremely eager to see live this coming July at the Newport Folk Festival.
The band is about to set out on tour with the decemberists, and play Lollapalooza, our Newport Folk & Sasquatch Music Festivals.
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2 CommentsWolf Gang’s upcoming Suego Faults keeps getting injections of press leading up to it’s June release. Here’s another beautiful golden nugget, a video for song The King and All His Men. More Wolf Gang here.
Leave a CommentJ. Roddy Walston & The Business – Jesus Gonna Do His Best Taking in a J. Roddy Walston & the Business show is something that everyone should do. Their wild, frenetic energy and balls to the wall sound made them one of my absolute favorite acts to see live. In the video above for song Use Your Language you can get a sense of just how fun they are they’ve released a video featuring footage of their time in DC, Philly and Brooklyn. And to celebrate the release of this video, they are offering up a brand new track Jesus…
Leave a CommentVetiver – Wonder Why Vetiver – Can’t You Tell Indie folk outfit, Vetiver, is set to release their upcoming record, The Errant Charm on June 14. Paste got the honors of releasing the track, the second from the upcoming album. After hearing these two tracks, I’m supremely excited for this release. Each song has a really lush, and rich quality of airyness. They feel as though the songs float along without weighting you down; the perfect backyard summer lounging songs. Grab yourself a copy for the price of an email:
Leave a CommentArt Imperial – My Crystal Toronto’s Art Imperial just released a six-track EP entitled Surf Suburban EP. Wondering what a guy from Toronto is doing writing a Surf album, I inspected. Dreams of white beaches and blue waters pushed Art Imperial to record this EP in his mom’s basement and it is one beautiful EP. Frenetic guitars, shimmering vocals and all the reverb and distortion you could ever want. This is one fantastic lo fi “surf-pop” collection with songs that will consistently be stuck in your head, you will certainly enjoy this, I most definitely did. Art Imperial: Bandcamp |…
Leave a CommentJohn Gold – Baby It’s Your Life This song immediately pops out to me because of how much I loved Benji Hughes’ A Love Extreme. Baby, Its Your Life appeared on Hughes’ fantastic debut album, and it is one of my favorite tracks from the album. I hadn’t known until last week he and John Gold had written the song together. By both parties, its a fantastic track that you’ll love to hear again and again. The track comes from Gold’s upcoming release, A Flower In Your Head, is coming out June 14 via Vagrant Records.
Leave a CommentJames Vincent McMorrow’s fantastic album Early In the Morning has a litany of great songs on it. One of which ‘Sparrow & the Wolf’ just got a video treatment. McMorrow’s vocal instrument is the most distinct and special part of ‘Early in the Morning.’ He’s well worth listening to multiple times, and you can definitely find yourself lost in his album. Buy Early In The Morning
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Robert Ellis – What’s In It For Me by NewWestRecords
I’ve been sitting down listening to Houston native Robert Ellis’ debut LP Photographs from New West Records. The first cut off the album is Ellis’ What’s In It For Me, its a gorgeous country ballad that could be stripped from George Jones’ catalog. Ellis has a voice that’s sort of reminiscent of James Taylor… a soft vocal that’s great on the ears and can express a lot of sorrow (especially on this tune). The drifting slide guitars and slow pace make this one perfect drinking alone song.
His album, Photographs, is a concept album split in two sides the a side being a more folksy dark side, and the b a full band country side. The two distinct sides show some real fantastic artistry and pay homage to Ellis’ numerous influences.
Its an album I’ve been listening to non-stop for the last 3 days and I’m falling more and more in love with it. His voice and the musicianship on here are astounding and will be beloved by fans of these genres.
Touring extensively in support of Photographs begins in May with a run up the West Coast including stops in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Robert will also take up a week long solo residency in Portland, followed by a full band July tour supporting the Old 97’s with shows in Nashville, Brooklyn and Chicago.
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