Next Sunday brings a staggering number of bands back to Codfish Hollow-- the headliner is Daytrotter and playbsides.com favorite Roadside Graves from New Jersey. I had the opportunity to see Roadside Graves last year in Bellevue at Mooney Hollow. They were in the area in between stops on their tour because they were taping their first Daytrotter session. Sean Moeller hooked them up with Mooney ...
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While the Kopecky Family Band won't playing parish picnics or performing polka services at your local church, the will be playing at The Mill Restaurant in Iowa City on Thursday Night at 9PM. This is a 21+ show and the cover is $6. Evan P. Donahue will open.
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The re-issue of Who Is This America? will be on CD and digital download with a new bonus track "Money Talks" and with an iTunes-only track "Paz." Notably, Ropadope is choosing not to release this album on vinyl. As luck would have it, Daptone Records released a vinyl version back in 2004 that seems to still be available on their site for $20 and has the "running man" cover artwork. Daptone also...
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Margaret Stutt who goes by the nom d'cordion Pezzettino has collaborated with Milwaukee-based producer LMNtylist on her follow up to her 2009 release Lion. Titled LubDub, it is a 10-track EP of, well-- I guess they are love songs. Well, maybe not all of them are love songs, but certainly they are related to love and appear to be roughly arranged in a timeline of a love affair that is having some f
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Where Among the Gold was steeped in the old-time standards it was made of, Before Lately is more contemporary mix of ingredients. The album is drifting and dreamy-- introspective, really. The album is a very stripped-down affair with very little percussion and utilizes all of Cheyenne's talents: vocals, violin, guitar and piano. The songs move between ethereal shoegazer-ish production on track...
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Thankfully Gayngs will be bringing their 69-beats-per-minute antics to a quick run of dates at the end of September and beginning of October cumulating in a visit to the Austin City Limits Festival on 10/10. While the Last Prom on Earth shows had all of the members of Gayngs, the touring version will only have 10 members-- notably without the women but showcasing new arrangements and new material!
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In the four tracks leaked from As U Were thus far, it is clear that Lyrics Born is again leaving a predictably worn MC path and stomping into the crunchy underbrush of his own direction.
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It's this cultural and musical diversity in the Bay Area that foster artists like singer Karyn Paige who, after several years of working and performing with various bands and musicians including the Jazz Mafia collective as well as Lyrics Born (who also worked with the Jazz Mafia Orchestra "Brass Bows and Beats) and Chali 2na (of Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli), is ready to release her first solo reco...
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El Ten Eleven's debut album is being reissued on 180g vinyl with mp3 download by Bar None Records-- the label the band was on for this album. Limited to 1000 copies. El Ten Eleven just finished recording their new album to be titled It's Still Like A Secret. Currently without a label, the band is reaching out to fans to build an investment base for the release.
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Local Natives posted on their Facebook wall today that they are providing the "stems" of four songs off their new album Gorilla Manor to encourage some remixing. The songs the band is making available are "Camera Talk," "Who Knows Who Cares," "Wide Eyes," and "World News."
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If you’re interested in early information about Thrill Jockey releases you need to look no further than the Thrill Jockey website itself! Last week I was doing some research on a couple of upcoming releases on the label and stumbled upon the upcoming solo release from Sea & Cake frontman Sam Prekop! Titled Old Punch [...]
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The vinyl release of Root Work by Hiss Golden Messenger is a frighteningly limited one-hundred records-- each numbered with covers designed by Brendan Greaves and hand screened by MC! The record is $15 (around $20 shipped) and comes with a digital download from bandcamp so you can get 320Kbps mp3's or FLACs (or just about anything else actually). This is a steal, frankly. If you're not into the vi
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Last week the mighty instrumental afro-funk band The Budos Band-- which bills itself as the "Staten Island's Undesputed Champions of Afro-Soul" announced the release and details of their new album The Budos Band III. To be released on August 10th on the formidable Daptone Records label the record is the band's first release since 2009's The Budos Band EP and the first full length since 2007's The
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Yesterday Thrill Jockey announced that they are making the Tortoise track "Ice Ice Gravy" available for download for $1.00 from Fina- their online download service. To date, "Ice Ice Gravy" was only available in the U.S. as part of the iTunes version of Beacons of Ancestorship. Outside the U.S. it is available as a bonus [...]
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Warpaint will be performing in the Blue Room upstairs in the Blue Moose Tap House on Monday 6/7. Local pinch-hitter opening act Electro group Datagun opens. I saw Datagun open for Death Ships a couple months ago and was really impressed with their energy-- not to miss. Tickets are $10 and doors are at an early 6PM.
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If you're looking for some live music this Memorial Day Weekend, a good way to kick things off would be to catch Madison group Mike Droho & The Compass Rose. Winner of the Project M "Reality" Songwriter Competition hosted by 105.5 FM "Triple M" last year (playbsides favorite Anna Laube is competing this year and [...]
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It was a happy surprise for me this week to find out that Arbouretum released a new recording! Part of the burgeoning Baltimore Indie scene which seems to favor sludgy guitar tone, Arbouretum is singer/songwriter/guitarist David Heumann with a rotating cast of supporting characters. Arbouretum has been on Thrill Jockey for the last three releases [...]
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I get home last from seeing Local Natives at the Mill in Iowa City with Suckers in support, check my e-mail and I see the above ad in my e-mail! Thank goodness I checked my e-mail before I went to bed! This, of course, is the promised Metal album from Ryan Adams under the moniker [...]
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Looking through the Sunday fliers in the paper this morning I noticed that Target is going to have an exclusive CD available on Tuesday May 18th in conjunction with the widely-anticipated reissue of the Rolling Stones landmark 1972 album Exile on Main Street. In true fan-exploitative fashion there will be many versions of this release to choose from. Since I was looking into this, I thought I'd he
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Last week AdLuna announced that their next release would be an album from Chicago Odense Ensemble. Chicago Odense Ensemble is a group made up of Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground, Isotope 217, Exploding Star Orchestra), Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Isotope 217, Exploding Star Orchestra), Dan Bitney (Tortoise, Isotope 217), Matt Lux (Isotope 217, Exploding Star Orchestra), Brian Keigher (aka DJ Warp), Jon
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