The Bowerbirds are on tour in promotion of their newest album The Clearing which came out March of this year. The album remains true to their sound but displays the growth appropriate for a third release. The band will be making a tour stop in good ol' Baltimore next week on June 7th at the Ottobar and we just happen to be offering a ticket give away to the show. Read on for the full details of th
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Bowerbirds at the Ottobar: Ticket Giveaway!
Bowerbirds at the Ottobar
The Bowerbirds are on tour in promotion of their newest album The Clearing which came out March of this year. The album remains true to their sound but displays the growth appropriate for a third release. The band will be making a tour stop in good ol' Baltimore next week on June 7th at the Ottobar and we just happen to be offering a ticket give away to the show. Read on for the full details of th
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Doc Watson
Sadly, Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson died yesterday at the age of 89. With him goes a wealth of knowledge, technical facility, and musical authenticity that the steel string guitar has seldom known. The New York Times has written an absolutely wonderful obituary here which both lauds the man, and gives new comers to his work a succinct history of his importance. I highly recommend reading their eloquen
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Weekly Roundup: May 20 - 26, 2012
Hope everyone is enjoying their Memorial Day weekend. Here's the latest Weekly Roundup.
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Field Mouse
As part of the release of Digcast VI which focuses on NYC music, we are posting on each band in the podcast over the next five weekdays. In the spotlight today is Field Mouse, a four piece dream pop band with members Rachel Browne, Andrew Futral, Danielle DePalma and Geoff Lewit.
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Wolfgang Schaefer: Typewriter
Wolfgang Schaefer and his brother Benjamin are from Milwaukee WI and have released a new album entitled Typewriter. Their work is acoustically driven, but vocally centered which leaves plenty of room for the thoughtful lyrics to speak clearly to the listener. Their sound world is noted for tasteful use of bluegrass instruments, brass, piano and vocal harmony. A strength of the album is the layerin
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Carnegie Hall: May 18, 1976
from left: Julius Bloom, Yehudi Menuhin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Horowitz, Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern sing Handel's Hallelujah at the 85th anniversary of the opening of Carnegie Hall in New York, 18 May 1976. You dig?
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Digcast Episode VI: NYC Roundup 1
I am very happy to unveil Digcast Episode 6, the first edition devoted to the music scene of New York City where I live. It features five bands from the area. In addition to sharing one of their songs, I spoke to each of them about the chosen song as well as some things they love about NYC. The playlist of this episode is: Cultfever - Knewyouwell Town Hall - Good Boy Field Mouse - You Guys A
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The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra: The Nashville EP
The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra is a 5 piece self-proclaimed gypsy-root-grass band with a full length album from 2009 entitled The Blanche Album under their belt, as well as an EP from last year simply called The Nashville EP. The band is touring extensively this summer in promotion of this EP as well as to build momentum towards the release of their second full length album this October. The mu
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Weekly Roundup: May 13 - 19, 2012
Weekly Roundup comes to you a day early from its regular Sunday slot, but that's because we have something exciting prepared for tomorrow Tuesday. You'll have to return to find out what that is, but in the mean time, dig some great new music.
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Royal Canoe
Royal Canoe is a new Canadian band I've been enjoying. They have a deubt EP called Extended Play (get it?) and some cool videos you should watch. It's all a click away.
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Chocolate Robots - Summer Krushhh
Maybe it was the near 80 degree weather today, or maybe it's the near 80 degree weather in my sweltering apartment, but I'm starting to get summer on the brain and in my bones. So here's a tune for that, "Summer Krushhh" by Chocolate Robots.
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Video Roundup
After last night's post on The Belle Brigade and their video "Where Not To Look For Freedom," I realized I've been sitting on quite a few videos from previously featured bands. Let's just get them all out, shall we?
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The Belle Brigade - Where Not To Look For Freedom
I've been meaning to share this new(ish) video from The Belle Brigade for awhile now, so here it is for your viewing and listening pleasure.
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Weekly Roundup: May 6 - 12, 2012
It's been a beautiful weekend here in Brooklyn. I hope it was nice elsewhere and that you all had the chance to enjoy it. Feeling the first stirrings of summer is always wonderful, and so are these six tunes in our latest Weekly Roundup.
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Patrick Watson at Manhattan Inn
This one's a little late coming, but it was a great little show, so it's still worth sharing with Dig Nation. I unfortunately missed Patrick Watson opening for Andrew Bird last weekend, but when life closes a door, a nice little cocktail bar near you throws a show, or something like that. I had the distinct pleasure of catching Patrick Watson and his band Patrick Watson play an intimate show for p
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