The Dead Oceans-signed Akron/Family have taken it upon themselves to reveal a 2010 US tour set for February and early-March of next year. Still riding high on the wave of hype that their newest 2009 record Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free brought to the collective, they now look set to continue their domination of the underground music scene with twelve 2010 dates in all.
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The Brooklyn based four-piece folk group Akron/Family have announced the release of their second full length. ??Love Is Simple?? drop September 10 via Young God Records.In support of their sophomore venture, the group has also committed to a what a spokesperson described as a grueling North American tour.Akron/Family - "Love Is Simple"Following the release of their self titled debut in 2005 the...
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We've just posted 4 live Akron/Family videos from their performance at The Turf Club in St. Paul, MN on March 11th, 2007. Songs featured include Moment, Running Returning, Love is Simple, and Colors into Sunrise Sunset.check them out here:http://scheduletwo.com/video/akron_familyThis is our second set of Akron/Family videos, the first was shot one year prior- to the day- on March 11th 2006 at T...
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Indie rockers Akron/Family will be releasing their new studio album Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free tomorrow (May 5th).In anticipation the band are making an MP3 available for free download. For your listening pleasure we're pleased to be able to provide it to you in a convenient digital format here:"River"- MP3Akron/Family's websiteAkron/Family's Myspace
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The few songs that I caught of the Akron Family’s SXSW day performance @ Mohawk one sunny afternoon, left enough of an impact on me, that I’ve got them on my list for further investigation. Sure, the Austinist’s Paige Maquire dancing on stage with the band outfitted with Indian Headdress was entertainment enough, but the [...]
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Miles Eaton of the Akron/Family told Gothamist that the band are finishing up their newest reconrd on time with a Spring '09 release. "We are finishing mastering it as we speak," he said. "I just got off the phone with Seth, our mastering engineer, and we're just kind of going through it and working out [...]
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[03-18-2009] Austinist Party @ The Mohawk Following a most unfortunate encounter with The Von Bondies at Red 7, we headed to The Mohawk to catch Akron/Family, but they still hadn't hit the outside stage. So instead of listening to the excruciating hippy-rific sounds of Elvis Perkins in Dearland, we sought louder refuge at the inside stage, only to find who else but The Mae Shi, AGAIN! Oh sweet ...
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Next week, indie guitar rock kids Akron/Family take to the streets for a long, two-month trek around the US and Canada, supporting their disc Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, which came out in stores this past May. Stops include...
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Prepare yourselves for something different. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, Akron/Family's forthcoming album, will exhibit a shift from their old folk freakouts in favor of anthemics slated to live up to the adjectives "wild" and "free." Due May 5, the album is the band's first on the Dead Oceans label and is the first recorded by Akron/Family as a trio of Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton, and Dana Janss...
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Akron/Family are releasing their new album, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free, tomorrow via Dead Oceans. According to the press release, this might not be the Akron/Family you’ve come to know:Following a year of making things bigger and wilder live, the band returns to something simpler on Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free. With limited [...]
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How Akron/Family plan to live up to the name of their new album, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, on their upcoming tour: Setting It Wild: The tour will be a series of intimate residencies in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, with multiple nights at smaller venues than Akron/Family would normally play. On their tour last fall, Akron/Family created "cacophonous onstage jams" with openers Mega...
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Brooklyn's exhilarating folk-prog-jazz quartet hit a rough spot last year, as Ryan Vanderhoof left and the remaining three members had to rethink what it meant to be a band. The shake-up led to profound changes in Akron/Family's sound and approach to music.
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Experimental freak-folk collective Akron/Family are back and ready to freak you with their folky experimentalism once again. Their latest LP (number 5 if you've been counting) is titled Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free and is due to hit shelves May 5th on the Dead Oceans Records.
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Akron/Family, as a holiday gift to you, have just curated a small (albeit effective) tour, braving some of the coldest parts of the country in winter, in an effort to warm your heart (dawww). The tour is split across the month, presumably so the/Family can spend time with their real/ones, starting out in Chicago and finishing up with a grand New Year's Eve performance at New York's Knitting Fac...
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