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An evening spent in the company of two of North America's finest, as rambunctious as it is unique
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Akron/Family, The Acorn at London Kilburn The Luminaire, Mon 08 Sep
New Akron/Family has been tearing up my eardrums.
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Album:Set'em Wild, Set'em Free
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Lots and lots of ringing going on in there...note to self: TURN DOWN THE AKRON/FAMILY I'm not much in the mindset for a full review...so, long story short. I've always ignored Akron/Family. For no reason, other than I've got SOOOO much to listen to, sometimes a good album gets passed over. Not so much ignored, but glanced at, and forgotten. Their new album, Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free, though,...
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Ty's Top Twenty-Five Tunes of 2007
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2007 was poised for greatness. Around this time last year, we knew that we'd have new records from Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, New Pornographers, PJ Harvey, Andrew Bird, Iron & Wine, and scores of other established acts. The future of popular music never looked brighter. And while none of those records were by any means terrible, my personal expectations were slightly less than met, a...
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Akron/Family: Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Review)
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On its new album, the band delivers a masterpiece while ranging from pastoral ditties to noise-laden freak-outs.
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This Year Is Gonna Be Ours: An Interview with Akron/Family's Miles Seaton (Feature)
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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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Live: Akron/Family announce ridiculously full summer/fall tour
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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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Stream New Akron/Family song, "Phenomena"
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Here's a track off the latest album from indie folk outfit Akron/Family, who record for Michael Gira's Young God label. The new album is Love Is Simple. Where's they ever get that crazy idea?
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I've fallen in love...
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...with Akron/Family's Love Is Simple. I'm all caught up in the bizarro - hippie-love - acid - trip - in - the - woods feel of the record, and I just keep hitting repeat. There have been plenty of "really good" records so far this year, but few have cut me to the core like this one. Definitely a contender for best of '07. Here's one of my favorite tracks:The album cover (more info on it "here":...
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Akron Family interview
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Last year, Akron/Family almost landed two albums in my top ten, their self-titled debut and the rougher, more exuberant split with Michael Gira's Angels of Light. It didn't seem fair, and anyway, I was having a lot of trouble reducing my list to ten, so very late in the year, I just switched the split with the debut, which had been holding down #2 all year to that point. This is not really ve...
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Love Is Simple
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Track:Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead
After the Angels of Light brilliant record "We are Him":http://www.younggodrecords.com/product.asp?P_ID=46, it looks like "Young God records":http://www.younggodrecords.com/default.asp is about to release another contender for this year's best albums.According to Michael Gira, "Akron/Family":http://www.akronfamily.com/mainstreet.htm are _four extremely nice, sincere and well-mannered young men...
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MOG likes their earlier stuff better
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I'm listening to the new Akron/Family, Meek Warrior which is out on Young God next week, and it's fantastic. The first cut, "Blessing Force" is a nine-plus minute free-jazz leaning freakout, which has a lot of fans' panties in a bunch, but look, they've always liked the improv, it's in the self-titled too and what is "Raising the Sparks" but an extended riff? Anyway, I noticed that MOG has sl...
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Akron/Family Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free [new mp3]
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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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Akron/Family - Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free [Album Review]
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Back from a long Memorial Day weekend in Cincinnati and its fitting to talk about an album with Old Glory on the cover. I spent the long flight to Ohio listening to Akron/Family’s latest release Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free. Some indie bands classify themselves as “Experimental.” Usually that classification is synonymous with “Crap.” [...]
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Akron/Family :: The AD Interview
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Coming off the heels of numerous shows at SXSW (one of which had all of team Drunkard in awe) Akron/Family is primed for the release of their fourth record, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (out May 5th on Dead Oceans). AD spoke with Seth Olinsky, guitarist and vocalist with the group during some downtime [...]
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Exciting Music Day, Hooray!
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So I've got a co-worker who has fairly similar musical tastes with me - I think I veer out into the harder end of the spectrum farther than he does, but we share a lot of good music between us. Co-worker was kind enough to share with me a disc of some stuff one of his friends put together for him, and man there's some REALLY good stuff on here - Akron/Family being the stuff that's sticking best...
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