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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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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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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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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MUSIC NEWS- Eclectic rockers Akron/Family will set us wild & free on May 5 with their new release, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, (via Dead Oceans [US]). And, the group's offering up their new tune, "River," as a free downloadable track for a taste of the new album. They will be performing an all ages show at The Bowery Ballroom in NYC on Wednesday, May 6 to celebrate the album release and w...
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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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Not many bands decide to carry on after losing their lead singer. That, however, is exactly what Akron/Family did when lead vocalist Ryan Vanderhoof left the band after their last album.Pulling themselves together, Akron/Family has just released their new album, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. It's the band's first effort as a trio.Losing Vanderhoof may have been the best thing to happen to the
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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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“Now that my bodies grown the lonely heart poetryDroning in hearts becomes songs that all objectsSing to each other like friends telling stories” (from “Ed Is A Portal”)To compare Akron/Family to anything, you kind of have to compare them to everything. Either way, you’re risking a deserved reviewer’s remorse. While you can hear the classic rock influences so forcefully at moments, they are on...
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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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Folk rockers Akron/Family have signed to the label Dead Oceans which is part of 'Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar. The band is hoping that their fourth album will be released in April through their new label. Multi-instrumentalist Miles Seaton told Billboard.com about the sound of the new album: "It started out being really inspired by American soul and West African music. We're all still in love...
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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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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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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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| 2 I'll Be on the Water |
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