Thanks to a friendly tip from Bishop Allen lead singer Justin Rice, I can safely tell you that Bishop Allen's third LP Grrr… will be out March 10 on Dead Oceans. MP3: Bishop Allen - Click Click Click (from The Broken String) As of yet no recordings of new songs have surfaced, so it looks like [...]
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Not even a day after I said how happy I was that I hadn't heard any new Bishop Allen songs before the release of their third full-length… I find one. Granted, I'm not exactly upset to be hearing a new Bishop Allen song (I'm thrilled), but I'm sure this youtube video isn't the ideal way [...]
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I was doing some random Youtubing and found this professional video of Bishop Allen at Spain's Primavera festival. They picked a good one to record/post to the web, "Click Click Click" is definitely one of Bishop Allen's best tunes. While we're on the topic, what's new with Bishop Allen? Well the group have spent the [...]~~
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_christian rudder_this is christian rudder. he, along with justin rice, make up the heart and soul of Bishop Allen. if you are hip, you may remember christian in such projects as "Poor-Spelling Children Pay Dearly for 'Letters to Satan'" or the "Date My Sister Project" and others back in the late 1900's and the early 2000's when he used to work for the now defunct TheSpark.com. in college, i...
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Bishop Allen won't blow your mind but their songs are too darn quirky and cute to ignore. Good bouncy summertime tunes. The Brooklyn pop quartet released an EP every month in 2006, garnering the group loads of attention from the likes of NPR and Rolling Stone. Turns out, all that work made for a great sophomore release (they debuted in 2003) called The Broken String, which will be available Ju...
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Even though it’s probably the easiest to overlook, “True or False” is one of my favorites off Bishop Allen’s new album Grr…. This live video they did for Art in the Age really has a good live arrangement for the song and backs up my claim that it’s one of their best. Watch the rest [...]
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At first, there's foot-tapping. Then head-nodding. People look up from the bar, move in to the stage. Now foot stomping, and, wow - the kids in front of you have broken in to a full-on who-cares indie version of the twist. Bishop Allen, collectively, knows about energy. How to create it, to sustain it, to hook you on it. They use simple tools: a guitar with mangy strings, a discarded piano, a swee
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Bishop Allen Announce New LPThe workaholics from Brooklyn are at it again, but this time with their first full-length since signing with Dead Oceans, the sister label of the Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar group. Out July 24, Bishop Allen's latest release, The Broken String, comes off last year's impressive EP-a-month project, with an extensive tour to follow. The album, their third, will feature upd
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Thankfully no-one’s dubbing Bishop Allen 'This Year’s Vampire Weekend', because it would be nice to see their jaunty charms discovered slowly, rather than being foisted on us all through adverts and hype. There are hints of flamenco and barbershop in their music, the guitars often sound Hawaiian, and the percussion often includes marimba, but pastiche never swamps any given song. If this means
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Bishop Allen just released this video for “Dimmer” from their new album Grrr… which comes out Tuesday. It’s a pretty lo-fi, stylized video that’s a great compliment to the song. My goal for today is to write out an interview I did with Justin Rice of Bishop Allen. It’s almost an hour long, so get [...]
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