Philly's "Constant Hitmaker" Kurt Vile brought a couple guitars, a banjo, a delay pedal, and a trusted microphone to the WFMU studios earlier this month. He played a few new tunes and a few from this year's Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher), which has been one of my favorite albums of the year. I'm not alone -- Mike Lupica picked these "immediately appealing bedroom recordings" in Dusted's Mid-Year ...
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The Mr P-sanctioned and approved Kurt Vile and his Violators seem to be digging this touring thang and have yet again extended their touring into December, tearing into the far-off lands of Europe and um, Brooklyn. Holy shit. I just realized that they're the opening act for Big Star at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple! Guess who has tickets to that?! This news story went from exciting to eXcITinG! A...
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Philadelphian Kurt Vile will traverse the Atlantic for a special London show in December.Headlining a Club Uncut night at The Lexington in Islington on Tuesday 15th December, Kurt will be accompanied by his live band The Violators and together they’ll air tracks from his forthcoming album Childish Prodigy (out 6th October). The former War On [...]
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"Big As A Humpback Whale"Kurt Vile's been making a lot of noise lately on the strength of a few solid vinyl only EP's and some CD-Rs. His Mexican Summer debut, God Is Saying This To You, is all but sold out, unless you know the right place to go, which, apparently I did, as the Academy Annex had one this afternoon. Not one to rest on his budding laurels, Vile also recently released The Hunchback
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“Freak Train” is one of the tracks off of Philadelphia musician Kurt Vile’s new album Childish Prodigy (out October 6th via Matador), but it could also be great description of his music as well. You see Kurt Vile’s songs often have this intense “chugga chugga choo choo!” freight train flow to them. Even the softer [...]
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Michael P. O'Shaughnessy's best of 2009, including Jarvis Cocker, Blues Control, Atlas Sound, Work/Piles, Thee Oh Sees, Mika Miko, Eat Skull, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the Fresh & Onlys, and Kurt Vile
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Everything from the first chord of the first song to the “creative name” of the album to the man’s bio, is all attitude. Here’s a synopsis from his bio that succinctly depicts what I mean:There’s a bunch of clowns all over the USA, all around the world, cluttering up the rock ‘n’ roll stage with [...]
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Philadelphia's Kurt Vile is releasing his debut for Matador "Childish Progidy" today 10/6. Kurt Vile besides his solo recordings is also part of the War on Drugs playing guitar for the band. Now that he is playing solo he is touring non-stop. Vile is being supported by his...Click the link to read more
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