Artist Lounge: Magnolia Electric Co.
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Shocking news to report this week. Magnolia Electric Company's bassist Evan Farrell has succumbed to injuries sustained from a house fire in Oakland, CA. He was 33. From their web site: _All of us are tremendously saddened by the sudden and tragic death of our good friend and collaborator, Evan Farrell. Evan, who played bass and pedal steel with us during our fall tour this year, was caught in a fire caused by a faulty furnace in an apartment in Oakland, CA late l... MORE
Here's a track off the upcoming four CD, one DVD Magnolia Electric Co. box set, Sojourner, due out August 7.
How appropriate...quoting one of Los Angeles native sons in the title of this post, Ice Cube. After wading through what felt like thousands of scammers, grifters, and slum lords I have found a place to live. It is way out there...suburban LA. But I am 32yrs old and I really don't need to live in Hollywood. I have been here for 11 days and it was fun to visit, but walking out to my car every night and keeping my fingers crossed that it will still be there just doesn't app... MORE
Pitchfork -- Ohio University has plenty to boast of; they're the only school in Ohio to offer an osteopathy specialty in their medical school, and noted Athens-campus alums include Arsenio Hall and Al Bundy. If that's not enough brochure-fodder to get your pen flyin' across the application page, they're also home to student-sponsored, internet-based radio station ACRN's ACRN Week, which, for some reason, is nine days long. Maybe you OU types should spend less time cracki... MORE
Often people who are not musically inclined but really love music can at the very least write about music well, I can do neither. But I'm an avidappreciator and you should still love me. I just purchased the new Magnolia Electric Co. album "Fading Trails" and am enjoying it quite a bit. I love everything Jason Molina touches, but am especially a fan of Songs: Ohia. Their songs are sparse and achy and make me want to cry in my beer at a small midwestern bar. Magnolia Elec... MORE
There is a bunch of great new material coming out in the MEC box set 'Sojourner' in early August.
This is off of the disc in that set called 'Nashville Moon'...Jason Molina has never sounded better.
Magnolia Electric Co. has a new limited edition box set coming out in a couple of weeks. The set includes 4 new CD's of music, as well as a DVD concert/documentary. I've heard 3 of the CD's and a couple of songs from the DVD (which are included below). All 3 are top notch. Jason Molina, is certainly one of the best and most prolific songwriters out there today. I am really looking forward to receiving this in the mail. The set is out 8/7/2007 and is available for pr... MORE







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