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...
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Magnolia Electric Co. today announced details for their current US/European tour and their upcoming release of a four CD/one DVD box set of all new material titled ??The Sojourner Boxset?? (Secretly Canadian) according to a spokesperson for the band.Frontman Jason Molina first came to prominence performing and recording under the name Songs: Ohia, both in solo projects and with a rotating cast ...
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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 som...
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Sittinghere, attempting to start a review about this record, I feelunder-equipped in the presence of such footloose lyricism. It’s not acase of competing, but a case of doing justice to an album which formssuch a natural, emotionally enlivening whole. I have had times whereJason Molina’s songwriting (which lies at the heart of MagnoliaElectric Co.
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Note to reviewers. Can you please stop referring to Jason Molina's band Magnolia Electric Co. as alt-country. Based on the evidence of Josephine, the Magnolia Electric Co.'s third studio album, the band are just country, possibly soft rock, but certainly not alternative.Wilco are alt.country, whether their commerciality is pleasing or not to followers of alt-country. Bill Callahan is alt-countr...
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In what can only be described as an Americana wet dream, Jason Molina and Will Johnson have teamed up to form a band who'll be releasing their debut next month!
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve really enjoyed putting together “Jason Molina Week” for you here at PHW. I literally have not listened to a note from any other songwriter since Sunday evening - a head first dive into the artist‘s back catalog unlike any I‘ve done in a long time. Molina, with his practically limitless supply of great songs, was the perfect choice. I think it’s very a
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Magnolia Electric Co. [photo by Dylan Long]Magnolia Electric Co., led by the incredibly prolific songwriter Jason Molina, have just announced the upcoming release of their latest longplayer (and first full-length since 2006's Fading Trails). Titled Josephine, the album is set to hit stores in the U.S. on July 21st via Secretly Canadian (July 20th in the U.K.)With at least fourteen studio albums t
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MUSIC NEWS - Secretly Canadian has given word on Magnolia Electric Co.'s new Josephine album (released July 21 in the US and July 20 in the UK). It's the band's first full album since 2006 and they've revealed a summer tour (itinerary below) with The Donkeys (from San Diego). Josephine is a weighty, mature album about and dislocation, and brings forth a more minimalist a
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We Have Signal: Live From Birmingham - Magnolia Electric Co. from We Have Signal on Vimeo.Here’s a recent episode of Alabama Public Television’s We Have Signal with just under a half hour of Magnolia Electric Co. live footage interspersed with interviews with Jason Molina regarding his songwriting. The setlist:The Handing DownTalk To Me Devil, AgainJosephineI’ve Been Riding With The Ghost(sl
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Magnolia Electric Co. 's newest album Josephine is due out July 20th (21st in the US) and to start promoting the upcoming record, the band haven given away this new track. The song is the title track from the record and is a rather beautiful foray into gentle alternative song-writing and accessible atmospherics.
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Magnolia Electric Co. just released details about their forthcoming album, Josephine. I had a chance to hear some of the new stuff from Molina and the boys when they opened for The Avett Brothers at The Fillmore. It looks like it’ll be another solid effort from a great band. If you don’t own them already, [...]
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As “Jason Molina Week” here at PHW enters Day 4, check out a truly unique, nearly countrypolitan recent live session Magnolia Electric Co. cut for WOXY and featured on their music blog The Futurist.MP3 :: Trouble In MindMP3 :: ShenandoahMP3 :: Leave The CityMP3 :: Down The Wrong Road, Both WaysMP3 :: Live On WOXY.com (full session w/ interview) - (29:42)----------------------------------------
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MP3: Magnolia Electric Co. - "Josephine" from Josephine, due July 21 on Secretly Canadian. "I've turned your life so upside-down / I don't know how you stayed or why." So begins the title track from Jason Molina's latest album. Doesn't...
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