Weekly Playlist: 29 August 2014
Monthly Archive: August 2014
PopMatters Review: Centro-matic – Take Pride in Your Long Odds
(From a review I wrote for PopMatters that had some strange edits I’ve requested be fixed) In the 17 years since their debut album, Redo the Stacks, the quartet of Scott Danbom, Mark Hedman, Will Johnson and Matt Pence –…
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First Listen: I’m Kingfisher – Force of Habit
Now known as I’m Kingfisher, Swedish singer/songwriter Thomas Denver Jonnson is set to release his latest album, Avian, on 17 September. The second release under the I’m Kingfisher moniker, Avian is the middle album in a planned trilogy that began…
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Video: Nicholas Altobelli – Thunderstorms
Dallas, Texas singer/songwriter Nicholas Altobelli recently released his latest EP, Mesocyclone. The follow up to his 2013 LP, Without a Home, Mesocyclone is deeply personal yet soothing like a passing summer shower. It’s a bittersweet joy to have a brief…
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Download: Ransom and the Subset – Anna
Seattle power-pop trio Ransom and the Subset will be releasing their debut album, No Time to Lose, on 7 October. A collaboration between singer/songwriter RanDair Porter, Brian E. King and Ducky Carlisle, Ransom and the Subset’s breezy single, “Anna,” recounts…
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Review: Fjord Explorer – I Know I’m Awake
From the sonic wash of “Rain,” the first single from Fjord Explorer‘s debut album, I Know I’m Awake, one knows this will not be a standard acoustic affair. The Jacksonville, Florida foursome’s self-described “gloom folk” dabbles in human emotion and frailty….
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Weekly Playlist: 22 August 2014
First Listen: Bonfire John – Everybody
The recording moniker of Owen Yonce, Bonfire John marries lyrical indifference and slow-burning guitars on “Everybody,” the first single from the forthcoming album College. A wonderful slacker jam for late summer nights, you can stream “Everybody” below. Be on the…
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First Listen: Bear Medicine – Infestation
Taking a holistic approach to music, Lexington, Kentucky foursome Bear Medicine make use of flute and cello to provide sonically soothing yet lyrically disconcerting songs on their forthcoming debut LP, The Moon Has Been All My Life, due out in…
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Review: Cory Branan – The No-Hit Wonder
Lumped in amongst musicians like Joey Kneiser, John Moreland and Austin Lucas, Cory Branan carries the mantle of your favorite artist’s favorite artist. Self-effacing to a fault, Branan plays up this also-ran distinction on his latest album, The No-Hit Wonder….
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First Listen: Charly Fasano and Lucero – Retrospect/ed
Having first collaborated in 2008, poet and artist Charly Fasano and Lucero return with the multimedia project, Retrospect/ed. A journey through memory, “Gasoline Fumes” and “Teddy’s Bowling Alley” feature Fasano reciting his poems backed by Lucero’s Rick Steff, Brian Venable,…
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Video: Josh Nolan – Wild Women
Having released Fair City Lights, one of this year’s great albums, Kentucky’s Josh Nolan graces us with a video for a recent demo, “Wild Women.” Unrelated to the William Devane/Tommy Lee Jones cult classic, Rolling Thunder, “Wild Women” contains the…
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