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DAWES – ” All Your Favorite Bands ” Best Albums Of 2015

Posted: December 8, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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All Your Favorite Bands sounds effortless in a way. Producer Dave Rawlings nearly captures the Dawes’ reputable live sound, and the band for their part are relaxed yet adventurous, with plenty of confidence in their words. Sure, Dawes’ sound has always been easily comparable to a handful of classic ‘70s soft-rock bands (read: Jackson Brown, The Band), but the songs have always existed in their own continuum, which is why they work so well. Singer-songwriter Taylor Goldsmith doesn’t shy away from cliche, but he’s able to do so unabashedly and eloquently, a crucial skill in pop music. And while the band doesn’t tread any new ground for themselves this outing, it still showcases a band at the peak of a sound they’ve been crafting for years. All Your Favorite Bands also marks the end of keyboardist and founding member Tay Strathairn’s creative relationship with the band. Strathairn has always been a central part of the band’s sound, leaving little doubt that this album marks the end of an era for Dawes. All your favorite bands might not stay together, as Goldsmith warmly wishes, but they will press on.

 

DAWES – ” All Your Favorite Bands ” and ” Things Happen ” (Stripped Down Live Version)

Posted: July 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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With Dawes’ fourth album, “All Your Favorite Bands” , came out just over a month ago, I knew this was  going to be another of my favourite albums, and couldn’t help but keep the title track on repeat. Listening to Taylor Goldsmith sing, “And may all of your favorite bands stay together,”

While I didn’t think it was possible for this song to be more emotional, the release of the video for “All Your Favorite Bands” proved wrong. The stripped-down, live version gave us a raw look at the sentiment behind the beautiful lyrics.

“I would love for someone wishing me well to put it in the terms of ‘may all your favorite bands stay together,'” Goldsmith,  “That would be a real friend. That person would know what truly matters. To me, the statement of ‘All Your Favorite Bands’ immediately gets down to a highly personal and singular part of anybody in a way that few other concepts can. So that’s why we named our record after that song.” Check out the alternative take of  ” Things Happen” as well , Dawes are one of the best American bands over the last few years.

Watch the video above and be sure to share it with someone that you appreciate.

DAWES – ” Right On Time “

Posted: May 18, 2015 in MUSIC
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New album ‘All Your Favorite Bands’ out June 2nd , 2015
Pre-order a digital copy of the album now, and get “Things Happen” and “Right On Time” instantly, Earlier this year, Dawes announced their new album release “All Your Favorite Bands”, their fourth full-length album, recorded in Nashville and produced by David Rawlings. On the heels of sharing the album’s first single “Things Happen” (which the band performed on The Late Show with David Letterman ,Taylor Goldsmith and co. released “Right on Time” to tide fans over until the anticipated album’s June 2nd release.

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DAWES – ” Things Happen “

Posted: April 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sometimes it’s best to just shrug everything off and say, “things happen” (or words to that effect).It’s the driving notion behind a new ear-worm and video from the Los Angeles-based rock group Dawes. “Things Happen” from the band’s just-announced album “All Your Favorite Bands”, follows a Beatles impersonator as he slogs through the city, beaten down and repeatedly rebuffed as he tries to find a street corner to perform on. “Let’s make a list of all the things the world has put you through,” sings Dawes front man Taylor Goldsmith. “Let’s raise a glass to all the people you’re not speaking to. … Things happen. That’s all they ever do.””Change, hardship and general bullshit is an inevitability,” Goldsmith tells us via email. “But by shifting the ways in which we acknowledge these realities, [we] can hopefully deprive them of at least some of their power over us.”I think by making the video about street performers, which is a pastime that’s at once fascinating and mysterious but also can be perceived as unglamorous or dismal, it really helps to illustrate the shifting sentiments of the song. How one guy can seem truly miserable in dealing with his current lot in life while others can take that same situation and figure out a way to find joy and acceptance in it?”The video was conceived and directed by Kevin Hayes. “All Your Favorite Bands” is due out June 2nd on HUB Records.