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LUCY ROSE – ” Is This Called Home “

Posted: April 29, 2017 in MUSIC
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On 7th July singer songwriter Lucy Rose will be unleashing her much-anticipated new album “Somethings Changing” and to up the anticipation just that little bit more, she’s shared the video for brand new single ‘Is This Called Home.’

Filmed on location in the Lake District, the new clip is also Lucy’s directorial debut. And might we say, it’s a very fine way to step into the world of directing. It’s been inspired by a moment in the studio, where her violin player Andrew improvised strings to the movement of producer Tim Bidwell’s dancing, which would eventually become the ending to the song. She then contacted dancer Jonathan Lutwyche to collaborate on the video.

In a statement, Lucy said: “I wanted to capture exactly that in Jonathan’s dance. I had no idea how it was going to look, but I was completely blown away with the sheer emotion he let out in one take. This video was the first take of the day and much of it was improvised on the spot. I think it’s truly beautiful to watch him dance in one of the most beautiful places in the world, The Lake District.”

Jonathan added: “In this video I’m trying to convey passion about something, in my case dance. When I first heard the song, it really touched me and it just made me want to get up and dance so that’s basically what I did. No matter how many times we fall down in life you just have to get up and carry on and to me that’s what this dance really meant to me and I feel like people will really feel the same way after hearing and watching what Lucy and I have created together.”

This is the official video for Is This Called Home by Lucy Rose, taken off the new album Something’s Changing out on the 7th July.

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Silver “

Posted: April 18, 2017 in MUSIC
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Katie Crutchfield’s southern roots are undeniable. The name of her solo musical project Waxahatchee comes from a creek not far from her childhood home in Alabama and seems to represent both where she came from and where she’s going. Katie Crutchfield has been nothing but honest as the artist Waxahatchee . Her careful words carry keen insight — and she writes sharp songs to match. Waxahatchee’s fourth album, Out In The Storm, takes a hard look not just at broken relationship, but also at the spiraling aftermath.

“I don’t want to call it a break-up record, but it was a romantic and professional relationship that fell apart,” Crutchfield says. “I had to end it, and it rippled throughout every little corner of my life.”

“Silver,” the album’s first single out today with a video directed by Catherine Elicson, is the sound of the world crashing down around you — and that humbly recognizes that “the whole world keeps turning.” The guitar-driven track has a diaphanous sheen that unfolds in slow motion, but with weight that sparks a difficult epiphany.

Out In The Storm comes out July 14th on Merge Records. Waxahatchee goes on tour with The New Pornographers through America starting April 18th.

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JAY SOM – ” Live from WXPN “

Posted: April 17, 2017 in MUSIC
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Melina Duterte, the main brain behind Jay Som. The Oakland-based artist has been making music on her own for a few years, recently releasing her full-length debut on Polyvinyl, “Everybody Works”. Though all the parts on the album are played by Melina herself, she tours with a full band that features Oliver Pannell on guitar, Dylan Allard on bass and Zachary Elsasser on drums. Taking a short break before a show with The Courtneys, Jay Som dropped by to showcase how the meticulous studio tracks blossom in a live setting.

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Jay Som’s songs end to sneak up on you. Check out the slow-building intro on session opener “Baybee.” On the album, a light keyboard line floats through the R&B-inflected track, but it’s re-imagined as a slick guitar line from Pannell. The intertwining guitar work toward the song’s end betrays the band’s collective love for exploratory groups like Stereolab and Television. Next up is a fan favorite, “The Bus Song.” Again, the interplay between the band members raises the already dynamic track to new highs (and a few dramatic lows). It also marks what might be the very first fake-out ending on an IRHP session track. Closing the session is the meditative “One More Time, Please.” The song doesn’t feature very many lyrics, but it’s a sparse and arresting track nonetheless.

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COURTNEY BARNETT – ” Three Packs A Day “

Posted: April 17, 2017 in MUSIC
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Courtney Barnetts Milk! Records, the label she started when her career was just beginning, is about to release their second compilation after 2014s A Pair Of Pears (With Shadows) entitled Good For You. The compilation will feature artists like, Fraser A. Gorman, Ouch My Face, Jen Cloher, the Finks, and the East Brunswick All Girls Choir. Courtney herself contributed a track of her own,Three Packs A Day which you can listen to right now.

VAGABON – ” Live From Audiotree “

Posted: April 13, 2017 in MUSIC
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Vagabon finds various ways to flood the senses. It’ll either come in a harrowing lyric that sticks in the conscience, or it’ll arrive from a soft drone that gradually envelops.

“Infinite Worlds” released February 24th via Father Daughter Records.

Laetitia Tamko writes poetic indie rock that centers around her life. Under the moniker of Vagabon, she crafts insular tales that defy traditional indie structures and incorporate elements from across the spectrum of r&b, spoken word, traditional rock and bedroom pop.

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Band Members
Laetitia Tamko – Vocals and Guitar
Elise Okusami – Drummer
Maggie Toth – Bassist

MARIKA HACKMAN – ” My Lover Cindy “

Posted: April 6, 2017 in MUSIC
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Marika Hackman the 25-year-old British singer/songwriter with a ’90s alt-rock kind of vibe. She has toured with Laura Marling and sang on alt-J’s last album. Her debut album, “We Slept at Last”, came out in the U.K. in 2015. But she recently signed to Sub Pop and is now releasing her second album “I’m Not Your Man” on the label on June 2nd. She has already shared a video for the album’s first single, “Boyfriend” Now here’s another song from the album, “My Lover Cindy.” .

Charlie Andrew (alt-J) produced and mixed I’m Not Your Man at various locales around London. The British band The Big Moon  (Hackman’s friends) acted as Hackman’s backing band on the album. “They really captured the soul of what it all meant to me and brought a lot of fun and creativity,” said Hackman in a previous press release about working with The Big Moon. Hackman also had this to say about the album in the press release: “The record’s all about female relationships, romance and breakdowns, but there’s also a dim worldview going on. I’m Not Your Man can either mean, ‘I’m not your man, I’m your woman,’ or it can mean, ‘I’m not a part of this.'” The album will be released in Europe by AMF Records.

ROBYN CAGE – ” Burning Now “

Posted: April 4, 2017 in MUSIC
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With an impassioned and expressive voice, Robyn Cage is something rather special . She has captivated audiences from Boston’s Symphony Hall to stages across N.Y.C. Cage is an actor too and trained at the Boston Conservatory – praised by sources as wide as The New York Times and Variety. As a musician, she has produced some sensational works that draw the listener into a wonderful world – most vivid of all in her album, “Born in the Desert”.

Cage talks about her life in Utah and what it was like getting such high kudos for Born in the Desert. She discusses her acting career and artists who have inspired her. With so many fans responding to her music, with new material in her mind. Cage talks about the albums she holds dearest and whether there are any plans in regards touring the U.K. and Europe planning to tour Europe in spring ’18.

Cage a singer/songwriter/keyboardist with a love for nature and a tendency to set instruments on fire. My music is Alternative/Pop and it’s dark, dreamy and often story-driven. Raining Sideways was her 2009 debut E.P.

The title track from my upcoming record, Slow the Devil, is the closest thing to a protest song that she has ever written.

 

FENNE LILY – ” Whats Good / Bud “

Posted: March 20, 2017 in MUSIC
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Bristol based singer/songwriter Fenne Lily is sharing her new single “What’s Good”, her first solo material of 2017.

“What’s Good” focuses on Lily’s innate knack for lyrics that make you halt like a deer in headlights. Teaming up once again with friend and producer Dave Dixon (Tamu Massif), Lily’s latest track is a quivering mesh of jaw-dropping vocals and to-the-bone instrumentation that drags you through the gamut of human emotion.

The standalone offering follows last year’s impressive “Bud” and “Top To Toe” singles, and a spate of collaborations with fellow Bristol acts Oliver Wilde, ThisisDA, Slonk, and Tamu Massif – plus recent 4AD signee Aldous Harding, who invited Lily to sing with her during sessions for her upcoming LP.

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AIMEE MANN – ” Can’t Tell You ? ” 30 Days 30 Songs Project

Posted: March 18, 2017 in MUSIC
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The 30 Days, 30 Songs project is a new thing: A full month of musicians posting anti-Trump music in the lead-up to the election. Death Cab For Cutie kicked it off with their new song “Million Dollar Loan” And today, the veteran badass singer-songwriter Aimee Mann has contributed the new song “Can’t You Tell,” a song that she actually wrote from the perspective of Trump. Singing in character as Trump, Mann paints a portrait of a disturbed man who’s in over his head: “Isn’t anybody going to stop me? / I don’t want this job, I don’t want this job / My god, can’t you tell I’m unwell?”

Aimee Mann has said:

I wanted to write about Trump in the first person because I think it’s more interesting to speculate on what people’s inner life might be. I had heard a theory that Trump’s interest in running for President was really kicked off at the 2011 White House Correspondent’s dinner when President Obama basically roasted him, so that’s where I started. And my own feeling was that it wasn’t really the job itself he wanted, but the thrill of running and winning, and that maybe it had all gotten out of hand and was a runaway train that he couldn’t stop.

To combat apathy, entertain the citizenry, and provide a soundtrack to resistance, over the next four years, the producers of 30 Days, 30 Songs will assemble a playlist of 1,000 songs. One song every day to get us through what promises to be a tumultuous and frequently dispiriting and certainly bizarre presidency. The playlist will feature original tracks, unreleased live versions, remixes, covers, and previously released but relevant songs that will inspire and amuse and channel the outrage of a nation.

Despite the results of the election, we still believe it’s possible to build a more inclusive, equal, and just America. The world will not end on January 20th. It will continue to move forward, and it is up to us to chart its course. In the coming weeks, we plan to raise money for this endeavor through a crowdfunding campaign.

BHI BHIMAN – ” With Love, From Russia ” 30 Days 30 Songs Project

Posted: March 18, 2017 in MUSIC
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Trump is like a horrible car crash with a bad comb-over. When he can’t be bothered to keep up that bird’s nest on his head, he wears a stupid hat that was most definitely made in China. He loves the sound of his own voice, but his breath smells like dog shit. He wants to bring all the glamour of professional wrestling to Washington. But most importantly, and seriously, Trump might be a Manchurian Candidate for Russia. A real comrade to the Kremlin.

To combat apathy, entertain the citizenry, and provide a soundtrack to resistance, over the next four years, the producers of 30 Days, 30 Songs will assemble a playlist of 1,000 songs. One song every day to get us through what promises to be a tumultuous and frequently dispiriting and certainly bizarre presidency. The playlist will feature original tracks, unreleased live versions, remixes, covers, and previously released but relevant songs that will inspire and amuse and channel the outrage of a nation.

Despite the results of the election, we still believe it’s possible to build a more inclusive, equal, and just America. The world will not end on January 20th. It will continue to move forward, and it is up to us to chart its course. In the coming weeks, we plan to raise money for this endeavor through a crowdfunding campaign.

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