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New Frightened Rabbit Track that I’m all about
It’s called “Swim Until You Can’t See Land.”…
New Patrick Wolf Music Video for "Hard Times"
Patrick Wolf has a pretty psych new video. A nice contrast to the intimate show he performed at LPR last month.…
Just Announced: Jon Mueller (Collections of Colonies of Bees)
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Enter Jon Mueller’s mammoth new solo percussion work, Physical Changes. If his previous solo effort Metals was about pummeling rhythms and frequencies, Physical Changes drives the whole idea into oblivion, as the sounds here are something to be felt as much as heard. Joined by the intense propulsion of James Plotkin (Khanate,
Just Announced: Black Taxi w/ Vinyette , Samvara and Atom Strange
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Black Taxi is an Indie Rock band from Brooklyn, New York. They draw influence from musicians ranging from The Doors to TV on the Radio. In October 2008, they were one of over 100 bands to participate in the College Music Journal Music Marathon in New York City. Additionally, they were winners
Just Announced: John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders–Three More Shows!
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Renowned singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, hailed by Rolling Stone as, “a literate and ironic neo-folkie with enough bile to win over a younger, hipper audience not attuned to folk music,” recently released his latest album, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead , via Popover Corps/Rebel Group. In support of the record
Just Announced: Mark Karan and Jemimah Puddleduck
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Bay Area musician Mark Karan has added his distinctive guitar sound to recordings and shows from a diverse collection of musical folk… from classic rockers like Dave Mason and Delaney Bramlett to more modern, mainstream acts like the Rembrandts. Though best known for his touring efforts with Grateful Dead-related bands The Other
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The Villager just published their list of the best things to be doing in The Village this summer. Among the list: Radio Happy Hour and The InDigest 1207 Reading Series….
Guess that means you should probably come to both of these events….
Just Announced: Mortified
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Hailed a “cultural phenomenon” by Newsweek and celebrated for years by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, Esquire, The Onion AV Club, Daily Candy, Entertainment Weekly, E!, Talk of the Nation and more, Mortified is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness
Just Added: Newspeak Program Includes a World Premiere by Fiery Furnaces Frontman
The Newspeak program on June 11 will include a world premiere by Fiery Furnaces frontman Matt Friedberger. This is the first time in Wordless Music history that a member of the rock band is writing a piece for the classical ensemble.
More information here….
The Fiery Furnaces are an inventive and often challengingly experimental
Just Announced: Mark Eitzel performs American Music Club
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Mark was born in Columbus, OH, but spent most of his formative years in a military family traveling to different areas of the world, including the United Kingdom.
His first band was formed while he was back in Columbus, called The Naked Skinnies. They disbanded within three years, and, in 1982, Eitzel
Just Announced: BlueNefertiti
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BlueNefertiti’s vocal styling is founded in the eloquence of Edith Piaf, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, and Minnie Ripperton; the sophistication of Joao Gilberto; and the vocal landscaping of Bobby McFerrin.
She began singing professionally with her older sister in France during the mid 1990′s; later forming the internationally renowned singing duo Les
Just Added: Holiday Shores
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Holiday Shores is Nathan Pemberton, Josh Martin, and Ryan O’Malley, who list Rod Argent, Barthes, and Brian Wilson among their influences.
Just Added: Virginia Luque
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Virginia Luque plays classical and flamenco music in a Spanish romantic style, combining extraordinary technical virtuosity with beautiful tone and musicianship.
A native of Cadiz, Spain, Ms. Luque began playing the guitar when she was four, started formal training when she was six, and gave her first concert at the age of
Just Announced: Tortoise
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The great majority of artists spend their formative years (if not their entire careers) working to shake off the gravitational pull of their predecessors, and the many masters and masterpieces that came before them—what the literary critic Harold Bloom called “the anxiety of influence.” For musicians, in particular, this tendency is especially
Just Announced: Asa
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Asa, in her own opinion, is not a commercial product and not a sex kitten. But she is dazzlingly talented and gifted with a will of iron. She began to feel the wind of success blowing in her direction. A wind strong enough to sweep her away, but that would be forgetting
Just Added: Michael Showalter to Radio Happy Hour in July
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Michael Showalter born in Princetion, NJ and a graduate of Brown University ‘92, lives in Brooklyn. He was a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe, The State which ran for three seasons on MTV. He is a member of the comedy trio Stella, and starred in their eponymous COMEDY CENTRAL series,
Just Announced: Jay Brannan
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Jay Brannan is a Texas born singer, actor, and songwriter. After finding homes all over the country to live in, and briefly attending University of Cincinnati’s acting school, he decided to plant his feet down in New York City.
His songs hold many of the same universal themes other artists acclaim to,
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Just Announced: Trevor Exter, Steve Waitt and The New York Howl
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Trevor Exter was born in Ithaca, NY. He always played different things but kept coming back to the cello. He sits with the cello and sings, but he plays it weird – like a tiny bass or aquatic guitar. He also hits it sometimes. He’s been a sideman with many indie artists
Tinariwen Special on CNN
CNN recently featured a piece on Tinariwen which highlights his recent performance at (le) Poisson Rouge.
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Just Announced: Nils Petter Molvaer and Arve Henriksen
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Nils Petter Molvær (NPM), Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, takes multiple music styles – jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music – and effortlessly reshapes them into unique and dramatic soundscapes of deep intensity.
His remarkable ease in handling the
Just Announced: Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio
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Following a string of three acclaimed recordings for Verve Records that firmly established him as one of the most strikingly original new voices in jazz as both guitarist and composer (2000’s The Enemies of Energy, 2001’s The Next Step and 2003’s Heartcore), Kurt Rosenwinkel returns with an all-star outing that is perhaps
Listen: Vandaveer Daytrotter Session
Listen to the Daytrotter Session by Vandaveer, who will be perform at LPR this Monday, May 25th at 7pm (for details and to purchase tickets, click here…).
VANDAVEER is the alt-folk song singing/record making/globetrotting project penned and put forth by DC-by-way-of-Kentucky tunesmith Mark Charles Heidinger. The son of a preacher whose father was a
Photos: Little Boots and Hearts Revolution at (le) Poisson Rouge in Prefix Magazine
Little Boots
Hearts Revolution
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