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Buy Golden Sea EP Here!: 
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Take You With Me

Endless Motion vol. 1

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This Is How We Walk On The Moon (Arthur Russell)

The Mary Onettes - "Silence Is A Gun"

2014 Paper Bag Records
Sam Roberts Band
Shapeshifters (Young Galaxy Remix)

From the Sam Roberts Band Record Store Day release (April 19th)
'We're All In This Together / Shapeshifters'

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SAM ROBERTS BAND - Shapeshifters (Young Galaxy Remix)

After spending two years living on opposite coasts and pursuing their own creative projects, Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp returned last spring to set to work on the sixth full-length album from the Rosebuds. Joining up with Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon (a friend and former bandmate who, in a 2011 interview, noted that the Rosebuds make “some of the most important music in the world”), the North Carolina-bred duo spent a week in Vernon’s studio teasing out a batch of songs that effortlessly weave the hooky songcraft of classic jangle-pop, the cagey romanticism of new wave, and a refined yet full-hearted sensibility all their own. Featuring Vernon on guitar and synths—as well as Bon Iver drummer Matt McCaughan and and Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn on bass, both longtime pals and cohorts of the Rosebuds—the resulting Sand + Silence radiates both a graceful intensity and the loose, joyful energy that comes from making music with friends.

Extracting brilliance from easy collaboration is old hat to the Rosebuds, who formed in 2001 and carried out their first live shows as performance-art pieces that turned the stage into a replica of their own living room. “From the beginning we knew we weren’t going to be a regular band, that we wanted to keep it fun and creative, like an ongoing art project,” says Crisp. With their most recent releases including collections of original Christmas and Halloween songs and a record of Sade covers, the Rosebuds catalog reveals the restlessness of their creative appetites by shifting from the acoustic balladry of 2005’s Birds Make Good Neighbors to the dark synth-pop of 2007’s Night of the Furies to the dreamy indie-rock of 2011’s Loud Planes Fly Low. “One of the main things that’s kept this band going is we have no rules about what kind of music we should record or who can help us record it” says Howard. “We’ve always kept it free and open, and never been scared to go in strange directions. The songs themselves, whatever they want to become, are always first.” But despite the anything-goes approach, the Rosebuds invariably stay true to a melody-centric musicality that’s driven by their singular chemistry, delicately crafted songwriting, and untamable excitement about the possibilities in making art.

Co-produced by the Rosebuds, Vernon, and BJ Burton, Sand + Silence began when Howard (who had recently launched a solo project under the name Howard Ivans) came to New York in early 2013 to work with Crisp (who had newly entered Columbia University’s graduate program for fiction writing). While their original intention was to revamp a number of songs cut from Loud Planes Fly Low and turn those tracks into an EP, Howard ended up sitting down at a piano in the studio and sketching out a whole new series of songs. “I decided to quit trying to force the older songs into something that worked for us, and instead write some new ideas and just see what happened without any pretense,” he says. “Right away it just felt really good and sounded like a new Rosebuds record to me—the tone and melodies reminded me of the lightness of the early Rosebuds days, with this feeling of the music being new and inspiring but still so simple that almost anybody could play it.” Once they settled into Vernon’s April Base Studio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the Rosebuds devoted a week to bringing those new songs to life by recording live (a previously unexplored tactic for the band). “Everyone in the room we were working with is such a great musician, so we’d hit record and the whole thing would just sail,” says Crisp. “Everything would get done in just one or two takes, and the songs all ended up having this buoyancy to them.”

The Rosebuds - "Blue Eyes"

GROUNDERS' new album will be available May 12 in North America, July in UK/EU. Tour dates coming soon!

“Where do you go? Waiting around, where do you go from here?” wonders the chorus of “Secret Friend,” the first single from GROUNDERS’ debut self-titled LP.

With a dreamy, reverb-drenched intro, the song drifts alongside layers of wobbly arpeggiated synth lines and space-age guitar melodies. It’s the opening track, and it’s also a fitting intro to GROUNDERS. It shimmers and gleams, but there’s a scrappy, stripped-back undertone that chips away at any polish. For every catchy hook and lush arrangement throughout the album there’s a woozy counterpoint that keeps things slightly off-kilter.

Where do you go from here? Into the weird and wonderful pop world of GROUNDERS.

This spring, the Toronto-based band – Andrew Davis (vocals and guitar), Daniel Busheikin (keyboards), Mike Searle (Bass) and Evan Lewis (guitar) – will release their first full-length album, a collection of dense and intricate pop music under the gauzy veil of krautrock and psychedelia. In the time between releasing the Wreck of a Smile EP in 2013 and laying demos for their debut album, GROUNDERS rediscovered their love for classic pop music, an appreciation that had waned over the years as they became obsessed with circumventing the conventional. They listened to pop staples like David Bowie and Devo, and revisited old favourites like Velvet Underground, Neu and the Zombies. When GROUNDERS finally came up for air, they had a newfound love for pop and a glut of ideas for a debut LP.

Meanwhile, Meditation for Dummies and David Lynch’s self-help guide Catching the Big Fish, on transcendental meditation and the creative process, were passed around the van while touring through North America. As Davis’s interest in meditation increased, his lyrics began to reflect his search for serenity and inner peace.

The album came to life in two distinct spaces: Davis’s bedroom in Toronto’s sleepy High Park neighbourhood; and a spacious two-car garage packed with vintage gear from various pawn shops and second-hand stores across the country.

After recruiting DIANA’s Kieran Adams to handle drums, the band headed into the studio with longtime pal Marcel Ramagnano (Born Ruffians, Absolutely Free) to record. Months of tracking, tinkering and layering later, GROUNDERS enlisted the incomparable David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene, Holy Fuck) to give each song the bombastic, fried analog treatment he’s become known for.

First single "Secret Friend" sounds like a bleached and sunbaked Zombies; “Vyvanse,” which yes, is named after the ADHD drug, contains a lilting guitar riff that’ll break your heart; “Pull It Over Me” careens into the dreamy ether courtesy of a wistful cyclical guitar that’s the epitome of a lazy summer’s day; “No Ringer” is a wobbly Silver Apples trance doused in a saxophone freak-out; "Fool's Banquet" sparkles like early Broadcast flooded by constant glistening waves of pleasure. After cross-country tours, an acclaimed debut EP and a David Lynch-inspired spiritual journey, GROUNDERS have finally come of age.

GROUNDERS - No Ringer

Together or Alone is the first single from the upcoming album 'Gold and Stone' out June 2, 2015.

TOGETHER OR ALONE
How long til you're gone?
I used to want to
Be with you right or wrong.

Honesty- could it be
The trigger that makes us answer
All at once?

In spite of stories told
The lies they rise and they unfold.
I'm not the soul you own.
Together or alone
This time we're growing old.

On with it all
On with the gain
Of losing ourselves
Still playing the game
On with it all
On with the gain
Of losing ourselves

I cannot satisfy all that you require
Nor can we rectify dead desires

How long til you're gone?
I used to want to
Be with you right or wrong.
I am not the soul that you'll ever own.
Together or alone
We're growing old.



Gold and Stone

Eternal Summers - Together Or Alone

Little Wings - Explains
CD / LP / Digital
woodsist077
Street date: May 26, 2015 

"Kyle Field, professionally known as Little Wings, is a living legend. He is the modern embodiment of the traveling bard and the singing troubadour. Kyle's discography is vast and impressive, full of tunes that are plucked from the lexicon of great American songwriting. On his latest effort, EXPLAINS, he crafts melodies so haunting and familiar; it's as if he's not composing them at all. He is tapping into something greater, acting as a vessel for the collective unconscious that is folk music. 

This is an album that is immediately accessible and also unfolds slowly, revealing greater depth with each listen. Kyle's lyrics are direct yet poetic, funny yet sad. EXPLAINS is a fantastic record that celebrates the enduring spirit of a great artist. Its release on WOODSIST is all too fitting - a label whose very foundation seems based on lasting creative integrity." - Alex Bleeker


LITTLE WINGS - By Now

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Friday April 10th Brighton Haunt
Sat April 11th Gateshead Old Town Hall
Sun April 12th Travel day
Mon April 13th Glasgow King Tuts
Tues April 14th Manchester Deaf Institute (travel after the show)
Weds April 15th Day off london
Thursday April 16th london Olso 
Friday April 17th Bristol Exchange 
Saturday April 18th Birmingham Rainbow
Nadine Shah announces new Single Fool and Album Fast Food

Having earned an early reputation for that uniquely rich, soulful voice; Nadine Shah released her debut album Love Your Dum and Mad to critical acclaim in 2013. A stint on the road with Depeche Mode followed whilst opening for Bat for Lashes and playing live at Vivienne Westwood's Red Label London Fashion Week show provided notable highlights on an extensive tour. Created with trusted collaborator and producer Ben Hillier, the excellent follow-up Fast Food is out on 6 April via Apollo / R&S Records.

Born from a fervent two-month writing session, Fast Food exists on a knife-edge – every bit as dramatic as we’ve come to expect from Nadine but with a sharpened eye for all things hook laden; retaining a brooding grandeur in its musical movements. 

Building on the bruised honesty and charm of its predecessor, Fast Food rings with the confidence of an artist completing their most coherent musical chapter to date. “The last album took so long to make that by the time it came out it didn’t feel like it was a very clear representation of where I was musically, but this time it’s different,” Nadine explains. Fast Food is a more concentrated effort: it is the sound of Nadine Shah as she is now, stepping out from behind the piano and growing with immeasurable confidence.

Nadine admits that Fast Food is a reflection upon short lived, intense, complicated relationships. "I suppose it's a coming of age album of sorts lyrically. Rejecting the romanticised idea of 'perfect' love and maturing in respects to relationships and accepting partners pasts".

With love comes heartbreak: “But it isn’t begging for your sympathy, it doesn’t wallow in self-pity” adds Nadine. “It’s unapologetic and, I hope, empowering.”

Speaking of the scarcity of keys on the new album Nadine says: “I felt quite restricted just sat behind the piano all the time on stage, so touring really catered for the way this record sounds. Everything started on guitar whereas last time Ben re-wrote piano parts for the guitar.” All the more addictive for their rarity, the piano provides light relief to Nadine’s all-important, enigmatic vocals. Yearning and tender yet billowing and aggressive; they weave a tale full of anxiety, vulnerability and nightmares. 

Setting the pace with this beguiling and exhilarating listen, Fast Food cements Nadine Shah as one of the UK’s most exciting and enthralling talents. Whether it’s the brutal honesty of the love stories, the brooding, crystalline guitars or even the rich, soulful vibrancy of her voice, Fast Food is an immediate, lavish and wholly vital album for 2015. 

‘Fool’ is the album at its most bitter, but like everything Nadine touches there is a wry humour and sweetness beneath the poised menace of its guitars and spitting lyrics. “When I mention damn Nick Cave and Kerouac, I’m pointing out someone’s predictable nature, but Kerouac is my favourite author and Nick Cave is my favourite musician” she explains, tongue firmly in cheek. 

Fast Food

Fool

From the album Non-Believers, out May 5, 2015 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/non-believers

Non-Believers

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Mac McCaughan "Lost Again"

Ryley Walker - "Sweet Satisfaction" from 'Primrose Green' out March 31, 2015 on Dead Oceans

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Ryley Walker - "Sweet Satisfaction"

Outfit - On The Water On The Way

From the new album, Quite A Feelin', out now from Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) and Loose Music (Europe).

LYRICS:
I rolled down the window for some air
Stuck my elbow out the car
When I heard the music playin'
From a jukebox, honky-tonkin' bar
I went and shuffled through the tunes
For the one thing that I knew, that song of ours
When lovin' you was hard, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
We used to sit out on the porch
With all that sweet corn shinin' in the breeze
Like the way you used to dance
With all them children wrapped around your knees
Though, now I find myself
Waitin' on somethin’ else to comfort me
The way it used to be, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
Because that old song was all we left behind
Those regrets, I feel 'em all the time
The love we once had, it's hard to find
Now it's hard to know
 
Goin' through the motions ain't enough
If no one's playin' fair
When all you wanted was
Someone to come home with somethin' to share
Because everybody knows, with a promise
There's a reason to care
And I was never there, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
Because that old song was all we left behind
Those regrets, I feel 'em all the time
The love we once had, it's hard to find
Now it's hard to know, my Indiana rose
My Indiana rose


CREDITS:
Written by Barna Howard, ASCAP.
Barna Howard, guitar & vocal; Lewi Longmire, electric guitar & bass; Tyler Maxwell Bussey, banjo; Ryan Spellman, drums.
Recorded, produced, engineered by Adam Selzer at Type Foundry Studio in Portland, OR.
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk.

Quite a Feelin'

Barna Howard - Indiana Rose

From 'Successor' - out June 30th on Misra Records and Wild Kindness (USA/EU), Flippin Yeah (AUS), and Canapé King Records (NZ) http://www.misrarecords.com/collections/anthonie-tonnon

Railway Lines

'Sign' - Taken from the Medicine EP, out 6th May Digitally and 10th June Physically. Pre-Order here: http://www.melodic.co.uk/medicine/

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Man Of Moon - Sign

From "Sonderlust", out September 16th, 2016 on Joyful Noise Recordings: joyfulnoi.se/sonderlust

Sonderlust

Kishi Bashi - Can't Let Go, Juno

Lull - Andrew Bird

Debut album 'Kins' out now UK/EU/USA/AU. Buy on iTunes here: bit.ly/10KsE9F

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Post Tropical Storm

Watch the video for "Go" here: vimeo.com/72055013
From the forthcoming third album by Valley Lodge, the best band. Out fall 2013. Deal with it. Go to valleylodgeband.com for more info.

'This Head I Hold' is out May 26th. Pre-order on iTunes now: http://smarturl.it/ThisHeadIHold

New album 'Mondo' is out May 27th. Pre-order on iTunes now: http://smarturl.it/MondoDeluxe

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Mark Wilson