February 2016

"Get Mine" is the second single from the forthcoming Bemidji EP, releasing 3/11/16 on Deer Head Music.
contact@danielellsworthandthegreatlakes.com

Recorded by: Vance Powell, Ed Spear, & Mike Odmark
Mixed by: Vance Powell at Sputnik Sound, Nashville TN
Mastered by: Jim DeMain, Assisted by Amy Marie at Yes Master Studios, Nashville TN

Get Mine

Natalie Royal - Harbinger [March 11, 2016]

Purchase:
[Physical]: bit.ly/1XtC705
[Digital]: apple.co/1XtC7NJ

Misery Loves Company, Too

"Too Small For Eyes," available on iTunes, Spotify & Bandcamp 11/30/15.

opening track of Mothers' debut LP, "When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired"
available 2.26.2016 via Grand Jury Music (US )/ Wichita Recordings (ROW)

When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired

Too Small For Eyes

Produced by Scott McMicken at Mt. Slippery.
Recording Engineer: Nathan Sabatino
Additional Recording by Greg Giorgio
Mixed by Greg Giorgio at Tarquin Studios
Mastered by Joe Lambert at Joe Lambert Mastering
All songs by Sean W Spellman (SESAC) and Quiet Life and published by Desert Retreaters, SESAC.
Management: Dave Grazynski at Congress+Main

Studio players:
Scott McMicken
Ryan Spellman
Sean W Spellman
Thor Robert Jensen
Philippe Bronchtein
Birdie Busch
Colin Holloway
Toby Leahman
Ryan McMackin
Nathan Sabatino
Jim Zeppieri

© 2016 Quiet Life Under Exclusive License To Strange Light Records, 256 Linden Street, Fort Collins, CO 80524, www.strangelightrecords.com

Lost In The Light

"Every Songbird Says" from the 4/15/16 Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop album Love Letter for Fire 
Pre-order the album now http://u.subpop.com/1PMDK7I

Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop - Every Songbird Says

From the album 'Jettison the Valley' out March 4th, 2016 on Western Vinyl

iTunes hyperurl.co/9f3l3j
Bandcamp: https://cartertanton.bandcamp.com/album/jettison-the-valley
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv119

Carter Tanton:
Artist page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/carter-tanton
Twitter https://twitter.com/cartertanton
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cartertanton/

By the time he was 15, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Carter Tanton was already playing bar shows in his hometown of Baltimore.  Two years later, he caught the attention of Gary E. Smith, best known for discovering and producing The Pixies.  After working together for a year, they parted ways, but Tanton never slowed down.  In the mid-2000's he released a couple of EPs with his band Tulsa, prompting Rolling Stone's David Fricke to claim "…his indie-seraphim voice is not of this world…", and after a particularly impressive live set KEXP's John Richards said "…he's one of the best singer-songwriters in the country today."  Beyond his critical acclaim, Tanton's early work was cited as an inspiration by his old friend Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs.  As Granduciel recalled in an interview with Pitchfork, "He was sleeping in someone's basement, playing every instrument, going through this breakup,...That was the first time I saw someone make music obsessively. I’d never seen anyone living inside of something, to that level."  

Over the years, Tanton has toured and recorded with numerous artists including Marissa Nadler, Strand of Oaks, Lower Dens, and The War on Drugs. In 2012, he assembled Freeclouds, his first collection of songs for Western Vinyl.  A couple of years later, Tanton moved to England where he wrote all of the songs on his new album Jettison the Valley. The change of environment, and his rediscovery of early British influences including Richard Thompson, Nick Drake and John Cale sparked a powerful shift in perspective, which led him to write his most cohesive and personal work to date.  Other than the pedal steel featured on two songs, Tanton engineers and plays every instrument on the album.  His old friend and collaborator Marisa Nadler contributes lead vocals to "Jettison the Valley", and Sharon Van Etten sings on "Twenty-Nine Palms" and "Through the Garden Gates".   

More about Jettison the Valley in his own words: 
"Jettison the Valley began in a little dot of a town outside Bristol called Hambrook in the Fall of 2013. I had just moved to England with my girlfriend where we lived in a caravan on her family's plot of land with the M5 motorway on one side, and a horse farm on the other.  To get away from the incessant low rumbling of cars, I often walked along the area's ancient public footpaths that carve strange ways through the countryside. On those walks, my previous 30 years in America billowed and collapsed in front of me. As I stood there in the blowback, the constant push of time seemed to finally relent, and I found enough distance from it to see my past in clear broad strokes.  After a few months we moved to Oxford and lived in a little attic apartment up on a hill. I spent most days watching the weather roll through the valley and writing these songs about my relationship ending.  Eventually, I felt I had to come back to the states to record them.  I consider this my first solo record. The other two releases I've put out under my own name since 2005 were simply collections of scattered recordings, mixtapes essentially. Jettison was written in one long sitting, each song feeding the next."  

Carter Tanton - "Twentynine Palms ft. Sharon Van Etten"

Still Life

'Texas Girls And Jesus Christ' EP out March 25, 2016 on Jagjaguwar

Order at TrevorSensor.com

Trevor Sensor - Texas Girls And Jesus Christ

Watch the official video: http://smarturl.it/NeverGoingBackVideo

Otero War out now! 
iTunes: smarturl.it/CavemanOteroWar
Apple Music: smarturl.it/aOteroWar
Spotify: smarturl.it/sOteroWar
Google Play: smarturl.it/gOteroWar
Amazon: smarturl.it/amOteroWar

Never Going Back

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From the upcoming HEARTWATCH mini-album out 2/26! 
Order here: www.heartwatch.bandcamp.com 

Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Damien Lewis
Mastered by Joe LaPorta
Recorded at Jackpot! Studios in Portland, OR

Never Let You Go

You can listen, stream, purchase Temple, the title track, on all services here: https://MATA.lnk.to/TempleSSo

Temple the new album is out 22 April 2016, pre-order here: https://MATA.lnk.to/TempleLPSo

Temple

"Dedicated" by Mavis Staples from the album 'Livin' On A High Note,' available February 19th

Pre-order on iTunes: http://apple.co/1THSnIP
Pre-order on CD and Vinyl: http://bit.ly/1RvLD1x

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mavisstaples
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MavisStaples
Instagram: http://instagram.com/MavisStaples

Mavis Staples - Dedicated

Fort Frances covers Wilco's "I'm Always In Love" from "Summerteeth."

Pre-order the band's new record "Alio" on vinyl here: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/fortfrances

I'm Always In Love

Gordi - 
http://gordisounds.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/music.Gordi
https://twitter.com/gordimusic
https://www.instagram.com/gordimusic/

Avant Gardener (Courtney Barnett Cover)

Gordi - Avant Gardener (Courtney Barnett Cover)

UNITED CRUSHERS, out March 4, 2016 / Pre-order Now!

CD/LP: smarturl.it/PolicaUC_Preorder
iTunes: smarturl.it/Polica_UC

TOUR: thisispolica.com/tour.php

POLIÇA - Lately

'Recorded Songs' EP out now: https://atlanti.cr/recordedsongs

2017 tour dates on sale here: http://smarturl.it/FRShows

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Death Dream

ongoing monthly playlists of songs I'm listening to. 

February 2016

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