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This song, Half-Crazy, could be described as the tenacious offspring of the North African desert music of Mali/Morocco and the sweat and electricity of the Chicago and Mississippi Delta blues. That music is like a stem-cell, really open to going in many directions. On this track, we wired the harp through a dirty little amplifier. I played my early 40's Oahu lap-steel. Andrew uses a loping high-hat feel, and the electric bass pushes the whole thing. The lyrics got a nudge from our friend Nathan Moore--we're all half-crazy, half clear as a bell.

The Barr Brothers - Half Crazy

From the album ‘The Bearer Of Bad News’ (2015) • Pay what you want http://tndr.lv/andyshauf

Me and a couple friends, we had a big idea about getting money and getting out of here: we were wide-eyed dreamers of wealth. We were getting tired of killing time, filling up our heads with cheap wine. Jerry had a van so we could make our escape. He would say: “Boys, our time has come to live among the privileged ones.” Now it was Jerry’s plan but we all agreed: skip town and split the money up evenly, lay low ‘til the winter rolled in. He said, “I know an old farmer doesn’t trust the bank, keeps his money buried out behind his water tank. He told me once when he was out of his mind. Oh boys, our time has come to live among the privileged ones.” Now Jerry had a girl, the only one of us to ever have one last and so no questions asked, she’d be the fourth one involved. Her name was Mary-Anne and she was nice enough. Always a cashier, only once in love, with Jerry — the dreamer and the clerk, who said, “Boys, our time has come to live among the privileged ones.” So on that Friday night on which we all agreed, we took our shovels and crept out carefully through the farmyard darker than sin. The plan went off without a hitch ‘til we passed the chicken coop and Mary tripped, turned the hens to sirens in the night. And when the farmhouse lights turned on, a warning shot rang out into the dawn. And we ran like hell for Jerry’s van, but when we arrived we were only three. And while Jerry’s greed fed gas to the engine, his words showed us a coward we’d never seen. As he said, “Boys, our time has come. We’re gonna save ourselves and live among the privileged ones.”

Meticulously written over four years and recorded over one in a makeshift studio set up in his parent’s basement, Shauf, whose delivery at times reminds of Elliott Smith or Paul Simon, plays nearly every instrument on The Bearer of Bad News. The album was crafted on his grandfather’s timeworn guitar and heavily influenced by the aforementioned—and newly learned—clarinet, which was a Christmas gift from family. In spite of his modest recording set-up, Shauf imbued The Bearer of Bad News with an enduring warmth and redolence that lingers long after the album ends.

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Andy Shauf - Jerry Was A Clerk

Kite Dodging

track from upcoming Lemon Twigs album, due later this year!
written and performed by Michael and Brian D'Addario
produced by Jonathan Rado
tour dates 
July 4 - New York, NY - @ South Street Seaport 
July 5 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
July 6 - Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
July 8th - Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
July 9 - Chicago, IL @ Hideout 
July 10 - Chicago, IL - @West Fest
July 11 - Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub 
September 7 - Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge*
September 8 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West*
September 10 - Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle*
September 12 - Richmond, VA @ The National*
September 13 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *
*w/ Car Seat Headrest

As Long As We're Together

'Yes and No' out February 23, 2018
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Yes and No

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Find It of Use

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Department of Eagles - In Ear Park

We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic

Shuggie

Foxygen - "Shuggie" (Official Audio)

Devendra Banhart performs "Never Seen Such Good Things," from "Mala," his eighth studio album and his Nonesuch debut, due out March 12, 2013. The album took shape in Los Angeles, where he and longtime cohort Noah Georgeson produced the album together, playing most of the instruments themselves, using borrowed equipment and a recorder they’d found in a pawn shop.

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Mala

Devendra Banhart: "Never Seen Such Good Things"

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Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)

First taste from Atlanter. Album out 15. march in Norway. 

Atlanter - Kaktos (singel edit)

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Heaven

Atlanter is Jens Carelius’ and Arild Hammerø’s new band project. They play rock inspired by desert blues bands, by German krautrock and by old delta blues. All this is done with a Norwegian twist and point of view, and is perhaps best described as Norwegian viddeblues. 

Besides Carelius and Hammerø, the viddeblues ensemble Atlanter consists of Jonas Barsten Johnsen and Morten Kvam. Their debut album Vidde consists of 9 powerful, groove-based songs, all written by the band.

Arild Hammerø from the band tells us about the music and the album: Atlanter has an open-minded approach to playing music. The songs change from one concert to another, and we try to avoid a polished and rehearsed sound. I think everyone in the band enjoys this openness, that something new can happen on every song. We captured this feeling on the record too, and what brings it all together is that it is mostly based on very distinct rhythms. Playing with Atlanter is like dancing around a fire, there is an intense energy there. Our goal is for the audience to feel this energy too, so they can join in on the dance.  

About the band:
Jens Carelius has made a name for himself on the Norwegian music scene with the releases The First Songs (2008), The Beat Of The Travel (2009) and The Architect (2011). He has received brilliant reviews for all albums, especially the recent two, with mostly 5 and 6 out of 6 in most Norwegian newspapers. The Beat Of The Travel also made it onto Norwegian daily Dagbladet’s top 10 list of 2009’s best albums. Jens Carelius has sold a great number of albums, and was also the opening act on the largest stage at the Øya festival in 2011.

Arild Hammerø released his debut album Dagen Som Gryr in 2008, which was well received by the Norwegian press. “Arild Hammerø is a folk singer who protects the heart-warming legacy of folk singers Lillebjørn Nilsen and Stein Ove Berg. Sensitive, lyrical and likeable”, wrote Norwegian newspaper Vårt Land. The album Flåte by Hammer & Hersk (Arild Hammerø and Daniel Herskedal) was released in 2012 and received good reviews. Hammerø and Carelius have previously been in the band Blues Run The Game together, along with Siri Nilsen. Arild is also a regular on guitar in the electronica duo Ost & Kjex, and participates on the album Cajun Lunch.

Jonas Barsten Johnsen is a young percussionist with a Masters degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music. He is/has been collaborating with amongst others: Frøy Aagre, Bendik Hofseth, Bendik Baksaas, Disaster in the Universe, Eivind Aarset, CCTV, Adam Rudolph and Bjørn Charles Dreyer. He is also a part of the improv scene in Oslo with a focus on electronics, percussion and dance. He has played more than 100 gigs each of the last 3 years, including the most central festivals in Norway. 

Morten Kvam has played the string bass/electric bass and been an active musician in Bergen and Oslo within different genres such as jazz, rock, pop, improvisation and folk music. He has collaborated with musicians such as Siri Nilsen, Terje Isungset, Per Jørgensen, Olav Dahle, Walter Thompson (US), Kevin Dean (CAN), Arild Hammerø, klezmer band Ot Azoi, Bugge Wesseltoft, Borge & Kvam, Polkabjørn and Kleine Heine, Push and Ine Hoem. He has also contributed on all Jens Carelius’ records and Arild Hammerø’s debut album.

02. Aye

Released October 29, 2013. 

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