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Rah Rah - Prairie Girl

Bringing back to life the Swinging music of the 1920's & 1930's with an ensemble that includes a Female Vocalist, Guitar, Double Bass, Piano, Trumpet, Violin, Clarinet & Drums. Join us for a great experience!

When I Get Low (I Get High)

Circle Song

River's Deep

'Absisto' is taken from Cold Specks' new album 'Neuroplasticity' -  out NOW on Mute. Get it here:  iTunes: smarturl.it/NeuroPiTunes
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Cold Specks - Absisto

Written by Laura Victoria Hewison
Laura Victoria- Voice, Cello
Jo Cooper- Fiddle
Sarah-Jane Miller- Mandolin
Produced by Mark Wallis

If Hell Freezes Over

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"

Wave As We Run

Black is the colour of my true love's hair 
Her lips are like a rose so fair 
She has the sweetest face and the gentlest hands 
I love the ground whereon she stands 

I go to the Clyde and mourn and weep 
For satisfied I n'er can be 
I write her a letter, just a few short lines 
And suffer death a thousand times 

I love my love and well she knows 
I love the ground where on she goes 
I know the day it soon will come 
When she and I will be as one 

Black is the colour of my true love's hair 
Her lips are like a rose so fair 
She has the sweetest face and the gentlest hands
I love the ground where on she stands

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Julia Graff and James Perrella in the McGill Multimedia Room

Produced by The Bombadils Julia Graff and James Perrella

Album art and design by Joe Latham at Lookhappy Design and Veronica Frank

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Fiddle, banjo, voice - Sarah Frank
Guitar, mandolin, voice - Luke Fraser
Flute, Irish whistle, harmonica, voice - Anh Phung
Upright bass (Tracks 1, 3, 7-11), voice - Alan Mackie
Upright bass (Tracks 2, 4-6) - Evan Stewart

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© & ℗ 2014 The Bombadils Music
All Rights Reserved.

www.thebombadils.com

06 Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair

Dar Williams - Something To Get Through

Sebastian is a return to the bands more dreamy works and contains infectious melodies and sunshine harmonies. A love letter to love, Sebastian is ambiguous, sensual and chimes with the great alt-pop of the late-eighties/early-nineties in particular Orange Juice and Husker Du whom the band name check during its chiming and joyous three minutes. 
Unabashed, unafraid, unashamed, Sebastian is a pure slice of pop music destined to be heard everywhere this summer. Release those inhibitions and let the light pour in...

Sebastian

HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW!?

Magnolia Electric Co.: Little Sad Eyes

Steeple

Tiny Circle

Wolf People - "Tiny Circle"

First single from Rah Rah's new album "The Poet's Dead". Out digitally October 2nd and physically October 22rd on Hidden Pony Records. www.rahrahband.com

Art and a Wife

Two Little Clouds

VINYL FORMAT. Two brand-new unreleased tracks by The Walkmen. Both songs were produced, engineered and mixed with Phil Ek. All material is from the Heaven sessions.

The first 100 people to be at The Walkmen's Terminal 5 show on Thursday 10.18 will snag a 7". Get your tickets here: http://bit.ly/NVVMFJ

Vermeer '65

CROISSANTS PLEASE

Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released in February 2013, their second album 'The New Life' is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, 'The New Life' is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

Having released a series of singles and EPs on various independent labels, Girls Names made their first significant impression on the wider world in 2011 with their debut album, 'Dead To Me,' earning plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and Loud & Quiet amongst a host of others. And yet, despite all the praise heaped on it, as soon as that record was released Girls Names were already moving into a different headspace. 

The band’s performance at this year Primavera festival provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise 'The New Life.' The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains: 

“'The New Life' is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. 'Dead to Me' literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, 'The New Life' is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. 'The New Life' is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream today - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, 'The New Life,' stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

"The New Life" will be released on February 18th, 2013 on Tough Love (UK) and February 26th, 2013 on Slumberland Records (US).


Girls Names - Pittura Infamante

Taken from Mariam The Believers debut album Blood Donation
Now out on Moshi/Moshi


Stay Brave


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