Her Name Is Calla – Long Grass (mp3) * It amazes me that the most talented bands send the most polite, humble little emails asking that I listen to their music. This atmospheric, somber ballad is from Her Name Is Calla’s upcoming full-length album The Quiet Lamb , set for release sometime this Spring. The delicate folk instrumentation…read more
We Are The Willows – A Funeral Dressed as a Birthday (mp3) * Atmospheric melancholy from Bon Iver labelmates We Are The Willows. They’ve made a new EP available as a “name your price” download on their label’s site . The above song is from their full-length debut A Collection Of Sounds And Something Like The…read more
Toronto native, Matthew Barber, has his new full length album set for release this upcoming February. This will be his 4th studio album, following his debut EP “Means and Ends” (2003) and 2 albums including “Sweet Nothing” (2005) and the critically acclaimed, Juno Nominated “Ghost Notes”(2008). Canadian and U.S tour dates will follow to support this latest effort from a truly talented singer-songwriter. Be on the lookout…read more
We Are The Willows – A Funeral Dressed as a Birthday (mp3) * Atmospheric melancholy from Bon Iver labelmates We Are The Willows. They’ve made a new EP available as a “name your price” download on their label’s site . The above song is from their full-length debut A Collection Of Sounds And Something Like The Plague , which was released in November. Buy @ Amazon *mp3 hosted by label & posted…read more
Brooklyn indie rockers Me You Us Them are set to release their forthcoming full-length, Post-Data , on April 27th through Triple Down Records . The first single from the album, “Any Time,” is a real gem of a track that grabs you from the 1st second with a melee of distorted guitar sound effects that lead into…read more
From “Free Energy” to “Dark Trance,” Free Energy has been hinting at their forthcoming debut full-length album since the Spring. As an early treat, the band released a digital EP in September featuring 2 album tracks & a B-side, “Something In Common”. Produced by DFA’s James Murphy, Free Energy’s debut full-length album, Stuck On Nothin’ , will be…read more
(Folk/Folktronica/Experimental) After a long break from writing and almost 3 years since their last studio album (2007’s Good Arrows), Tunng have teamed up with Full Time Hobby records for their fourth full length – ‘…And Then We Saw Land’ scheduled for worldwide release on March 1, 2010. After spending the greater part of last summer on tour with Tuareg rock…read more
Another new Shearwater track from the upcoming full length The Golden Archipelago surfaced today, again courtesy of Matablog (Matador Records’ own blog). We featured “Castaways” when it was made available to the public, which showed tremendous promise for the new record with its lush instrumentation as a teaser. This time though, “Black Eyes” fully immerses us in the…read more
Cuckoo Chaos is a folk-like quartet out of Sand Diego. Lefse Records has just released their debut EP We Are From Deerplants . It’s a fuzzy five track assortment of sun faded folk songs. They also have a full length album due out later this year via Lefse that is supposedly more upbeat. Judging by…read more
The indie folk duo, She & Him , released Volume One back in the Spring of 2008. Volume One was an exquisite album featuring a mixture of melodic tunes that are hark back to early folk music. Many of their songs are melancholic but hopeful at the same time. Zooey Deschanel’s vocals are distinct and undeniably beautiful. They have Volume Two set to release in March…read more
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