Posted in 1, Devendra, devendra banhart, tagged devendra banhart, Donovan on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Q: Do you feel a connection to new folk artists like Devendra Banhart?
Donovan: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went to see him when he came to Ireland. And it was very cool. There’s very much a lot of gypsy stuff in Devendra, just like me. I walk out there, the light comes up, and then I [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Almanac Singers, Leadbelly, Lee Hays, Millard Lampell, Pete Hawes, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Things weren’t that organized in those days, everything was very spontaneous. When it came time to record this stuff, we went in the studio, relatively sober (at least Pete was), sang the songs, and then hit the road for California.” – Millard Lampell
Forget Dylan’s postmodern Woodie Guthrie charlatanism. The Almanacs were the real thing. In [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Shel Silverstein on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Q: How do you think your present image as world traveller, bawdy singer, etc. combine with your image as a writer of children’s books?
Shel: I don’t think about my image.
Q: But if you are a spokesman and leader of your generation with millions of followers, don’t you care what they think?
Shel: I don’t speak for [...]
Posted in nick drake, tagged Heath Ledger, nick drake on January 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Alright. I realize that this isn’t TMZ. I also realize that coverage of the Heath Ledger tragedy is ubiquitous and gratuitous. Bear with me.
When I stepped into LA’s Egyptian Theatre on one night this past October, I felt like I was amongst family. I had the pleasure of attending a special one-night engagement of [...]
Posted in Entrance, great american music hall, guy blakeslee, the entrance band on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in 1, tagged David Lynch, Donovan, The Beatles on January 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It was 1968. The mythos of American pop-culture holds this to be a golden age – a time when the youth were invested in society and when artists metamorphosed from mere entertainers to become spiritual – practically divine – entities. The “Summer of Love” had just happened. The blood of Altamont had yet [...]
Posted in devendra banhart, tagged Alia Raza, Chloe Sevigny, devendra banhart on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This February, Devendra Banhart and Chloe Sevigny will be appearing in a series of vid-nettes from up-and-coming independent filmmaker Alia Raza at New York’s Greene Naftali Gallery. Raza describes the pieces as “one-take, real-time based diptychs dealing with grooming rituals, luxury consumerism, and decay.”
| The Greene Naftali Gallery | 508 W 26th St. | [...]
Posted in nick drake, tagged From the Morning, nick drake, Pink Moon on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yup, it’s true. Aside from impeccable melodies, a revolutionary right hand technique, and an otherworldly singing voice, Nick Drake also has the uncanny ability to alleviate the discomfort of a stubborn cough. They don’t talk much about that in the history books, but boy, was he a healer. That’s why it makes sense that Vicks [...]
Posted in Banhart, Devendra, live at moma, moma, review on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photo: Lauren Dukoff
If you’ve been reading Naturalismo for awhile you most likely will have noticed two things; the first being my unrelenting pursuit to convince and convert as many people as possible to turn on to what I think is the most important and interesting music movement in decades, the second being my large [...]
Posted in Entrance, Matteah Baim, mariee sioux, michael hurley, winter flowers, tagged Alela Diane, Entrance, Headdress, mariee sioux, Matteah Baim, michael hurley, White Flowers, White Rainbow, Wooden Ships on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I know I posted about Arthur’s Sunday Nights at McCabes before, but this event poster was just released, and it’s too cool to let go. C’mon people, it has a wizard holding a mushroom! Wizard! Mushroom!
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Posted in akron family, tagged Akron/Family on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Akron/Family drummer Dana Janssen describes his band’s sound as “Between Justin Timberlake, King Sunny Ade, and the Grateful Dead” in a great article published on Gigwise.com this week. Everything from the band’s humble beginnings, live philosophy, current album (the amazing ‘Love is Simple‘), the departure of guitarist Ryan Vanderhoof, and the band’s lofty future ambitions [...]
Posted in 1 on January 17, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Super early and rare footage of Tyrannosaurus Rex, singing his new “soft, beautiful, gentle” songs…
Has a bit of a Bob Dylan feel to it, doesn’t it?
The Donovan video I posted before:
Posted in 1, tagged Autumn de Wilde, Elliott Smith on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If anyone’s in the Bay Area, don’t miss the Elliott Smith photography exhibit opening February 26 at the Queens Nails Annex. Autumn de Wilde worked closely with Smith as a friend and photographer for several years before his untimely suicide/murder. There’ll [...]
Posted in winter flowers, tagged Golden Animals, Lavender Diamond, Madonna, Manimal Vinyl, winter flowers on January 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hmmm. In a bid to support “Raising Malawi,” one of Madonna’s charities, Manimal Vinyl founder Paul Beahan has corralled a good collection of artists onto Through the Wilderness.
In a January 5th interview with LAist, Beahan says:
“Honestly I’m not even a Madonna fan at all – I used to DJ and I think I had a [...]
Posted in michael hurley, tagged Espers, michael hurley, Pete Stampfel, The Holy Modal Rounders on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s a confluence of traditional folk music and, um, drugs, basically, with the latter having a very active influence on the former,” Pete Stampfel of The Holy Modal Rounders describes of Michael Hurley’s music.
Joel Rose conducted a fantastic interview with Michael Hurley on NPR recently, in which the wily songsmith discusses everything from drawing cartoons [...]
Posted in language of stone on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Founded in the summer of 2007 by Greg and Jessica Weeks, Language of Stone is quickly becoming a label to keep an eye on. With his affinity for analog recording and supportive approach to the artists he helps record, Weeks presence is felt throughout Stones repertoire. In November Language of Stone saw the release of [...]
Posted in 1, Six Organs of Admittance, tagged Entrance, Six Organs of Admittance on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look” – Henry Miller
An incredible opportunity to see a slew of amazing bands playing in the bucolic forests [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Mississippi John Hurt on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When you listen to Mississippi John Hurt perform his seemingly simplistic but mystifyingly rhythmic three-finger picking style, you suddenly imagine katydids buzzing from distant willows. You squint as the waning sun of a mid-July day wraps around your skin, and you suddenly feel a sense of home. You feel warmth, [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Alela Diane on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The ghosts of the American night have been set loose, taking to the dark dirt roads of the country…past cabins, bullfrog ponds, and fading cemeteries. Somehow, inexplicably, they’ve crept onto Alela Diane’s first “official” album, The Pirate’s Gospel. A fingerpicking style akin to Fairy Tale-era Donovan coupled with a delicately [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Taken By Trees, Victoria Bergsman on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“The album sounds like a quiet forest in winter,” says Sarah Tomlinson, a music critic for the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. “You feel like it’s a hushed mood. She’s telling these stories, or singing these lullabies, and you sort of have to draw in close to listen. That’s what makes it so appealing.”
In [...]
