Sharon Van Etten

The sun is hiding. The air cools, just enough. And the clouds are ripe. They seem intent on rain but never quite commit to it; the whole world seems overcast. Sharon Van Etten’s music is that milky light spilled through half-drawn curtains, borne in the heart of October wind.
[download] “have you seen” + “you didn’t [...]

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Festival – Come, Arrow, Come!

To say the word “Festival” is to summon myriad imagery: revelers hoarsely singing songs over jugs of wine, dancing, sharing, smiling, laughing, and enjoying that rare sense of community that has, as we move further and further into the 21st century, been replaced by insularity. But is the imagery of the festival lost? Antiquated? Romanticized? [...]

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Akron/Family debuts new track, adds CA date

Akron/Family is known for their uncanny ability to be prolific while never sacrificing creativity or sincerity. They’ve released an album every year for the past couple years, and in my opinion every album has evolved in surprising – but always rewarding – ways. I think their unparalleled output can be credited to, amongst other things, [...]

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Jeremiah Conte

Jeremiah Conte’s recent series is like a bird’s eye view on a universe comprised of fingers, each reaching for and clutching their neighbor lovingly – knowing that the closer they are, the larger the universe they’ll create. Luckily, they’re content to be humble.
Naturalismo: What inspires your work the most?
Jeremiah Conte: I draw what I see [...]

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Video Naturalismo: The Entrance Band takes Big Sur

The Entrance Band are playing a few tour dates and have a slew of new bootleg and demo albums for sale now on their website! Visit The Entrance Band at myspace to pick up the records or check out one of the following upcoming shows:
APRIL 30: LOS ANGELES @ the [...]

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The Presti-Lagoya Duo

L’au of Mi & L’au recommended the Presti-Lagoya Duo to me recently.  I had never heard of them before…but after watching this video (very poor, choppy quality I know) I was dumbfounded.
“Alexandre Lagoya (1929-1999) and Ida Presti (1924-1967) formed the greatest classical guitar duet in the world; this was not simply [...]

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El Guincho finds the Roots of Chicha

There’s lots of press going around about this El Guincho sounding something like Panda Bear, similar but different they say. Lazy lazy journalists, get out and listen to something before 2007. As if Noah Lennox was the first to mix traditional tropical rhythms with samples and modern melodies. Not to discredit the amazing side [...]

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bonnie ‘prince’ billy: new album, demo

I’ve just received word that Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy aka Will Oldham is going to be releasing Lie Down in the Light this May. It’s his first set of originals since 2006’s The Letting Go. I’m really curious to see what direction he takes with this new album – if there’s one thing we can be [...]

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Pepi Ginsberg’s ‘Red’ hits stores today

I’ve been a fan of Pepi Ginsberg’s quirky psych folk for over a year now and I’m very excited to announce the release today of her 3rd studio album ‘Red.’ After a repeated listens I think Red is her strongest release to date and really shows Ginsberg’s song writing maturing nicely. The album itself is [...]

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Meg Ashling

Dust clings to your cheek. It’s painted on, dried up, cracked, bound up in damp streams of new tears. The faint chug-chug of the train fades over the distant horizon, heatwaves squiggling over your last glimpse of the locomotive. Goodbye. You’re alone for the first time in years, and you know damn well it’s [...]

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In honor of yesterday’s national holiday…

Marijuana and music have been kissing cousins for years now. Hell, I even heard that some musicians smoked it in the sixties. Can you believe that? I’ve heard that stuff makes kids go crazy! Anyway… Congressman Barney Frank from the great state of Massachusetts (my old stomping grounds) introduced a bi-partisan bill to congress on [...]

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Devendra Banhart on cover of Rolling Stone Japan

Devendra Banhart is featured on the new cover of Rolling Stone Japan this month:

Congrats Devendra…anyone have the actual article?
The last I heard a few months ago from Gregory Rogove touring drummer for Banhart and member of Priestbird, Devendra was going to go into the studio with him to record. Any updates on that and I’ll [...]

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Fire on Fire: The Naturalismo Interview + Unreleased Track

Naturalismo: How long has the group been playing together, and what are the origins of what is now Fire on Fire?
Chriss Sutherland: FIre on Fire as Fire on Fire has been doing this music for maybe four years this summer. I think it was around 2004 when we rekindled the kitchen jams. Of course, we [...]

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I know where summer goes

I’ve been pouring over Ryan McGinley’s new photo set I know where summer goes for the past few weeks with an increasing fervor towards their beautiful simplicity. Taking the time out to truly enjoy the earnestness of their nature, I found myself scrambling for the perfect set of words to attempt to describe them. [...]

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alan watts: work as play

Alan Watts discusses viewing work as a dance, and how life is spontaneous, instead of driven by external forces.

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Arthur 29 Now Available

[download] Arthur Magazine: Issue 29 | Part I | Part II | Part III |

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The Incredible String Band + Bonus Rant!

The Incredible String Band is an anomaly. They’re one of those groups that needs no introduction, yet are somehow unknown. They’re omnipresent in the collective consciousness of a generation of folksters, but notably absent from the tongues of tastemakers. They are many things to many people: an avant-garde take on traditionally narrative British Isles [...]

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3 New Circulatory System songs

Praise the psychedelic lord- the Circulatory System have finally arrived with 3 new songs after a 7 year recording sabbatical. It was way back in Naturalismo’s younger days (read: one year ago) that we first got a taste of their early new material on a rough bootleg. After what has had to be several entire [...]

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Manimal Festival June 7th

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Helena Espvall collaborates with Masaki Batoh

Nam myoho renge kyo? I’m trying to think if I did some particularly good deed recently…hmmm…because my karma seems to be aligned! I recently got a note from Helena Espvall of Espers, filling me on some exciting news about a collaboration she recently finished with Masaki Batoh, a member of Japanese psych band Ghost. She [...]

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