Recollecting Festival in the Forest

I stepped over lazy rocks and roots weaving clumsily through the redwood trees beside me. The fog followed us across the footbridge as clouds would follow. Sleepy and silent, we parked the car beside a brook, with a yawn and a smile and a stretch, upon a peninsula due-south of the stage. We pitched a [...]

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(((FolkYeah!))) & Indian Summer Music Present: (((Festival In The Forest))) Acoustic Cabin!

Those of you upset about tomorrows Festival in the Forest being sold out should still make the trek down to make it out its sister show TOMORROW!
Tickets are now on sale here:
http://www.myspace.com/benlomondindiansummer
(((folkYEAH!))) & Indian Summer Music Present
(((The Festival In the Forest))) Acoustic Cabin
Saturday, September 27th
At The Big Sur Grange Hall
Featuring Solo Acoustic Performances [...]

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Anne Briggs – The Time Has Come

Anne Briggs’ 1971 album The Time Has Come is music of the road, music that embodies the singer’s own wandering predilection. It makes me restless too, like Joni Mitchell’s enchanting “Urge for Going” does. Her voice begs us to amble alongside, down a foggy dirt road marked by black-eyed susans and overgrown grass, through the [...]

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Castanets to release City of Refuge

After last year’s In the Vines, I’ve been dying to hear new Castanets material…thankfully Asthmatic Kitty Records is releasing Ray Raposa’s next record City of Refuge on October 7th. Two weeks!
From Asthmatic Kitty:
The result of three weeks alone in a Nevada desert motel room, City of Refuge, Castanets’ fourth full-length for Asthmatic Kitty (September, 2008), [...]

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Antony to release Another World

On October 7th, Antony and the Johnsons will release “Another World” EP on cd and vinyl. Below is the press release:

“Antony and the Johnsons emerged onto the international stage in 2005 with [...]

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Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: Why Is Bear Billowing?

Summer’s over but it doesn’t seem like it in Los Angeles.  It’s all the same, always, anyways.  It’s a place where time stands still, rapidly encroaching on infinity. A smoggy Neverland.  A sedated scene.  We grow older, but the insouciant attitude afforded by persistent sunshine is comfort food to keep going.  Chicken-fried life with curly [...]

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Video Naturalismo: Little Joy premiere of “Keep Me in Mind”

Festival in the Forest is only ONE week away and you’ll get a chance to see this new Little Joy song “Keep Me In Mind” performed live at it if you’re attending. The song kind of rekindles what the Strokes were better at on the outset with Is This It? Noah Georgeson’s production lends it’s [...]

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Alela Diane lends voice to Headless Heroes

Admittedly, I have no idea who or what Headless Heroes is. A new band with a cryptically sparse website? Perhaps. Names Records has just released a new song from the mystery band featuring a great contribution from one of my favorite contemporary female singer-songwriters, Alela Diane. It’s a cover of the Linda Perhacs classic “(Hey [...]

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Forest Fire – Survival

Forest Fire are friends, but often they are not in the same city. When they are together, they record at The Apartment. “Survival” is the result of a long process of the potential energy of apartness building to the point of kinetic connection, of togetherness. Some tracks thump and wail. Some softly crash in waves [...]

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NEW Sibylle Baier song, photos

It has been some time since I last checked in on Sibylle Baier’s music,  mostly because the 2006 reissue of her perfect album Colour Green seemed definitive and final. I listened to it for the better part of that year and have returned to from time to time since. I still think that “Remember the [...]

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Larkin Grimm

I want to live inside Michael Gira’s ear. Wondrous frequencies live there. Sounds that, it seems, only he has the prescience to trust.  I want to build a rope ladder and shimmy up and over his shoulder blades until I reach that hallowed lobe, stopping for a minute to catch my breath and behold it [...]

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Video Naturalismo: Jimmie Rodgers

Jimmie Rodgers -  Blue Yodel #1
“I’m going where the water drinks like cherry wine.”

Blue Yodel #1… at 2:21 the vocal “I’m gonna buy me a shotgun with a big long shiny barrel, i’m gonna shoot that rounder that stole away my gal” is pretty much as good as music gets.
Jimmy Rodgers [...]

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Imaginational Anthem: Fall Tour ‘08

For amazing instrumental guitar and banjo…DO NOT MISS!
[ stream ] Cian Nugent – Abyssal Pain

Ben Reynolds – Here Toucheth Blues

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Harry Taussig: Fate is Only Once

From the Tompkins Square label:
Released as a short-run private press LP in 1965, Fate Is Only Once has long been a coveted collectible among American Primitive guitar enthusiasts. The only other recorded work by Taussig surfaced on the out-of-print Takoma LP Contemporary Guitar Spring ‘67 alongside John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Max Ochs and Bukka White. [...]

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Twi the Humble Feather

Animal Collective without their teeth or simply the result of playing with friends Animal Collective back in the day? You decide.
Regardless, this is still a pretty EP with plenty of Campfire Songs era sounding strummed folk that is just original enough to not be purely derivative.
Twi the Humble Feather – Higher than the End

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Guitars of the Golden Triangle: Khun Paw Yann

The Guitars of the Golden Triangle compilation is achingly gorgeous and energetically ratty at the same time. The title grabs your attention but is misleading, since this is voice-and-song music even more than it’s guitar music. The album was compiled by the Sublime Frequencies label from tracks recorded throughout the ’70s in Shan state, [...]

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