DM Stith is tired of keeping secrets

2009 is going to be a very big year for DM Stith. It seems Mr. Stith manages to snake and sway his way through a path last freshly carved through by artists such as Grizzly Bear, Akron/Family and Andrew Bird. I mean it in all sincerity,  for as immediate as the music comes on to [...]

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Drawlings – Wolfie’s Christmas

Happy Holidays from Naturalismo. Here’s a video for the fantastic song “Wolfie’s Christmas” by Drawlings (a side project by Rings singer Abby Portner; Avey Tares sister and AC album art maker). It’s just about the only thing that’s got me in the spirit all day, and that’s not just because it’s Christmas and my last [...]

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Matteah Baim- Laughing Boy

Matteah Baim was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  In 1996, at the age of 17, Baim moved to California to study painting and drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduating, Baim moved to New York where she met Sierra Casady. In 2005, the duo began to write music together and formed the [...]

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Lucky Dragons

LuckyDragonsluckyDragonsLucky. There honestly should be a section here devoted entirely to the going ons of all things Lucky Dragons, because in all sincerity the places he’s gone and ventured into over the past few years musically are some of the most refreshingly inspiring and original that I’ve ever witnessed or heard. After finally catching a [...]

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R.I.P. Davy Graham

Davy Graham passed away on Monday. He will be sorely, sorely missed.

Graham made a cameo appearance in the 1963 movie The Diner starring James Fox and Dirk Bogard. The song is Rock Me Mama.

Here’s a clip of Graham playing Rock Me Mama in a 1969 documentary about [...]

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Animal Collective Release Vinyl Early, plan listening parties

“Animal Collective’s 9th full-length album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, will be released early on deluxe 2xLP 180-gram gatefold vinyl with full album download card (WAV or MP3) January 6th 2009, on Domino Records in North America. The CD & digital release date will remain January 20th (Jan. 12 UK/Europe). To coincide with the early vinyl release [...]

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Fire on Fire releases The Orchard

Fire On Fire used to be the art-punk-prog-chaos collective Cerberus Shoal, but they ditched their electric instruments, went into hiding for a while, and now play all acoustic—stand up bass, mandolin, banjo, harmonium, accordion, acoustic guitar, dobro etc etc, and they all sing and harmonize on the songs. Live, they do it “old school” and [...]

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Alela Diane: To Be Still

Alela Diane’s new record, To Be Still, is set to come out February 17th on Rough Trade in the USA, Names in the UK, and Fargo Records in Europe.
To Be Still is the follow-up to Alela Diane’s critically-acclaimed 2006 debut The Pirate’s Gospel. That record brought the Nevada city, CA-reared musician a dedicated following across [...]

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Video Naturalismo: Beatniks in Newquay

With some free time afforded by America’s recognition of a couple-hundred-year-old meal in New England, some friends and I decided to ditch those sedentary table traditions, fill the tank, and drive north to Big Sur, California. The deer and dew and babble of recent memory, of the Festival in the Forest, [...]

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Idle Hands Are The Devil’s Playthings

Photo: Steve Gullick

Taken from Domino
On 16 March 2009 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is to release his new, biggest and most ambitious album ‘Beware‘ on Domino.
Joining Bonny deep in the mix of Beware, the roll-call of top players include the band (Josh Abrams, Jennifer Hutt, Emmett Kelly and Michael Zerang) and special guests (Dee Alexander, Leroy Bach, Jim Becker, [...]

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