Gorgeous Johnny Release Party!

The Skygreen Leopards’ Gorgeous Johnny Release Party
July 11th – 9PM – Amnesia
The Skygreen Leopards
Pumice
Ingot Rot
DJ Chris Berry (Soft Abuse)
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New Hecuba Video feat. Devendra Banhart

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Gibraltar May Fall

The song is “Gibraltar May Fall” by the late, great, Cayce Lindner of Flying Canyon fame. Video by Joanna Jurczak. Hope you enjoy.
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The 38th Annual Kerrville Folk Festival

The 38th Annual Kerrville Folk Festival
May 21 – June 7
Held at the Quiet Valley Ranch
9 miles south of Kerrville on Texas Hwy 16
Daily Evening Concerts
More Info: Festival Homepage
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Port O’Brien Tours with Papercuts

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Ah Holly Fam’ly: Your Body Will Become An Anchor

Ah Holly Fam’ly’s music is textural, thick, and laden with lots of disparate, delicate acoustics that build into a high and mighty wall of sound. No singing voice is without idiosyncracy or humanity. Nothing is cloying here, nothing forced. There’s a slew of instruments — woodwinds, cellos, guitars, banjos, percussion, theremin [...]

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Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers LP

Head on over to Klang Industries to pick up a copy.
From Klang:
Raw and rocking collaboration between Jack Rose and the Black Twigs with some of the most swinging, hard-hitting string music waxed in many a decade. Rose’s solo playing has always had a tough edge, with his prodigious technique often employed in the service of dropping [...]

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Headdress: Lunes

Lunes is the second album by the Texas psychedelic duo Headdress. Written in the desert but recorded during an endless New York City winter, the album is a dark meditation on Americana. Guitarist Caleb Coy and organist Ethan Cook sculpt a cold, expansive sound made ripe for these turbulent times. It’s the blues shaped by [...]

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Sharon Van Etten: The Naturalismo Interview

NATURALISMO: Through your music, I feel like we’ve already met, like we’ve already talked out the hours over midnight tea. But I don’t know much about your past. Where did your journey begin? What turns did it take before it arrived at the person you are now? What about your past influences the type of [...]

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Naturalismo Exclusive: Mi & L’au Premiere “Bingo”

It’s Friday so I know there’s already plenty of reasons to celebrate — but, hey, there’s never too much of a good thing right? In keeping with the celebratory spirit here at Naturalismo, here’s the premiere of Mi & L’au’s new song “Bingo” off of the upcoming Good Morning Jokers, out soon on Borne Records.
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Naturalismo Presents: A Night of Art by Holly Rog

Flyer by Holly Rog
Tomorrow, Friday the 15th of May, Naturalismo & Veritas Empire are proud to present an evening of music and art featuring Los Angeles-based visual artists Holly Rog and Raquel Martinez. The artists, working in a variety of mediums including woodburning, screen-printing, and canvas-work, will be exhibiting their works to the sounds of [...]

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The Skygreen Leopards: Gorgeous Johnny

The newest Skygreen Leopards album, Gorgeous Johnny, will be out July 21st on Jagjaguwar.
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New Stuff from Ben Chasny

 
 
The next Six Organs of Admittance album, Luminous Night, is set to be released on Drag City in August.

Actaeon’s Fall (Against The Hounds)
Anesthesia
Bar-Nasha
Cover Your Wounds With The Sky
Ursa Minor
River Of Heaven
The Ballad Of Charley Harper
Enemies Before The Light

Recorded and produced by Randall Dunn at Aleph Studios in Seattle, Washington. A serious crew of musicians on [...]

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Video Naturalismo: Furry Lewis

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Fresh Maggots

Having released only one album in 1971, Fresh Maggots is a band that, like so many other UK folk acts, came and went quickly. That is not to say that their music wasn’t worthy of a long, fruitful career — quite the contrary, actually. The band is just two people – 19 year olds Mick [...]

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Topanga Banjo & Fiddle Contest

Another post for everyone living in Los Angeles (we poor, poor souls) — don’t forget that this Sunday, May 17th, the Topanga Banjo & Fiddle Contest / Folk Festival is going down. It’s going to be a marvelous day in the Canyon: sunshine, bluegrass, lemonade, microbrews, straw hats, the works. A rare treat indeed, especially [...]

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Nadine Mooney: MouseHouseWormhole

Some people say that lo-fi bedroom recordings have lost all currency. But It seems absurd and painfully post-modern that there are people who gauge an artist’s integrity based upon the music’s method of capture. It’s like decrying a painter for choosing to paint on wood instead of canvas — how self-conscious! Music is music no [...]

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F is for FOLK @ Cinefamily

For you LA residents out there, here’s something to get excited about for the next couple Thursday nights that doesn’t involve self-destruction in any form. Crazy, right? The Silent Movie Theatre, now Cinefamily, is presenting a Thursday night series of folk-related films that [...]

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Indian Summer Music @ Amnesia

Indian Summer Music is putting on a heck of a show over at Amnesia in San Francisco this Friday night. The festivities are set to get going around 7pm (flyer says 7:30 but it might behoove you to arrive earlier at the zero hour), so take your coat off and kick up your heels and [...]

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Bert Jansch Announces Tour of North America

Following his internationally acclaimed album The Black Swan, and fresh from the triumphant UK reunion of the original line up of Pentangle in 2008, Bert Jansch celebrates the long awaited first-time CD release of his three albums recorded for Charisma in the 1970s: the seminal LA Turnaround, Santa Barbara Honeymoon and A Rare Conundrum, with [...]

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