Posted in 1, tagged 2009, devendra banhart, new album, what will we be on July 31, 2009 | 12 Comments »
What We
Will Be
UPDATE: Looks like pitchfork got it wrong, Devendra Banhart’s new album is actually going to be called What we will be. It is still slated for release in early October. Recorded in Bolinas, CA, the album features Noah Georgeson on guitar and backing vocals, Greg Rogove on drums and backing vocals; Luckey [...]
Posted in naturalismo, tagged europe, naturalismo on July 29, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Hi friends! My life in Los Angeles has expired and it’s time to rebirth myself into the world. Part of it, anyway. On Friday morning I’m packing up my car and driving across the country back to my Bostonian birthplace. There I’ll be fumbling and puttering about aimlessly for a few weeks before an airplane [...]
Posted in 1, tagged drag city, gary higgins, red hash, seconds on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On September 29th , Gary Higgins will release Seconds, his first album since Red Hash, through Drag City.
From Gary…
“The songs for this album collection came about in a pretty logical way. Drag City had ‘found’ me- and with that whole incredible and magical journey surrounding the reissue of Red Hash and the concerts that ensued, I was [...]
Posted in jewelled antler collective, tagged donovan quinn, glenn donaldson, gorgeous johnny, the skygreen leopards on July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Skygreen Leopards return with Gorgeous Johnny, a wonderful album of AM radio superhits and bummed out tunes that open to reveal the tumbling buildings of the overgrown city, ocean-bound storm-washed cars, and hometown paths into the back woods. It’s a sunburnt wasteland brimming with the memories of past friendships and old loves. However, the [...]
Posted in Jana Hunter, tagged 7", inoculist, Jana Hunter, split on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jana Hunter will be releasing a split 7″ record on August 4th with her brother John’s band, Inoculist. The single features artwork by Jana and is pressed onto black and white marbled vinyl in an edition of 350.
[Buy the Single]
Also, Jana will be going on tour with her band “Jam Hunter?” in preparation for a new full-length [...]
Posted in Six Organs of Admittance, tagged ben chasny, drag city, luminous night, Six Organs of Admittance on July 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »
NATURALISMO: You have been playing under the Six Organs of Admittance name for over ten years now. At that time, what was happening in your life and in your mind that made Six Organs the right vessel to express yourself?
BEN CHASNY: I was living in Eureka, California, were I grew up. My life was one [...]
Posted in 1, tagged magpie magazine on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s hard to believe that I didn’t know about Magpie Magazine, an honest-to-goodness printed publication that you can actualy hold in your hands, until very recently. The magazine is the work of Michaela, who has been lovingly orchestrating their publication for some time now. Four issues in, Magpie keeps getting better and better — interviews, [...]
Posted in joanna newsom, tagged joanna newsom on July 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ever vigilant for Joanna Newsom sightings on the interwebs, I did some sleuthing and came up with a tickling discovery: Joanna, if not releasing the album of unbelievable songs we saw debuted in Big Sur a few months back, is at least thinking about playing some shows this Autumn. Which probably means that the new [...]
Posted in 1, tagged night lights, princeton, the botticellis, TIWWI, voxhaul broadcast on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My good friends at TIWWI (This Is What We Imagine) have organized a great benefit show for LA-based charity 826LA which helps urban youth develop their creative writing skills. There’s going to be music, comedy, photography, film, dancing, art auctions, bicycle valets, and all sorts of fun for everyone. To celebrate the occasion, I’m going [...]
Posted in 1 on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It just occurred to me how essential this album is and how much sense it makes right now with all the drone crossover psych and rock going on with artists such as Sun Araw, Real Estate and Barn Owl. This album, put together by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp of King Crimson in the early [...]
Posted in 1 on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I somehow skipped over listening to any of Julian Lynch’s music until his new music video appeared last week alongside the new Ducktails video on the Underwater Peoples blog. Glad to have his music brought to my attention, quite a catchy mellow song with some really fun visuals to go along with it. Contemporary point [...]
Posted in 1, tagged grass widow, lily maring, yes please on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been a fan of Bay Area artist Lily Maring of Yes Please’s work for a bit over a year. I kept waiting for a release of her organic and soaring looped vocal songs to see the light of day but alas… it looks like she has now taken on a new group project Grass [...]
Posted in 1, tagged blessa, toro y moi on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wow. This track is some kind of incredible. Sorta Panda Bear meets Flying Lotus meets Mike Love circa 1970 (more on this soon). It’s kind of a nice soothingly sonic break from all the garagey low fi noise this summer. He just got signed to Carpark records with 2 records to come out next year.
Check [...]
Posted in jewelled antler collective, tagged glenn donaldson, loren chasse, rob reger, steven r smith, thuja on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[download] Thuja Museum #1 & #2
Jewelled Antler 3″ CDRs from 2002
Loren Chasse, Steven R. Smith, Glenn Donaldson, Rob Reger
[via Root Strata]
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Posted in 1, tagged destino, disney, salvador dalí on July 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yes, Disney and Salvador Dalí nearly created a film together, but the production was halted due to money woes in 1946. Dalí and Disney artist John Hench worked on creating storyboards for Destino for eight months, but the project was laid aside when it came time for the film to be made. In 1999 the [...]
Posted in 1, tagged jesy fortino, life on earth, tiny vipers on July 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tiny Vipers’ newest record Life on Earth tiptoes the line between silence and melancholy without succumbing to self-pity. It’s music for looking back or, if indeed the past is shut out, looking ahead but seeing foggy, fatuous uncertainty. There’s a half-faded photograph underlying each numbed-out, insouciant melody that Jesy Fortino purrs into her dead midnight [...]
Posted in akron family, tagged Akron/Family, Dead Oceans, Set Em Wild Set Em Free, sun will rise, vincent moon on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shot by Vincent Moon, this video was shot during Akron/Family’s New York residency in March 2009, as part of multi-night stands the band did in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal and New York, leading up to the release of Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free.
In other news, Akron/Family’s label, Dead Oceans, will be releasing [...]
Posted in 1, tagged best coast, sun was high on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Increasingly digging these summer infused fuzzed out jams by Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, former Pocahaunted member. Here’s a new fan-made video that mostly works.
What’s not to love about the chorus “Sun was high/so was I”?
Buy the tape, it comes out next week…
Devin
Posted in 1 on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In celebration of the forthcoming release of Lauren Dukoff’s Family Book, Space 15 Twenty is pleased to announce a month-long series of musical performances, film nights and a gallery show at Gallery Space.
The collection of portraits and candid images from FAMILY includes Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Entrance, Bat for Lashes, Cibelle, Vetiver, Ramblin Jack Elliott, [...]
