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Pere Ubu release Lady From Shanghai today, via Fire Records!
Blood Red Shoes share video from forthcoming EP
Blood Red
Shoes share video from forthcoming EP
Water EP out 1/22 on V2 / Cooperative Music
Box of Secrets & Fire Like This
reissued in US
Watch: "Red River"
Download: "Black
Distractions"
With their new
EP, Water ready to drop on January
22nd, Blood Red Shoes share the video for explosive new track "Red
River". The video contains live and on-the-road footage of the band's
recent tour in Russia, which saw the pair encounter the full force of the
Russian Customs officers, travel through the snow after shows, and spark mosh pits
in Moscow and St Petersburg.
The band have said of the trip, "The video is a montage of
footage from our recent trip to Russia. It was our first time over and was kind
of insane, for many reasons. From the minute we landed and had a 4 hour fight
with customs to get our gear into the country, to the last night when we made a
4am pilgrimage to Red Square, it was one hell of an experience. A crazy and
beautiful country with crazy and beautiful people, one of the most full on
crowds we've ever had on our first trip to a country."
The EP features three brand new songs, which were recorded in Dallas TX this October by John Congleton
(The Roots/The Walkmen/Explosions In The Sky).
Meanwhile, Blood Red Shoes first two albums, 2008's Box of Secrets & 2010's
Fire Like This will also be available
in the US on January 22nd. These records were previously
unavailable from US retailers. Box of
Secrets features their break out hit "It's Getting Boring By The Sea" which
was included on the soundtrack for feature film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World in 2010. Fire Like This garnered favourable reviews from the likes of the
BBC, Pitchfork, Artrocker & the NME.
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"Fizzing with ideas, the future looks
bright." Q
"...the hooks get
under your skin." The Independent
"This is excellent stuff." Kerrang!
Blood Red Shoes share video from forthcoming EP
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TASHAKI MIYAKI COVERS THE REPLACEMENTS & THE FLAMINGOS FOR AQUARIUM DRUNKARD'S THE LAGNIAPPE SESSIONS
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TASHAKI MIYAKI COVERS THE REPLACEMENTS & THE FLAMINGOS FOR AQUARIUM DRUNKARD'S THE LAGNIAPPE SESSIONS
Read more / PermalinkLucius' NPR "Tiny Desk Session" Out Today
NPR “Tiny Desk Concert” Performance Out Today!
Stream “Wayfaring Stranger” From The Storm is Passing Over
Benefit Compilation; 100% of Proceeds Go to Occupy Sandy
“One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris. The charisma and charm of the women at Lucius' center, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, helps transform good pop songwriting into an endearing performance.” – NPR, Bob Boilen
"luscious, luminous, lilting lullabies" – The New York Times
Click Image above to watch NPR “Tiny Desk Concert”
Lucius is a band that might just become your soundtrack to 2013. The Brooklyn quintet's blend of interwoven vocals from frontwomen Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe and the infectious, danceable instrumentation created by their bandmates form a uniquely infectious sound. Watch the NPR “Tiny Desk Concert” performance HERE and be sure to catch the band live on their first headlining tour, featuring dates at NYC's Mercury Lounge in two weeks, followed by shows in Boston, Philadelphia, DC and more (full dates below).
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Brooklyn-based collective Mason Jar Music assembled an all-star collection of indie-folk artists to create The Storm is Passing Over, a benefit album of fifteen classic American storm songs. Honored to be involved with the project alongside greats such as Roseanne Cash, Abigail Washburn & Béla Fleck (among others), Lucius recorded the traditional song “Wayfaring Stranger” which can be heard HERE. With 100% of the proceeds going directly to support Hurricane Sandy victims via Occupy Sandy, please consider supporting the album and purchasing The Storm is Passing, here.
2012 was a busy year for Lucius. They released their self-titled debut EP, produced by Tony Berg (Beck, Aimee Mann), Steve Wall (Meshell Ndegeocello), and band member Dan Molad (Elizabeth & The Catapult, Here We Go Magic), a mix of emotionally-charged and upbeat 60's-inspired tracks which has received praise from the likes of Seventeen Magazine, NPR and SPIN. The band toured with JD McPherson, Milo Greene and Pearl and the Beard, and had songs featured on the television shows 90210 and Emily Owens MD.
Lucius’ highly-anticipated debut full-length album is scheduled for release this year, which has everyone from PASTE to KEXP (and beyond) very excited. We know you'll be too.
Lucius Headlining Tour Dates
1/18: New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge #
2/14: Boston, MA @ Great Scott
2/15 Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy *
2/16 Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java *
2/17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Café *
2/20: Mechanicsburg, PA @ Messiah College
# = w/ Tall Tall Trees
* = Co-headlining w/ Hannah Georgas
Lucius' NPR "Tiny Desk Session" Out Today
Read more / PermalinkPaul Dillon MIRACLE FALLS 'DEBASEMENT TAPES'
PAUL DILLON (EX MERCURY REV/LONGWAVE) NEW ALBUM;
MIRACLE FALLS 'DEBASEMENT TAPES'
RE-RELEASED JANUARY 22ND 2013
MIRACLE FALLS 'DEBASEMENT TAPES'
RE-RELEASED JANUARY 22ND 2013
Paul Dillon
has done a lot in his years on this side of the Atlantic, working and
touring with many of the best 'psych/shoegaze' acts around including Sparklehorse, Longwave and Mercury Rev.
Moving to Chicago from Dublin at 18, Paul met up with with Jimi Shields of Rollerskate Skinny fame, joining him on guitar in his new project Lotus Crown. The band was soon signed to Warner/Reprise Records and, with their debut album, 'Chokin' On The Jokes', produced by Dave Fridman, (Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips , MGMT etc.), embarked on US and UK tours, opening for The Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr.
After the breakup of the band, Paul relocated to New York City, subsidizing Lower East Side DJ gigs with a job at Kim's Records on St. Marks and continued writing and recording at home, inbetween tours as a guitar tech for the likes of Sparklehorse, Yo La Tengo and Ray Davies.
In 2001, Paul joined Mercury Rev on their world tour in support of 'All Is Dream', the follow up to their critically acclaimed 'Deserter's Songs' album, but subsequently left to focus on his own project, Silver Rockets. He continued touring as a session musician with acts such as Longwave, Favourite Sons and Metric's Emily Haines for her solo album 'Knives Don't Have Your Back'. Most recently, Paul joined Sparklehorse for the recording sessions of their as-yet-unreleased final album, which was produced by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio.
MIRACLE FALLS - 'Debasement Tapes' was recorded at Revolver Studios in Portland, Oregon, and includes guest appearances from Collin Hegna, (The Brian Jonestown Massacre), Pete Holmstrom, (The Dandy Warhols), Jason 'Plucky' Anchondo, (The Warlocks), Jeff Mercel and Grasshopper, (Mercury Rev). This criminally overlooked album, which was made available through iTunes this past fall, will be re-released later this month.
You are invited to check out 'Debasement Tapes' below:
Paul Dillon MIRACLE FALLS 'DEBASEMENT TAPES'
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SHUGGIE OTIS' 1974 ALBUM "INSPIRATION INFORMATION"
PSYCHEDELIC SOUL MAN SHUGGIE OTIS' 1974 ALBUM,
INSPIRATION INFORMATION, LONG OUT OF PRINT, RETURNS COUPLED
WITH PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ALBUM WINGS OF LOVE
FEATURES ORIGINAL INSPIRATION INFORMATION ALBUM
PLUS FOUR UNRELEASED TRACKS ON CD 1, PAIRED WITH WINGS OF LOVE, AN ALBUM OF 14 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED LIVE AND STUDIO TRACKS RECORDED 1975-2000
Available everywhere April 16, 2013, through Epic/Legacy
"The
Shuggie Otis Rite Tour" continues through winter and spring, with shows
in Mexico (February), Australia and Japan (March), and North America
(April)
For
more than four decades, Shuggie Otis has earned respect as a musician's
musician. His composition "Strawberry Letter 23," a #5 Pop hit for the
Brothers Johnson in 1977, is just the tip of Shuggie's musical iceberg.
He has won praise as a guitarist on projects with artists as diverse as
his father, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame R&B pioneer Johnny Otis
(1921-2012), Al Kooper, Etta James, Charles Brown, Frank Zappa, Chico
Hamilton, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Mos Def, and many others.
But it was Shuggie's third and final album, 1974's Inspiration Information
on Epic Records, that was destined to inspire at least two generations
of admirers around the world. Widely regarded as a masterpiece, songs
from the long out-of-print album have been sampled on pop hits
including OutKast's "Ms. Jackson," Beyoncé's "Gift From Virgo," Digable
Planets' "For Corners," and the list goes on.
INSPIRATION INFORMATION/ WINGS OF LOVE, a brilliant restoration personally supervised by Shuggie, arrives as a double-CD set on April 16, 2013, through Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
In this new package, the first CD will comprise the original nine-song Inspiration Information
album, with the addition of four previously unreleased bonus tracks
recorded in 1971. The tracks were done at Columbia Studios and at Hawk
Sound, the 16-track studio built in the backyard of the Otis family
homestead in the West Athens neighborhood of Los Angeles. The second
CD, entitled WINGS OF LOVE,
is a new album of 14 previously unreleased live and studio tracks
recorded by Shuggie between 1975 and 2000. This is the first new music
that the world has heard from Shuggie since 1974.
The release of INSPIRATION INFORMATION/WINGS OF LOVE
caps an amazing new phase of Shuggie's career, as he emerged from his
quiet (but productive) seclusion in Los Angeles to complete this
package and return to the stage. "The Shuggie Otis Rite Tour"
commenced in November 2012, with a European trip that included shows in
London, Paris, Antwerp, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Dublin. After the UK
shows, The Independent hailed Shuggie as a "Musical visionary," while The Guardian called him "A spectacularly gifted musician."
Four
days after the European leg concluded, Shuggie made a rare appearance
at the intimate subterranean Echoplex venue in L.A.'s Echo Park area.
(The last time Shuggie played a local show was a one-off date with Mos
Def in 2004, in conjunction with Mos Def's second album, The New Danger, on which Shuggie played guitar on "Blue Black Jack.") L.A. Weekly
blogger Sean O'Connell attended the Echoplex show and wrote: "Shuggie
Otis is Los Angeles music royalty... Shuggie's performance last night
hovered somewhere amid the past and the future, acknowledging his
soulful heritage while dipping into a blues-drenched familiarity that
united father, son and holy ghost."
"The Shuggie Otis Rite Tour"
carries on through the winter and spring of 2013, beginning in Mexico,
then Australia and Japan, culminating with a cross-country North
American trip in April. The touring includes album release week shows
in Chicago (Lincoln Hall on April 17th) and New York City (BB King's on April 18th). (Please see itinerary below.)
In
his native Los Angeles and around the world, the name Shuggie Otis is
spoken in reverential tones by his peers, as a multi-talented
instrumental genius (most notably on guitar), songwriter, producer and
all-around reminder of the musical joys of the psychedelic era. In his
liner notes essay for INSPIRATION INFORMATION/WINGS OF LOVE,
UK-based writer Chris Campion ranks the original LP alongside such
late-'60s/early-'70s breakthroughs by black artists as Love's Forever Changes, the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis Bold As Love, Sly & the Family Stone's There's A Riot Going On, and Stevie Wonder's Innervisions.
Another
longtime fan is Columbia recording artist Raphael Saadiq, who has said:
"Millions of thoughts fly through my mind when I think about the music
of Shuggie Otis. The word 'genius' is frivolously used these days, but
when it comes to Shuggie and his brilliant body of work, it is not used
often enough. His music is passion personified and you would have to be
deaf not to hear it."
Shuggie
Otis (b. 1953) spent virtually his entire young life playing in and
around the various Johnny Otis bands which introduced such R&B
legends through its lineups (since the late-'40s) as Big Jay McNeely,
Wynonie Harris, Charles Brown, and Little Esther Phillips, to name a
few. Shuggie was finally "discovered" by Al Kooper during his stint as
a Columbia Records A&R staff producer starting in the late-'60s.
Kooper's second 'Super Session' LP, Kooper Session: Al Kooper with Shuggie Otis (released early 1970) essentially introduced Shuggie, the guitarist on all seven tracks, who was a 15-year old wunderkind when he recorded the album.
He was a year older when he recorded Here Comes Shuggie Otis
(released late 1970) for Epic, his first official LP under his own
name, produced by Johnny Otis and featuring the cream of L.A. jazz
session players. Freedom Flight
(Epic, 1971), again produced by Johnny Otis, was Shuggie's second solo
LP in two years, and is the source for "Strawberry Letter 23." Shuggie
was just 21 years old when Inspiration Information was issued on Epic at the end of 1974.
After the release of Inspiration Information,
as far as the public knew, Shuggie simply disappeared from view. But as
he told Chris Campion, he "never stopped making music... There were
little lapses here and there, little breaks from time to time, but I
never stopped playing, writing, recording. I was still going around to
record companies, still pitching my tapes." Those tapes, most of them
recorded at his home studio, are the substance of the "new album" - or
"lost album," depending on your perspective - now known as WINGS OF LOVE.
"Like
pop as Michael Jackson made it, as Prince made it, but more," Campion
offers, while also suggesting, "That you can hear traces of both those
artists in their prime on WINGS OF LOVE
is no mere accident. Such has been Shuggie's influence, you can bet
they were not only aware of Shuggie Otis, they studied him." Several
tracks are singled out, among them "Tryin' To Get Close To You" (which
utilizes the Rhythm King, an early beatbox-metronome that became a
signature of Shuggie's sound and which he still employs today); "Doin'
What's Right" (one of several songs that "name-check" INSPIRATION INFORMATION);
"Black Belt Sheriff" ("Shuggie Otis, simple and plain, stripped and
bare, singing and playing, without either a studio or a band to back
him up"); and of course the epic 11 and a half-minute title track,
"Wings Of Love" ("build[ing] on a melody, brilliant in its minimalism,
that circles, builds, takes off, soars and flies, buoyed by dazzling
guitar arpeggios that sound like Paganini ripping on electric guitar").
An
overriding theme is "the romantic, lovelorn teenager, who has now grown
up and matured, lived and learned, sometimes hard lessons, but never in
vain. He's no longer just dreaming of an idealized love, but has found
it, tasted it for real and now has to work out how to get it and/or
keep it." This is the driving force behind "Give Me A Chance," "Don't
Run Away," "Tryin' To Get Close To You" and "Special."
WINGS OF LOVE,
Campion sums up, is "a time capsule of music from another age - to be
precise, several ages - buried, but not forgotten, waiting for the date
it can be cracked opened, pored over and appreciated. And that time is
now."
INSPIRATION INFORMATION/WINGS OF LOVE by SHUGGIE OTIS
(Epic/Legacy 88697 74700 2 8)
CD One: INSPIRATION INFORMATION - Selections: 1. Inspiration Information * 2. Island Letter * 3. Sparkle City * 4. Aht Uh Mi Hed * 5. Happy House * 6. Rainy Day * 7. XL-30 * 8. Pling! * 9. Not Available * Bonus tracks (previously unreleased): 10. Miss Pretty * 11. Magic * 12. Things We Like To Do * 13. Castle Top Jam.
CD Two: WINGS OF LOVE - Selections: 1. Intro * 2. Special * 3. Give Me Something Good * 4. Tryin' To Get Close To You * 5. Walkin' Down The Country * 6. Doin' What's Right * 7. Wings Of Love * 8. Give Me A Chance * 9. Don't You Run Away * 10. Fireball of Love * 11. Fawn * 12. If You'd Be Mine * 13. Black Belt Sheriff * 14. Destination You!
"THE SHUGGIE OTIS RITE TOUR"
Date City Venue
Jan. 10 New York, NY Highline Ballroom
Feb. 23 Mexico City, Mexico El Plaza Condesa
Mar. 23 Sydney, Australia The Enmore
24 Melbourne, Australia Hamer Hall
26 Brisbane, Australia The Tivoli Theatre
28-29 Byron Bay, Australia Bluesfest
31 Tokyo, Japan Billboard Live Tokyo (early show)
31 Tokyo, Japan Billboard Live Tokyo (late show)
Apr. 1 Tokyo, Japan Billboard Live Tokyo (early show)
1 Tokyo, Japan Billboard Live Tokyo (late show)
14 Toronto, Ont. Phoenix Concert Theatre
17 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
18 New York, NY BB King's Blues Club and Grill
21 Washington, DC The Howard Theatre
23-24 Seattle, WA The Triple Door
26 San Francisco, CA Mezzanine
SHUGGIE OTIS' 1974 ALBUM "INSPIRATION INFORMATION"
Read more / PermalinkBOYD RICE / NON
98 MESEROLE AVE, GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN
For the first time in many, many years, the pioneering electronic artist Boyd Rice/NON
will be coming to New York to play Europa Club in Greenpoint Brooklyn
on January 24th. In November this prolific artist released his first
album since 2002, Back to Mono, under his moniker NON. Self-proclaimed
as the album that re-imagines the genre he created, he will be
showcasing material from this innovative record as well as mixing in
some classic numbers you are sure to recognize.
Joining Boyd, is the ostentatious duo, Hirsuit Pursuit. Tickets are available now for the show and can be purchased here!
Turn Me On, Dead Man
Watusi
Back To Mono
Seven Sermons To The Dead
Obey Your Signal Only
Man Cannot Flatter Fate
Scream
Back To Mono (Live)
Turn Me On, Dead Man (Reprise)
Fire Shall Come
Warm Leatherette
Back To Mono, released November 6th 2012, is a return to Boyd Rice’s noise roots and the first new album since 2002’s Children Of The Black Sun.
Back To Mono’s tracklisting encompasses brand new recordings - made with Wes Eisold of Cold Cave and New York based producer Bryin Dall (Thee Majesty / Hirsute Pursuit) as well as long time collaborator Z’ev. The album also features unreleased studio and live recordings from the late 70s, plus a cover of The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette”, Mute’s first release which explains Rice, is “the best electronic pop song – bar none. I bought that single fifteen minutes before meeting Daniel. And that meeting changed my life.”
It is difficult to imagine the pioneering impact that tracks such as 1978’s “Watusi” (here re-recorded by Wes Eisold) and “Scream” (recorded live in 1979 at Los Angeles’ Whiskey A Go-Go) must have had at the time—now that noise is a recognized genre.
Says Rice, “I
was doing sample-based music about a decade before the advent of
samplers, when everyone else was using bass, guitars, keyboards and
drums. It has been said that I invented the first sampler. Perhaps I
did. At the time I called it the N.M.U. (or noise manipulation unit).
It allowed me to essentially sample numerous tracks of noise and mould
them into rudimentary rhythms. This was my principle instrument for a
good many years and can be heard on Back to Mono, in the late 70’s
archival recordings.”
Turn Me On, Dead Man and Turn Me On, Dead Man (Reprise) are both collaborations with musician, artist, poet, dancer and “long time partner-in-crime” Z’ev, who has previously collaborated with the likes of Merzbow, and Psychic TV amongst others Cold Cave’s Wes Eisold produced and recorded the title track at Cold Cave’s Philadelphia studio.
Boyd Rice / NON’s first release was what is known as the Black Album (1975). “When I started to compose and perform noise music in the ‘70s there simply were no other noise groups.” As noise became more commonplace, Rice moved into more subtle and complex recordings.
Explains Rice, “Back to Mono was my attempt to demonstrate that the genre I created still had room to grow; that it could still be re-imagined.”
BOYD RICE / NON
Read more / PermalinkFIDLAR Releases "Gimme Something" video
FIDLAR Releases "Gimme Something" Video, Performs "Max Can't Surf" and "Cocaine" On Last Call With Carson Daly
Self Titled LP Out January 22nd on Mom & Pop Music
Click Here To Watch FIDLAR's "Gimme Something"
The band comments on the video saying, "Our friend found this video of us playing a couple years back. Back when cocaine was good for you."
FIDLAR also performed "Max Can't Surf" and "Cocaine" on Last Call With Carson Daly last night. You can watch it here.
Tour Dates
01/17 – Davis House Party @ Babeylon
01/18 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill 01/19 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room 01/25 – San Diego, CA – Che Cafe 01/26 – Santa Barbara House Party 02/21 – Birmingham, UK - O2 Academy 3 02/22 – Dublin, Ireland - O2 Academy 2 02/24 – Bristol, UK - The Louisiana 02/25 – London, UK - NME Awards Show at The Garage 02/26 – Oxford, UK - O2 Academy 2 02/27 – Brighton, UK - The Haunt 02/28 – Leeds, UK - The Cockpit 03/10 – Zeewolde, Netherlands - Where The Wild Things Are Festival
Press Quotes
"Punk's not dead! And Fidlar are here from Los Angeles to prove it with three-chord thrashes that summon the spirit of 77" - Guardian
"Rock needs a band
like this from time to time. Someone to remind all those Coldplay’s of
the world where music’s balls are." - Nylon Guys
"FIDLAR channel elements of classic acts like the White Stripes and
Pixies, while practically begging for a co-headlining tour with
contemporaries like Bass Drum of Death and JEFF the Brotherhood" - SPIN
"The tune can be summed up in a handful of image descriptions;
sandboarding, grim reaper, suicidal flip-up hat, skull mask, and
shred." - Filter Magazine
"We all have a major music crush on FIDLAR here at VICE" - VICE
"They remind me of Pixies a lot (an obvious link, given the singer's
Frank Black style screeeeeeam), but there's also some really, really
nice'n'fuzzy guitars in there that sound like they've been nicked from
the blueprint Death In Vegas followed on 'Aiesha'." - NME
"FIDLAR has an agressive, straightforward, but melodic conception of punk." - LA Times
"But one wouldn't mistake the band for one of its slacker subjects, not
when they play this fast. The tracks sizzle with the aggression and
bargain-price fidelity of the SoCal punk tradition, though FIDLAR's
catchy hooks have more in common with Social Distortion and Wavves than
Black Flag. " - MTV Buzz
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ANGEL OLSEN SHARES TWO NEW VIDEOS -- "TINIEST SEED" AND THE PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD "SWEET DREAMS" -- PREMIERED THIS MORNING VIA NPR MUSIC
ANGEL
OLSEN SHARES TWO NEW VIDEOS -- "TINIEST SEED" AND THE PREVIOUSLY
UNHEARD "SWEET DREAMS" -- PREMIERED THIS MORNING VIA NPR MUSIC
"SLEEPWALKER" 7" OUT JAN. 15 ON SIXTEEN TAMBOURINES; HALF WAY HOME LPS BACK IN STOCK
UPCOMING SHOWS: JAN. 4 IN LOS ANGELES, FEB. 7 IN ST. LOUIS, FEB. 8 IN CHICAGO
Let's all begin the new year with some new Angel Olsen, shall we? Today, she shares with the world two new films, premiered this morning via NPR Music. There's the "Tiniest Seed" video, which is a track off of her stunning sophomore album, Half Way Home, and the video for the previously unreleased song, "Sweet Dreams." A "transatlantic collaboration between four friends," filmmakers Randy Sterling Hunter, Ashley Connor, Zia Anger, and Ms. Olsen
created these with the idea of the viewer watching them in tandem. "Two
songs were written and recorded in Chicago and then sent to Vienna.
There they were translated into a film score. The score was mailed back
across the Atlantic and then interpreted using a hand-wound 16mm camera
. . . The final version is the documentation of an epistolary-exchange
lasting nearly a year . . . an attempt to sync the unsyncable and our
experiment at reconciling the space between us." NPR Music tells the full story about these two films.
ANGEL OLSEN "TINIEST SEED" AND "SWEET DREAMS" VIDEOS ON NPR MUSIC:
ANGEL OLSEN "TINIEST SEED" VIDEO:
ANGEL OLSEN "SWEET DREAMS" VIDEO:
"Songs on [Half Way Home]
had much in common with the passions and range of a singer like Roy
Orbison. The common thread between that powerful singer-songwriter and
hit-maker from Texas and this more delicate Midwesterner is that they
both write from the heart and sing with a range that may make you stop
what you're doing and drop your jaw a bit." - NPR Music
2012
culminated in exciting ways for Angel. She received accolades across
the north east for her striking live show and her album, Half Way Home, made it's way onto a slew of year-end lists. After being out of stock for quite a while, Bathetic is thrilled to once again be shipping Half Way Home LPs near and far. Following that sold-out tour of select cities in November, Angel will play her first Los Angeles show tomorrow at Bootleg Bar. Her "Sleepwalker"" 7", featuring "Sweet Dreams" and "California," is out January 15th on Sixteen Tambourines.
ANGEL OLSEN TOUR DATES:
Fri. Jan. 4 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Bar
Thu. Feb. 7 - St. Louis @ Off Broadway w/ Water Liars
Fri. Feb. 8 - Chicago, IL @ The Hideout w/ Water Liars
Sat. Feb. 9 - Carbondale, IL @ The Hangar 9 w/ Water Liars
"Sleepwalker" 7" pre-order:
Half Way Home purchase link:
ANGEL OLSEN SHARES TWO NEW VIDEOS -- "TINIEST SEED" AND THE PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD "SWEET DREAMS" -- PREMIERED THIS MORNING VIA NPR MUSIC
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