With the weekend’s Super Bowl now over, what better way to celebrate the season than with a playlist from a show not only about football, but with one of the greatest indie soundtracks to go with it. NBC’s Friday Night Lights is a show about a small, western Texas town, where every Friday night during the football season the town shuts down to cheer on the Dylan Panthers football team. With the bright lights of the football stadium, it’s easy for the various characters to get lost in themselves as they deal with handling pressure, serious injury ...

Si tuviéramos un concierto de Death Cab for Cutie en la Ciudad de México definitivamente no ocurriría en un museo, tal y como ocurrió en la ciudad de Nueva York en donde la banda se presentó en el Brooklyn Museum recientemente junto con Calexico, Iron & Wine y más para dar vida al concierto Live [...]

Chances are you probably weren't one of the chosen few who crammed under the skylight-lit courtyard in one of the country's oldest museums to watch Death Cab for Cuties' intimate Live from the Artists Den set. As consolation, SPIN has an exclusive peek into the invite-only Brooklyn Museum show ahead of its public television premiere February 17. A plaid-clad Ben Gifford and Co. saunter through “You Are a Tourist” from last year's Codes and Keys as the audience bobs along. “Every physical space we play music in is naturally going to bring out something unique,” Gifford says ...

Das Berliner Quintett Jazzanova hat ein neues Video zu seinem Song "I Human" veröffentlicht. Der Titel ist Vorbote ihrer "Funkhaus Studio Sessions", die im Mai diesen Jahres erscheinen und die gleichnamige Tour einläuten soll. Für das funkig-jazzige Kleinod luden die Musiker den Sänger Paul Randolph aus Detroit ins Studio, der dem Stück seine markante Stimme verlieh. Seht an dieser Stelle die Live-Session, die in den berühmten DDR-Rundfunk-Orchester-Studios aufgenommen wurde: Jazzanova – "I Human" (feat. Paul Randolph) Das Discjockey- und Produzentenkollektiv Jazzanova gründete sich im Jahr 1996 in der deutschen Hauptstadt. Erste Remixe fanden sich auf ihrer "Delicious Doughnuts"-Compilations, für dessen ...

franticity - an ode to the crazy strummers and drummers in indie folk/rock with a little twist near the end. Tracklist: Untitled - Balmorhea SerialBox Presents: Balmorhea (2011) Companions - The Dodos No Color (2011) Azaleadalen - Junip Fields (2010) Sonic Wind - Calexico Hot Rail (2000) Jeremy’s Storm - Tame Impala InnerSpeaker (2010) Afara Koa Tsy Atao - Jeff Nhore Casa Paradiso presents African Beats Chill (2008) Gobbledigook (Flowing Remix Raw & Bare) - Sigur Rós Gobbledigook: Remixes (2009) Joe’s Waltz - The Dodos Visiter (2008)

Portland native  Laura Gibson has a new album, new label, and a surprisingly bold new sound. Retiring to the northeastern Oregon town of La Grande to write the follow-up to her well-regarded  Beasts of Seasons , Gibson enlisted friends including Meric Long and Logan Kroeber from the Dodos, Calexico's Joey Burns, and Nate Query and Jenny Conlee from  The Decemberists  to flesh out a sound that NPR's Stephen Thompson has described as "harrowingly intimate". Although her sound may be "grander" on this album, her lyrics are still haunting and austere, and her voice quietly gorgeous. Drawing inspiration from a ...

It's no mystery—you don't name your new album _La Grande_ unless you plan on expanding your sonic palette. Nor do you enlist a virtual who's who of veteran overdub buddies (The Dodos, Calexico's Joey Burns, two Decemberists). On her first handful of releases, Oregon-based folkie Laura Gibson has made a career out of barely playing, with a lonesome country-jazz voice that floats softly, like a ghost through a windowpane.

It’s fitting that Laura Gibson ’s latest effort La Grande , her second full length and follow up to 2009’s Beasts of Seasons , is named after a small town in her native Oregon. Like recent tourmates (and grizzled travellers themselves) Richmond Fontaine, the music of Gibson and La Grande is firmly rooted in the boxcar-jumpin’ spirit of the American West, by turns joyous and tragic. However, whilst the connection is obvious, the songs spun by Gibson throughout La Grande ’s course are anything but. And that’s because Gibson, in fine pioneering fettle, is far from content to ride ...

The fourth season of the innovative music series Live from the Artists Den will premiere nationally on public television beginning February 3, 2012 (check local listings). The groundbreaking new season features Adele, The Fray, Death Cab for Cutie, Kid Rock, Iron and Wine, and Amos Lee with special guests Calexico. Continue reading →

Die US-amerikanische Folk-Sängerin Laura Gibson hat für den 13. Januar ihr drittes Studioalbum "La Grande" via City Slang angekündigt. Einmal mehr präsentiert der Singer/Songwriter-Geheimtipp aus Portland große Gefühle in kleinen Melodien, vorwiegend akustisch instrumentiert, aber auch voller Energie und Größe. Der Name des Albums bezieht sich dabei auf einen kleinen Ort in Oregon, dem US-Bundesstaat, aus welchem Gibson ursprünglich stammt. Ein kleines Städtchen mit spezieller Magie, die sich auch in den Liedern des Albums wiederfindet. Der groovende Titelsong des Albums lässt sich bereits »hier kostenlos herunterladen. Außerdem könnt ihr an dieser Stelle in die akustische Version eines weiteren Albumtracks ...

The National @ Air Canada Centre: photo by Michael Ligon Just taking a moment to post a link to my photos from the fantastic triple bill of The National, Neko Case, and Wye Oak which happened down at Air Canada Centre near the beginning of the month. By all accounts, it was a fantastic show. Part of me was dreading having to see the show at Air Canada Centre, but the "theatre" configuration that the venue was transformed into, combined with my fantastic seat which was just about dead centre in the 100's section, gave me a terrific view for ...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) : Hans Zimmer (6) Calexico (4) Nitin Sawhney (4) Balmorhea (3) Years Of Rice And Salt (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Quarterstick | 2011 | Album Reviewed By: justin Patch Review Date: 12/23/2011 Rating (out of 10): 9 - Simply Amazing. On a summer day in Tucson, when you exit your vehicle, it feels like you have walked into an oven. As harsh as the abrupt transition out of the sheltered bubble of the automobile is, when in the desert, it is difficult to walk more than a few moments before it feels like your skin is tinder waiting for a spark. When the dry desert winds whisper, even the sand is too baked solid to fly, and all you get is ...

Sly and the Family Stone--"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" (mp3) One of the yearly columns that used to annoy me the most back in the old Chattanooga News-Free Press before the two papers merged was this guy's piece around Thanksgiving or Christmas that consisted of nothing more than a tedious list of all of the things that he was thankful for. So, of course, I'm going to steal the idea. Ready? 1. I am thankful for the Italian rosemary ham at Costco. 2. I am thankful for my wife's explorations into veganism and how ...

Unterwegs mit Burns und Convertino Wahrscheinlich ist es schon zu spät, sich das opulente Calexico Box-Set „Road Atlas“ unter den Baum zu legen. Gerade einmal 1100 Exemplare standen weltweit zur Verfügung. Wer trotzdem wissen möchte, wie sich die Tour Cds anhören, die Calexico seit 1998 releaset haben, kann guten Gewissens zu den „Selections...“ greifen. Mehr Pop