In These Woods' self-titled debut/final? EP from late 2010 didn't make much of a splash, but it's still one of my favorite indierock releases of recent memory. While I love bands like Culkin and Tennis Bafra, they're often operating more off of a classic US indie template as opposed to ITW's inherent Swedish-ness. Of course it all comes from the same place if you trace it back far enough, but ITW has a far stronger direct kinship to Him Kerosene and Fireside than Sonic Youth or Dinosaur Jr.. It's in the sharpness of the ...

Photo courtesy of DeadSara.com A seedy bar or Chicago’s Fireside Bowl would be a more likely birth place for the rock band Sara">Dead Sara than [...]

Filed under: News , Daily News Brief Baroness Baroness have unveiled the art for their eagerly anticipated new album, Yellow & Green , which will drop July 17 via Relapse. Frontman John Baizley designed the art, as he has done for all previous releases. He's also worked on art for the likes of Gillian Welch, Kylesa , Black Tusk and Skeletonwitch , to name a few. If you like his style, check out the online gallery chronicling his creations here .[ Baroness Website ] The Acacia Strain have issued "Servant in the Place of Truth" on iTunes with the intent of putting out something new in ...

PSL has the premiere of a tune from Helvete, a new duo featuring Per Nordmark (Fireside, Kriget, Bad Hands, etc.) and Jens Sjögren (Bring Me the Fucking Riot Man! along with guest vocals from Sibille Attar ([ingenting]): http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/04/03/premiar-helvete-med-sibille-attar-in-och-genom-morkret/

Posted on andPOP : Cody Simpson is spoiling us with yet another cover. He recently performed “Over the Rainbow” fireside and now he gifts us Jack Johnson’s “Taylor,” performed from his bedroom. I love these covers because he’s so laid back and you can … Continue reading → Read more at andPOP . andPOP - POP Culture with Substance

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Posted on andPOP : Australian heartthrob Cody Simpson tweeted a video of himself playing “Over the Rainbow” fireside, on his ukulele. At the end of the song, he says “rest in peace Iz,” presumably for Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, a Hawaiian singer who died in 1997 … Continue reading → Read more at andPOP . andPOP - POP Culture with Substance

Tim Freedman’s Fireside Chat will be an evening of grand pianos, sweet melodies and a few pointed opinions. Already renowned as a raconteur between songs, this year Tim will link the tunes together with some extended yarns such as ” “How I learned to stop worrying and hate Triple J” ” and “Why did Caroline Overington called my father a Jewish accountant”. Tim Freedman is a singer/songwriter from Sydney, best known as the lead singer of The Whitlams, an ARIA Group of the Year with a string of gold & multi-platinum albums. His songs of charming well-crafted cynicism can sound as ...

Like I said on my other blog yesterday: the second season of Portlandia is fucking incredible. I wasn't entirely convinced by the first season - too uneven. But this second one? Tits. Though I'll never be able to take Carrie Brownstein seriously again. I only mention this because this post includes a song by Wild Flag, Brownstein's current band. Great song, but I can't help but think of her as a Battlestar Galactica junkie. I would also recommend the Fireside song. A very underrated band that deserved more success. (mp3) Fireside - Player Available on Get Shot (2003 ...

Django Django defy description. Trying to pin down their sound is akin to the old fairground game of whacking plastic moles with a hammer. The minute you think you’ve got it another one of the fuckers pops up. Within the first 20 minutes of this joyous, surreal album the band have shoehorned cosmic disco, dubstep bass wubs, Beatles harmonies, Spaghetti Western guitars and stomping glam rock rhythms into some riotous sense of order. It shouldn’t make sense. Styles explode into each other- the looping tropical disco of Zumm Zumm giving way to the delicate fireside folk of Hand ...

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Norweigan Sondre Lerche has given his fans a holiday treat in the form of a cover of Beyonce’s “Countdown”. He takes the party anthem, and chills it way back with his acoustic guitar. Now it’s taylor made for snuggling by the fireside.

Der schwedische Singer/Songwriter Kristofer Åström veröffentlicht am 24. Februar mit "From Eagle To Sparrow" den lang erwarteten Nachfolger seines 2009 erschienenen Albums " Sinkadus " via Startracks/Indigo. Bodenständiger und vielfältiger als je zuvor präsentiert sich Åström auf seinem neuen Gesamtwerk, dem so aufgeladene Themen wie Einsamkeit und Trauer, aber auch Liebe und Neubeginn zu Grunde liegen. Seht hier bereits das Cover-Artwork zur neuen Platte: 1998 beginnt Kristofer Åström sein Soloprojekt neben seiner Rockband Fireside , womit er neue musikalische Wege einschlug. Noch im selben Jahr präsentiert er sein Debütalbum "Go, Went, Gone", welches mit schlichter Melancholie überzeugen konnte. Seitdem gab sich ...

Spend a yultide by the fireside with Damien Jurado, who's pumped out a piano- and horn-laden version of "Christmas Time Is Here." The Vince Guaraldi original -- popularized via "A Charlie Brown Christmas" -- has a melancholy slowness that Jurado's falsetto capitalizes upon, warms up with the Aki Kurose Middle School Academy Glee Club and prepares your brain waves for a long winter's nap. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/immaculate-noise

Just over a month ago - well 1st of November to be exact Piley, myself and our three guests: local author Syd Moore , Roman Jugg (ex of The Damned) and Paul Pouch-of-Douglas were all ready to roll with the Halloween/horror edition of Radio Podrophenia. The questions were prepared and the playlist had been picked - including one tune that's been the cause of some historical hi-jinks for Piley and I. It won't mention it by name ( I daren't mention it by name ) but will clue you in as much as it's the closing track to side one ...