Nelsonville Music Festival Sunday, May 20, 2012 M. Ward Dawes Todd Snider M. Ward Dawes Todd Snider R. Ring Horse Feathers Mucca Pazza Full set

Two to one. This was more or less the ratio of instruments to musicians on stage at Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday night. Amongst the two women and three [...]

It is the delicate nature of Justin Ringle’s voice that creates space for the music of his music collective, Horse Feathers, whose fingerpicked guitars, building tracks and potent material has drawn comparisons to Nick Drake and Foxes">Fleet Foxes. We caught up with Ringle to discuss his latest album, the baroque-pop-filled Cynic’s New Year, which was released last month through Kill Rock Stars. Ringle brought us up to speed on the album’s themes, the set of collaborators featured on the album and Portland’s influence on his music....

Recommended Show: WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 MR. DREAM @ DEATH BY AUDIO 49 S 2nd St Brooklyn, NY 11211 $7, 8PM I still predict good things from Mr. Dream ! Freeman">Aaron Freeman @ 92YTribeca The Beach Boys @ Beacon Theater The Avett Brothers @ Terminal 5 Hundred Waters & RACES @ Mercury Lounge The Wooden Sky & Reed Foehl @ Union Pool Rufus Wainwright @ Brooklyn Academy of Music Noxious Foxes, Multitudes, & Unigen @ Cameo Gallery Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros @ Roseland Ballroom Horse Feathers, Brown Bird, & Mount Moriah @ Bowery Ballroom Bear in Heaven, Blouse, & Doldrums @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Mike Wexler, Nymph, Future Shuttle, & Wyndham Baird @ Glasslands Star ...

Horse Feathers Cynic's New Year Kill Rock Stars [2012]  Fire Note Says: Horse Feathers bring their signature sound back on album number four - Cynic's New Year . Album Review: Go big or go home is the underlying theme to the Portland, OR-based group Horse Feathers fourth long player Cynic's New Year . The album once again is driven by Justin Ringle's spectacular voice and violinist Nathan Crockett but includes 11 musicians which compliment every track here with instruments that range from French horn to banjo. Now this expansion of instruments on Cynic's New Year surprisingly has little ...

Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Brian Danielson Justin Ringle has come nearly full-circle on Cynic's New Year , the new album from his indie-folk band Horse Feathers . Ringle started playing quiet, rootsy songs when he moved from Idaho to Portland, Ore., to give himself a break from the loud-all-the-time rock-band dynamic he had spent years navigating. "I kind of burned out on that dynamic," Ringle tells Spinner. "After playing in bands in serial fashion, I kind of got tired of competing with the volume of a drummer and a bass player and the attitude that's inherently involved in ...

Surely you know the score by now? The latest free Insound Vinyl News Mixtape is available for a limited time. This one features fourteen tracks from the likes of Horse Feathers, the wonderful Joe Pug, The Dandy Warhols, Estrogen Highs, Dunebuggy and more. Download for free (well in exchange for a Tweet, Facebook Like, or E-mail [...]

Justin Ringle and his band of merry musicians collectively known as Horse Feathers have put forth a very inspiring baroque pop album for their forth release. Cynic’s New Year is filled with layer upon layer of instruments allowing the band a grander scale that presents the band as a happy-go-lucky Oregon band. Yet, if you listen beneath the slides, horns and whistles and bells, there is a murky undertone hiding in Ringle’s lyrics.

Posted at 10:05am, 4/24/2012 Our new album release list for the coming week goes up every Tuesday. Check out what's dropping April 24th, grab mp3s and catch up on what you missed from previous weeks. Tuesday, April 24th: Bad Veins: The Mess We've Made [ *new* mp3 ] Bonnie Prince Billy: Greatest Palace Music reissue [ mp3 ] Brendan Benson: What Kind of World [ *new* mp3 ] Dandy Warhols: This Machine [ mp3 ] Infernal Devices: A Million Miles Above [ *new* mp3 ] Loquat: We Could Be Arsonists [ mp3 ] Magic Wands: Aloha Moon Neon Trees: Picture Show vinyl Suckers: Candy Salad [ *new* mp3 ...

Horse Feathers - ‘Where I’ll Be’ “Beauty and loss, they are one and the same”, a line from the title track to  Cynic’s New Year : the fourth LP, and a further collection of songs-for-the-down-trodden, by Portland’s Horse Feathers. Through lyrical imagery and his squeeze-box falsetto range, Justin Ringle expresses beauty in melancholy like no other, wandering around turmoil and darkness with a comforting torch. ‘Where I’ll Be’ addresses the distance between loved ones  caused by economic concerns and how it effects people directly, giving it a romantic spin through rustic Americana folk.  Brian Danielson directed this clip ...

I’ve been taking a second of because…well. Because I fucking felt like it, but dudes, I just came back to tell you this. THIS IS IMPORTANT. This little fact might just turn your year for the better so listen up. The new Horse Feathers album is stunning. Nay, STUNNING, all capital and none of that … Read More

I’ve been a big fan of Horse Feathers ever since I got my hands on their album Words Are Dead about five years ago. The follow up to that release, House With No Home, was one of my favorite albums of 2008. So it’s always exciting to talk ...

More gentle, breezy Americana from the Portland folkies.

Here are a few MP3s of songs from some of the better albums released this week: Horse Feathers – “Fit Against the Country” from Cynic’s New Year Hundred Waters – “Me & Anodyne” and “Cavern” from Hundred Waters After the...