Six years on since the chart-topping Desert Lights , Something For Kate will finally head back into the studio again. The trio – Paul Dempsey, Stephanie Ashworth and Clint Hyndman – will imminently depart for Dallas, Texas, where they will begin work on their sixth studio album, to be released locally on Capitol/EMI Music Australia in late-2012. It’ll be recorded with US producer John Congleton, who’s worked on records by Explosions In The Sky, St Vincent, Okkervil River and Modest Mouse. Something For Kate have been on somewhat of a hiatus since the release of Desert Lights , with frontman Paul ...

Scratch any literate songwriter – Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey – and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS Eliot The New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wrote in a review of the poet's letters: "He tried to shut the door on modern life. It was too late of course. He was the author of Prufrock and The Waste Land. He was already inside." Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land , he remains ...

Sunshiney New Zealand crooner Lawrence Arabia is back with a third album of 60s-influenced pop on Bella Union. The Sparrow is the follow-up to 2009’s Chant Darling , which won the hearts of even the most charcoal-souled critics and put the fellow who toured as Okkervil River’s bassist and supported Feist on a jaunt or two front and center. Of course, James Milne (as Lawrence Arabia’s birth certificate calls him) has been doing the music thing for nearly a decade, so he knows his way around a stage, having been a member of both The Brunettes and Ruby ...

Die US-Indie-Rocker Shearwater kommen mit ihrer aktuellen Platte " Animal Joy " im Gepäck auf Deutschland-Tour, nachdem sie im April bereits ein paar Konzerte hierzulande gespielt haben. Ihr siebtes Album erschien zu Beginn des Jahres via Sup Pop Records. Erst vor kurzem coverten die Musiker zusammen mit der Singer/Songwriterin Sharon Van Etten den Titel "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", welcher im Original aus dem Jahr 1981 stammt – damals war das Stück ein Duett von  Fleetwood Mac -Sängerin Stevie Nicks und Rock-Urgestein Tom Petty  ( motor.de berichtete ). Wer sich ein Konzert der Formation um Sänger Jonathan Meiburg nicht entgehen lassen will, sollte ...

Od 2:00 do 4:00 w Tr▲jcy Al Bowlly - Guilty The Flamingos & The Complexions -  - I Only Have Eyes For You The Fugees - Zealots Nas ft. Lauryn Hill - If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) Puente & Rosch - This Feeling Steely Dan - Peg De La Soul - Eye Know Lee Stevens & The Beautiful People - Ridin' High Jonas Rathsman - Tobago Monitor 66 - Triscuits Modeselektor ft. Miss Platnum - Berlin Major Lazer ft. Amber of Dirty Projectors - Get Free Deradoorian - Trying Your Luck (oryg. The Strokes) Deradoorian - You Carry The Deed Daughn Gibson - Tiffany Lou Okkervil River - It Is So Nice To Get Stoned ...

"westfall" by okkervil river : if you like the old crow medicine show, give this a shot

Lawrence Arabia es el seudonimo del músico neozelandés James Milne quien, aunque no sea necesariamente conocido a nivel mundial, sí ha colaborado con proyectos bastante reconocidos como Okkervil River y Feist, ademas de haber formado parte de The Brunettes. Sin embargo, el músico se ha enfocado recientemente en su proyecto principal, con el que ha lanzado dos discos, el más reciente de ellos Chant Darling del 2009. Ahora el músico está listo para lanzar una nueva producción de la mano de la disquera Bella Union, la cual llevará por título...

It’s friday, but it’s also that special time of year again.  Here’s a chill mix for your aural pleasure.  Track listing and download below. -The Collective Tour Dowload the Mix here Tracklist: 1. Your Blown Future-Made of Wood/Surf Erie – Monster Ralley 2.It Is So Nice To Get Stoned – Okkervil River 3. Africa Talks [...]

In less than a week, on Wednesday, April 25th, the 10th annual Independent Film Festival Boston kicks off with an opening night screening of Mike Birbiglia's "Sleepwalk With Me" (and a post-film Q&A; from producer and This American Life host Ira Glass), wrapping up 8 long days later with Lauren Greenfield's riches-to-way-less-riches documentary "The Queen of Versailles" on Wednesday, May 2nd. In between, over 130 carefully-curated films will roll on projectors at the Somerville Theatre , The Brattle in Harvard Square, and Brookline's Coolidge Corner Theatre . As with previous years' lineups, the 2012 edition has a healthy handful ...

Levon Helm passed away  today after a long battle with cancer. This afternoon and over the next few days we expect plenty of tributes and thoughts about The Band drummer to file in from around the world. We’ll compile word of those tributes within this post and will update it accordingly. [Photos by Jeremy Gordon ] Obituaries and Remembrances : Jambands.com : “The only American member of the quintessential Americana quintet, Helm—who also played mandolin, guitar and other instruments—had managed to beat the odds for nearly two decades since being diagnosed with throat cancer in the late 1990s. “ Rolling ...

We’ve been and will continue to update this post with reactions from Levon’s friends, family, band mates and fans as well as any news on his condition. We’re sad to report that the rumors making the rounds lately are true – our hero Levon Helm is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. His family has just released a statement … [Photo by Parker Harrington] Dear Friends, Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey ...

Whilst not as dense or treacle-thick as previous Shearwater records, Animal Joy is just as intricately layered, and manages to be peculiarly exhilerating in spite of its persistently shadowy subject matter. Opener ‘Animal Life’ anchors the album’s loose thread of animal vs. industrial influences on our magnificent, messy race.  Disconection is key: events and childhood [...] ( Read more... ) Categories: Records , Reviews Tags: Okkervil River , Shearwater

Jonathan Meiburg's (originally of Okkervil River) Shearwater recently released album Animal Joy and have dropped the video for 'You As You Were'. In the clip the band continue their obsession with the woodsy outdoors, wandering around the woods dressed up as wild...

As Jefe and I were trying to coordinate a gameplan for our Saturday afternoon, I stumbled across the news that Okkervil River was a last minute addition to the Brooklyn Vegan party in East Austin that already included J. Roddy, Heartless Bastards, Diamond Rugs and Lucero. By the last day, I was exhausted and the [...]

Okkervil River (more by Joshua Mellin) now with Okkervil River.... We're excited to announce that Austin's own Okkervil River has been added to the Saturday lineup of Hotel Vegan @ Hotel Vegas (1500 East 6th St, Austin, TX)! Consider them...