Photo by theCobrasnake Zooey Deschanel is widely known for being in Fox's "The New Girl", being an indie actress, and performing in the band She & Him with some other guy who no1 even cares about. Recently, Zooey Deschanel obtained a social anxiety disorder that prevented her from leaving the house. All she really cared about was staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing . Eventually, many girls in our country acquired the same anxiety disorder, resulting in staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing. It has become a sad society where people only care ...

Indie "It" girl Zooey Deschanel is headed to the Great White Way. The actress/singer (She & Him) will play country legend Loretta Lynn in a new musical stage show based on the country star's life story. The show is based on Lynn's 1976 autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter. The film, which dropped in

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: She & Him, Dum Dum Girls, The Pipettes, The Young Veins Song: The Like - Wishing He Was Dead [download here ] What's so good? Back in 2010, these 60s-throwback Los Angelites debuted Release Me ; a tough-chick album full of retro-pop gems featuring sassy vocals and lyrical mayhem. Oh, and it was produced by Ronson">Mark Ronson. One particular track from this album titled “Wishing He Was Dead” entices us from the beginning with sweet-sounding harmonies and retro organ licks. However, once the song actually juices up, the sugary spirit immediately alters to a death wish with biting kiss-off lyrics. This cutesy schoolgirl-tough attitude is one that presides amongst a lot of girl bands out there right now. The juxtaposition of their retro style combined with current ...

The singer/actress will take the lead role in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' on the New York stage

Merge Records have  announced on their blog  that the label will donate its archives to  the University of North Carolina . The collection of "music, art, and other ephemera from 23 years of releasing music we love" will open to the public in 2013, and will be located at  the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC's Wilson Library  in Chapel Hill.  Merge was founded in 1989 in Chapel Hill by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan of Superchunk. The label has released music by Fire">Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, Destroyer, Lambchop, Dinosaur Jr., M. Ward/She & Him ...

According to The Observer, Zooey Deschanel will star in the Broadway adaptation of the classic 1980 film Coal Miner’s Daughter, based on the life of Loretta Lynn. Let’s run this down: she’s got a TV show (New Girl), a rock band (She & Him), has been in some critically-liked films (Almost Famous, 500 Days Of [...]

Loretta Lynn announced Thursday evening from the stage of the Ryman Auditorium during Opry Country Classics that she chose Zooey Deschanel to portray her in an upcoming Broadway-bound stage adaptation of "Coal Miner's Daughter." Following the announcement, Deschanel, who has sung with M. Ward as She & Him, joined Lynn to sing Coal Miner's Daughter. ...

Best Coast “The Only Place” Genere : surf pop Provenienza : Los Angeles, California, USA Se ti piace ascolta anche : Go-Go’s, Dum Dum Girls, Cults, Summer Camp, Rilo Kiley, She & Him, Buddy Holly Quando spunta fuori il sole che fai? Vai in spiaggia? Vai in piscina? No, ma chissenefrega, io mi riferivo a livello musicale. A livello musicale che fai? Getti in un angolo i dischi, o meglio i file, di folk depresso, di elettronica glaciale, di cantanti e band uggiose e tiri fuori… Danza Kuduro? Ma va là. Tiri fuori i Best Coast. Il loro seondo album è troppo californiano ...

(Spunk) She & Him and Monsters Of Folk member steps up his solo career M. Ward inhabits a paradoxical space in contemporary American indie music – as he becomes more of a public figure through his high-profile collaborations (She & Him, with Zooey Deschanel, and Monsters Of Folk, with Jim James, Mike Mogis and Conor Oberst), his own solo work slips into the background. His previous album, Hold Time, is a sleepy, downtempo affair exemplified by a somnolent cover of Sonny West’s Rave On; ...

Matthew Stephen Ward's Cottage Industry of Traveling Song is doing pretty damn brisk business these days. His prolific personal brand, which has averaged an album a year since the mid-2000s, between his M. Ward, She & Him and Monster of Folk projects, is arguably at its peak right now, if only in terms of public profile and general recognition.

After focusing his efforts on a variety of collaborative projects over the last few years, both as an artist and producer, M. Ward has finally returned to being a solo act with the release of  A Wasteland Companion . The Portland-based singer-songwriter recorded the 12-track record at eight different studios, and received a helping hand from the likes of Toby Leaman (Dr. Dog), Howie Gelb (Giant Sand), Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Monster Of Folk) and Zooey Deschanel (She & Him). Last week Matt stopped by Conan O’Brien’s TBS show with a full backing band to perform Primitive Girl, which includes ...

M. Ward A Wasteland Companion Merge Records [2012] Fire Note Says: M. Ward showcases his singer/songwriter talent once again on A Wasteland Companion . Album Review: Before She & Him was formed with the now bigger than ever Zooey Deschanel, troubadour M. Ward was deeply entrenched in the indie folk scene with his first several releases. As time has progressed so has Ward's movement into a bigger sound and with She & Him he pushed this farther with a 60's sounding twist. A Wasteland Companion could have really went in any direction and M. Ward choose to once again expand ...

Filed under: Q + A Press Here M. Ward has been kicking around the indie music scene for the past several years in a largely collaborative role. Though he has six solo albums to his name, in the last three years he has released two albums as one half of the twee-pop duo She and Him and one album as one fifth of the rootsy supergroup Monsters of Folk . However, even while juggling his numerous commitments, Ward was hard at work on his seventh solo album, A Wasteland Companion . The LP, out now, runs the gamut from the wistful "The First ...

Storytellers are ancient and revered individuals since the early days of logical, linguistic humankind, passing on the tales of the elders and those before them, of gods and man and nature and everything in between, from morality tales to gargantuan legends of the creation of the known universe. Fast-forward to 2012 and we have authors, screenwriters, directors, critics, poets and, of course, musicians and songwriters. When an artist with a few stories to tell manages to put the appropriate (and well crafted) music behind their yarns, the fans will come flooding. The likes of Bon Iver, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell ...

If you've only ever heard of M. Ward within the context of his sharing a band with Zooey Deschanel (the retro-minded She & Him), do yourself a favor and catch his solo performance this week. Seven albums in — his latest, A Wasteland Companion , is out this month — and the...