In what seems a staunch effort to keep things in the family, Bruce Springsteen has tapped Jake Clemons, nephew to the late E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons , to share sax duties with longtime E Street collaborator Eddie Manion on the Boss' upcoming Wrecking Ball tour. The dates, which follow stops at the Grammys and the Apollo Theater will constitute the first Springsteen tour since Clemons' passing . Clemons, Jr., has been busy at work, racking up a discography that includes work with the Swell Season (and Markéat Irglová's side project) and live performance credits that, according to his website ...

There's definitely been an upsurge in lush Irish folk music that's been reaching North American shores in the last couple of years.   The Swell Season , Villagers , and Vincent McMorrow">James Vincent McMorrow have all made an impact. You can add Ian Doyle to the list, aka The Man Whom .  His new album, The Greatest Event , gets its North American release on February 14th via Ottawa's Matchless Minds label. With the opener "Easier To Run" it's clear that the elegance of his compatriots is a trait ingrained in Doyle's music as well.  The song features a ...

Hear the Swell Season singer perform gliding, piano-centric songs from her first solo album, Anar.

Eddie Vedder invites you to tiptoe through the tulips with him. After focusing on his main band last year with a 20th anniversary bash , a Cameron Crowe documentary , and a new song , the Pearl Jam frontman will be heading back out on his own again in support of Grammy-nominated 2011 full-length Ukulele Songs . A 13-city spring solo tour will take Vedder through theaters from Las Vegas, on April 11, to Orlando, Florida, on May 16, plus a stop at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 3. Joining him once again will be Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, of folk-rock ...

Now that a year's worth of anniversary celebrations for Pearl Jam are behind him, Eddie Vedder is back in Ukulele Songs mode, with a new 13-city tour planned for late spring. Once again, Glen Hansard from The Swell Season and The Frames will open. Tickets for the tour go on sale Feb. 3, but a pre-sale for members of Pearl Jam's Ten Club is already underway. (Find out more here .) As for Pearl Jam, the band is set to tour Europe this summer, and a new album might also be out later this year. Check out Vedder's ...

Filed under: News , New Music Dave Hogan/Getty Images With the band finally off the road following 360, their record-breaking moneymaker of a world tour, U2 have shed some light on their current studio work, including that they are working on three separate albums. "We're working on three albums at the moment and we haven't decided what order we're going to put them out but 'The Songs of Ascent' have the kind of beautiful intimacy that we're speaking of now," Bono said in an exclusive interview to members of the band fan club on U2.com ...

by Andrew Sacher Marketa Irglova (aka 1/2 of The Swell Season) released her first solo album, Anar, this past October via ANTI-. Though she's credited as a main writer for a few of The Swell Season's songs, her personality as...

A new musical based on the film Once will go directly to Broadway following its Off Broadway run at the New York Theater Workshop, which began Tuesday night in Manhattan. The show features music and lyrics by the Swell Season‘s Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová and will begin previews for its Broadway run at the [...]

A new musical based on the film Once will go directly to Broadway following its Off Broadway run at the New York Theater Workshop which began last night in Manhattan The show which features music and lyrics by the Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová will begin previews for...

(Anti-) Oscar winner goes solo I first came across the diminutive Czech musician Markéta Irglová through my obsession with Irish rock group The Frames. As you may know, Irglová teamed up with The Frames’ charismatic frontman Glen Hansard in 2006, releasing an enjoyable self-titled record under the moniker The Swell Season. The duo then went on to star in the enormously popular film Once, winning an Academy Award for their song Falling Slowly. Fast-forward a few years and Irglová has settl ...

Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season plays a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music. At ArtsBeat, filmmaker Errol Morris interviews author Stephen King. The Albany Times Union interviews Feelies frontman Glenn Mercer about the state of the music industry and...

Die tschechische Songwriterin Markéta Irglová legte kürzlich einen Zwischenstopp bei NPRs Tiny Desk Concerts ein. Dort präsentierte sie drei Songs ihres Anfang Oktober via Anti erschienenen Albums " Anar ". Zusammen mit der iranischen Perkussionistin Aida Shahghasemi gab sie in ganz intimer Atmosphäre die Songs "We Are Good", "Dokthar Goochani", ein iranisches Traditional und "Let Me Fall In Love" zum Besten. Überzeugt euch an dieser Stelle selbst: Markéta Irglová – Tiny Desk Concert Zusammen mit Glen Hansard, dem Sänger der irischen Alternative-Rocker The Frames , bildete Irglová das Folk-Zweigespann The Swell Season , mit dem sie 2006 deren selbstbetiteltes Debüt veröffentlichte. Ein Jahr darauf folgte ...

The documentary The Swell Season captures the end of a relationship between Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, two musicians who met when they starred in the Oscar-winning film Once .

Swell Seasoner Marketa Irglova recently released a solo album, Anar. Watch her perform three songs at an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Speaking of the Swell Season, there’s currently an off-Broadway musical version of Once hitting the stage in a few … Continue reading →

Irglova takes time out from The Swell Season, releasing her first full-length studio album.