BRAIDS
myspace.com/braidsmusic
BRAIDS have been getting a lot of press, most of of what I've gathered is that they are lead by a chirpy young potty-mouthed singer called Raphelle Standell-Preston and that they sound like Velocity Girl. Since I do love Sarah Shannon, I did give them a listen.
The eight-track album is called Native Speaker, an eight-track album and comes out courtesy of Kanine Records.
Since I did get a chance to listen to the album, I'll have to say that they're not so much like Velocity Girl, but more experimental-pots-pans music like that of Yeah Yeah Yeahs... I think people who thinks the band sings dirty words, it's from "Glass Deers", which you can hear the "f-f-f-f*" word. I do like it when Standell-Preston sings, like on "Same Mum", but when the band just do instrumentals like "Little Hand", I'm
Their music fits nicely with what's hot on Pitchfork and Stereogum. So if you like that sort of atmospheric with a bit of static experimental music, you'll like BRAIDS. I sometime think that their music to could be performed with improvsation. Well, the good news is you can find out for yourself since they're doing a massive North American tour coming up in the Spring.
AMANDA F***KING PALMER
amandapalmer.net
I know that we've been talking about Amanda Palmer a lot lately. I apologize if you hate her, but I love her and admitted that her live show was the best show ever.
I was sent her latest release Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under, which is a weird collection of mostly live and studio tracks, recorded with the theme of Australia in mind. The album comes out on January 21st on Liberator Records, and, I could be wrong, but it looks like maybe it's only released in Australia (although I'm sure Palmer will make the album available worldwide).
We got a glimpse of the new album with the remix version of "Maps of Tasmania" featuring The Young Punx. As I have only just discovered last week, that the term "Maps of Tasmania" is a reference to a woman's area. Anyway, I guess if you didn't know, you'd figure it out with its lyrics "if it gets too bushy, you can trim". The version on the album is a different mix, but essentially the same catchy song. You can download a copy at amandapalmer.net.
Surprisingly, or maybe not surprisingly, the band features a lot of cover songs ("Makin' Whoopee") and lots of ukulele. Not surprisingly because previously to Evelyn Evelyn, she did some ukulele Radiohead songs. When I saw her live, she mentioned that after her record contract expired, she just basically did whatever she wanted - and Radiohead was on her mind and came out with Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele.
There's also more live songs, but that may be a good thing, because it's just more fun to hear feedback (laughter/clapping) and Palmer messing up songs she's just written five minutes ago, like on "New Zealand". The funnest song is for the strictly Australian spread, Vegemite, called "We're Happy Little Vegemites", which doesn't actually feature Palmer singing (I get the impression that this is a the children commercial song). While the audience is doing all the work with that other Vegemite song, it is completely different from Palmer's "Vegemite (the black death)".
The most interesting song is her cover of Nick Cave's "The Ship Song". The song's been voted as the top 30 Best Australian Songs on the APRA Music Award, so it's a bit to live up to. I sensed that Palmer had a nervous laugh when she started singing the song.
Amanda Palmer will also be tour throughout Australia in the next month or so. Be sure to see her in Sydney at the Opera House, as she's bringing on her hubby Mister Neil "Sandman" Gaiman and Meow Meow and Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen. I would love to attend that show, it's only too bad I'm freezing to death in Minnesota.
Tour dates as follows:
SAHARA SMITH
myspace.com/saharasmithmusic
Just wanted to quickly mention that teenvogue.com premiered Sahara Smith's "Are You Lonely" music video. I did get a chance to watch it, but it killed me that the video is not in high definition. The song comes from her debut album Myth of the Heart.
I was more impressed with her appearance on David Letterman in 2010, the video's in HD!
Here's her 2011 tour dates so far:
Interestingly enough she's playing with The Bacon Brothers (yes, that's Kevin Bacon and his brother) on January 28th.
myspace.com/braidsmusic
BRAIDS have been getting a lot of press, most of of what I've gathered is that they are lead by a chirpy young potty-mouthed singer called Raphelle Standell-Preston and that they sound like Velocity Girl. Since I do love Sarah Shannon, I did give them a listen.
The eight-track album is called Native Speaker, an eight-track album and comes out courtesy of Kanine Records.
Since I did get a chance to listen to the album, I'll have to say that they're not so much like Velocity Girl, but more experimental-pots-pans music like that of Yeah Yeah Yeahs... I think people who thinks the band sings dirty words, it's from "Glass Deers", which you can hear the "f-f-f-f*" word. I do like it when Standell-Preston sings, like on "Same Mum", but when the band just do instrumentals like "Little Hand", I'm
Their music fits nicely with what's hot on Pitchfork and Stereogum. So if you like that sort of atmospheric with a bit of static experimental music, you'll like BRAIDS. I sometime think that their music to could be performed with improvsation. Well, the good news is you can find out for yourself since they're doing a massive North American tour coming up in the Spring.
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01-20 Montreal QC - La Sala Rossa
01-21 Ottawa, ON - Mavericks 01-22 Quebec, QC - Le Cercle 01-27 Laval, QC - Studio Theatre Maison Des Arts 01-28 Kingston, ON - The Grad Club 01-30 Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub 01-31 Louisville, KY - Zanzabar 02-01 St. Louis, MO - The Old Rock House 02-02 Norman, OK - Opolis 02-04 Dallas, TX - Club Dada *$ 02-05 Austin, TX - The Mohawk *$ 02-07 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade *$ 02-08 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder *$ 02-09 W Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern*$ 02-11 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel *$ 02-12 Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory *$ 02-13 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie *$ 02-16 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *$ 02-17 Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *$ 02-18 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore *$ 02-19 Toronto, ON - El Mocambo *$ 02-21 Columbus, OH - Skully's Music Diner *$ 02-22 Urbana, IL - Canopy Club *$ 02-23 Iowa City, IA - Gabe's *$ |
02-24 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry *$
02-25 Madison, WI - Der Rathskellar (University of Wisconsin) *$ 02-26 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *$ 03-01 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey * 03-02 Portland, OR - Holocene * 03-03 Arcata, CA - Jambalaya *$ 03-04 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop * 03-05 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour * 03-10 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar % 03-11 San Diego, CA - Casbah % 03-12 Las Vegas, NV - Neon Reverb Festival % 03-14 Santa Fe, NM - Corazon % 03-21 Tempe, AZ - Sail Inn !~ 03-26 Kennewick, WA - The Red Room !~ 03-28 Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret ! 04-06 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop ! 04-13 Baltimore, MD - Talking Head ! * Baths $ Star Slinger % Asobi Seksu ! Toro Y Moi ~ Cloud Nothings |
amandapalmer.net
I know that we've been talking about Amanda Palmer a lot lately. I apologize if you hate her, but I love her and admitted that her live show was the best show ever.
I was sent her latest release Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under, which is a weird collection of mostly live and studio tracks, recorded with the theme of Australia in mind. The album comes out on January 21st on Liberator Records, and, I could be wrong, but it looks like maybe it's only released in Australia (although I'm sure Palmer will make the album available worldwide).
We got a glimpse of the new album with the remix version of "Maps of Tasmania" featuring The Young Punx. As I have only just discovered last week, that the term "Maps of Tasmania" is a reference to a woman's area. Anyway, I guess if you didn't know, you'd figure it out with its lyrics "if it gets too bushy, you can trim". The version on the album is a different mix, but essentially the same catchy song. You can download a copy at amandapalmer.net.
Surprisingly, or maybe not surprisingly, the band features a lot of cover songs ("Makin' Whoopee") and lots of ukulele. Not surprisingly because previously to Evelyn Evelyn, she did some ukulele Radiohead songs. When I saw her live, she mentioned that after her record contract expired, she just basically did whatever she wanted - and Radiohead was on her mind and came out with Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele.
There's also more live songs, but that may be a good thing, because it's just more fun to hear feedback (laughter/clapping) and Palmer messing up songs she's just written five minutes ago, like on "New Zealand". The funnest song is for the strictly Australian spread, Vegemite, called "We're Happy Little Vegemites", which doesn't actually feature Palmer singing (I get the impression that this is a the children commercial song). While the audience is doing all the work with that other Vegemite song, it is completely different from Palmer's "Vegemite (the black death)".
The most interesting song is her cover of Nick Cave's "The Ship Song". The song's been voted as the top 30 Best Australian Songs on the APRA Music Award, so it's a bit to live up to. I sensed that Palmer had a nervous laugh when she started singing the song.
Amanda Palmer will also be tour throughout Australia in the next month or so. Be sure to see her in Sydney at the Opera House, as she's bringing on her hubby Mister Neil "Sandman" Gaiman and Meow Meow and Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen. I would love to attend that show, it's only too bad I'm freezing to death in Minnesota.
Tour dates as follows:
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01/15/11
MONA FOMA FESTIVAL
01/17/11 MONA FOMA FESTIVAL 01/26/11 Sydney Opera House, New South 01/30/11 Great Northern Hotel Newcastle 02/01/11 James O Fairfax Theatre, Canberra 02/04/11 Fly By Night Musicians in Freemantle 02/10/11 Great Northern Byron Bay, 02/12/11 The Old Musuem Brisbane, |
02/17/11
Webstock
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
02/18/11 Webstock Wellington, NEW ZEALAND 02/19/11 Bodega WELLINGTON, NZ 02/22/11 Al’s Bar, Christchurch 02/23/11 Kings Arms Tavern Auckland, Auckland 02/26/11 The Forum Melbourne, VIC, au 03/02/11 Mar 2 Adelaide Fringe Festival 03/03/11 Adelaide Fringe Festival |
myspace.com/saharasmithmusic
Just wanted to quickly mention that teenvogue.com premiered Sahara Smith's "Are You Lonely" music video. I did get a chance to watch it, but it killed me that the video is not in high definition. The song comes from her debut album Myth of the Heart.
I was more impressed with her appearance on David Letterman in 2010, the video's in HD!
Here's her 2011 tour dates so far:
SAHARA SMITH 2011 TOUR DATES
Jan 20 - 3rd and Lindsley - Nashville, TN
Jan 21 - WorkPlay Theatre - Birmingham, AL
Jan 22 - Eddie's Attic - Decatur, GA
Jan 25 - The Southern Cafe & Music Hall - Charlottesville, VA
Jan 26 - NightCat - Easton, MD
Jan 28 - Ram's Head Tavern - Annapolis, MD (2 sets) - %
Jan 29 - World Cafe Live Upstairs - Philadelphia, PA
Feb 1 - Living Room - New York City, NY
Feb 2 - The Rock Shop - Brooklyn, NY
Feb 3 - Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
Feb 5 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL
Feb 12 - Cactus Cafe - Austin, TX
Jan 20 - 3rd and Lindsley - Nashville, TN
Jan 21 - WorkPlay Theatre - Birmingham, AL
Jan 22 - Eddie's Attic - Decatur, GA
Jan 25 - The Southern Cafe & Music Hall - Charlottesville, VA
Jan 26 - NightCat - Easton, MD
Jan 28 - Ram's Head Tavern - Annapolis, MD (2 sets) - %
Jan 29 - World Cafe Live Upstairs - Philadelphia, PA
Feb 1 - Living Room - New York City, NY
Feb 2 - The Rock Shop - Brooklyn, NY
Feb 3 - Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
Feb 5 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL
Feb 12 - Cactus Cafe - Austin, TX
Interestingly enough she's playing with The Bacon Brothers (yes, that's Kevin Bacon and his brother) on January 28th.
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