Every week ends up the same way, but some weeks end up better than others…
To kick of the weekend, please take a listen to the supergroup (members hailing from Sugarplum Fairys and Mando Diao) Viktor & The Blood’s – Kick’s Out On A Saturday Night
Wanna know more about the band… Check out www.viktorandtheblood.com
Look and listen…
A swedish-american lovestory… Cole and Shpresa, met via Soundcloud, and the music. Fell in love, created music together, and Flora Cash entered this world.
The music is intelligent, bold and very sophisticated and low key… An amazing sound which has us spellbound. Just can’t stop listening…
Listen for yourself:
Favorite tune: Mighty Fine
Sometimes… You just know when you stumble upon real music. Real musicians. Real emotions.
A friend in LA wrote me a letter, letting me know that she had something for me. Something that would be right up my alley.
I dont know if she knew how right she was. When I first heard the Song Preservation Society, I was baffled. I was in love.
This is for real. This is what what happens when real musicians and real writers get together and create. I feel small. I feel in love.
If you are totally unaffected by this, please let me know. Otherwise, just smile to your fellow person. Knowing you have met the love for music.
Song Preservation Society is Trevor Bahnson, Ethan Glazer and Daniel Wright. Their debut EP, Ready Room, was recorded in the fall of 2012 with guidance from the much respected Nino Moschella, ”master of coaxing”.
In my world, the sound of these guys is not to be placed on any coast of the vast country they operate in, but a national treasure. Listen, understand or let it just keep your heart in shape…
Ya´ll know Justin Vernon. The falsettoguru behind Bon Iver and worldchanging songs as ’Skinny Love’, ’Flume’ and ’Re:Stacks’.
Well here he is again, but as frontman to bluesrockers ’The Shouting Matches’. And man he rocks. This is bootstomping stuff.
Imaging a reeky divebar in the middle of nowhere. Imaging having a cold one. Imaging…fuck it.
Just listen to ’Avery Hill’ from outstanding record ’Grownass Man’.
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• You dig great bands as Tame Impala, Dungen, T.S.O.O.L? Well then, here’s a treat for ya´ll.
Swedish band ’side effects’ give us a psychodelic echo of a brilliant past. And the everlasting electric organ – thank you Elias Jungqvist.
Check out single ’Riverbank’ – debut-LP is out this fall via Sony Music.
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Photo: Bobby Amoroso
John Cloyd Miller won first place in the 21st annual Chris Austin Songwriting Contest in the bluegrass category at MerleFest 2013.
Miller is a vocalist, guitarist and mandolin player for the Asheville-based band Red June – an Americanatrio we love & adore.
Do check out their great country album “Beauty Will Come”. A beautiful, bootstompin, bluegrass beauty.
”The song ’Cloud of Dust’ highlights the frustrations and resolve of a young man during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s,” John says, “This song tells the story of what happens when we abuse our land.”
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Low, from Duluth, Minnesota, have been around for 20 years. Still they do interesting, vital, gutwrenching, alternative, indie, stuff. The way millions of band try but never succeed. Low does this with ease.
Married couple Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker + bass guitar man Steve Garrington is a force to be reckoned with.
Try their greatness in song ’Just Make It Stop’ from record ’The Invisible Way’, released spring 2013 via SubPop.
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