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• The Dirty Nil release new track ”No Weaknesses”. The Canadian trio of Kyle Fisher (drums), Luke Bentham (guitar/vox) and Dave Nardi (bass) got us celebrating life through a a solar-plexus-fist, an absolute knock-out.
The band has their first full-length album slated for an early 2016 release on Dine Alone. Get ready to rumble!
• Tvärvägen made some serious, down bound, glorious and pitch dark songs from the cellar of eternity. Gut-wrenching and thought-provoking. Takes the breath out of our lungs.
Moniker Henrik Öhberg came up with classic cinematic stuff here, we’re glad to tag along for the ride. Try title song This River So Red from upcoming album, release September 18.
• Dig that moving sound? That Mellencamp or LeMarc stuff where a song simply keeps driving and keeps growing and keeps pounding and don´t ever stop or even come up for air. It’s a thing of vast beauty.
Check out Josh Ritter and his song Where The Night Goes from new album Sermon On The Rocks (release Oct 16).
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• Our old pal Daniel Pearson is back with a great new album. Alone, Together was released August 21 and is the third album from the English folk-americana-man.
It’s nine songs filled with raw, talented song-writing. It’s a Damien Rice-kind of heartfelt vibe and something to hold dear when darkness rolls in. We truly love the guy, check out his sweet song I Still Believe down below.
• Meet Barrence Whitfield & the Savages. This is classy mayhem garage rock with raw vocals, thick and nasty guitar tones, and a preternaturally locked-in rhythm section.
The band release Under the Savage Sky in August, a down and dirty soulful punk record, via Bloodshot Records – filled with compact, three minute-or-less blasts.
For starters? Try a piece of Incarceration Casserole…
• This album will sneak up on you like Robert DeNiro with a bat. It’s nine songs complete. It’s Fleetwood, Springsteen, Mellencamp, Eagles; 70’s essentials.
Not many bands make the effort of an album anymore. It’s a couple of songs and that’s it. Dawes bites the head of that bullet. Their new album is a hard working LP wrapped up and intwined. We utterly adore it.
K7 saw Dawes backing Conor Oberst last summer at Way Out West in the green city woods of Gothenburg, Sweden. On stage they first looked a bit pale, then bursted into life and rallied their own songs – a tight unit for sure. The backbone of the band are brothers – Taylor Goldsmith (guitar & vocals) and Griffin Goldsmith (drums). They don´t miss a beat.
June 2nd Dawes fourth studio album, All Your Favorite Bands, was released via Hub Records. You’ll see this one high up on every EOY-list worth mentioning come December.
Til then…let’s hope your brother’s El Camino runs forever…
Straight outta Birmingham, Alabama, meet the … Banditos and the intense, powerful, violent voice of Mary Beth Richardson. Goddammit.
Their self-titled debut full-length album is out this spring and layered with as much grime as it is with pinpoint songwriting and feverish technical savvy. Each song wafts new dynamics into a streamlined stylistic roots, punk, and rock ‘n’ roll jet stream.
As a Friday Special: Check out Banditos perform I Put A Spell On You live in Nashville, Tennessee. If this don’t get you moving, don’t get you emotionally addicted to the soul of great music – what will?
Swedish indie pop rockers Seaweed Meadows released a new single yesterday.
The west coast band delivers a pure and free soundscape with that awesome swedish feel to it.
While waiting for the full length, they offer us a single ”Gravitation”, which will be a great company to the pre-summer that surrounds this cold country.
Listen:
• Seth and Jessica covers Elliott in an amazing release, true & honest to the man who tragically died 12 years ago. The 2015-album Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith was recorded over the past three years at the artists’ homes and at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina. The duo will tour the album later this year, til then check out the eerie, barren, beautiful, magical – Fond Farewell.
• Bhi Bhiman is the St. Louis-son who moved to San Fran to make darling stuff in the path of Rodriguez and Nina Simone. It’s a diverse sound that keeps the listener on high alert. It’s plain great.
Tomorrow, May 19th, Bhiman got his new record out: Rhythm & Reason. He tours America together with ol´ Kentuckyseven-favs Goodnight Texas – a combo you don´t ever wanna miss.
Check out brand new song, the beautiful Up In Arms.
