This week’s videos feature bands you should check out at Bonnaroo… Every year in the NFL draft, the sports media bestows the honor of Mr. Irrelevant upon the last player
The Life is good brand will throw another festival bearing its name at beautiful Prowse Farm in Canton, MA on September 24 and 25. HT faves The Avett Brothers, the
Prolific songwriter/traveling troubadour TIM EASTON will release not one, but two new recordings in the near future. BEAT THE BAND, fully-produced with full instrumentation, will come out on Easton’s own
Dinosaur Jr. have announced the reissue of their classic 1988 album Bug on cassette via Joyful Noise Recordings. Slated for release on June 21, the cassette reissue coincides with the
Legendary keyboardist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bernie Worrell will release a remarkable new album of jazz standards on June 7, 2011 on Scufflin’ Records. The album, titled
Minneapolis band Tapes ‘N Tapes may have just finished a nationwide tour in March, but the band is ready to continue to crisscross the country, playing songs from their most
Leftover Salmon are announcing four Northeast dates for fall 2011. This will be the band’s first tour through the region in 8 years. Founding members Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman
Forgive Chamberlin if their debut album seems to end too quickly. The band seems to be lacking in patience. They had only performed in front of friends before deciding to record an album and had only played a handful of shows in Vermont before going on a national tour with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Though the 9-track album is brief, Bitter Blood sounds like the painstaking work of a veteran band rather than an impromptu recording by new band-mates.
After the critical success of their first album, British quintet Foals are currently touring to promote their sophomore effort, Total Life Forever. The album marks a maturing from their relatively conventional sounding first album, Antidote, to a fully original collection of new compositions. While each song on the album has different textural and rhythmic qualities, lead singer Yannis Philippakis’ haunting voice and the tightness of the ensemble run throughout the entire album. Just as the band is about to enter into a conventional chord progression or time signature, they introduces a new sonic quality or feel that keeps the album fresh and impossible to turn off. Glide spoke with bassist Walter Gervers about “Total Life Forever” and Foal’s current tour.
The Graduation Ceremony grabs the listener from the start with its emotional immediacy, the flow from one beautifully-crafted song to the next. It doesn’t break new ground, specifically; long-time appreciators of Joseph Arthur will find much here reminiscent of past work. For example, the album’s second track bears beautiful memory (and nearly a guitar riff) of his earlier work “Honey and the Moon,” from Redemption’s Son; that song, by this writer’s ear, is a true gem of melodic, folk-inspired pop, and “Horses” successfully follows in its footsteps.
