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Lambchop

Mr. M

Mr. M started in a painter’s studio in fact. Wagner explains. “As I worked, I was approached by Mark Nevers (former full time band member & producer for the likes of Andrew Bird and Will Oldham) with the idea of making another Lambchop record. He had a concept of a sound and a method that worked with the tone of my writing. His idea was a kind of ‘psycho-Sinatra’ sound, one that  […] READ ON

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tindersticks

the something rain

"The Something Rain" is tindersticks ninth studio album and like its predecessors "The Hungry Saw" and "Falling Down A Mountain" it projects a bold spirit, something charged with what Uncut described as a "restored self-belief, again loving doing what they do and doing it better than anyone else”. Though within "The Something Rain" there is something else; the band, the ideas are formed - it  […] READ ON

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Tu Fawning

A Monument

TU FAWNING return this May with their sophomore release titled A Monument. A mere nine songs short, but enough time to confirm the suspicion raised by the band's debut album: can it be that this band sets itself apart from everything else out there right now? Yes, this is proof.

While the band keep their trademark sound in Corrina Repp's formidable voice, most gone are the swampy  […] READ ON

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Nada Surf

The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy

"Did you ever, as a kid, want to crawl into the speakers?" asks Nada Surf singer-guitarist Matthew Caws. "I did — here was OK, but there was much better." And that's pretty much what Nada Surf is all about — Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca, and drummer Ira Elliot are in love with the way rock music can transport you to a new and wonderful place in a beguiling rush of beats, chords, hooks and  […] READ ON

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Laura Gibson

La Grande

La Grande (pronounced in the way of the American West, without any hint of French inflection – “luh grand”) is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon where native Oregonian Laura Gibson found inspiration while writing the songs that would become her new album of the same name. Gibson describes La Grande as a place that “people usually pass through on their way  […] READ ON

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Dan Mangan

Oh Fortune

Once a mere fresh faced folk singer from Vancouver, Canada, Dan Mangan now stands at the world’s doorstep. The evolution of Mangan’s music is instinctively in line with its breadth and sincerity. As his art has developed, so has the story behind its constant and exponential proliferation. The proof is in the countless European jaunts. U.S. tours with The Walkmen, Decemberists and Okkervil  […] READ ON

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Lambchop

Gone Tomorrow

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WATERS

Take Me Out To The Coast (Live From Tiny Telephone)

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Nada Surf

The Second Best Band In The World

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Dan Mangan

Dan Mangan - Rows of Houses (live an acoustic @ Pocket Concerts)

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Alexi Murdoch

Crinan Wood

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WATERS

O Holy Break Of Day (Live)

WATERS play 'O Holy Break Of Day' live at Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin.