Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too.
Hailing from the Kent region just outside of bustling LondonWill Joseph Cook lays it on the line bare and beautiful. His song Message is an open-hearted foray into introspection and a willingness to chase a dream or two.
This track is lifted from Mr. Cook’s new EP You Jump I Run, which you most assuredly can Pre-Order right here, right now. The You Jump I Run EP drops April 21st. Peace.
Artist: Will Joseph Cook
Release: You Jump I Run EP
Featured Track: Message
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Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir manages to pack a whole lot of velutinous artistry into a song thus enabling the lyrics and music to become one and the same. Check out his cover of Wrecking Ball, it transcends sticky Pop-culture and elevates unnaturally and will have you saying Miley who?
On the track King And Cross one is spirited away upon such magical bounty it is nigh impossible not to press repeat. Continue reading “Ásgeir | king and cross”
Saintseneca is led by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little who originally hails from rural Appalachia. The band evolved playing acoustic performances alongside an array of electrified punk and hardcore bands at DIY house shows. On their upcoming record they combine a wide range of acoustic instrumentation with synthesizers and electric guitars to create a seamless blend of soaring vocals and vibrant post-punk energy. Check out their live performance of Happy Alone courtesy of Bad Racket. And look for their forthcoming Dark Arc release out April 1st via Anti, Inc. Pre-order on iTunes. Upcoming tour dates after the jump. Peace. Continue reading “saintseneca | happy alone | video | tour dates”
T. Hardy Morris is honored to have R.E.M. debut the latest video from the “Audition Tapes From Places in Peril” series on their site R.E.M. HQ. The take away video for “Share The Needle”, off the Athens, GA based musician’s debut solo album Audition Tapes, was filmed at Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden. The unique and historic site is one of the Georgia Trust’s “Places in Peril”, and the same location where R.E.M. filmed their iconic video for “Radio Free Europe.”
On August 16th T. Hardy Morris will host a special screening at Ciné in Athens, GA to showcase the “Audition Tapes From Places in Peril” video series in full, with proceeds going to support the Georgia Trust. For the series Morris and filmmaker/photographer Jason Thrasher traveled to 10 historic sites throughout Georgia to film live performance “take away” videos of each song on Audition Tapes. All of these sites have been chosen for the “Places In Peril” list, published annually by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation to draw attention to historic sites threatened by demolition and neglect (Learn more). Peace. Continue reading “t. hardy morris // share the needle”
Baptist Generals begin their latest album Jackleg Devotional to the Heart with a star bursting cacophony of sound, imagine an aorta rupturing and your close. Machine En Prolepsis is not only a harbinger for the ensuing eleven songs, it is also a green light and it signals the lurching locomotive that this album is, forward and forever on upon rusted, misaligned tracks. The music is smart and painfully honest twangly-soul-folk and it sounds even better with the non-sobriety of late night musings.
The Denton, Texas-based Baptist Generals make the kind of music you want when you graduate from the top 40 folk acts and you’re ready to sink your teeth (and ears) into the raw meat of a damaged, limping, yet hopeful heart. This is pulsing bass lines and a palpitating drum kit, and lopsided ambient spirit noise threading through Chris Flemmons’ spit-grimed and soul fractured voice.
Singer/Songwriter Chris Flemmons describes this release as his “love album”, yet it rings of the unrequited variety rather than the reciprocal arrangement we all seek. Embedded throughout are sporadic rants and woeful sidesteps, instances of what sound like an avalanche of colliding instruments, perhaps a chipped scalpel and bent forceps commingling restlessly with twisted guitar strings choking and gurgling inside a semi-drunken voice-box.
This is an album of blue painted hurt, it is desperately beautiful. But finally the Jackleg Devotional to the Heart is a shrouded opportunity, it is the mask you wear when you don’t want to pretend that everything is alright. So, buy the ticket for the train is coming round the bend. Peace.
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The folk-rock genre keeps expanding and my ears are taking on the supple characteristics of a contortionist just to accommodate them all. Allow me introduce South London banjo-wielding and finger-pickin’ band The Melodic, and like their name indicates good sounds abound. The band releases it’s debut On My Way EP on June 25th via Anti Records.
If you haven’t heard of the southeastern seven-piece folk band The Last Bison then you probably will (by virtue of reading this I guess you have). The band falls into the exploding genre made accessible and cool by such acts as Fleet Foxes and Mumford & Sons. It’s not that their music is trendy so it’s ok to like them. Not even close, The Last Bison’s music is good that’s why you’ll like them, regardless of any proscribed mass quasi-hip appeal. I’m not that type of fickle reviewer and you know it. After the jump listen to “Switzerland” and “The Woodcutter’s Son” and luxuriate in the good stuff. Peace. Continue reading “the last bison // switzerland”
vaudeville tinged folk rocker he’s my brother, she’s my sister are just as easy on the ears as the soft soughing of autumnal winds through denuded branches. the recently signed to park the van records band have a sound both unfamiliar and refreshing. listen to the track, “can’t see the stars” and get a dose of what is working so well for this group. peace. Continue reading “he’s my brother, she’s my sister // can’t see the stars”
The artist known only as Meiko has a little big song titled “Leaves The Lights On” and it’s been remixed into a sleeker and slinkier affair by none other than The Crystal Method. However, and not keeping with the song’s theme I think it is apt to keep this song playing with the lights off and do your own version of dirty dancing with some lucky someone. “Leave the Lights On” from Meiko‘s forthcoming album The Bright Side scheduled to drop May 15th. Peace. Continue reading “Meiko // Leave The Lights On (The Crystal Method Remix)”
When it comes to music you can’t fool the ears. They recognize good music when they hear it. The ears bypass the brain and communicate directly with the heart; and together they listen. Each passing the music between them like a shared bottle of the finest ambrosia. Each shedding tears of joy at the sad beauty of it all. Jake Mattison creates music destined to be concealed in the eardrum and lodged permanently in the hallowed chambers of one’s cor caroli; the brightest star in your body’s constellation. Listen to “To The Old House (You Return) and “Sorrow” and know beauty delivered on the fragile wings of song. Despite pain, setbacks and whatever else life has thrown at you. Jake Mattison grabs his guitar, opens his mouth and settles the troubled waters around us. Thus buoying our forbearance and steeling our nerves to breathe the deep breath of hope. His music allows us to swim to safety, giving us resolve. Enough to at least seek peace and approach respite, with our ears attentively cocked and listening, asking nothing more. Peace. Continue reading “Jake Mattison // To The Old House (You Return) Our Sunday Best”