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TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD Although Portland-based sextet Blitzen Trapper have been around since 2000, it wasn’t until their 2007 signing with Sub Pop that they started to receive real, substantial and much-deserved critical acclaim.  They’d long been a Pitchfork favorite, but their 2008 release, “Furr“, a wonderfully-crafted, folky [...]

TweetShare Piers Faccini was an accidental discovery for me. Invited to a night of music and poetry by a good friend with a lineup that was a mystery to both of us, the handsome looking and sounding folk-poet took us completely by surprise, first silencing the nattering crowd with an unannounced blast of Gaelic song [...]

TweetShare Chicago, Boston, Europe … You could be forgiven for thinking that Netherlands might be, you know, Dutch. They’re not, though. They’re roughly as Dutch as I am – in name only. Did you know the name Rutherford was originally Dutch? Did you care? Anyway, the point is that Netherlands are from Southampton, are now based [...]

TweetShare Saintseneca are probably Columbus, Ohio’s best kept secret, having floated under the radar for a few years now impressing people one house-show at a time.  They released their debut album “Last” a few weeks ago and I can only attempt to put into words how great it is to finally be able to put [...]

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TweetShare Since it’s Megafaun I’m willing to just skip over how much this song sounds like Neil Young’s “Cortez The Killer.” Former/occasional Justin Vernon bandmates continue pushing their sound forward and making enjoyable music. Their self-titled album will be out in three weeks and I find myself wondering how much the rest of the tracks [...]

TweetShare Conrad Plymouth just put out an EP, “Comrade Plymouth,” made up of B-sides from the upcoming full-length full-band album which is yet to have a title. With the promise of a more rounded sound in the works I’m enjoying this all the more. I find Christopher Porterfield to be one of the stronger solo [...]

TweetShare Listening to a Beirut album is like looking at a sepia-toned photograph. Both seem so far removed from everyday life that they appear otherworldly. Even when they bring out synthesizers on their latest album, “The Rip Tide”, Beirut still portray themselves as if they would be better suited living in 1920’s Paris (front man [...]

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TweetShare Music quiz time! I’m thinking of an artist. They’re a folk artist – think great melodies, close vocal harmonies, and needless to say some good ol’ finger-picked guitar. Here’s the clincher: they’re not from Portland, Oregon, but they have relocated there. Who am I thinking of? I guess I’m hoping your response was Fleet [...]

TweetShare Up until now nobody knew what this was, other than some kinda of collaboration between Bon Iver and James Blake after Blake threw out a tweet saying about that much, oh, and that it was going down today. It could’ve just been that today they were doing the collab, or that today they were [...]

TweetShare Our first taste of the Glyn Johns produced “Ashes And Fire” (Oct 11) is delicious. This song first leaked after an impromptu show back in May but now we finally have a chance to see how  “Lucky Now” has  developed. This is Ryan Adams in his finest form and just from the leaks I’m wholeheartedly [...]

TweetShare Blitzen Trapper‘s new album “American Goldwing” is set to come out on September 13 and Subpop has released these two tracks a few weeks early to get us excited. My immediate reaction after listening is that they have reached the point where they are choosing to make more of a push towards the mainstream market and [...]

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