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The War On Drugs are excited to share the brand new video for “Brothers,” one of the many highlights off their stellar Slave Ambient. Following the more kaleidoscopic videos for “Baby Missiles” and “Come to the City,” the “Brothers” video, which premiered this morning via New York Magazine’s Vulture, definitely takes a different approach with [...]
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iamnotjerry photo contributor, Ian Rawn, has posted 2011- The Year in Pictures on PLAYINDEAD.ORG
Space Rock
This is the 11th release by the completely improvised space rock band from the Oresund region in Scandinavia. The band is mainly made up of members from Copenhagen, Denmark and the Malmö, Sweden area. This is the last of the material from the October 2008 studio session that gave us the Dead Man in Space [...]
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Graveyard – Hisingen Blues. It seems that some newer bands with an older sound are trying to keep things simple with their names. Two that come to mind are Ghost and The Sword. They both have a very throwback sound to them, almost giving them a 70′s hard rock sound. Graveyard falls in to the [...]
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The Civil Wars memorized the audience at a sold out show in The Brown Theater Friday evening. The duo of Joy Williams and John Paul White entertained mostly with only their amazing vocals and White’s guitar. Williams spend a handful of songs on the keyboards but this show was all about mixing two incredible voices sharing leads [...]
Psychedelic
Thanks to Premier Guitar : I love it when synergies between old and new technologies yield cool discoveries. Take, for instance, my delight when I was driving home one night recently and heard a rippingly badass tune on the local NPR affiliate. It began with Native American-like hand drums running through a filter th at made them sound [...]
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Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival Announces Additional Artists Featuring: The Magnetic Fields, David Cross, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, William Elliott Whitmore, Justin Townes Earle, Tim Hecker, Black Milk, Sharon Van Etten, Bowerbirds, and many more. The Mission Creek Festival makes its second announcement of artists for this year’s festival. The new acts scheduled to [...]
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Bloodshot Records is extremely pleased to announce the signing of Mississippi-bred, Tennessee-based songwriter Cory Branan. We’ve had our eye on Cory for just about as long as he’s been honing his air-tight, clever version of the perfect storysong. For those who don’t know him, though, Branan is the owner of two well-crafted, kinetically charged albums [...]
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Bonamassa Shocks Music Industry Sells out 2 nights at Legendary Beacon Theater in New York City November 7, 2011- Award-winning blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Joe Bonamassa kicked-off his 2011 U.S. Fall Tour on October 25, 2011. On his tour, Bonamassa has performed to sold-out crowds in Minneapolis’s State Theater, Detroit’s Fox Theater, Chicago Theater, Boston’s Wang Theater [...]
Deer Tick
Deer Tick : John McCauley – guitar, vocals Ian O’Neil – guitar, vocals Chris Ryan – bass, vocals Rob Crowell – keys, saxophone, vocals Dennis Ryan – drums, vocals Guards:
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The Englert Theatre is excited to announce the first batch of shows for the Spring Season.Febuary 3 & 4: The Second City February 13: Zoe Keating February 16: Gaelic Storm February 17: The Capitol Steps March 8: Hot Tuna – featuring Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson AirplaneThe Spring Season schedule features both new [...]
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Trombone Shorty The Englert Theatre 10-22-11 Lubriphonic Opened
The War On Drugs are excited to share the brand new video for “Brothers,” one of the many highlights off their stellar Slave Ambient. Following the more kaleidoscopic videos for “Baby Missiles” and “Come to the City,” the “Brothers” video, which premiered this morning via New York Magazine’s Vulture, definitely takes a different approach with [...]
iamnotjerry photo contributor, Ian Rawn, has posted 2011- The Year in Pictures on PLAYINDEAD.ORG
This is the 11th release by the completely improvised space rock band from the Oresund region in Scandinavia. The band is mainly made up of members from Copenhagen, Denmark and the Malmö, Sweden area. This is the last of the material from the October 2008 studio session that gave us the Dead Man in Space [...]
Graveyard – Hisingen Blues. It seems that some newer bands with an older sound are trying to keep things simple with their names. Two that come to mind are Ghost and The Sword. They both have a very throwback sound to them, almost giving them a 70′s hard rock sound. Graveyard falls in to the [...]
All in all, The Whole Love is Wilco’s finest effort in some time. While the previous two albums did range from good-to-great they didn’t quite pack the punch that made albums like Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and even A Ghost is Born so memorable. The Whole Love finds them returning to some of their roots [...]
The Civil Wars memorized the audience at a sold out show in The Brown Theater Friday evening. The duo of Joy Williams and John Paul White entertained mostly with only their amazing vocals and White’s guitar. Williams spend a handful of songs on the keyboards but this show was all about mixing two incredible voices sharing leads [...]