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Open House Festival, have offered a free treat for your ears. A download of some great tracks from some of the artists performing at this years outstanding Indie Festival of the year in Belfast. They have offered this year on year and it only serves to highlight the talent that will be arrving and performing in Belfast next month! For those that want to enjoy the culture and luxury on …
Sufjan Stevens has released an 8-song, 60-minute EP for digital download via bandcamp. The EP titled All Delighted People will be available through itunes and amazon from Monday, but you can download. The EP, All Delighted People, is built around two different versions of Sufjan’s long-form epic ballad “All Delighted People,” a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon’s “Sounds of Silence.”
I first came across Matt Bauer in 2006 when he released an e.p. called Wasps and White Roses. It featured a neo-traditional version of Sea Lion Woman a traditional American folk song which hooked me. It led me on a bit of a musical journey which led to many other great artists including Alela Diane, Marie Sioux and Sam Amidon. I’ve been following and playing his music on Frukie since.
Swarming guitar fuzz, bass waves, Jana Hunter’s voice, and insistent drum throbs are the core components of Baltimore’s Lower Dens. Hunter, sometimes known for intimate, ghost-heavy weird-fi, is now writing and playing with a group that might get filed as new wave, or drone pop, or post-punk. With due deference to her solo work, we’re very glad.
I‘m going to leave it for Mumford and Sons to explain in their own words: Today, I will be sharing with you some wonderful news. But before that, I will be sharing with you my final woeful confession, Part III in the holy trinity of never-to-be-repeated tales of teen-angst. Technically, this series could have run to triple figures, but counsellors cost money kidz and mailerz don’t pay dem billz, so …
We seem to have trebled our listeners on our Frukie Channel in the last couple of days so I’ve had to add more listener slots. Which I’ve just done. You’ll need to open the listen links page and refresh it so the links update. The flash player won’t pick up the changes until tomorrow when Shoutcast update our links.
Hey Rosetta! recorded a session for La Blogotheque in San Francisco. In the words of Art Perez at La Blogotheque: I found myself having to give this band a chance. I needed to listen to something new. They were cunning and heart wrenching. Polite and angry. Happy and sad. Their lyrics were smart and their melodies were powerful. They weren’t just something “new” they were something “great”.
The cello extraordinaire Portland Cello Project, renowned for their incredible covers, made it into the Daytrotter studios at the weekend to record a session. They released a new album in July titled Thousand Words. It has to be said, that having listened to the set, they do create a lot of atmosphere covering a range of emotions although Sean Moeller at Daytrotter was certainly more disturbed by their set than …
It is fair to say that most people have struggled during this recession and we are no exception. We have therefore had to take some tough decisions. We have decided to stop the Roots Channel today due to lack of funds. We will however, continue with our Frukie Channel with a greater concentration and focus.