August 2010

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Open House Festival release free download

by Alex 20 August 2010 Downloads

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 [...]

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Sufjan Stevens releases a new Digital EP

by Alex 20 August 2010 Folk Music News

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 [...]

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Matt Bauer and Dana Falconberry release split single

by Alex 20 August 2010 Folk Music News

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, [...]

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Outer Circle: London Manchester Bristol

by Alex 19 August 2010 Folk Music News

Humble Soul has teamed up with London promoter Arctic Circle to assemble this mini album featuring exclusive tracks from the six artists involved in the first of a brand new concert series from Arctic Circle.

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Matthew and the Atlas @ Paradise, London

by Melanie McGovern 17 August 2010 Live Reviews

Playing to an intimate crowd of around 100 friends, family and loyal fans, who it seems front man Matthew Hegarty holds just as closely, so gracious were his thanks, Matthew & the Atlas played Paradise in Kensal Green.

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Introducing Lower Dens

by Alex 14 August 2010 Uncategorized

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 [...]

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James Blackshaw – All is Falling

by Alex 13 August 2010 Folk Music News

Released on August 23rd 2010 via Young God Records, All Is Falling was recorded, mixed and mastered by John Hannon and James Blackshaw at No Recording Studio, December 2009 – January 2010 and is his first foray into the realm of the electric 12 string guitar.

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Mumford and Sons – Announce US Tour

by Alex 12 August 2010 Folk Music News

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 [...]

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Mountain Man – Made the Harbor

by Melanie McGovern 11 August 2010 Folk Music Reviews

These three girls may appear the female counterpart to Robin Pecknold and Co. with their Appalachian revivalist vocals and hauntingly authentic folk, but there is something much stronger behind their whisperings. Mountain Man is comprised of Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath who, having met at Bennington College, Vermont, began a transformation into the sound [...]

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Plants and Animals @ The Windmill, Brixton

by Melanie McGovern 10 August 2010 Live Reviews

Canadian three-piece Plants and Animals indeed prove themselves to be chameleons of sorts in their ability to cross genres with little to no flicker of discomfort or hesitation. Melding post-punk, psychedelia, folk, and classic 70s rock; their compositions are as adaptable in style as the chameleon to his surroundings – and are commanded with a complete sense of authenticity. [...]

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Grinderman release Heathen Child Video

by Alex 10 August 2010 Video

Grinderman have just released the video for Heathen Child which is due for release on 6th September! Watch it now:

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Frukie in Demand

by Alex 10 August 2010 Site News

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 [...]

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Hey Rosetta! – Video Session

by Alex 10 August 2010 Video

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 [...]

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Portland Cello Project

by Alex 10 August 2010 Downloads

The cello extraordinaires Portland Cello Project, reknowned 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 [...]

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Roots Channel End

by Alex 9 August 2010 Folk Music News

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.

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Carina Round

by Alex 9 August 2010 Folk Music News

La Blogotheque have a great new session recorded with Carina Round. Her new EP Things You Should Know is out now.

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New Shaking Through Session – Springs

by Alex 9 August 2010 Downloads

Springs is the new brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Mike Visser. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa he spent 8 years in California playing with the band Frank Jordan and touring the United States. After that project dissipated, he bounced from Sacramento, CA to Shwanksville, PA before settling in Brooklyn and setting to work on new [...]

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Paleo – A View Of The Sky

by Alex 9 August 2010 Downloads

For the last 5 years, living in a car, booking his own shows, producing all his own music, Paleo has become something of a mantlepiece in the American house show circuit. His tour history is a database for kindred spirits: over 700 shows across the US, about 150 a year since 2005. Daytrotter’s Sean Moeller [...]

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