Explosions In The Sky
Fleet Foxes, Okkervil River, Neko Case, The Hold Steady, The Boy Least Likely To, Vetiver, The Horrors, Steve Earle, Efterklang, The Dodos, Shearwater, Alela Diane, Blitzen Trapper, Loney, Dear, Dirty Projectors, Malcolm Middleton, Peter Broderick, The Acorn, Magnolia Electric Co., The Tallest Man on Earth, J. Tillman, Brakes, Archie Bronson Outfit, Richmond Fontaine, The Heavy, The Broken Family Band, Laura Gibson, Alisdair Roberts, Au, Iain Archer, Holly Throsby, Lay Low, Tiny Vipers, Whispertown2000, William Elliott Whitmore, Ohbijou, First Aid Kit, David Thomas Broughton, Dan Sartain, The Week That Was, Herman Düne, Bob Log III, The Low Anthem, The Lost Brothers, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Bob Lind, Magic Arm, Wye Oak, Howlin Rain, Dent May, Darren Hayman, The Leisure Society, The Mummers, Sam Baker, Charlie Parr, soy un caballo, Motel Motel, Spokes, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, She Keeps Bees, twi the humble feather, Mumford And Sons, Chief, The Travelling Band, Joe Gideon And The Shark, Quack Quack, This Frontier Needs Heroes, Get The Blessing, Sparrow and the Workshop, Treecreeper, The Hand, Stars of Sunday League, Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards, Esben and The Witch, Bear Driver, The Sliding Rule, The Duke and The King, Zun Zun Egui, Huw M, Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo, The Telegrams, The Pack A.D., The Tenebrous Liar, and Jess Elva
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- Artists:
- The Low Anthem »
- Charlie Parr »
- soy un caballo »
- Motel Motel »
- Spokes »
- Stardeath and White Dwarfs »
- She Keeps Bees »
- twi the humble feather »
- Mumford And Sons »
- Sam Baker »
- The Mummers »
- The Leisure Society »
- The Lost Brothers »
- Wildbirds & Peacedrums »
- Bob Lind »
- Magic Arm »
- Wye Oak »
- Howlin Rain »
- Dent May »
- Darren Hayman »
- Chief »
- The Travelling Band »
- The Sliding Rule »
- The Duke and The King »
- Zun Zun Egui »
- Huw M »
- Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo »
- The Telegrams »
- The Pack A.D. »
- The Tenebrous Liar »
- Bear Driver »
- Esben and The Witch »
- Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards »
- Joe Gideon And The Shark »
- Quack Quack »
- This Frontier Needs Heroes »
- Get The Blessing »
- Sparrow and the Workshop »
- Treecreeper »
- The Hand »
- Stars of Sunday League »
- Jess Elva »
- Bob Log III »
- Explosions In The Sky »
- Alela Diane »
- Blitzen Trapper »
- Loney, Dear »
- Dirty Projectors »
- Malcolm Middleton »
- Peter Broderick »
- The Acorn »
- Magnolia Electric Co. »
- Shearwater »
- The Dodos »
- Efterklang »
- Fleet Foxes »
- Okkervil River »
- Neko Case »
- The Hold Steady »
- The Boy Least Likely To »
- Vetiver »
- The Horrors »
- Steve Earle »
- The Tallest Man on Earth »
- J. Tillman »
- Tiny Vipers »
- Whispertown2000 »
- William Elliott Whitmore »
- Ohbijou »
- First Aid Kit »
- David Thomas Broughton »
- Dan Sartain »
- The Week That Was »
- Lay Low »
- Holly Throsby »
- Iain Archer »
- Brakes »
- Archie Bronson Outfit »
- Richmond Fontaine »
- The Heavy »
- The Broken Family Band »
- Laura Gibson »
- Alisdair Roberts »
- Au »
- Herman Düne »
About the venue
About the artists
Explosions In The Sky
Chris Hrasky - drums
Michael James - bass
Munaf Rayani - guitar
Mark Smith - guitar
Born on the 4th July 1999 in Austin, Texas, EITS deal in immense instrumental guitar avalanches and have released four albums - How Strange, Innocence (2000), Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever (2001), The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place (2003) and All Of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone (2007).»
Okkervil River
Folksy quartet, headed by Will Sheff, official website HERE.
There's a massive, personalised biog at the band's website. Here's a wee taster:
"...And then came endless touring. I moved out of my house, we added the phenomenal Mr. Nelsen to the band permanently, and Okkervil left home. Forever. I became more and more of a stranger to the town I had loved. Visits to Austin shrunk down into a show, maybe a burger at Casino beforehand or a breakfast at Polvo's the next day if I was lucky, and a trip to my storage space to pay my always-delinquent rent in a handful of ones and inhale the odor of my possessions wafting out of the dark boxes..."
Some press blurb from a website that isn't this one:
"Okkervil River write dreamy songs with slumber-blurred stories and play them with a drifting, somnambulant gait." - Stephen Deusner, Pitchfork
Neko Case
Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter but lived so long in Canada than even Americans think she's Canadian.
She started her musical career in a punk-pop band called Maow but soon became one of the most-loved alt-country figures.
She frequently collaborates with Canadian musicians, including The New Pornographers, The Sadies and Carolyn Mark.
She has released :
The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady is: Craig Finn (vox), Tad Kubler (lead guitar), Franz Nicolay (keys and other sonic treats) Galen Polivka (bass) and Bobby Drake (drums) Website
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The Horrors
The Horrors are Southend-spawned but London-based goth-y-punks: a little Eighties Matchbox, a little Cramps. You get the deal, aye.
They are known as:
FARIS BADWAN - VOCALS
TOMETHY FURSE - DANELECTRO LONGHORN BASS
JOSHUA VON GRIMM - FENDER JAGUAR
COFFIN JOE - BANGS THE DRUMS
SPIDER WEBB - VOX CONTINENTAL ORGAN
Those aren't names!
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Steve Earle
"If I were a rockstar, I'd be Steve Earle." Michael Moore
At 51, Steve Earle has lived. Jailed, addicted, rejected, dropped, signed and in 2002 pissed off many an American with 'John Walker's Blues', a song told from the perspective of John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 as a Taliban fighter.
Steve Earle Official Site»
Efterklang
Efterklang is:
Mads Brauer - electronics
Casper Clausen - vocals/multi-instrumentalist
Rune Molgaard - piano
Thomas Husmer - drums/bass
Rasmus Stolberg - guitar/multi-instrumentalist
Efterklang's music defies easy categorisation. It's two parts Sigur Ros, one part Björk and a dozen dashes of Radiohead; it's serene and shocking, orchestral and experimental. All bets are off, but it's always beautiful.
The Dodos
The Dodos are Meric Long and Logan Kroeber.
"San Francisco-based singer/guitarist of psych-folk-pop duo Dodos hones the callings of free-spirited, unhinged acts like Animal Collective, the music he makes with drummer Logan Kroeber embodies a spirit of its own. Long's light, ephemeral finger play on the acoustic guitar is fast, warm and focused, resonating under his refined lyrical hopscotch... Add Kroeber's stomping tom-and-tambourine backbeat, which recalls the Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker, and that amounts to one shit-kicking good time."
Houston Press
Shearwater
You want bio, you click here and make the most sense you can of words.
(That's the band's website.)
Band features Will Sheff, also of Okkervil River. Last album, 2004's Winged Life, was highly acclaimed:
"Shearwater's third mixes country and pop, sadness and beauty, into one singularly enthralling whole."
Mojo
Alela Diane
From Alela Diane's website:
"I used to live in the crazy-land. Nevada City, California. It is real nice there. Lots of trees. A River. The family spirit. Beautiful creaters of craft and music. You see, I just left the cabin with crystals in the grout between the logs to move to this new place of city forest wandering: Portland, Oregon."
Said website is here.
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Loney, Dear
Loney, dear: Swedish DIY outfit or mathematical anomoly? A one-man band (i.e. Emil Svanängen) with eight members, making sweetly soulful indie folk.
Signed to Sub Pop in the States, and Regal in the UK (formerly on Something In Construction).
»Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors is the name Dave Longstreth chose after releasing his first album The Graceful Fallen Mango under his own name. Playing with Brian Mcomber (drums); Amber Coffman (singing, guitar) and Angel Deradoorian (singing, bass), he has released 4 albums The Glad Fact ( 2003 Western Vinyl ); slaves's graves of ballads ( 2003 Western Vinyl ); The Getty Address ( 2005 Western Vinyl )and Rise above ( 2007 dead oceans ) as well as an EP new attitude and an internet-only compilation of early works Morning Better Last!.
A creative artist, Dirty Projectors mixes classical orchestration with samples, electronic and strange vocals.
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Malcolm Middleton
Formerly of Arab Strap, Malcolm Middleton has, to date, released three solo albums of misery-tinged folk-pop with electro overtones.
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The Acorn
The Acorn is the project of Rolf Klausener and his musical compatriots. Anchored by vivid songwriting and eclectic instrumentation, The Acorn produce a unique brand of experimental, popular folk music that effortlessly marries modern and traditional forms. To check them out click to MySpace
»Magnolia Electric Co.
Jason Molina used to go it alone under the name Songs:Ohia, bringing in guest musicians as and when. With his new band Magnolia Electric Co, a regular line-up has been established.»
Brakes
Brighton's answer to Velvet Revolver, but without the cowboy boots and hairspray, Brakes are Tom and Alex White (Electric Soft Parade), Eamon (British Sea Power) and Marc Beatty (Tenderfoot). They are ace and so is their press release...
Brakes are like totally hot scenester hipster friendsters who like totally meet up to discuss punkin new hair moves, denim pocket designs and awesome postcodes. These guys are so totally bomb they'll make you shit out of your ass. They are so totally pimpin, so whatever dude, so go fuck yourself they could be zeitguests on the forum of rad. Buff? Uh! Touch yourself. This band is sick.»
Archie Bronson Outfit
South London 3-piece playing groove-based rock'n'roll. Signed to Domino in 2003. They have been known to play with a plastic goose onstage. Hmmm.»
Richmond Fontaine
It's clear from the parade of drunks, drifters and crooks that inhabit Vlautin's world that the spirits of Bukowski, Carver and Steinbeck flow through this album like cheap whisky. The album crackles with dust-blown trumpets and stark majestic arrangements. For all those still travelling Springsteen's Thunder Road, Richmond Fontaine are the new drivers.
Word
Some of the most emotionally sincere music around - aches beautifully with failure...
The Observer
The Broken Family Band
The Broken Family Band hail from Cambridge and include ex-members of Hofman and Gwei-lo. Their extended family includes people from The Folk Orchestra, The Be Good Tanyas live band, Magoo and others.
Recently signed to Snowstorm they play country-flavoured rock 'n roll and sound not unlike Pavement being buttfucked by the Anthology Of American Folk Music.»
Holly Throsby
"Beautiful, fragile... a real pleasure."
The Australian
"Lyrically way ahead of the pack... mournful in its celebration of a love ending..."
The Big Issue
More information available from Throsby's website, here.
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William Elliott Whitmore
Hailing from a horse farm along the banks of the might Mississippi River, William Elliott Whitmore has developed an intense love and spiritual understanding of the land, which he flawlessly conveys through song.
William relys mostly on basic instrumentation, allowing his vocal delivery to provide a true sense of rural being. It is heard in his stories: personal stories of death, love found and then lost, to never be found again.
"With a voice like a prison tattoo and a guitar that circles like a buzzard, the singer-songwriter easily clears his own patch of land in the crowded field Americana."
Victoria Segal, Q Magazine
Southern page
'Proper' website
David Thomas Broughton
Biog taken from label website
In this day and age, where an artist’s merit is often judged by a snippet of an MP3, David Thomas Broughton has created an anomaly- a work that deserves your undivided attention. Spreading 5 tracks across 40 minutes, Broughton develops his eerie folk songs into epic mantras on death, war, love, and sex.
Seeking to capture the controlled chaos of David’s live show, the album was recorded in one complete take in Wrangthorn Church, Leeds, England, with minimal tweaking and tampering in the subsequent mix. The result is a truthful representation of Broughton’s music, warts and all.
The church is as integral a part of the sound as any other instrument, making its presence known in subtle ways throughout the album. Its ghostly reverb creates a solemnity and sense of isolation, and when Broughton sings “My body rots while she is weeping/And I’ll remain forever sleeping,” one can easily envision him calling from beyond the grave. The pealing church bells at Wrangthorn also create a chance moment of beauty at the end of “Unmarked Grave,” unexpectedly becoming part of Broughton’s vocal loop.
The Complete Guide to Insufficieny is comparable to such forebears as John Fahey and Nick Drake, as well as contemporaries Antony and the Johnsons and Neutral Milk Hotel, but even these comparisons don’t fully convey the scope and beauty of Broughton’s sound.
Using simple tools- an acoustic guitar, some looping pedals, a cheap drum machine - Broughton has created a singular statement of purpose and artistic intent. Long after “freak-folk” is no longer a trend, listeners will still be pulling The Complete Guide to Insufficiency off the shelf.»
Dan Sartain
"The punk Elvis" says i-D magazine; "Storyteller supreme and master of illusion" comments NME.
DiS says: he good, go see.
»The Week That Was
Peter Brewis' post-Field Music incarnation; a psychological itch set to wax that's indebted to the likes of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Tin Drum-era Japan.
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Herman Düne
Paris-based Swedish brothers playing lovely Jonathan Richman/Dylan influenced folk-rock.»
Darren Hayman
Ex-Hefner, ex-French chap gone solo, sometimes appearing backed by his band The Secondary Modern.»
Mumford And Sons
Musically Mumford And Sons keep close to the roots of folk and bluegrass, but cleverly translate the songs into a wider world of the popular. Not in the throw away sense of the word, in the true sense of the word.
The band formed at the tail end of 2007, when Marcus Mumford met banjo player Winston Marshall at the infamous West London folkster hangout Bosun’s Locker on King’s Road. The pair discovered a shared joy of bluegrass and country music, and quickly added Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane into the cocktails that brings to life the lyrics Mumford had been penning.
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Joe Gideon And The Shark
Gideon plucks six strings, dreams stories and sings. Kid sister Viva Shark plonks, stomps and honks. They made two albums as Bikini Atoll released on Bella Union.
»Quack Quack
Leeds-based trio, making instrumental music that draws upon aspects of jazz and post-rock. Jaunty and jovial, yet deep and complex. »
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