Lissie, “Little Lovin” MP3
Generally we shy away from the Appalachians—too hard to drive through. We’ve been convinced for a decade we’re gonna end up rolling backwards down the Penna Pike in our little clown car like the climax in a screwball comedy. Lissie, though, cuts through the neuroses and captures what makes the landscape beautiful: her spirit is all purple mountains majesty, pure and regal, a true Americana singer, conduit of the land. She sings about how she’s gonna get to heaven, then sounds uncertain if it’s true, but the richness of her voice never wavers.
Download: Lissie, “Little Lovin”
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Stream: Monsters of Folk’s Entire Album
- story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
- photo Gabrile Stabile (F63)
As we wrote in FADER #63, Monsters of Folk are more than a monster, they’re the definition of it—that is, a true-blue supergroup whose songs are so major they could swallow your whole life. The dreamy collective vision of Jim James, Mike Mogis, Conor Oberst and M. Ward is classic cornfields-and-AM radio road trip music, the kind of Americana that soundtracks your escape—from a city, from a stifling situation, from a relationship. The kind of wide open road music that inspires you to break out the El Camino (a custom Hybrid, of course) and go on a camping trip by yourself. The Monster bosses drop their record on September 22 but are streaming the entire album on their MySpace. For maximum effect it is recommended you arm yourself with a sleeping bag and a can of baked beans and curl up next to your computer whilst streaming. If you live in a metropolis, maybe open the window or something? They’re on tour for all of October and November, so check the dates, too.
Stream: Monsters of Folk, Monsters of Folk
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posted on Sep 15, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Conor Oberst, folk, M Ward, Mike Mogis, Monsters of Folk, rock
Schnipper’s Slept On
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Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Mariee Sioux’s Faces in the Rocks. Listen to “Friendbones” below, buy the album and read Schnipper’s thoughts on the record after the jump.
Freeload: F2 The New Folk Podcast
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Yesterday, we launched the New Folk edition of F2, our quarterly online only magazine powered by Timberland. Today we have the audio podcast to accompany the text. If you’ve been wondering what Phosphorescent sounds like or what a Larkin Grimm is, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO KNOW. Download it now and listen to the sweet sounds of Mariee Sioux, Quinn Walker, The Entrance Band and more. It’s the perfect soundtrack for your winter tapestry weaving project.
Tracklisting:
The Angels of Light, “Promise of Water”
Larkin Grimm, “Ride That Cyclone”
The Entrance Band, “Grim Reaper Blues”
Quinn Walker, “Wind Chimes”
Mariee Sioux, “Friendboats”
Phosphorescent, “Wolves”
Download: F2 The New Folk Podcast
Schnipper’s Slept On
- story THE FADER
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s a reissue and remix of Richie Havens “Going Back To My Roots”. Listen to “Back To My Roots,” buy an mp3 of the song and read Schnipper’s thoughts on the album after the jump.
Video: Bon Iver, “The Wolves (Act I & II)”
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Even though we’re finally approaching the tail end of winter, we still have a place in our hearts for Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, a pretty intimate album that we lived with in the months when it was too cold to do anything but like, listen to music in our socks and eat dark chocolate covered pretzels. Maybe we listened to it a lot because dude made solitary cold winters sound appealing, but either way it sorta makes us miss snow.
Video: Emily Jane White, “Dagger”
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Cam Archer, who directed the intensely bizarre and harsh and nice Emily Jane White song-featuring film Wild Tigers I Have Known has made a woozy video for her woozy song “Dagger.” It’s dark and sparse and slow and a gigantic .mov file that we have linked for you to look at until you go cross eyed and breath slow.
Video: Emily Jane White, “Wild Tigers I Have Known”
- story THE FADER
Much of this video is like looking in one of those red toy viewfinders and seeing snapshots of someone’s life. We can almost put ourselves in it, wearing a wool sweater and hugging a goat (?) Don’t hate! We’re all about the first image that pops in our minds when we hear a song. We write what we feel. For real though, this is a pretty great song—a melancholy night ender for long train rides or small town walks home.
The Church Of Joanna
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Our girl J-New’s fanbase is currently teetering above a chasm brimming with devotion and skeeviness. With Karen O and Nick Zinner watching from the balcony. If shit isn’t put in check soon we could end up with a Tori Amos situation on our hands. After the jump, a scene from the crowd at her sold-out show last night at the Troubadour in Hollywood.
Earnest Kid Vids
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We’ve been digging Martha’s Vineyard’s own Willy Mason for a couple months now (cop his EP for a fiver here), and now Headphone Sex points us in the direction of his UK-only video for “Oxygen”. There’s an easy yet resonant charm to it – as opposed to his homeboy Conor, who unfortunately lets down a great song in his sappy clip for “Lua”. As for “Oxygen” itself, well, wifey still brings it up over dinner when conversation turns to how to fix this country. Real talk.
