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Show Preview: Matt Costa w/ Delta Spirit - Tue. June 3rd at The Parish 2008-06-02 15:41:46 Hot off signing to Rounder Records just last month, Delta
Spirit are swinging through Austin for, by my count, the third time in the past year. I saw them open for Dr. Dog last fall, and then again at SXSW somewhere amid another thousand bands. A certain folk soul drives the band, but it's dressed up in bin-loads of eclectic auxiliary percussion, lively piano and organ lines, and melancholy (and s Read more:Parish
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The Daily Dic / Show Preview: Shearwater - “Rooks” 2008-05-29 11:14:01 Rook is the record I've been listening to and enjoying, for a good while now. The album is the 5th from Shearwater, the band who I believe have finally shed their "Okkervil River Side Project" stigma. The band is headed up by Jonathan Meiburg (who I interviewed on Austin Sound earlier this week), who just left Okkervil River not too long ago, citing the increasing time commitments of Shearwater. N Read more:Daily
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The Daily Dic: Fleet Foxes - “White Winter Hymnal” 2008-05-27 10:39:37
It’s no secret that Fleet
Foxes have been jockeying for position against Vampire Weekend for “most blogged about in 2008.” While I’m starting to tire of reading about Vampire Weekend, I can’t really get enough of Fleet Foxes. They somehow feel more deserving of the constant praise. For those of you who don’t know much about The Fleet, I’ll give you the summary: Internet loved Read more:Daily
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The Daily Dic: The Gang - “Sea So” 2008-06-03 19:10:13 There were quite a few good releases today between Centro-matic, Shearwater and of course the new Weezer, which I picked up at Best Buy for 6 bucks. I figured, as long as I'm going to be buying something from Weezer, I may as well buy it at Best Buy for a ridiculously low price. It's appropriate, the price tag, given that a little less than half the album is good...
But something you may have mi Read more:Daily
The Daily Dic: Ladyhawk- “S.T.H.D” 2008-05-21 05:01:27 There are a lot of things going for Canada. Hockey, socialized healthcare, Crown Royal, and Evangeline Lilly. Oh, it also exports some of the best indie bands around. One such band that may have slipped through your ear-fingers is Vancouver’s Ladyhawk. Their self-titled debut released in 2006 was well received, but in a year full [...] Read more:Daily
The Daily Dic: Twin Tigers - “Red Fox Run” 2008-06-04 12:13:25 Twin Tigers
have been hunting me down, and I think they finally caught me. I saw their name mentioned somewhere on Yellow Stereo a couple of weeks ago, which I didn't read. Then I saw an NPR Second Stage podcast featuring the band, which I deleted. And then just a couple of days ago, a friend of mine actually mentioned them to me. Whoever's running their PR is doing a damn fine job of freaking me Read more:Daily
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The Daily Dic: Florence and the Machine - “Kiss with a Fist” 2008-06-05 23:40:52 I caught a few songs from Florence and the Machine
's set here at SXSW back in March, and while she was an artist I had always meant to check out, I never quite got around to it until now. She comes to us from England, the same label that brought us Sunny Day Sets Fire, I Am Sound Records. Their 7" debut single, featuring this song, "Kiss with a Fist," is out June 9th in the USA.
Florence is a bit Read more:Daily
The Daily Dic: Megapuss- “Crop Circle Jerk ‘94” 2008-06-16 19:21:05 You might see the name of the band and the title of the song and think that we’re pulling a fast one on you. I promise, this isn’t my friend’s band from sophomore year. Although we’re seriously posting the song, it’s possible that Devendra Banhart and Priestbird’s Greg Rogove are just messing with you. Technically, these two members haven’t been officially confirmed, nor has the natu Read more:Circle
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Show Preview: Aimee Mann with David Ford (Jun 17, 2008 at La Zona Rosa) 2008-06-17 11:00:40 Normally we wouldn't mention "Grammy Award Winning" when describing the kind of artists we like, but it looks like for once the Grammy's got it right when they handed one to Aimee
Mann. She'll be in town tonight at The Parish, supporting her new album @#%&*! Smilers, which might win our award for best album title of all time (we hate optimism here at Big Diction).
The album is interesting, a Read more:David
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The Daily Dic: The Lord Dog Bird - “The Gift Of Song In The Lion’s Den” 2008-06-18 13:37:58 There's something cathartic about this new track from The Lord Dog Bird, the side-project of Colin McCann (guitarist for Baltimore's Wilderness), which may or may not have to do with the low-fi recording ethic. Either way, it's got me extremely excited about his self-titled release, coming up in August on Jagjaguwar.
Now, it might be because I've listened to the new Shearwater album about 100 tim Read more:Daily
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