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Music Review: ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - So Divided (Bl...
For those of you who don't know the story, the mighty Trail of Dead almost went through a breakup after the disappointing response to their last album, the ambitious Worlds Apart , but instead, went into the studio to try and capture some magic and put out a quick EP, which ended up being this highly underrated full-length album. It is a hauntingly familiar LP that will grow on you if you ...
Band's new CD may leave you feeling 'So Divided' (Eagle-Tribune Online)
The band And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, straight out of Austin, Texas, has a new album, "So Divided." You may not have heard of Trail of Dead, but I will be the first one to tell you that this band is on the cutting edge and will undoubtedly be a big success in the future.
Shock, awe? Band names are a lot like brand names (Seattle Times)
What's really in a band's name? Recognition. Laughs. Scorn. Repulsion. A reaction. A band just wants notice. And its name can make for a...
Long List For Short List Annoucned (CMJ)
Sixty-one artists have been chosen as possible contenders for this year's Shortlist Music Prize.
RECENT ITEMS (Filter Magazine)
The list will be pared down to ten finalists next month, and the winner will be announced later in the spring. Any album released in the US in 2006 was eligible for nomination, so long as it had not been certified gold for domestic sales of 500,000 units.
Band's name: Ticket to ride, or journey to nowhere? (Inside Bay Area)
WHAT'S really in a band's name? Recognition. Laughs. Scorn. Repulsion. A reaction. A band just wants notice. And its name can make for a powerful first impression ? good or bad.
Sufjan, Franz, Coyne Pick Noms for Shortlist Prize (Pitchfork)
In brief, a short-lived New Pantheon Prize was established by one of the Shortlist founders. It went to Sufjan Stevens , but following some legal dealings we won't bore you by explaining here, the New Pantheon went kaput and Stevens is now considered the winner of the 2005 Shortlist Prize.
Concert Violinist Plays Indie-Rock Gigs (NPR)
Weekend Edition Sunday , March 4, 2007 Violinist Hilary Hahn is just as comfortable performing in a strapless gown at Carnegie Hall as she is wearing jeans at a rock club.
Hilary Hahn to play Sibelius Violin Concerto with Utah Symphony (The Salt Lak...
Hilary Hahn returns to Abravanel Hall this week to play the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Utah Symphony. Hahn, who entered Philadelphia's prestigious Curtis Institute of Music at age 10, made her Utah Symphony debut on New Year's Eve 1992, when she was 13. Since then, Hahn has won a Grammy for her recording of the Brahms and Stravinsky violin concertos, been a guest on "Mister Rogers' ...
Music Review: Don DiLego - Photographs Of 1971 (Blogcritics.org)
"I kinda have a 'thing' for the art of the 70s," Don DiLego writes in the liner notes to his third album, Photographs Of 1971 . "There was a particular sense of style and rhythm in what we saw on the movie screen and in still photographs." DiLego's affinity for that much-maligned decade doesn't stop there. With its compressed acoustic guitars and flat snare drum sound, Photographs Of ...