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Florence & the Machine @ Voodoo (more by Alysse Gafkjen)
Florence and the Machine

Florence & the Machine will keep busy on their trip to NYC this month. In addition to the previously announced 12/14 RXP Irving Plaza show, they'll play a (private?) SPIN party at Don Hill's with Surfer Blood on 12/15, and a "Live on Letterman" webcast at Ed Sullvan Theater on 12/16 (8:00 PM, ET/5:00 PM, PT). The "Live on Letterman" show will take place right after Florence tapes a regular appearance on Letterman which will broadcast that night. You'll be able to watch it online, OR....

Want to go to the Live On Letterman show to watch it in person? I have 25 pairs of tickets to give away to the show. Details on how to win are below.

In Florence release news, you can now buy her "Live From SoHo" session recorded at the SoHo Apple Store, and the vinyl of a session she recorded in 2009 for KCRW.

Contest details below...

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posted at 2:44 PM on December 7, 2010 in Contests | music | tour dates | Comments (54)

Timber Timbre s/t album cover

Timber Timbre, the project of Torontonian Taylor Kirk, released their third album and US debut, a self-titled release on Arts & Crafts in June. The band was on the label's CMJ showcase at Union Pool on October 22nd along with labelmates Still Life Still (who just announced a tour with Wild Beasts), Zeus and others.

They play live as a trio, with Kirk's guitar, kick drum and M. Ward-style vocals boosted by violin and lap steel. Their current tour comes to NYC's Joe's Pub on Friday, November 20th (tickets are on sale). One day later they head upstate for a show in Alfred before making it back into Canada for a gig in Montreal.

Timber Timbre played KRCW in Santa Monica, CA, just before Halloween. A video of that appearance with other videos all tour dates below...

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posted at 2:29 PM on November 17, 2009 in music | tour dates | Comments (3)

photos by Jacob Blickenstaff

PJ Harvey

"PJ Harvey's previous album with John Parish was 1998's Dance Hall at Louise Point, but the 12-year wait was worth it. Harvey's brutal doctrine - that nothing should sound like anything either of them has done before - has produced a thrilling, boundless work. The songs are riots of changing themes and multiple musical personalities. Black Hearted Love, in which Parish's granite riff fuels one of Harvey's best ever rockers, finds two lovers frolicking in the abyss, while Pointless, Passionless chillingly catalogues a stone-cold relationship. April, with its snail's pace, is plaintive and purifying. Harvey's vocals range from animalistic shrieks to haunted narratives, as she depicts everything from the gleeful humiliation of a cuckold ("lily-livered balls!") to the days that follow a death. It all hangs together brilliantly, suggesting the mutual understanding of two artists at the peak of their powers." [Guardian]

PJ Harvey and John Parish have now finished up a short U.S. tour that included a stop at SXSW (pic, setlist), a stop on Leno (Hulu video), a visit to KCRW (video), a show in LA (setlist below), and a show at Irving Plaza in NYC last night (3/26). More pictures from that last one, below...

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posted at 10:55 AM on March 27, 2009 in music | pictures | Comments (85)

by Andrew Frisicano

DOWNLOAD: Juana Molina - "Un día" (MP3)

Juana Molina @ Prospect Park in July (more by Chris La Putt)

For the uninitiated, Juana Molina grew up in Argentina and was exiled to Paris with her family at the age of 12. Her father is THE coolest of cool old school Tango singers and her mother, an actress. Juana herself spent many years as a comedic TV star in South America, but made a complete break with acting at the height of her fame to return to music (a move that, which must be noted, was met with nothing short of hostility back home).

Juana Molina will play a Wordless Music series show tonight (2/27) at (Le) Poisson Rouge in NYC, with composer Lukas Ligeti (yes, son of György). Tickets are still on sale. Molina, who sings in Spanish, embelishes the trancelike elements of language in electronic/acoustic compositions that are equal parts hypnotic and melodic.

Last week, Molina stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic on Santa Monica's KCRW for a live set and extended conversation. Molina, who played Prospect Park with Feist last summer, released her fifth full-length, Un Dia, in October on Domino Records. You can download one track off that album above.

All tour dates and a video below...

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posted at 12:35 PM on February 27, 2009 in MP3 | music | tour dates | Comments (5)

Jason Bently

Jason Bentley's Top 10 of 2008

1. M83 - Saturday's = Youth (Mute)
2. Santogold - Santogold (Downtown)
3. Jamie Lidell - Jim (Warp Records)
4. Adele - 19 (XL Recordings/Colombia)
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings)
6. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
7. Little Dragon - Little Dragon (Peacefrog)
8. The Black Ghosts - The Black Ghosts (IAMSOUND Records)
9. Portishead - Third (Mercury Records)
10. Jazzanova - Of All the Things (Verve)

Jason Bentley took over as music director, and as host of Morning Becomes Eclectic, at KCRW since Nic Harcourt left. Compare his list to Nic's. Compare his list to the list made by the maker of his favorite album.

posted at 6:17 PM on December 11, 2008 in music | radio | Comments (17)

Adele

Nic Harcourt's Top Ten Albums of 2008

1. Adele - 19 (XL Recordings/Colombia)
2. Mates Of State - Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)
3. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (Capitol)
4. Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (Columbia)
5. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (Warner Bros)
6. The Broken West - Now or Heaven (Merge)
7.Dandy Warhols - Earth to the Dandy Warhols (World's Fair)
8. Duffy - Rockferry (Mercury)
9. Tilly and The Wall - o (Team Love Records)
10.Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini (Rough Trade)

That kind of scary list is via KCRW WHERE NIC (mostly) NO LONGER WORKS...

Los Angeles, Calif., (December 10, 2008) - LA, Los Angeles Times Magazine today announced the selection of Nic Harcourt as Editor at Large, Music & Culture. Beginning February 8, 2009, in LA's January/February double Oscar issue, Harcourt will contribute a monthly column inspired by his love of music and the culture of Southern California.

Harcourt has been hailed as the most influential DJ in America and ultimate music tastemaker because of his uncanny ability to forecast trends and identify emerging talent. His innovative approach will now provide LA readers with unparalleled insight into the always evolving music and culture hemisphere through his monthly "Listen Up" columns, which will feature a hand-selected playlist, his picks for upcoming local concerts, shows and/or events and Q&As with emerging artists...

It was announced only a day or two earlier that the LA Times' parent company, Tribune Co, went bankrupt.

Adele was on Jimmy Kimmel (in LA) last night. Video below...

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posted at 1:10 PM on December 11, 2008 in music | video | Comments (24)

KCRW's Sounds Eclectic: The Next One collects in-studio performances from the station's Morning Becomes Eclectic program, and offers a diverse range of artists (from Oliver Future to the Shins). Co-produced by Morning Becomes Eclectic host Nic Harcourt (one of the inspirations behind Largehearted Boy), the disc serves as a fundraiser for the station. I cannot recommend KCRW's Sounds Eclectic: The Next One enough, it is quality music that supports a great cause. The compilation's track list:

1. 'Falling Slowly' - The Swell Season
2. 'Heart it Races' - Architecture in Helsinki
3. 'Australia' - The Shins
4. 'Until You Leave' - Stoney
5. 'You're A Wolf' - Sea Wolf
6. 'Home' - Great Northern
7. 'I Summon You' - Spoon
8. 'Fruit Machine' - Ting Tings
9. 'What's a Girl to Do' - Bat for Lashes
10. 'Stranger Than the Stranger' - Oliver Future
11. 'Time Bomb' - Goldspot
12. 'Life is Still Beautiful' - The Orange Lights

For a holiday weekend in the US, the music release list is pretty hefty. Of the remaining new releases I can recommend Apollo Sunshine's Shall Noise Upon (out on CD this week), Birdmonster's sophomore effort From the Mountain to the Sea, Giant Sand's ProVISIONS, Sonya Kitchell's This Storm, and TK Webb & the Visions: Ancestor.

I haven't heard Southside Johny & La Bamba's Big Band's, Grapefruit Moon: The Songs Of Tom Waits, but it looks like one of the year's most promising covers albums.

The highlight of the week's remasters are five Radiohead import limited edition vinyl reissues: Amnesiac, The Bends, Hail to the Thief, OK Computer, and Pablo Honey.

Dean & Britta's L'Avventura is also reissued this week with bonus tracks.

What new music releases can you recommend this week?

Continue reading "Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week"

posted at 4:44 PM on September 2, 2008 in music | new releases | Comments (2)

Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear performed live on KCRW yesterday. Listen to the entire set, and check out the video of them playing a new song below....

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posted at 12:42 PM on February 28, 2008 in music | video | Comments (15)

Nic Harcourt

1) Jesca Hoop - Kismet (Columbia)
2) Ting Tings - Demos (Self-Released)
3) Salt & Samovar - Old Joy, New Joy (Self-Released)
4) Radiohead - In Rainbows (Radiohead.com)
5) Aqualung - Memory Man (Columbia)
6) Seawolf - Leaves In the River (Dangerbird Records)
7) Great Northern - Trading Twilight for Daylight (Eenie Meenie)
8) LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (EMI)
9) Federico Aubele - Panamericana (ESL)
10) Once - Original Soundtrack (Sony)