A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Big Ears Festival adds Silver Apples, Tyondai Braxton, Omar Souleyman, Ryley Walker, William Tyler & more to lineup
The lineup has been expanded for the 2015 Big Ears Festival, happening March 27-29 in Knoxville, TN. New additions include psych pioneers Silver Apples, former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton (performing HIVE), Syrian pop singer Omar Souleyman, folk singer Ryley Walker, guitar wiz William Tyler, modern classical collective Bing & Ruth, electronic/ambient musician Loscil, cabaret singer Little Annie, and Chinese composer Wu …
Cass McCombs, Darkside mems & more added to "Brooklyn Is Dead" ++ Mission Creek Festival lineup and more Dead news
As you may know, there’s no lack of events going on all over the country this year in celebration of The Grateful Dead‘s 50th anniversary…
A Winged Victory for the Sullen going on tour, appearing on Jon Hopkins' 'Late Night Tales' mix (dates, stream)
Ambient duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen (aka Stars of the Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and pianist/composer Dustin O’Halloran) released their sophomore album, Atomos, last year via Kranky, which ended up on a few year-end lists…
UK site Drowned in Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2014
UK music site Drowned in Sound is kinda the British equivalent of Pitchfork, albeit with a very strong community aspect to it. They just published their 50 Favourite Albums of 2014 list and while it contains many of the LPs we’ve been seeing on a lot of these lists, it’s a distinctly not-American point of view…
Restorations list their Top 10 Albums of 2014
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Philly rockers Restorations put out LP3 earlier this year on SideOneDummy. It’s an excellent record; one you’ll probably see on a handful of year-end lists this year thanks to its superior take on heartland/blue collar rock that rivals a lot of the stuff it was likely influenced by (Lucero, The Hold Steady, Hot Water Music, etc)…
Rough Trade's favorite albums of 2014
Rough Trade NYC on Record Store Day 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
As they usually are, Rough Trade Shops are one of the first this year to post their favorite albums of 2014 l…
Big Ears Festival 2015 initial linup & tix (Laurie Anderson, tUnE-yArDs, Swans, Perfume Genius, Grouper, and more)
Big Ears Festival will return to various Knoxville, TN venues in 2015 from March 27-29, and the initial lineup was just announced. Kronos Quartet will be the artists in residence for the weekend and perform at several co…
stream roundup: Johnny Marr, Vashti Bunyan, Stevie Nicks, Peaking Lights, Speedy Ortiz, Weezer, Rancid, more
Next week (October 7) is a pretty major album release week, which means a lot of major albums are streaming in full this week. We already posted full album streams from Zola Jesus, Godflesh, Iceage and Single Mothers, and here’s a roundup of some of the other anticipated records coming out this Tuesday…
Swans/Michael Gira curating 3-day program in Netherlands; Savages & Bo Ningen collaborating +++ 24 NON-STOP HOURS OF DRONE
Swans @ Lincoln Hall (more by Brigid Gallagher)
From the Very Interesting Press Release Department:Le Guess Who? Festival (The Netherlands) is extremely proud to announce two special projects for 2014: a 3-day program curated by Swans/Michael Gira, and the world premiere of 24-Hour Dronefest…
A Winged Victory for the Sullen scored 'Atomos' for Radiohead choreographer, schedule US dates, released new songs
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, the collaborative duo of Stars of the Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and pianist/composer Dustin O’Halloran, recently teamed up with choreographer Wayne McGregor (who is the resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet but was also behind Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower” video and Atoms for Peace’s “Ingenue” video) for his newest work, Atomos, which premiered in London this past October…
