Laura Marling

Laura Marling, Hamilton Leithauser & Matthew E White @ House of Vans at Mohawk (SXSX pics)

Matthew E White brought back a rock focus with his mellow brand of soulful indie. As Michael Hann wrote when picturing the process that went into creating White’s last album: “Once someone starts rolling out the la-la-la-la-la codas, you suspect they’re picturing twilight festival crowds swaying in unison…

Outside Lands 2015 lineup

Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly and Starr Hill, in a partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, have announced lineup for the eighth annual Outside Lands Festival…

Laura Marling streaming new album, adds summer North American tour dates, including NYC

Laura Marling‘s new album Short Movie comes out on Ribbon Music next week (3/24) but she’s now streaming the entire thing at NPR. Like the early singles hinted, Laura goes electric and has bigger arrangements on this one, but her roots show plenty of the time …

Villagers releasing home-recorded third album, playing Union Pool after Laura Marling show (dates, song streams)

Folk singer Conor O’Brien is releasing the third Villagers album, Darling Arithmetic, on April 13 via Domino. He recorded and produced the album himself in his home, and the two songs that are out now, “Courage” and “Hot Scary Summer,” certainly have the intimacy of a home-recorded al…

House of Vans at Mohawk 2015 SXSW lineups (The Damned, METZ, Angel Olsen, Laura Marling, Future Islands & more)

We already posted the Pitchfork parties happening at House of Vans at The Mohawk for SXSW 2015 today, and now here’s most of the rest House of Vans’ lineup for the whole w…

Sun Kil Moon, Laura Marling, more on Led Zeppelin 'Physical Graffiti' tribute (listen)

This week, Led Zeppelin will continue their reissue campaign with a release of the 40th anniversary reissue of Physical Graffiti. Also in honor of that anniversary, MOJO is releasing a tribute compilation to the album with their April issue, featuring noted Zeppelin fan Sun KIl Moon, Laura Marling, Hiss Golden Messenger, White Denim, Michael Kiwanuka, Rose Windows, Syd Arthur and m…

Laura Marling releasing 'Short Movie,' playing NYC with Villagers after SXSW (dates, videos)

British folk singer Laura Marling is set to release her fifth album, Short Movie, on March 24 via Ribbon Music, and so far she’s put out two songs from it…

Laura Marling, Natalie Merchant, Felice Brothers, Jonathan Wilson, Lone Bellow added to Conor Oberst holiday show

Laura Marling at Roulette in 2013 (more by PSquared) As discussed, Conor Oberst & friends are playing this year’s WFUV Holiday Cheer Benefit at NYC’s Beacon Theatre on Decembe…

The Guardian's 40 Best Albums of 2013

British newspaper The Guardian just finished publishing its Best Albums of 2013 list, after having rolled it out over the past couple weeks…

NPR Music list their 50 favorite albums of 2013

NPR Music posted their 50 Favorite Albums of 2013, and as usual it included a lot of classical, jazz, world music, but also many of the indie/pop/rap/metal that shows up on these lists like Bill Callahan, Blood Orange, Chance the Rapper, Deafheaven, Flaming Lips, Haim, James Blake, Kanye West, Laura Marling, Run the Jewels, Sky Ferreira, Waxahatchee and more…
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