Laura Marling

NME names its Top 50 LPs & tracks of 2013 (guess who's #1?)

UK music weekly NME has just published its end-of-year issue, with their Top 50 LPs and Tracks of 2013. As for the albums list, we’ll let you read on to find out what their #1 pick is, but it might just be the one NME called “absolutely and unarguably the most incredible album of career” and “the greatest record of the last dec…

Rolling Stone lists Top 50 LPs of 2013

Vampire Weekend @ Roseland in April (more by Robert Altman) The Monday after Thanksgiving Weekend is looking to be Official Year-End List Day, as we’ve already got SPIN, and Paste, (plus ones from UK mags  Q and Mojo) and now here’s the one from elder rock statesman Rolling Stone, who have Vampire Weekend‘s Modern Vampires of the City in the top spot, with Kanye West‘s Yeezus at #2…

SPIN's top 50 albums of 2013

It’s the first work week of December and the year-end music lists for 2013 keep piling in. We just saw album lists from Q and Mojo, and now we get a list from a US publication, S…

What's going on Wednesday?

Rhett Miller with Old 97s @ Brooklyn Bowl in June (more by Kurt Christensen) today in Chicago * New Madrid, Exit Ghost @ Subterranean * Shigeto, Beacon, Nitemoves @ Bottom Lounge * Lapalux, Deanna Devore, Redwood @ Schubas * Johnny Winter, The Lucky 3 Blues Band @ SPACE * Luray, Ty Maxon, Christine Stulik @ The Burlington * Rhett Miller, Trapper Schoepp @ City Winery Chicago * Mike Donner, Pageantry, Advance Base @ Quenchers * The Airborne Toxic Event, American Authors @ the Vic * When Clouds Attack, Ant’lrd, Scott Cortez @ Empty Bottle * TALsounds, Brian James Griffith, Passerby @ The Whistler * S…

Laura Marling played three sold-out shows in NYC (video & setlist from St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church)

Earlier in the week, news came that Laura Marling had earned her third Mercury Prize nomination, this time for her spare, enigmatic fourth record, Once I Was an Eagle…

David Bowie, Disclosure, Savages, Foals, James Blake, Jon Hopkins, Laura Marling & more vying for 2013 Mercury Prize

The 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize Shortlist was just announced with the following 12 albums up for this year’s prize:Arctic Monkeys – AM David Bowie – The Next Day Disclosure – Settle Foals – Holy Fire Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg James Blake – Overgrown Jon Hopkins – Immunity Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon Rudimental – Home Savages – Silence Yourself Villagers – AwaylandDavid Bowie’s very Bowie-esque The Next Day seems like the one to beat…

Laura Marling playing a free church show in Brooklyn after MHOW shows (updated dates)

Laura Marling at Roulette in May (more by PSquared Photography) British folk singer Laura Marling is currently on a North American tour which comes to NYC for sold out shows on November 8 and 9 at Music Hall of Williamsburg…

Laura Marling playing three Texas dates on fall tour

Laura Marling in NYC in May (more by PSquared Photography) British folk artist Laura Marling has been on tour this year, and she’s recently expanded it to include more North American fall da…

What's going on Wednesday?

Titus Andronicus @ NYC’s Pier 84 earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield) today in Chicago * Josh Berman Trio @ Hideout * Dream Council, Magicks @ Subterranean * The Melodic, The Damn Choir @ Schubas * Red Baraat @ Old Town School of Folk Music * JODY, Kit, The-Drum (DJ set) @ Empty Bottle * Mad Nanna @ Permanent Records (Free; In-store) * Titus Andronicus, Lost Boy…

Laura Marling announces summer US tour (2 nights at MHOW)

Laura Marling at Roulette in May (more by PSquared Photography) Laura Marling, whose new album, Once I Was An Eagle, is one of the better recent examples of late ’60s/early ’70s-inspired British folk, came over to North America for a few shows around the time of its release, including an intimate sold-out night in Brooklyn at Roulette…
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