Nightlands

It was a great night for side projects when Low side project Retribution Gospel Choir brought their tour to NYC for a show at Knitting Factory on February 11 with Tim Berne, Jim Black, and Nels Cline’s appropriately titled BB&C and The War on Drugs side project Nightlands (led by TWOD bassist Dave Hartl…

Retribution Gospel Choir (more by Grant MacAllister) As discussed on BV Chicago, Low side project Retribution Gospel Choir will release their third album, 3, on January 22 via Chaperone Records…

Nightlands is the project of Dave Hartley, who has played as a sideman in The War on Drugs and with Sharon Van Etten, and they’ll release their sophomore album, Oak Island, on January 22 via Secretly Canadian…

After hearing their 2009 debut, Reservoir, I thought I had Fanfarlo pegged, but as the bridge on the cover of their recently released album suggests, the pop folk darlings are venturing into a new sonic territory…

As evidenced by the poster above; Sondre Lerche, Nightlands, and Kishi Bashi spent this past weekend in Chicago. Together they played Schubas on Saturday (6/18), and then took the stage at Lincoln Hall the following night…

Sondre Lerche is set to release his sixth studio album on June 7th via Mona Records. The LP was recorded with the help of Midlake drummer; McKenzie Smith, Jupiter One drummer; Dave Heilman, and co-producers Kato Ådland, and Nicolas Verhnes…

Sondre Lerche at BV Day Party (more by Tim Griffin)Vulture: Why release a self-titled album now? Sundre Lerche: Usually I have the title for the record pretty early on…

Glasslands , Apohadion Delicate Steve on Governors Island (more by Andrew St. Clair) Congrats to Delicate Steve, whose new LP Wondervisions is out now via Luaka Bop…

I like Ali Farka Touré‘s (RIP) 2006 album “Savane“. I first listened to it when I realized it was, according to Metacritic, the most critically acclaimed album of 2006…