Woodsist

After a two year hiatus, the Woodsist Festival returns to the East Coast, happening in Upstate New York at Accord, NY's Arrowood Farms on September 28.

"Like Pink Moon or Just Another Diamond Day before it, this is music so potent it exists outside the realms of time - but in a world specific only to itself and the new feelings it creates." - Kevin Morby on Shannon Lay

Woods @ P4K Fest 2013 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Woods' new album was released With Light And Love was released this week. Pitchfork's Ian Cohen writes:Similar to the Men's Tomorrow's Hits and Future Islands' Singles, other 2014 albums by respected "lo-fi" bands recording in a "real studio", With Light and With Love is a reminder that while Woods' hard-touring, road-dog reputation has solidifed their fanbase, people show up in the first place because the band can write great songs...

Kevin Morby, who co-fronts The Babies and plays bass in Woods, will release his first solo album, Harlem River, on November 26 via Woodsist...

Portland, OR's Eat Skull were once known for the sort of blown-out punk some called shitgaze but the band have begun turning the levels down to 9...

Portland, OR trio Woolen Men are gearing up to release their self-titled debut which will be out via Woodist on March 5. The band make a shambly rumble that mixes a variety of influences, from Pacific Northwest legends The Wipers to the lo-fi Flying Nun-style pop, and that definitely puts them right in the Woodsist wheelhouse...

The Babies have announced details on their second album, Our House On The Hill, which is due November 13 via Woodsist. The album was recorded back in February in Los Angeles with producer Rob Barbato (Darker My Love, The Fall, Cass McCombs)...

Oneida at Ecstatic Music Fest (more by David Andrako) As previously mentioned, live concert recording site NYC Taper just turned five years old and is throwing a party at 285 Kent on Saturday (5/12) to celebrate, with performances and Prince Ruperts Drops...

Clogs @ BAM in 2009 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) today in NYC * Discovery @ Santos * One Ring Zero @ Barbes * Furthur @ Best Buy Theater * Lucinda Williams @ Webster Hall * No-Neck Blues Band @ The Stone * Soulive, Matisyahu @ Brooklyn Bowl * FM Belfast, Aislyn @ The Rock Shop * Against Me @ Mercury Lounge (noon) * Mose Allison Trio @ Jazz Standard * Allman Brothers Band @ Beacon Theatre * Altaar, Occultation, Deathcrush @ Acheron * Monsters of Bass @ Santos Party House * Translations, Steel Phantoms, Huntronik @ CoCo66 * The Blasters, Robert Gordon @ The Bell House * Cotton Jones, Via Audio, Pure Horsehair @ Union Pool * Still Corners, The Jezabels, Giana Factory @ Glasslands * Joe Hurley's 12th Annual All-Star Irish Rock Revue @ Highline Ballroom * The Rural Alberta Advantage, Pepper Rabbit, The Loom @ Knitting Factory * Booga Sugar, Gordon Gano & The Ryan Brothers, Acquiesce @ Bowery Ballroom * Fuck The Facts, Psychic Limb, Radiation Blackbody, Swords of Chaos @ Cake Shop * Clogs, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Shara Worden, Sufjan Stevens @ Merkin Concert Hall * Andy Friedman, David Goodrich, Stephan Crump, Jen Chapin, Session Americana @ Southpaw * MURS, Tabi Bonney, Whole Wheat Bread, Ab-Soul, DJ Foundation @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Sarin McHugh and The Everymen, Gross Relations, McDonalds, Thomas Francis Takes His Chances @ Cake Shop * Nate Wooley, Paul Lytton, C...

DOWNLOAD: Kurt Vile -Invisibility: Nonexistant (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Kurt Vile - Gagdad (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Purling Hiss - Don't Even Try It (MP3) Kurt Vile @ Terminal 5 in July (more by Matt Eisman)Kurt Vile/Times New Viking/The Clean: That three-band bill looks so good, I'd probably have trouble sleeping the night before such a show came through Vegas...