Posts Tagged ‘ folk rock ’
Beautiful Days 2010 initial lineup announced!
The first acts for The Levellers’ excellent festival Beautiful Days have been announced! The festival will take place between August 20th – 22nd 2010 at Escot Park, Devon, England. Some of the notable bands playing this year include: James, Newton Faulkner, The Wailers, Levellers, Fairport Acoustic Convention, Billy Bragg, Slackers, Easy Star All-Stars, Citizen Fish, New Model Army, Aggrolites, The Alarm, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin and 3 Daft Monkeys. One of these years, I’d like to venture over to England for this festival, but who knows if I’ll ever make the plunge to do so. More bands and other news will be announced shortly. Read the press release below:
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Tony Sly – “12 Song Program”
Record Label: Fat Wreck Chords
Genre: Acoustic
Band Link: www.myspace.com/tonyslymusic
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Many punk rock musicians and singers (i.e. Tony, Joey Cape, Nikola Sarcevic) strip things down and do a bare bones solo album. Many of them do it acoustically, which I don’t mind since I like that music as well. Tony Sly has been the frontman for No Use For A Name for about 20 years now and shows no signs of slowing down. To break up the norm, he does acoustic folk albums like this one, “12 Song Program.”
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Music Video: Frank Turner – “Isabel”
British singer-songwriter Frank Turner’s US tour comes to fruition, he leaves the country with an emotionally charged new video for his latest single, “Isabel,” from his critically heralded album, Poetry of the Deed. Premiering today, the heartfelt music video for “Isabel” was shot at Leo Carillo beach in Malibu while on a recent tour of California.
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ReadJunk Playlist: March 2010 (St Patrick’s Day Edition)
It’s March and we all know what that means! St Patrick’s Day is right around the corner. This month’s ReadJunk Playlist is dedicated to Celtic and folk songs that will get you in the green spirit; and well for others the drinking spirit! This playlist is an easy one for me considering this is one of my favorite genres of music and something I listen to all year round. I’m not one of those phony “Kiss Me I’m Irish” people that breaks out their shirt and stupid green and white Mad Hater hat every year. Perhaps this playlist will give you a bit of a variety than just listening to Dropkick Murphys or Flogging Molly. Here we go!
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Lost in the Trees signs to Anti Records
Anti-Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Lost in the Trees, an inventive music collective from Chapel Hill, North Carolina helmed by composer and songwriter Ari Picker. The band merges the dramatic symphonic elements of classical music with the accessibility of American folk and modern pop, creating a sound that is simultaneously intimate and sonically ambitious.
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Video: Frank Turner’s sold-out show at Asbury Lanes, NJ
Frank Turner played a headline show Wednesday night in Asbury Park, NJ at Asbury Lanes. I believe it was his first sold-out show in the United States? There’s a few clips of the show on YouTube, which you can watch after the break. You can still catch Frank opening for Flogging Molly on the Green 17 tour. ReadJunk.com will have a review and photos from the show at the Hammerstein Ballroom show Tuesday night. In the meantime, check out the videos below:
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Carbon Leaf’s Albany, NY show at The Egg has moved to April 16th (updated)
Carbon Leaf’s show tomorrow night (February 25th 2010) at the Egg in Albany,NY has been postponed due to the big ass blizzard heading our way right now. The show will be happening Friday April 16th now! I’m happy Carbon Leaf decided to postpone the show considering I didn’t feel like either eating the tickets or driving through a foot of snow. What’s the cost of a nice snow plow rental these days? Plus, the band might have a tough time getting from Rochester to Albany, where they are playing tonight I believe? You can also see Carbon Leaf play in Teaneck, NJ on April 17th if you can’t make it to the Albany show.
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Big Ears Festival 2010 expands its lineup
The second Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee during the weekend of March 26 – 28, 2010 continues to expand with Sufjan Stevens, Adrian Belew, William Basinski, Liturgy, Konk Pack, Abe Vigoda, and Ches Smith now slated to join the lineup.
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RIP: Alistair Hulett (Roaring Jack)
Scottish folk singer Alistair Hulett of Roaring Jack has passed away due to complications of liver failure. I didn’t know he suffered liver failure until seeing on Shite N Onions that he was really ill. This is really sad news because Alistair Hullet was an excellent singer and songwriter who fronted the folk punk band Roaring Jack in Australia. After that band, he did mainly acoustic folk music and was just as successful. His talent will be missed! Time to go blare some Roaring Jack!! More after the jump:
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Great Big Sea’s Sean McCann announces solo dates
(Photo by Bryan Kremkau)
Inspired by the birth of his sons, Great Big Sea’s Séan McCann chronicles the beginnings of his journey through fatherhood on the solo debut Lullabies For Bloodshot Eyes. “The arrival of my two sons prompted a fundamental change in my disposition,” confides Séan, “for the first time in my life, someone else mattered more to me than I did…and I was terrified.”
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