Montreal’s Patrick Watson returns with Adventures In Your Own Backyard(May 1st). For the next week or so you can stream the gorgeous cinematic sounds courtesy of NPR.
NPR First Listen – Patrick Watson ‘Adventure In Your Own Backyard’
Also – you can preview a track from the album below:
Listen/Download:
For those of you willing to venture to Chicago – Mr Watson will be playing @ Lincoln Hall on June 1st. Tickets.
Chris Bathgate returns with the follow up to his critically acclaimed Salt Year. Bathgate will be celebrating the release of his Old Factory EP with an intimate show @ Stone House Recording – the home to our Halfway House Sessions – on Wednesday April 18th. Tickets are $8/advance or $10/day of show. Doors will open @ 7pm with music getting underway @ 8pm. Philadelphia’s Chris Kasper opens the special evening of music.
Here’s a preview:
Paste Magazine recently ranked Mr. Bathgate #2 on a list of Top 12 Michigan acts to check out so don’t miss this show!!!
NPR TINY DESK CONCERT:
Baltimore’s Lower Dens have just offered up a download of their new song. The facebook update also mentions a new forthcoming album. Jana Hunter and company will be playing the Pyramid Scheme on March 7.
From NPR: The music of Lower Dens is dark but spacious and hypnotic, with swaths of feedback and echoing guitars. At the heart is Jana Hunter, a Texas-born, Baltimore-based singer and songwriter whose delicate voice haunts every song.
For an extended preview – watch/listen to the NPR Tiny Desk Concert below:
Wilco recently stopped by the NPR offices to perform as part of their always enjoyable Tiny Desk Concert series.
Setlist:
“Dawned On Me”
“Whole Love”
“Born Alone”
“War On War”
As previously mentioned Wilco released The Whole Love in September and is available here.
They’ll be playing The Fillmore in Detroit on December 10 – but unfortunately it’s already sold out.
Boo. Hiss.
As previously mentioned – you can go enjoy Mr Palomo and company’s forthcoming album Era Extraña here.
Or you can pick it up on Tuesday September 13.
Thanks AudioPerv.
NPR is offering up a stream of some forthcoming gems:
A.A. Bondy – Believers(9/13)
Neon Indian – Era Extraña(9/13)
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy(9/13)
Looks like you better save your nickels for next Tuesday.
NPR is offering up a stream of Beirut’s The Rip Tide until its release on August 30th.
Check out a review from this months Recoil.
Mr. Condon’s tour starts tomorrow in support of The Rip Tide which includes a date in Royal Oak.
Listen/Download:
Beirut – Santa Fe
Beirut – East Harlem
A.A. Bondy will be releasing his latest album Believers on September 13 via Fat Possum Records.
You can head over to NPR to hear the first single ‘The Heart Is Willing’.
Also – check out our Front Porch Fridays segment featuring Mr. Bondy.
Chris Bathgate appeared on NPR’s World Cafe today. There he and his band performed several tracks off of one of 2011′s best Salt Year.
Listen to the show and then watch the Halfway House Session:
Watch:
Mr Bathgate plays both the Midwest Fest(Mount Pleasant) and the Boiling Pot Festival(Kzoo) later this Summer.
But you can catch him before that when he returns to Grand Rapids on August 18th – playing @ Billy’s with The Wallace Collective and The Spinning Leaves.
He also has a date(August 16th) @ the Magic Stick in Detroit with fellow Halfway House alum Paleface.
Chris Bathgate on Facebook.
Photo by Andy McLeod.
When the Salt Tour with Chris Bathgate Samantha Crain and Hezekiah Jones came through the grand land – we had the pleasure of hosting ALL three for a Halfway House Session.
This is Chris Bathgate’s.
Bathgate was touring in support of his recently released/critically acclaimed album Salt Year – which will be on our ‘Best of 2011′ list @ years end. He’s already receiving mid-year praise from NPR and its listeners.
From Quite Scientific:
Salt Year continues where A Cork Tale Wake left off: slow and deliberate. . .a cacophony of ambient sounds. . .bleeding out with lyrical imagery delivered in the heartfelt vocal tone so many have come to know Chris Bathgate for. But, it quickly gains velocity, gets loud, embraces confrontation, and shows a more fully realized songwriter learning not to pull any punches. Instead of gently tugging at the heartstrings, it unabashedly tears at them. It addresses the darkest parts of relationships and ends with catharsis.
Listen/Download:
Chris Bathgate – Time – Halfway House Sessions
Chris Bathgate – Fur Curled on the Sad Road – Halfway House Sessions
Watch:
Mr Bathgate has some East Side date’s coming up as well as gigs @ both the Midwest Fest(Mount Pleasant) and the Boiling Pot Festival(Kzoo).
Chris Bathgate on Facebook.
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