Owlle – « Free » Hiboo live session
octobre 6th, 2010
an interview with Equinox, the Peacekeeper
septembre 28th, 2010
Equinox the Peacekeeper (Wouter Buyst) released last year a wonderful album named « We Could Wake Each Other Up », you can listen his music or buy the record on his website. Of course, you will also listen his songs on KOKOMO WebRadio !
While Wouter was on a three day boat from Brasil to Peru on the Amazon river he kindly made a video answering our questions.
Agnes Obél – « Riverside » E.P and live videos
septembre 24th, 2010
email subscription and google friend connect
septembre 24th, 2010
Drear readers and listeners, an email subscription service, means that you can sign up to receive emails every day that let you know about new blog posts or podcast episodes. (Of course, if there’s nothing new for a given day, you won’t get an email.) For many people, email subscription services remove the need to remember to visit a blog or podcast site for updates.
Samantha Savage Smith – You Always Come To Mind
septembre 7th, 2010
« You always come to mind » from Nobody Loves But My Own Kind by Samantha Savage Smith
Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell - Incredibly Lonely
“Not so much a replication, but more of a study in reclamation. We were into the idea of making a record of the type of country that we all seemed to hold in high regard, not for the kitschy-ness or the retro-ness, but for the beauty and simplicity it could impart to the listener” – Kurt Wagner, July 2010.
INVARIABLE HEARTACHE is an album inspired by a shared love of Nashville and its musical traditions. Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner – a long time champion of the city’s history and charms – and Cortney Tidwell – whose family have, for decades, played a significant part in the city’s (country) musical life – are both fervent admirers of the music that has emerged from the city.
It was an early collaboration on Cortney’s Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up album that led to the two of them performing together at Nashville club The Basement in the summer of 2008. Such was the crowd’s overwhelming response that evening that the idea of a duets album was born, and though work didn’t begin for well over a year the concept was never forgotten. It was discussion about Cortney’s family history that led them to the Chart Records catalogue, a label run by Cortney’s grandfather Slim Williamson, A&Red later by her father Cliff Williamson, and for which her mother Connie Eaton also recorded.
The result of their subsequent fascination with what they discovered on dusty forgotten vinyl is an album that pays tribute to art of the duet and the classic songwriting that lay behind many of the albums and singles released by the label, a tribute on a grander scale to the forgotten sounds of ‘Music City USA’. cityslang.com
‘Incredibly Lonely’ is a cover of a song recorded by Gene & Rod for Nashville’s Chart Records in 1968. Although the song is available for free, those downloading it are encouraged to make a donation at their own discretion to the Community Foundation Of Middle Tennessee. Kurt and Cortney were in the middle of recording when, at the start of May 2010, Nashville and other areas in Tennessee became victims of appalling flooding caused by well over twenty inches of rain in less than two days. The tragedy went almost unreported: ‘bigger’ events such as the attempted bombing of New York’s Times Square and the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico meant that the significant loss of life and the destruction of homes and buildings throughout Tennessee remained almost ignored.
Grants from the fund will be made to nonprofits supporting relief, restoration and clean-up efforts in the Davidson County area in the aftermath of the flooding and storms.
The album was produced by Wagner, and recorded by Cortney’s husband Todd Tidwell and Roger Moutenot, who’s worked for Yo la Tengo and Lambchop in the past. It features a cast of Nashville musicians, and will be released on October 18 2010.
Tracklist:
Incredibly Lonely (recorded for Chart Records by Gene & Rod, 1968)
Eyes Look Away (recorded for Chart Records by Tom Tall, 1964)
A Special Day (recorded for Chart Records by Karen Wheeler, 1972)
Picking Wild Mountain Berries (recorded for Chart Records by LaWanda Lindsey & Kenny Vernon, 1970)
Yours Forever (recorded for Chart Records by Neil McBride, 1963)
He’s Only A Memory Away (recorded for Chart Records by Dawn Glass, 1974)
She Came Around Last Night (recorded for Chart Records by Wes Helm, 1967)
Penetration (recorded for Chart Records by Three Heads, 1968)
April’s Fool (recorded for Chart Records by Tony Martin, )
I Can’t Sleep With You (recorded for Chart Records by Charlene Davidson, 1973)
Let’s Think About Where We’re Going (recorded for Chart Records by LaWanda Lindsey & Kenny Vernon, 1970)
Who’s Gonna Love Me Now (recorded for ABC Dunhill by Connie Eaton, 1975)
Cosmetics // Soft Skin
août 28th, 2010
Gem Club – « Acid and Everythings » E.P
août 12th, 2010
Thomas Dybdahl – « Adelaide »
août 7th, 2010
One of our prefered singers, Thomas Dybdahl performed « Adelaide » on « One Shot Not » show (22/07/2010)
Slow Club – « Giving Up On Love »
août 1st, 2010
Two Wounded Birds – « My Lonesome »
juillet 27th, 2010
Casiokids – « Finn Bikkjen! »
juillet 25th, 2010
The Kills – « Pale Blue Eyes »
juillet 21st, 2010
Small Sur – Bare Black (E.P)
juillet 16th, 2010
Pacific Ocean Fire « Hibernation Songs »
juillet 8th, 2010
Pacific Ocean Fire
« Coal Black Hearts » (mp3)
from « Hibernation Songs »
(Azra Records)
Pacific Ocean Fire
« You Were a Boxer » (mp3)
from « Hibernation Songs »
(Azra Records)
Pacific Ocean Fire
« Ghosts Stay Dead » (mp3)
from « Hibernation Songs »
(Azra Records)
http://www.myspace.com/pacificoceanfire
The Wilderness Of Manitoba – Hermit
juillet 2nd, 2010
« Hermit » is taken from « When You Left the Fire » LP, release June 22, 2010
Damien Jurado – « Arkansas » video
juin 24th, 2010
Video for « Arkansas » by Damien Jurado from his Secretly Canadian release Saint Bartlett.
Damien Jurado - Arkansas
bonus:
Damien Jurado - Cloudy Shoes
http://www.damienjurado.com
Red aka The Nightcrawler
juin 19th, 2010
« Take Vic Chesnutt, take Tom Waits, take Scott Walker, draw a Bermuda Triangle between the three : you’ll have an area wide as the universe. Yet The Nightcrawler’s husky voice sails its cloudy waters like a sticky fish, intoxicating whoever dares to lay a hand on his back’s asperities. Abrupt, lonely and hoarse, it animates the luminescent songs of this diurnal and generous album from head to toe. As it happens, it begins with luxurious pads of real strings and a love declaration addressed to Lambchop (« Great Breakfast With Lambshop LP ») : The Nightcrawler may be alone in front of the microphone, he inhabits that same paradoxical peninsula than Kurt Wagner’s big Texan posse, the one that links eternal soul music and confessional folk music. Eventually, the Nightcrawler’s first album does more than welcoming you in his mobile-home in the desert: it embraces you on the threshold. An to further prove that he treats this very special role with uttermost involvement, Red himself hand painted every single copy of this quite extraordinary uninvited guest in his discography ».
Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks
juin 14th, 2010
Lars And The Hands Of Light – Me Me Me
juin 11th, 2010
Music video for the debut single « Me Me Me » from Lars and The Hands of Light (Crunchy Frog/Excelsior/Platinum).
Taken from « The Looking Glass » out now!
http://www.myspace.com/larsandthehandsoflight