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Laura Gibson

La Grande

La Grande (pronounced in the way of the American West, without any hint of French inflection – “luh grand”) is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon where native Oregonian Laura Gibson found inspiration while writing the songs that would become her new album of the same name. Gibson describes La Grande as a place that “people usually pass through on their way  […] READ ON

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Dan Mangan

Oh Fortune

Once a mere fresh faced folk singer from Vancouver, Canada, Dan Mangan now stands at the world’s doorstep. The evolution of Mangan’s music is instinctively in line with its breadth and sincerity. As his art has developed, so has the story behind its constant and exponential proliferation. The proof is in the countless European jaunts. U.S. tours with The Walkmen, Decemberists and Okkervil  […] READ ON

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WATERS

Out In The Light

Port O'Brien is dead, long live WATERS. These new songs veered away from the frequently loose, punchy anthems of Port O’Brien, and as Van Pierszalowski intensively pieced each one together, he sought a bigger sound – something louder than he could play on his own. So Van returned to Oslo, where his new journey began. He put together a band of fine Norwegian gentlemen and spent every day  […] READ ON

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Tindersticks

The Something Rain

"The Something Rain" is tindersticks ninth studio album and like its predecessors "The Hungry Saw" and "Falling Down A Mountain" it projects a bold spirit, something charged with what Uncut described as a "restored self-belief, again loving doing what they do and doing it better than anyone else”. Though within "The Something Rain" there is something else; the band, the ideas are formed - it  […] READ ON

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Lambchop

Mr. M

Mr. M started in a painter’s studio in fact. Wagner explains. “As I worked, I was approached by Mark Nevers (former full time band member & producer for the likes of Andrew Bird and Will Oldham) with the idea of making another Lambchop record. He had a concept of a sound and a method that worked with the tone of my writing. His idea was a kind of ‘psycho-Sinatra’ sound, one that  […] READ ON

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KORT

Record - girls

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Calexico

2009 European Tour