#TGIF: Brad's adventures continue in this transmission of Nap Eyes’ “Ice Grass Underpass,” listenable in its entirety wherever you do your listening. AA Side!
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B side but honestly it’s more like double A side. Nige wrote this one in like 2009. self recorded by nap eyes and mixed by @renny_wilson . video by @bail3ysalw3y and @techgod starring @brad4evvr
Ice Grass Underpass (Official Visual)
Feline Wave Race (Official Visual)
Itasca - "Milk" (Official Lyrics Video)
Today Itasca has shared "Milk," the evocative lead track and second single from her forthcoming record "Imitation of War," with an accompanying lyrics video. It's possibly its most purely gorgeous and immediately transporting song on the album.
LISTEN/PREORDER: https://lnk.to/PoB73
“'Milk'” is one of my favorite songs I’ve recorded," says Kayla Cohen. 🌌 "It’s a night journey song, written in the Sierras while living near a wildfire." 🔥 The first Itasca record in over four years begins, in “Milk,” with a dream of Genevieve, “the myth in the mirror’s gleam”—perhaps, on this faith-haunted album, a reference to the fifth-century saint, or the chaste, cave-dwelling heroine of medieval legend. 🏰
"Switching guitars opens her songs up considerably, but Cohen maintains the intimacy and intelligence that have always been her signature ... One to get lost in." – Uncut Magazine
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Itasca - Imitation Of War (Official Video)
Winter is coming, and the perfect soundtrack to the season is also imminent.
PREVIEW/PREORDER Itasca's 𝑰𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒓: https://paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-073
Watch video: https://youtu.be/ExnOqXJ4978
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On 𝑰𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒓, her third record with Paradise of Bachelors, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, leanest, and most smolderingly electric guitar-forward recordings of Cohen’s deepening catalog.
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The band has shared the video for the title track, “Imitation of War,” the first single from the album, out February 9, 2024. Watch, listen, and pre-order via link in bio (all preorders include a download of the single).
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Shot entirely on film and directed by Cohen, the video for “Imitation of War” features her, members of the band featured on the album, and members of Gun Outfit, in which Kayla plays bass, in various idyllic Southern Californian locales, including the LA Arboretum. According to Cohen:
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This song was originally inspired by the film My Night at Maud’s, but then became much more than that—the long dialogue scene in the middle of the film where the two leads are discussing religion and self but are also conversationally dancing with and around each other. Then a few days later a friend spoke the phrase “imitation of war,” and to me it became a way we operate with each other, imitating peace or war through our antagonisms, intended or not, through the ways we’ve all learned to be.
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That’s where the inspiration for the title and the chorus came from, and then through working on the song more
𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 + 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 2018 (Official Unboxing Video)
Mike Cooper's 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 + 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 2018
set is out now. Welcome to Rocket Summer!
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BUY LP+CD/2xCD + STREAM 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩: https://lnk.to/PoB70
STREAM 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 only: https://lnk.to/PoB71
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The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music calls 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 "a fascinating album," and we agree, twofold, about these utterly unique records by the polymath Mike Cooper, in shops, shipping, and streaming worldwide today.
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Cooper wrote 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, his final songwriter record, a suite of gloaming glam-rock anthems performed with a spiritual jazz trio, while living on the Costa Tropical of Granada, Spain, an era when he was considering retiring from music altogether. A chance encounter and a last-ditch record deal convinced him to make one last album, which he recorded in 1974 at Pathway Studios in London, with “The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World,” featuring the inventive South African jazz rhythm section of Louis Moholo and Harry Miller with UK saxophonist Mike Osborne.
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This first-ever reissue includes a bonus CD of Milan Live Acoustic 2018, a previously unreleased solo set that represents Cooper’s return, after forty-four years pursuing free improvisation and electronics, to a new, deconstructed approach to singing, steel guitar, and songcraft.
Jake was joined by @james.elkington and @fiddlehornannaj on the last leg of his tour for a performance of “Washington” at the Town School of Folk in Chicago.
James Elkington on piano
Anna Jacobson on horn
Video by @sleepwalkmgmt !
The 60 Years War Waltz: what a beautiful night—and two weeks!—in Marfa celebrating @terryallen4444 and @joharveyallen’s life together and the extraordinary things, and people, they’ve made.
Shuck Some Corn > Bloodlines > Who Do You Love?/Bo Diddley
GIMME A RIDE TO HEAVEN BOY: @terryallen4444 and the Panhandle Mystery Band at @solidsoundfest, with special guest @davidbyrneofficial.
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#repost • @filmcraver Legend. Terry Allen (@terryallen4444 ) & The Panhandle Mystery Band with some help from @shannonmcnallymusic and... @davidbyrneofficial ! Only at @solidsoundfest , kids. Only at Solid Sound. #terryallen #terryallenandthepanhandlemysteryband #shannonmcnally #davidbyrne #talkingheads @paradiseofbachelors #paradiseofbachelors #solidsound #solidsound2022 #livemusic
Jake Xerxes Fussell – NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
A few weeks ago, in the first days of the new year, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Libby Rodenbough, & Casey Toll visited the home of our friends Sal and Lindsey in Pittsboro, NC to shoot a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert for NPR Music. It was a beautiful, cold morning, & we're delighted to share the final film with you. 🎥 🐓 🥦
Watch the whole concert: https://youtu.be/SB6jTKPOjMY
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Thanks to Jesse Paddock for directing, Ishmael Abdelkhalek & John Laww for cinematography, Jason Richmond for sound, Maia Stern at NPR for the invitation, and Salvatore Borriello and Lindsey Alexander of The Reading List for lending us their lovely living room.
👀 Behind the scenes with Jake Xerxes Fussell, Alan Casey Toll, and Libby Rodenbough. 🥦 Stay tuned …
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Jake Xerxes Fussell: Good and Green Again (unboxing video)
Here's a sneak peek at the manifestations of Jake Xerxes Fussell's forthcoming album "Good and Green Again" on the material plane—and proof of life that the LP and CD do in fact exist, despite the current climate of supply-chain and manufacturing delays. And yes, that's a tease of new tune you hear as well... more on that soon.
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Mega Bog’s magical “Life, and Another” is out tomorrow, July 23, on CD and via all digital spaces for streaming and download (the vinyl LP will be in stores on August 27). PoB preorders are now shipping, including the vinyl, for those of you who need it now. Here’s a peak at the beautiful full-color photo and lyrics book with images and words by Erin, designed by Joel Gregory, with foil embossed cover, limited to 300 copies and available only via the PoB website and Bandcamp. 📕 GET IT: http://smarturl.it/PoB56
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