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What's it sound like when R.E.M.'s Mike Mills gets down with an orchestra?
"The focus had to be on the melodies," Mills says of his initial thoughts on writing the music [for Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra]." "I started by writing the chords. I tried to put the melody on that, and tried to think of it with the violin in mind but since I've never written for violin before, that was really a hypothetical approach."
It's the first-ever classical work composed and performed by the bassist and songwriter premiered today. The tour supporting the effort stops at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg on October 21 and more information on the show is available at local.cltampa.com.
"Catch Prichard’s new EP (out 10/21 via Devise Records) is steeped in traditional folk and Americana in the vein of Townes Van Zandt and features dexterous guitar work, accompanied by his powerful baritone that simultaneously conjures ANOHNI and Leonard Cohen. Sawyer set out to record a collection of sweet and simple songs that exalt narrative as much as they do melody."
"Mutual Benefit are excited to share their new video for 'Getting Gone.' Taken from their sophomore studio full-length, Skip a Sinking Stone (out now on Mom+Pop), the film contrasts gritty, urban imagery against softer natural images that perfectly complement the song. 'I think of this video as an attempt to visualize some sort of vague nostalgia,' says Mutual Benefit’s Jordan Lee.
'Where you let time do its thing until what's left of confusing, distant memories is just a tranquil spot where the rays of the sun are shining from between the leaves in the trees.'
"From the same misty mountain top tape spool as their August album A Weird Exits, Thee Oh Sees bring us the companion LP titled An Odd Entrances, set for a November 18th release on Castle Face Records. Delving more towards the contemplative side than the face-skinning aspects of A Weird Exits, An Odd Entrances is a cosmic exercise "en plein air" with Dwyer and company double drum shuffling, lounging with cellos, following a flute around the groove, and spooling a few Grimm-dark lullabies along the way."
'Chicago's Joan of Arc will release their hundredth full-length album, He's Got The Whole This Land Is Your Land In His Hands, on January 20, 2017 via Joyful Noise Recordings. The video for 'This Must Be The Placenta was directed by drummer Theo Katsaounis, with cinematography and editing by John Maloof, the Oscar-nominated director of Finding Vivian Maier, and starring Mike Kinsella as his older brother Tim. Theo said, 'For 20 years Joan of Arc has always been a little strange.'" Pre-order the album here.
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