PYYRAMIDS - “Invisible Scream”

PYYRAMIDS released their latest EP, Invisible Scream, this past October.  Check out the video for the title track below.

Track Listing

• Invisible Scream
• Everything Leads Back To You
• Better Than Before
• Rid of Me (Live) 

Upcoming: Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires at Mercury Lounge on 11/11

Alabama band Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires will be taking the stage at Mercury Lounge on Monday, November 11...full details below.

Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires

Wyldlife / Brooklyn What

Monday, November 11

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston Street

New York, NY

Doors: 9PM

Tickets: $10

21+

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros - "Life Is Hard"

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros recently released a video for the song “Life Is Hard”.  Check it out below.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are premiering an all new video for the single "Life Is Hard" today via BigSunFoundation.org. The video features an acoustic version of the song, recorded live at WVUF in New York, set to the World Press Photo Contest winners of 2013, held yearly to showcase the highest standards in photojournalism and share them with millions.

 

Lead singer Alex Ebert said of the collaboration, "On some sleepless and homeless night, towards the end of my first trip to Amsterdam, I stumbled into what perhaps was a cathedral. It must have been midnight or thereabouts, but it was aglow and bustling. I entered and never forgot the experience not the name of the experience - it was an exhibit of World Press Photo winners. Years later, I am honored to have been given permission to put some of the photography from this year's winners to an acoustic recording of a song that means a lot to me called 'Life Is Hard'."

 

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have always been passionate about the community. From their earliest days in 2007, the band has consistently created music that uplifts and brings people together from all over the world. Individually and collectively, they've actively supported a variety of charitable endeavors, including: Charity Water, VH1 Save The Music Foundation, The American Red Cross, and many more. It is in this spirit that Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have formed the Big Sun Foundation - a non-profit organization that believes in the power of a unified world community. "We will identify causes and social issues that are important to all of us and work together to create opportunities to make a difference in the world one beautiful human at a time," said the members of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. "In joining together, we will bring awareness and support to causes that are fighting for the rights and basic needs of all beings." For more information on the Big Sun Foundation, visit  www.bigsunfoundation.org

Upcoming: Jus Post Bellum at Rockwood Music Hall on 11/10

Jus Post Bellum will be celebrating the release of their upcoming album Oh July at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 on November 10.  Oh July is scheduled to be released on November 12.

Jus Post Bellum

Cassandra Jenkins

Sunday, November 10

Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

196 Allen Street

New York, NY

Doors: 9PM

Free

21+

Upcoming: Hurray For The Riff Raff at Mercury Lounge on 11/4

Hurray for the Riff Raff will be taking the stage at Mercury Lounge this Monday, November 4.  We caught them this summer at the Newport Folk Festival where they did an excellent set.  We recommend you go and show them some love, you won’t be sorry.

Hurray for the Riff Raff released their latest album, My Dearest Darkest Neighbor this past summer.

Hurray for the Riff Raff

The Deslondes

Feral Foster

Monday, November 4

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston Street

New York, NY

Doors: 6:30PM

Tickets: $15

21+

Upcoming: Ari Hest at Highline Ballroom on 11/15

Ari Hest will be taking the stage at Highline Ballroom on November 15...details are below.  You should go, really, you should.

Ari Hest

Chrissi Poland

Friday, November 15

Highline Ballroom

431 W 16th Street

New York, NY 

Doors: 6PM / Show: 8PM

Tickets: $20 adv / $25 dos

Upcoming: Have Gun, Will Travel To Play Two NY Shows

Have Gun, Will Travel will be in New York for two shows.  The first at Pianos on Friday, November 8 and the second in Brooklyn at Cameo Gallery on Sunday, November 10...full details below.  The band released their forth full-length album Fiction, Fact or Folktale? in September.

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Whiskey Gentry

Friday, November 8

Pianos

158 Ludlow Street 

New York, NY

9PM

Tickets: $10

21+

and

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Whiskey Gentry

Sunday, November 10

Cameo Gallery

93 N. 6th St.

Brooklyn, NY

Doors: 7PM

Tickets: $8 adv / $10 dos

21+

Tango With Lions - A Long Walk

Athenian band Tango With Lions released their album A Long Walk worldwide via Inner Ear Records and Rough Trade Distribution a couple of weeks ago. Vocalist Kat Papachristou's warm, smokey vocals swirl around sexy rhythms and melodies painting a beautiful noir picture.  Check out the video of the title track at the bottom of the post.

Their musical path during the last four years could be compared to a long walk. The project of Kat  began as a changing group of musicians and has grown to be the stable lineup of the band that recorded "A Long Walk". 

With the compositions and lyrics of Kat as a starting point, the band took their time to arrange the 10 album songs with continuous pre-production and rehearsals during the last two years. The recordings began in summer 2012 and were completed in January 2013 by Thodoris Zefkilis in SCA studio. 

As in "Verba Time" so here, every song is a small story, but this time the stories are self-contained, with routes through dark dreams, night trips, sunny fantasies, memories and stories of love and separation. In Tango With Lions’ long walk bittersweet melodies and dreamy lyrics encounter rich arrangements. The result is unique: atmospheric electricity with dark outbursts, mystic trombone melodies, an old piano and a dark and solid rhythm section, always maintaining the special atmosphere that hovers around Kat’s voice. 

Track List

• Slippery Roads
• A Long Walk
• News
• Rainy Fall
• Kite
• People Stare
• Obituary
• Where Heroes Die
• Over The Neon Lights
• Playground

Upcoming: Rocket & The Ghost at Rockwood Music Hall on 11/9

Rocket & The Ghost will be taking the stage at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 on November 9.  The show is in celebration of their upcoming self-titled EP which is scheduled for release on November 5.

Rocket & The Ghost

Lily & The Parlour Tricks

Saturday, November 9

Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

196 Allen Street

New York, NY

9:30PM

$10

21+

Rocket & The Ghost consists of Kiyoshi Matsuyama (songwriter/vocals/guitar), Brian Kesley (bass), Stuart Bidwell (drums), Sean Gavigan (guitar), and Alan Markley (keyboards). In 2011, Kiyoshi found himself in a difficult position for anyone in a band on the rise. As a founding member of Brooklyn's The London Souls, he had spent the past seven years on an adventure that was nothing short of extraordinary, touring with the likes of The Black Crowes, The Roots, and recording with Ethan Johns at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. As his tastes changed, so did the music he was writing, and Kiyoshi had to move on. Rocket & The Ghost was born out of a brief but powerful songwriting collaboration with Lily Clair of Lily & The Parlour Tricks, who assisted Kiyoshi to flesh out the songs he had written during his last years with The London Souls.

 

Call Rocket & The Ghost a "rock band" would be the easiest way to categorize them, but not necessarily the most accurate. They have all the proper elements: thunderous drums, booming bass, the fuzz and wail of two electric guitars, and it's clear that the rock n' roll music of the '60s and '70s had indelibly left a mark, both on Kiyoshi's songwriting and showmanship. Although, laced with those old influences came some playful new ones, such as the at once shocking yet beautiful use of vocal range, which can reach Harry Nilsson highs and Johnny Cash lows all in one breathe. In addition to the arrangements, carefully constructed yet wildly dynamic, showcase the band whispering in your ear one minute and hollering at you from the top of a mountain the next. Then there are the songs themselves, which draw as comfortably from 1920s Americana as they do from millennial pop music without losing their fundamental garage grit. At their heart they are folk songs; they tell stories. 

  

Kiyoshi tells us,"I feel like a recording is only special when it conveys the personality of everyone involved. We really put ourselves into these songs. I hope people hear that first before they think about the style we play in or what other people are saying about it. I hope they hear people that care about each other playing the music that they love".

Track Listing

• Daylight
• Shame
• Howling
• Gold
• Goodbye

Jake Lewis & The Clergy Release Gossip Today

Jake Lewis & The Clergy released their new album Gossip today. It's good listenin' folks. You can check it out and show them some love (i.e. buy it) using the handy widget below.