PHOX Set To Play NYC Show

Wisconsin based band PHOX are set to play a show in NY.  They’ll be over in Brooklyn at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 9 supporting Laura Mvula.  See below for more details and tour dates.

We’ve got our calendars marked to catch them this summer at the Newport Folk Festival on Friday, July 25.  Tickets are still available for the Friday show (Saturday & Sunday are already sold out).  But, you should be quick like a bunny, Friday is sure to sell out soon. 

Laura Mvula / PHOX

Wednesday, April 9

Music Hall of Williamsburg

66 North 6th Street

Brooklyn, NY

Doors: 7PM / Show: 8PM

Tickets: $25

18+

To whet your appetite check out the handy widget below.  And if that’s not enough for you, they were recently featured on World Cafe which can be heard HERE.

PHOX will release their self-titled debut album in late June 2014 via Partisan Records.

New Video From Nicole Atkins

Nicole Atkins dropped a new video for the masses to enjoy.  The clip is for “Girl You Look Amazing”. The track from her terrific new album Slow Phaser.  If you haven’t had a chance to check out the album, I recommend you do.  Check out the video below.

Alice BrightSky - “Up Up and Away”

Check out “Up Up and Away” from singer-songwriter Alice BrightSky.  The track is from her debut solo album Box of Me which was released independently in April 2013.

The composing and release of the album was a cathartic process for Brightsky, who completed Box of Me after a three-year hiatus from her music.  After walking away from the music business in 2009, feeling “overwhelmed by creative and logistical roadblocks to completing her solo debut”, Brightsky completed the album in 2012 with friend/producer Brandon Wilde who helped her finish “Up Up and Away”, the last track she was struggling with.

 

“The songwriting for this album was a way of pulling out those emotions that I would otherwise have tucked away,” says Brightsky.  “I dove into the box to deal with those things and I’m in a good place right now because of it. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”

Track List

• Enter This World
• Pry Me Away
• Lover’s Fate
• I Am
• Up Up and Away
• Troubled Upbringing
• Girl You Hold Onto
• Tie and Untie
• Canopy
• Hold Me Down
• Dry
• Box of Me

Mount Carmel To Release New Album On 3/25 + NYC Show

Ohio trio Mount Carmel are scheduled to release their new album, Get Pure, on March 25 via Alive Naturalsound Records.  Get Pure will be available on CD, digital formats and limited edition vinyl

Mount Carmel will be doing shows in support of the new record which will bring them to NYC.  They’ll be at Cake Shop on April 18.  I caught them a few years back and they put on a seriously tight set.

Tour Dates

• 3/28 Woodlands Tavern ~ Columbus, OH (Hometown Record Release Show!)
• 4/17 31st Street Pub ~ Pittsburg, PA
• 4/18 Cake Shop ~ NYC, NY
• 4/20 Kung Fu Necktie ~ Philadelphia, PA

Amid the current industry of cool, MOUNT CARMEL’s lack of gimmick is a welcome anachronism. The Columbus, OH-based trio’s third album Get Pure is full of swagger, packed with great songs and inspired performances. This is true rock music like you haven’t heard in years. Crank it up!

Track List

• Gold (listen via GhettoBlaster Magazine)
• Back On It (listen via PopMatters) 
• Whisper
• No Pot To Piss
• Swallow Me Up
• Bridge To Nowhere
• One More Morning
• Will I
• Hangin' On
• Fear Me Now
• Yeah You Mama

The Milk Carton Kids, Mavis Staples, J Roddy Walston & More Set To Play Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival, which takes place July 25 - 27, 2014 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI, announced yesterday that The Milk Carton Kids will be returning to the festival this summer.  They were one of the highlights of the festival for me last year.  Their set is on Saturday, July 26.

The festival is mostly sold out.  Tickets still remain for the Friday show. You should probably hurry if you want tickets for that day as those are sure to sell out soon as well.

The Newport Folk Festival has been rolling out their line-up via social media since the beginning of February.  See below for a list of who has been announced so far.

Update: The festival announced this morning, 3/14, that Dawes and Conor Oberst (w/Dawes as his supporting band) will be returning to the Fort.

The Newport Folk Festival Line-Up (as of March 13)

Listed in the order they were announced from last to first

• The Milk Carton Kids
• Caitlin Rose
• Lucero
• Robert Hunter
• Gregory Alan Isakov
• J Roddy Walston And The Business
• Phox
• Trampled By Turtles
• Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
• Shakey Graves
• The Devil Makes Three
• Band of Horses
• The Oh Hellos
• Benjamin Booker
• Death Vessel
• Nickel Creek
• Shovels and Rope
• Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Jenny Lewis
• Houndmouth
• Mavis Staples

Upcoming: Antoinette Montague at Dorthaan's Place on 3/23

This is happening…

For more information and to buy tickets click HERE.

New Track From Ida Maria

Check out the new track, “Sick Of You”, from Ida Maria.  This is one of those songs that gets stuck in your head.  You’ll find yourself randomly singing it.

Ida Maria released her new EP, Accidental Happiness, on February 18.

The EP showcases every side of her dynamic songwriting from the swaggering saucy swing of “Boogie With The Devil’s Soul” to the prickly, punk-y pop declaration “I’m Bad News”. Simultaneously, the title track exudes entrancing emotion wrapped up in another unshakable refrain.  In late 2012, the artist overcame an overwhelming alcohol addiction, and the music reflects her journey with its striking clarity and realization of true creative fulfillment. Ida Maria has officially returned.

New Album From John The Conqueror

John The Conqueror released their new album, The Good Life on February 25.  If you haven’t had a listen to this ridiculously good blues rock effort yet, give it a spin. You’ll dig it. The Good Life, quite simply, is your new favorite album.

Stream the track “Waking Up To You” HERE.

Rich Robinson Set To Release New Album

Guitarist and songwriter Rich Robinson is scheduled to release his upcoming solo album, The Ceaseless Sight on June 3 via The End Records.

Check out the first single, “One Road Hill”, below.  The single will be released on April 8.

“I've always approached writing songs for an album as part of a larger work,” says Robinson. “This album as a whole is one piece and how it fits into my whole body of work is the other. My new record follows the path of my musical journey I've been on for 25 years. I feel a strong connection to where I've been musically, but more importantly where I'm going."

Track List

• I Know You
• Down The Road
• One Road Hill
• The Giving Key
• This Unfortunate Show
• In Comes The Night
• Inside
• I Have a Feeling
• I Remember
• In You
• Trial and Faith
• Obscure The Day

Men of North Country Release New Single

Men of North Country, have released “Magic”, the first single from their upcoming double 7” EP, also titled Magic.  The EP is scheduled to be released on March 21.  I’m enjoying this track a lot.

Check out the stream of “Magic” below as well as the video for the track. Footage for the video was taken from their guitarist’s brother’s 1987 Bar-Mitvah.