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When she's not out on the road supporting her new record,
Middle Cyclone,
Neko Case spends time at her new rural-Vermont Farm.
The part-time New Pornographer spent part of her childhood in Vermont, but hadn’t been back to the area until she decided to make a detour on the way to play a show in Maine. “It was my favorite place I ever lived, and the people were so kind. I always wanted to go back, and I know that sounds like a fairy tale, but it really was true. I was really scared to go back because I thought that it would have changed or been mowed down, and they would have built condos or something out there. But it turns out they’d gone backwards in time.”
While most of Middle Cyclone was recorded at Wavelab Studios in previous home of Tucson, as well as Toronto and Brooklyn, she filled the farm's more-than-200-year-old barn with eight pianos and recorded a piano orchestra with her friends that appears on three songs, "Polar Nettles," "Don't Forget Me" and "This Tornado Loves You." The album closes with ambient noises from her new pond.
“I realized I was writing popular songs, and decided to have some choruses on this record,” she says, while in Tucson for the album’s mastering. “I also realized that since Fox Confessor, I’d said a lot that I don’t write love songs—I just don’t like to do it. But I ended up writing lots of love songs. If you say you don’t want to do something, you’re going to contradict yourself later. It always happens. They’re still not traditional love songs, but they’re love songs nonetheless.”
Neko will be at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on July 25th.
One (1)winner will win two (2) front row tickets to see Neko Case at the Ryman on July 25th as well as a signed Hatch showprint.
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Mile High Music Festival exploded on to the national festival scene last year as Colorado's largest music and arts festival, offering concertgoers a tremendous variety of musical talent, food from many of Denver's top restaurants, an artists' village and more. The festival, which attracted more than 90,000 attendees its inaugural year, went off without a hitch and promises again to put the fan experience first. The festival grounds, with its remarkable views of the Denver skyline and Rocky Mountain Front Range, will offer even more shade, an increased number of free water stations, and shorter concession lines. The 2009 event also boasts an upgraded VIP experience and expanded festival greening initiatives.
The Mile High Music Festival takes place at the Fields at Dick's Sporting Goods Park just outside of Denver, Colorado July 18th and 19th. Headliners TOOL (Saturday), Widespread Panic (on both Saturday and Sunday), and The Fray (Sunday) top the bill at the second annual festival, which promises a diverse lineup offering something for everyone. Additional acts confirmed to appear include Incubus, Ben Harper and Relentless7, G.Love & Special Sauce, Gov't Mule, Buddy Guy, 3OH!3, Ani DiFranco, Paolo Nutini, The Black Keys, John Butler, Gomez, The Wailers, India.Arie and many others.
Two (2) winners will win a pair of weekend passes to the Mile High Music Festival.
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The Beach Boys have long been the world's leading, harmonious voice of summer fun, with an ocean's swell of universally-loved songs about the beach, surfing, hot rods, and in no small measure, girls and sun-kissed romance. 20 of The Beach Boys' best love songs, from tender ballads to boisterous romps, have been gathered for
Summer Love Songs, a new 20-track CD and digital collection released May 19 (May 18 internationally) by Capitol/EMI. Three classic tracks have been mixed in stereo for the first time, exclusively for this release, and three others have received new stereo mixes. Two of the new stereo mixes have been created from long lost, newly-recovered analog multi-track masters. A rare track, previously unreleased in the U.S. and long out-of-print in the U.K., is also included.
Two of
Summer Love Songs' new stereo mixes, for "Don't Worry, Baby" and "Why Do Fools Fall In Love," have been created from newly-recovered analog multi-track masters that went missing from the Western Recorders studio in Los Angeles after they were first recorded in the mid-1960s. These original 3-track analog masters were recently recovered by The Beach Boys and Capitol/EMI for the first time since they were used for the band's Shut Down, Vol. 2 album in 1964. The collection's four other tracks with new stereo mixes are "Hushabye," "I'm So Young," "Good To My Baby," and "Time To Get Alone."
Listen to "Fallin' in Love" (a previously released Dennis Wilson song)
here.
Two (2) winners will win one copy of
Summer Love Songs
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Flaming Lips
The National
Built to Spill
Beirut
The Jesus Lizard
Yo La Tengo
Grizzly Bear
Matt & Kim
and more!
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