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Avett Brothers, DeVotchKa to Perform Together Tonight, More Tour Dates Announced

In a highly surprising pairing, Latin- and gypsy-oriented punk band DeVotchKa and country-bluegrass darlings The Avett Brothers are scheduled to play a show together tonight at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J.  read more

DeVotchKa: 100 Lovers

On the album’s first seven songs, DeVotchKa trades a bit of its international flavor for a sound more akin to glossy, modern New York indie pop a la Animal Collective or The Walkmen (excepting the accordion hook in “The Man from San Sebastian”). It’s a move that the band and producer/engineer Craig Schumacher (Calexico, Ladybug Transistor) execute extremely well, and a sound DeVotchKa has flirted with a few times in the past  read more

Priscilla Ahn Announces Cover Art Contest, Tour Dates

Singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn is preparing to release her album, When You Grow Up, and needs a bit of help designing the cover. Ahn, along with Blue Note Records, have partnered with Creative Allies to hold an album cover design contest. The winner will recieve a credit in the album packaging, a Priscilla Ahn prize pack, $1,000, and will work to develop the rest of the album layout with the creative director. Submissions must entered by midnight on March 1. For complete guidelines and a video message from Ahn visit CreativeAllies.com....  read more

Ghostface, Lissie, Four Tet, Surfer Blood, Many More to Play CMJ 2010

CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival is slated to have quite the crew of creatives throwing down in NYC Oct. 19-23....  read more

Andrew Bird, Dawn Landes, Nada Surf, DeVotchKa and More Come Together to Remake Harry Nilsson Soundtrack

Dawn Landes, Andrew Bird, Nada Surf and DeVotchKa are among the eight artists to contribute to Songs From The Point!, a new compilation reinventing the music from Harry Nilsson's cult-classic cartoon musical. After its 1971 debut as a made-for-TV movie on ABC, The Point! amassed an adoring following for the sweet soundtrack composed by Nilsson, a songwriter who had previously released a handful of his own albums and written songs for the likes of The Monkees and Three Dog Night. ...  read more

Starbucks V-Day comp to feature She & Him, DCFC, more

This year, Starbucks won't just celebrate Valentine's Day with strawberries 'n' cream frappuccinos and white-chocolate mochas. According to a recent press release, the coffee conglomerate approached "their favorite artists"—including Ben Gibbard, Katy Perry, M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel—and asked them to cover "a tune that's touched their hearts."...  read more

DeVotchKa, Polyphonic Spree, more have a Nightmare

Back in August, Billboard reported that on the 15th anniversary of the release of Tim Burton's beloved Nightmare Before Christmas, a bunch of beloved bands (and, um, Korn) were set to release an album inspired by the animated musical....  read more

Monolith Festival 2008: Day 1

For those who have never been to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, picture an impenetrable mountain fortress. A skyscraper’s worth of stairs runs up and around the main stage, and two towering, triangular rock formations jut forth from the earth, framing an indescribably vast, epic scene....  read more

Lollapalooza Day 2

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Catching Up With... DeVotchKa

Nick Urata, lead singer of the genre-defying group DeVotchKa (pictured above, second from right), is a busy man. When Paste first called him, he was just getting out of a live radio session and understandably needed a bit of downtime before our conversation began. An hour later, and he was ready and rearing to talk about the long hard road that DeVotchKa traveled before their recent success (stemming in part from their contribution to 2006's Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack and their subsequent Grammy nod). ...  read more