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Live at Paste: Jolie Holland

By Culture Clubbers on 7:00 AM on January 8, 2009

Click above to watch a live performance of "Mexico City" from Jolie Holland's album The Living and the Dead, out now on ANTI-. Related links: Review: Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead Jolie Holland on Myspace...  read more

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Album Stream: Listen to the ANTI 2008-2009 Sampler

By Culture Clubbers on 7:00 AM on November 18, 2008

Click above to listen to the 2008-2009 artist sampler from ANTI. The album features songs from DeVotchKa, Man Man, Xavier Rudd, Nick Cave and many more. Related Links: ANTI Official Site...  read more

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Catching Up With... Jolie Holland

By Michael D. Ayers on 7:00 AM on October 14, 2008

Jolie Holland has long existed in the shadows of other singer-songwriters. Maybe it all comes down to her voice: There’s a unique quality to it that can be initially off-putting to some, but once you’ve spent time with it...  read more

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Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead

By Stephen M. Deusner on 3:00 PM on October 10, 2008

Holland enjoys herself on fourth albumJolie Holland writes songs packed like retablos with autobiographical details and Dia de los Muertos figures, but it’s her voice that animates them. She slurs her words and blurs her phrasing, chewing her consonants and creating a distinctively drunken drawl. Holland’s fourth—and perhaps best—album (featuring contributions from collaborator M. Ward and guitarist Marc Ribot) foregoes the smoky speakeasy atmosphere of 2006’s Springtime Can Kill You for a more contemporary roots sound, which provides a more evocative backdrop for her signature vocals. Despite singing such despairing lyrics, she sounds more commanding and confident than ever on...  read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You

By Geoffrey Himes on 12:00 AM on May 23, 2006

Retro-minded songwriter’s latest suffers from vague ideas, blurry edges  read more

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Signs of Life 2004

By Paste Staff on 12:00 AM on December 22, 2004

While it’s easy to imagine the sounds of Holland’s second album floating from your grandma’s old phonograph, there’s little nostalgia here...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Jolie Holland - Escondida

By Dave Sims on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Jolie Holland’s voice is a gorgeous, ancient thing, round and dulcet as Satchmo’s muted trumpet, distinct and self-assured like an antique bell in a church window...  read more

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Jolie Holland

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on February 1, 2004

It isn’t much, this tiny cubbyhole in the back of a four-room San Francisco apartment. Crammed with countless collectibles, plus a vintage player piano and several toy accordions, it’s barely big enough to house necessities like a bed, stereo system and writing desk...  read more

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Jolie Holland - Catalpa

By Andy Whitman on 12:00 AM on February 1, 2004

The sound conjures up images of dusty Delta roads and cotton fields, Alan Lomax out in front of a tarpaper shack with a field microphone and a primitive tape recorder capturing for posterity the songs of an obscure blues master...  read more

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