SXSW 2009: Day Four Photos ft. PJ Harvey, Bun B, Gentleman Jesse, White Lies, The Rosebuds and more
Photos taken by Jonathan Jackson (Harvey, Bun B, Kidz, White Lies), Eric Ryan Anderson (Romantica, Bird/Bee, Rosebuds) and Mike White (Gentleman Jesse, Modern Skirts, Octopus) at SXSW... read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsRomantica - "The National Side"
Click above to watch "The National Side" from Romantica's album America, out now. Related links: Romantica on Myspace... read more
Found in: Featured VideosPaste presents: Romantica and The Bittersweets on tour
Once upon a time, a moderately well-known band named Luna released a moderately well-received album entitled Romantica. The album was released back in 2002, and happened to hit stores the same year that the best damn music magazine out there began publication. Two years later, the gorgeously named album inspired singer/songwriter Ben Kyle, an Irishman-cum-Midwesterner, to name his just-formed band Romantica. Three years later, Paste, the magazine birthed the same year as Romantica the album, named the band Romantica's sophomore effort America as number 58 of its Top 100 Albums of 2007. Was it fate that things came in a... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRomantica: America
For anyone worrying that the Americana genre has become a repository of the bad irony of hipsters and has-been quacks, fear not: Romantica is here to save the day... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsRomantica - It's Your Weakness That I Want
This Minnesota band upholds the tradition of earnest, sweet Heartland rock with better-than-average melodic sense, plus effective use of varied instruments... read more
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