print
Ryan Adams, DiFranco, Thile, more to play Telluride fest
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals and Arlo Guthrie have been added to the lineup of the 35th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, to take place June 19-22 in Telluride, Colo. In addition to headliners Adams and Guthrie, this year’s festival features an impressive mix of up-and-coming artists and veteran performers. Southern songbird Tift Merritt, former Nickel Creek member Chris Thile and his band the Punch Brothers, and indie veteran Ani DiFranco will take the Telluride stage, as will Oscar darlings Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, The Swell Season. Hansard will also be playing with his band The Frames, in one of... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSpring proves to be a Swell Season for live dates
Still basking in their Oscar glow, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova recently announced that they will embark on a U.S. tour with their band, the Swell Season. The tour that launches in April will hit Coachella, Bonnaroo and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Also highly notable is their May 19 stop at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. April 23 - Phoenix, Ariz. @ the Orpheum Theatre 25 - Indio, Calif. @ Coachella 26 - Oakland, Calif. @ Paramount Theatre 27 - Eugene, Ore. @ McDonald Theatre 28 - Portland, Ore. @ Portland Center for the Arts 30 - Seattle, Wash.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBonnaroo 2008 announces initial music/comedy lineup
Hot off the presses and smashed into one beautifully cluttered hot mess of a paragraph, here are the confirmed musical artists performing at Bonnaroo 2008: Pearl Jam, Metallica, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Phil Lesh & Friends, My Morning Jacket, The Allman Brothers Band, The Raconteurs, Willie Nelson, Death Cab for Cutie, B.B. King, Sigur Rós , Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road, Ben Folds, O.A.R., The Bluegrass Allstars Feat. Luke Bulla, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton, M.I.A., Umphrey's McGee, Iron & Wine, Yonder Mountain String Band, Swell... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCatching Up With... Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard had already established himself as a man of musical integrity before 2007. As the singer and guitarist of The Frames, he forged his way into many independent music loving hearts. But following the release of a little film called Once... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesCoachella '08 line-up announced, All Points West confirmed
After an agonizing weekend waiting for updates on the official Coachella '08 roster, Goldenvoice president Paul Tollett finally threw us a gigantic friggin' bone on Monday afternoon at a press conference in Mexico City, announcing the honest-to-goodness, no-for-serious-this-time list of bands that will travel to Indio, Calif. on April 25, 26 and 27 for three days of fun, funk, Frisbee and lots and lots of dancing. Friday night's headliners are Jack Johnson, The Verve and Raconteurs; Saturday's are Portishead, Kraftwerk (Tollett: "If you haven't noticed, we're a fan of the robots."), Death Cab for Cutie and Café Tacuba; Sunday's are... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Artists Den features Josh Ritter, The Swell Season, more
Josh Ritter live from the L.A. Natural History Museum? Fountains of Wayne playing to a capacity crowd on a 100-year-old ship? To see live broadcasts of these and other emerging and established musical acts playing in unconventional concert venues across North America and Europe, tune into the new weekly Ovation TV series, Live From the Artists Den, airing Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST. The show premiered this past Sunday (Jan. 13) with a special sneak preview episode featuring Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall (she of, amongst other things, the ubiquitous, 2006 hit “Suddenly I See”) performing with a five-piece band at... read more
Found in: Music, NewsOnce arrives on DVD next week
With a low budget and a largely amateur cast, Once has improbably triumphed on the railways of film to become the little docu-drama that could. In 2007, the movie walked away with the Sundance Film Festival's coveted Audience Award, launched stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová on a U.S. tour, and even snagged a cozy number two spot on Paste’s year end film list. Now, having traveled up and down the hills of indie success, the film can finally come to rest with you at home. Director John Carney’s extraordinary movie is set to be released on DVD with extras... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWild Sweet Orange releases EP, tours
Wild Sweet Orange. It sounds like something you would find growing next to the road as you drive through the Florida country side. But the guys that comprise this band are from Birmingham, Ala., and their sound is a far cry from the campy island tunes that saturate Floridian coastline hotels. On Tuesday, the soft and insightful indie-rock group released its EP, The Whale. The band is signed to Canvasback Music, the same label that has brought us Manchester Orchestra, Annuals and Swell Season. The band kicked off its tour yesterday. Dates: November 7 - Portland, Ore. @ Roseland Grill*... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSwell Season returns Once more
Once seems like such an improper name for a film that you want to watch over and over again. With a touching love story intertwined with beautiful songs, John Carney’s modern-day musical has become the indie-success story of the year. It’s been so successful, in fact, that lead musicians, Glen Hansard (from The Frames) and Marketa Irglova, have had to take the movie soundtrack on the road. Under the name Swell Season, Hansard and Irglova have already toured the U.S. performing the film's sweet melodies. Now, they are coming back for seconds. The tour started yesterday (Nov. 5) in Seattle... read more
Found in: Music, News
The 20 Best Gadgets of the Decade…
The 17 Best Romantic Comedies This Decade
The 50 Best Albums of the Decade…
The 25 Best Movie Performances of the…
Blind Pilot - The Story I Heard
Kim Taylor - Days Like this
B.O.B. - Put Me On
Gregory Alan Isakov - The Moon Song
Punch Brothers - Punch Brothers at CMJ
Anya Marina - Whatever You Like
David Bazan - Hard To Be
