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Venice is Sinking: Sand & Lines: The Georgia Theater Sessions

An atmospheric tribute to an Athens landmark Sand & Lines is a haunted album. It was recorded in Athens’ famed Georgia Theatre—and nudged into existence by Theater owner Wilmot “Wil” Greene, who volunteered the venue as studio space—a little more than a year before the venerable music house went up in flames in June 2009. Using Cowboy Junkies’ legendary Trinity Session as inspiration, the local dream-pop group set up camp around two microphones for four days, holding themselves to a live blueprint with no overdubs or extraneous studio effects. The result is somber, pastoral and startlingly visceral, capturing the careful...  read more

Best Music of 2010 (So Far): Rachel Dovey, Assistant Editor

On day six of our Best Music of 2010 (So Far), I give you some jazz, some country, some pinball-machine samples...  read more

Watch Venice Is Sinking's Music Video for "Okay"

Click above to watch the music video for "Okay," from Venice Is Sinking's album, Azar.  read more

A Good Cause that Rocks: Indie Bands Turn to Kickstarter for Financial Help

Being in a young, indie band is tricky stuff: Try to stay afloat on your own, and you're eating Ramen for every meal of your tour and peddling your personal possessions to buy gas for the van. Try to make a little extra cash here and there, and you may end up with a Band of Horses type debacle. But instead of selling plasma for $30 a pop or tap-dancing on street corners for spare change to press a few more LPs, scantily funded artists are hitting up an innovative new website that puts the power to help out in...  read more

Venice is Sinking: Azar

On Azar, Venice is Sinking’s goal seems to have been to create...  read more