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The pairing of JT Nero (aka Jeremy Lindsay of JT and the Clouds) and Alice Russell (Po’ Girl) in a collective under the name Birds of Chicago is the sort of magnificent union you’re rooting for at a wedding with your eyes cast towards the altar with belief that two beloved friends will complement one [...]
Welcome to The Silver Tongue’s Download Den. Here is where we will pass along the most intriguing and worthwhile songs that we’ve been fortunate enough to discover. Many are songs we’ve been obsessing over, while others simply snuck up and got their hooks in us. We’re not concerned with genre limitations or mere trendiness. We [...]
Matthew Houck, better known as the man behind the exceptional folk/country-tinged rock outfit Phosphorescent, announced that his sixth LP under the Phosphorescent moniker will be released March 19 via Dead Oceans. The album, titled Muchacho, came about during a rough stretch in Houck’s life since releasing 2010′s stunning Here’s to Taking It Easy. A few [...]
Truth For News is the debut album from Rain Over St. Ambrose, a great rock and roll band from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia who are unsung beyond much of their own backyard. I’ve had the record in heavy rotation for several weeks and recently awarded it a four-star rating in my review. It’s an 11-song, straight-ahead [...]
Back in May, two songs from a young London singer-songwriter named L.A. Salami fortuitously made their way into my inbox, and I was immediately enamored on first listen. I wrote of the impression Lookman Adekunle Salami’s effectual voice and impeccable style made on me, and I passed “Jianni’s From Australia (She’ll Get By)” and “We’ll [...]
In case you have yet to hear, Phoenix have finally opened up (if ever so slightly) with news of their wildly awaited follow-up to the 2009 smash, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. On Thursday, Rolling Stone reported that Daniel Glass (the head of Phoenix’s label, Glassnote Records) took to a Spotify event to announce that Phoenix’s new [...]
Quiet Company are a wondrous, hardworking band from Austin, Texas who pack deep personal truths into magnificent arrangements with unshakable choruses, and they are riding a wave of praise thanks to the challenging revelations all over their latest, grandest record, We Are All Where We Belong. The album’s material could easily have befallen polemic suffocation [...]
On Saturday night, Grasscut, the acclaimed duo of Andrew Phillips (music, words, production, vocals, keyboards, guitar) and Marcus O’Dair (management, keyboards, double bass), will be visiting Sebright Arms in London for what should be a thrilling set to ring in the homestretch of live shows to close out 2012. Phillips is a film and television [...]
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