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Progress Report: The Long Winters -

NAME: The Long WintersPROGRESS REPORT: Recording their fourth full-length album at Electrokitty Recording, Bog Roll Studio, and Two Sticks Audio in Seattle.

"It's been a pretty hilarious process," say Long Winters main guy John Roderick of their transient recording process. Recording the followup to 2006's Putting The Days To Bed,...

The Long Winters Will Hit the Studio in Seattle This Summer - John Roderick and The Long Winters are set to return to the studio this Summer, after a series of shows in July. They'll record around the city of Seattle, in various places including Two Sticks Studio, which is Death Cab for Cutie drummer Jason McGerr's studio. They're going into the studio...

Ralfe Band - Attics/Stumble -

Some songs are immediately easy to get, and others take a few more listens to fully appreciate. Ralfe Band fall into the second category, producing eery, lurching anti-folk and dark, twisting vaudeville, beneath which lurks a fragile, beautiful melody, like the musical equivalent of the misunderstood hero in a Tim...

After Recording with John Vanderslice, Matt Lowell Plays Two Dates in NYC -

In support of his upcoming release, Matt Lowell will be playing Mercury Lounge on Jan. 8th and The Knitting Factory Brooklyn on Jan. 11th. Matt Lowell will be showing off his new sound with songs from his soon to be released EP, co-written with Dead Oceans Recording artist John...

The Broken West, 'Now or Heaven' (Merge) -

This California band's second album begins with the click of a drum machine, which seems like a deliberate departure from their debut's pleasantly anachronistic '70s country rock. But the change is mostly quick and cosmetic: The Broken West have only marginally updated their sound, now nodding to current antecedents like...

The Decemberists: The King Is Dead -

The addition of Gillian Welch as a “backing voice” on a majority of these tracks signifies more than R.E.M. co-founder Peter Buck’s random mandolin and 12-string duties. It’s a decided shift in The Decemberists’ musical vision toward American country music. Singer Colin Meloy is still a stilted English major who...

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