Weekly Roundup Apr 7 – 13, 2013
Good morning, Dig Nation. Enjoy your Sunday with some nice tunes and videos in the latest Weekly Roundup.
Little Daylight – Name In Lights
Brooklyn electro pop act Little Daylight recently dropped their second single, "Name In Lights." It's a good one.
Three Red Crowns & The Chris Pumphrey Sextet at the Creative Alliance
Good morning Baltimore. This Thursday night at the Creative Alliance is a show that you're not going to want to miss. The featured performers are Three Red Crowns and the Chris Pumphrey Sextet. Tickets and general information can be found here and your RSVP love can be directed toward the facebook event page here. Doors open at 7:30 and the music begins at 8:00.
The Chris Pumphrey Sextet is a favorite of TWD and you should check out our past articles about them here. Meanwhile, Three Red Crowns is the brainchild of Anna Meadors and John Paul Carillo and is an up and coming Baltimore project which boasts an unexpected and expansive cast of instrumentalists. Three Red Crowns represents the best of Baltimore's musical creative class. They are a genre baffling orchestra with rock and roll energy backed up by their palpable compositional and instrumental prowess. The combination of Chris Pumphrey's visceral jazz and Three Red Crowns forward thinking aural and visual performance will prove to be a happening you can't afford to miss.
Read on for more information regarding the event as well as additional music and video from the artists. We'll also show you a sneak peak at TRC's exceedingly hip stop-motion animation video for their piece In The Right Light which they will also be premiering Thursday.
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Weekly Roundup Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2013
Hard to believe it's already the first Weekly Roundup of April. But it's not hard to believe it's got some great music and videos.
Way Yes – Colerain
Way Yes has a new album coming out May 7th called Tog Pebbles. The first single is "Colerain," and it has touched me deeply.
Laura Gibson and Some Thoughts on the Clarinet
Good afternoon Dig Nation. I spent the morning digging through the interwebs admiring videos from one of my favorite female singer/songwriters Laura Gibson when I found a new video for her beautiful song Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed. The song is from her album La Grande which can be purchased here.
Regardless, watching this video set me off on a bit of a diatribe about the clarinet that starts at Laura Gibson and weaves through Glenn Miller, Eric Dolphy, and the Low Anthem. Read on for lots of clarinet laden music listening and then hit up the comments section to let us know what your favorite song featuring the instrument is. You dig?
Read More...Weekly Roundup Mar 24 – 30, 2013
Been delayed getting to this new Weekly Roundup so it's going to be quick, but I hope you dig it nevertheless.
Dark Dark Dark: What I Needed EP
Just before embarking on an extensive European tour this May, TWD favorite Dark Dark Dark is set to release a new EP April 23 entitled What I Needed. In anticipation of this they have released a three song teaser with the superb title track What I Needed front and center.
If you need a reminder of Dark Dark Dark's previous work, check out my past TWD articles about them here. Read on for my full thoughts.
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Show Picks This Weekend 3/29 and 3/30
If you are looking for some shows to see this weekend, I have a pick for tonight and tomorrow featuring friends of the dig. You'll have to read on to see who.
David Pollack
As part of the release of Digcast X, the third installment of my NYC music series, I'm doing feature posts on each band in the podcast. We resume this week with David Pollack, a talented singer-songwriter and producer who primarily plays acoustic guitar and sings. He has loads of experience as a busker and he's gearing up for an exciting slate of releases throughout 2013.