Eisley, from Tyler, Texas is in Seattle tomorrow, Thursday May 19th for a show at Neumos. The quintet is made up of 4 siblings, Weston DuPree, Sherri DuPree, Stacy DuPree and Chauntelle DuPree plus their cousin, Garron DuPree. Rather than going for an obvious band name of the DuPrees, they chose Mos Eisley, after a […]
Danish artist Oh Land, aka Nanna Øland Fabricius, released her second album, the self-titled Oh Land this year. Oh Land is the follow-up to 2008’s debut album, Fauna, which introduced the singer-songwriter – and former ballet dancer – to Denmark and the world beyond as a unique talent with a beautiful voice. After several years […]
Danish musician Anders Trentemøller‘s got the magic musical touch. His debut LP, 2006’s the Last Resort included a variety of electronic instrumental (mostly) scorchers, including “Evil Dub,” “Always Something Better,” “Nightwalker,” “Chameleon” and “Into the Trees.” Last year Trentemøller changed a key tactic by adding vocalists to several tracks on his follow up, Into the […]
Mike Watt‘s on his third opera. Watt’s first two were 1997’s Contemplating the Engine Room and 2004’s The Secondman’s Middle Stand, and for opera number three, Hyphenated-Man, he drew inspiration from paintings. In order to understand the titles and concept of each song on Hyphenated-Man, you might want to have a look at the Hieronymous […]
You need to know the British artist Plan B. AKA Ben Drew, Plan B started out writing R&B music and then tried his hand at hip hop. His debut, 2006’s Who Needs Actions When You Got Words sprang him into music fans’ collections everywhere. Last year he released The Defamation of Strickland Banks, a different […]