"Riding a wave of soaring, soothing harmonies, the alt-folk collective Eagle Winged Palace make their full-length debut with the just-out Where We're Coming From. And where, exactly, are these Angelenos coming from? Leader Cashew (ex-Prix) conjures old-timey reveries that evoke California's vanishing pastoral past, buttressed by an all-femme choir of angelic voices." Read the rest at LA Weekly...
The Inaugural Portland Folk Festival announces its preliminary line up!
We're pleased to announce the preliminary line-up for the Portland Folk Festival. With many more performers being added daily, we couldn't wait any longer to share the list of amazing artists who will grace the stages of this year's inaugural festival.
The Portland Folk Festival will offer a rich and diverse sampling of music, art, craft, film, educational workshops and talks in handfuls of fantastic locations in Portland, Oregon August 20-22, 2010. Portland Folk Festival will be held over four days, with a different neighborhood focus each day. Music venues, pubs, galleries and interesting spaces throughout Downtown Portland, Alberta Arts District, Mississippi Avenue and Southeast Portland will host events through the day and night all weekend.
The Portland Folk Festival is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of the world's folk and traditional music, and to the vibrant community, forward-thinking quality of life, and spectacular natural beauty of our treasured home of Portland. With one foot firmly rooted in preserving and celebrating the lessons of the past, and one in working toward a sustainable future, we are dedicated to the study, evolution, expression and celebration of the music of the people. This is a wonderful opportunity for the community of Portland to come together and discover a world of music that's happening in their own backyard
Tickets for Portland Folk Festival are being sold online for $45. You will receive a badge that will get you into every show and event during the festival. Tickets for individual concerts will be available through each venue's online box office or at the door day of show.
Many more performers and exciting events will be announced in the coming weeks! The full schedule of activities will be available July 1st.
Preliminary Lineup:
"Being in a place where there's not a lot of music industry drives an art-for-art's-sake or music-for-music's-sake type of attitude about it that definitely plays an underlying role in the scene here," said keyboardist and vocalist Eric Gilbert. "We really like living in Idaho, and we weren't convinced we had to leave in order to make it in the music business."
Give Wake (Keep This Town Alive) a listen, read the whole story, and then check them out on tour all over the country this summer!
We couldn't be more thrilled that both of these amazing releases are out today! Please get in touch for your digi-copies, and check out the upcoming dates for ((Eagle Winged Palace)). ALSO! Perhaps you might be interested in jamming and/or sharing MP3s from these fine folks?
((Eagle Winged Palace)): "Movin' On To Avalon" MP3:
http://www.riotactmedia.com/mp3/movinontoavalon.mp3
Holy Hail: "Riverine" MP3:
http://www.riotactmedia.com/artists/mp3/riverine.mp3
WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING ABOUT HOLY HAIL:
"A mix of rock ‘n roll, hip-hop and electronic, the band continues to challenge both genre conventions and the stereotypical male-female vocal dynamic (which has become prevalent in most indie), using their lyrics not to whisper sentiments, but to fearlessly mark their presence." Aux TV naming them one of the best new bands from NYC
"[Holy Hail] are like one of those mixed-sex, rad-fem collectives from the late-70s/early-80s UK post-punk scene, all runty grooves and righteous lyrics." the Guardian UK
"Holy Hail are intricate enough to avoid the overt, and there's a distance to the EP in its echoes, from the epic call of opener "Riverine" on through." QRO Magazine
"The group sounded very promising, combining melodies reminiscent of early Arcade Fire with a sound all their own." the New Montreal
“Riverine” stuck out to me, like a truly New Yorkian indie record, but with a hint of old west swagger." Pop Wreckoning
"Unlike say Coldplay or something who sound so perfect all the time that its like not even music, it just comes straight out of the music cyborg-mother’s womb-drive fully formed. Holy Hail doesn’t sound like that. They don’t sound slick, they sound strategic." 'Sup Magazine
WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING ABOUT ((EAGLE WINGED PALACE)):
"Enter Eagle Winged Palace, the latest in a line of those following in Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe’s wandering footsteps. Leaning more on the harvest golden tint of things than Anton’s penchant for violence, Eagle Winged Palace is no less spooky."--Glorious Noise
"Reverberating harmonies of the retro-1960s sort that we love EWP for."--Radio Free Silverlake
"...ghostly, sun-kissed"--Raised on Indie
"“Timber” is constructed of acoustic guitar and fragile, haunting harmonies."--Ears Wide Open
"This video's melting film feel melts in perfectly with the song Eagle Winged Palace has delivered us. A soft fear might creep up your back, and it might also rock you to sleep. "--Indie Rock Reviews
"Like Brian Wilson, these guys love harmony and revel in both the simple joy of a sound, and the power that comes from intricate layering. With Hosannas, though, there’s something far more dissonant to what they are doing. Even as the melodies are warm and inviting, the sounds around them cool and spread out, adding a lonesome air to even the biggest, most bracing tracks."
"The full-length debut, Songs for the Ravens (just out on Davis-based Crossbill Records), reveals folk-tinged indie-pop that's so disarmingly sweet and guileless, so tender in its pleas for emotional connection that it can soften the hardest of hearts, or penetrate the toughest of filters." LA Weekly
"A skirling, swooping, fuzzy, cuddly guitar blanket fills out the sound and hints at a Pixies/Breeders influence. Rumors in Disguise opens with "1984," which brought me back, emotionally, to 1994. It could have been a Belly song. Shell sings with a tenor voice that has just a touch of plumy depth to it, and he enunciates with pleasurably expressive variability. Shag's voice is pitch perfect indie-rock chick: a little spray of gravel, no vibrato, a cool high chest voice. When they sing together, I'm in heaven." Missoula Independent
The K Singles Zip-Pak, is a series of underground singles delivered directly to virtual doorsteps every week via the wonders of electronic mail and the World-Wide Web. A year’s subscription to the K Singles Zip-Pak means hundreds of new favorite songs arriving effortlessly, a serious noisy pop rockin’ overdose. It's like a portable pirate radio station, AM-style: no post-rock, no Dad-rock, just endless screaming, crying and carrying on compressed into bite-sized chunks of three minute pop songs.
Finn Riggins is one of those rare bands that lives for the road... they crave it.
Summer 2010 Tour dates:
"Idaho’s Finn Riggins, on the other hand, was anything but boring. A variety of chord progressions, noises, instruments, styles and math-y beats comprised the trio’s eccentric sound, all performed pretty deftly Thursday night." Las Vegas City Life
"Finn Riggins approached their latest album, Vs. Wilderness, with consideration for how each song would translate in a live setting. The result is a raucous and unpredictable collection of material that achieves an invigorating immediacy … and fairly mirrors their raucous and unpredictable live show." Seven Days
"You can go see them live and just dance-off, or you can listen in to a fine set of observations of the American experience. What you can’t do is ignore it: This is infectious, relentless and the only performance/album I’m reviewing in several years that’s a 7 out of 7." Oregon Public Broadcasting
"Wake (Keep This Town Alive)," off last year's Vs. the Wilderness, a tune that fuses their love of Idaho-style indie rock (they recently supported Built to Spill at the Showbox) and long-hair rockers from the '70s." Seattle Weekly
"Finn Riggins, with their joyfully eccentric indie-pop workouts that juxtapose XTC, Blondie and the Poster Children, might not yet attract the kind of scenester crowd that flocks to the latest Sonic Youth- or Slowdive-inspired outfit, but the band’s calculated harmonies and impressive poly-rhythms are irreverent and beautiful, as are the group’s quirky lyrics." Boulder Weekly
"Growing up it was like, “pretty good for a girl” and all that bullshit and I feel like that’s kind of gone now." Jennifer Shagawat from Shellshag, click to read the full interview!
Loch Lomond's West Coast tour kicks off tonight in Portland at Mississippi Studios! You can download and share their new single, "Ghost Of An Earthworm", now.I was lucky enough to catch their intimate warm-up set last night and the band just blew me away. There are very few bands that can match their intricate arrangements and intensity in a live setting. If you're on the West Coast, this is a must see...
Tour Dates:
2010 is the year of Archeology! On the successful heels of their debut album, Memorial, Archeology hits the road to bring their harmonious songs to the United States at large. Live, rooms are silenced when their voices join one another on stage. Their songs, seductively sparse, couple pop hooks with barren Americana for a sound that seems unearthed, dusted off and made anew. The band is available for interviews, photo shoots and in-studio performances, please do get in touch!
Watch the video for "White Walls"
Download the mp3 of "By the By"
"Memorial is an engaging collection of decidedly secular songs that fall somewhere between twee indie sing-alongs, campfire hymnals, and slices of rustic Americana." Filter
"Having been compared to Death Cab for Cutie, the band evokes the same spirit and feeling as Band of Horses intermixed with hints of the Shins. Their easygoing notes and smooth voices slowly crescendo to form a bold surge of emotion." Oregon Music News
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