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Brad Cook played with Megafaun and Bowerbirds at last night’s show, earning the hard-worker award. And for “The Ticonderoga,” Phil Cook joined Bowerbirds. Bowerbirds, who headlined, closed out their encore (and tour) with all of Megafaun joining them on-stage as they performed a cover of the Rosebuds’ “Hold Hands and Fight,” dedicated the Rosebuds’ Ivan [...]
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Bowerbird’s latest release Upper Air is an enchanting album. But the live experience at their homecoming show with Megafaun last night, which was a triumph. But the surprise, likely stemming from the fact that Phil Moore, Beth Tacular, Mark Paulson and Brad Cook just returned from an extensive tour promoting the album, was how familiar [...]
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Capping off an international tour alongside Bowerbirds, Megafaun returned home to North Carolina playing to a sold-out crowd at Carrboro’s Arts Center. At Saturday’s show, an especially amazing outstanding Megafaun delivered big time. Here’s a clip of there first two songs, the old favorite “Beloved Binge” and, from their barely-month-old new release Gather, Form & [...]
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Vincent Moon’s La Blogotheque has 10 new performances, called the “In a Van Sessions.” It’s like Black Cab Sessions with more space. Among the session are Bowerbirds playing “La Denegracion” and the Rosebuds, who are playing at the Cat’s Cradle tonight, with a cute-as-ever version of “Bluebird.”
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UPDATE: The article also had a link to a video of Frere-Jones interviewing Vernon which you can see here.
New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones takes on one of the biggest indie sensations of 2008 and one of recess’ favorite artists, Bon Iver. It drips of that typical Frere-Jones prose and is just great.
Sometimes I am [...]
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