For
Sam Beam, the impressively bearded man behind Iron & Wine, the
transition from the spare, intimate folk that made his name in
alternative-music circles to playful, lushly fleshed-out songs with
an African flair was not something that gave him pause.
"It would just be kind of lame to do the same record over and over again, don't you think?" he said in a phone interview last week. "I can get bored real fast, to be honest."
For
many musicians starting out, a day job is a means to support that
which they love.
The first thing you're likely to notice about Keith Lynch's voice is that it often sounds like Kurt Cobain's.
The
Daytrotter hive is in the middle of three heavy weeks of recording
sessions and shows. We're welcoming to the studio Margot & the
Nuclear So & Sos, Miles Benjamin, Centro-matic, The M's,
Cryptacize, Ben Sollee, Nik Freitas, Weinland, Snowblink, and Dan
Goodman this week. If anyone would like to purchase any wares from
these bands - vinyl, T-shirts, etc. - let us know at
(daytrotter@gmail.com) and we can try to coordinate this. Helping
these bands out any way possible is always appreciated.
Martin
Dosh, a frequent collaborator with Andrew Bird and a member of his
live band, makes electronic music that doesn't sound the least bit
electronic.
In their song "Old Salt Wells," the honky-tonk musicians of the Alkali Flats - based out of Sacramento, California - perform an up-tempo ode to the titular establishment, described in one of songwriter Tim White's lyrics as "the place where I first fell in love." It begins: "If you ever get the notion / That you'd like to see some motion / And you really wanna have yourself a ball / There's a roadside attraction / That'll give you satisfaction / They let it all hang out and that ain't all."
It's a busy day for Daphne Willis.
Kent Burnside is the grandson of blues legend R.L. Burnside, the nephew of blues musicians Duwayne and Dan Burnside, and the cousin of blues performer Cedric Burnside. Yet during a recent phone interview, the 36-year-old Kent recalls that when he decided to finally embark on his own professional blues career in 2006, his inspiration for doing so wasn't one of his famed family members.
The
first sound on the EP Nothing
Without You has the
full-throated force of Robert Plant, and it leaves a strong
impression.
If
you want to see the full extent of Ben Kenney's talent, check out
his video for "Eulogy."
