Warpaint

Warpaint at Bumbershoot, 2011

In these dark winter nights filled with reports of the deaths of great men, we receive this happy, best-possible-outcome, best-of-all-worlds news - Warpaint are releasing a new album, which of course means a supporting tour will be in the works.  Back in the summer of 2011, they sold out The Earl before I bought my tickets, but seeing them that year at Bumbershoot was one of the highlights of that year's festival. 

Here's their song Biggy from the forthcoming album, sounding as luminous and harmonic as ever.   

Okay, here's another track from the new album as well:

Another Courtney Barnett Post

And I'll keep posting them until she gets a chance to play here. For God's sake, will somebody please bring this girl to Atlanta?!!!

Pickwick

Pickwick at The Earl (with  Basia Bulat), April 30, 2013

Oh, look.  Our old friends Pickwick, the best band you've never heard of, just recorded a Daytrotter session, which you can listen to or download if you're a member.

Enjoy.

Friends, Recalled

Friends at The Earl, July 5, 2012

Typhoon

If you're a fan or orchestral folk-rock, you know, bands like Beirut, Lost In The Trees, Fanfarlo, and Shearwater, or, if you live in Atlanta, Little Tybee and Oryx & Crake (if you live in San Francisco, Family Crest, I suppose), and you haven't yet heard Portland's Typhoon, arguably the best of all of them, then prepare yourself because you're in for a real treat.

Here they are, all 11 of them, in an August 29 session at Oregon Public Broadcasting.