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Damien Jurado, mewithoutyou, Unwed Sailor

Congratulations to Al and Amy who are engaged to be married later in the fall. We celebrated after catching Damien Jurado play an intimate set in Philadelphia’s Unitarian church chapel. The spot holds somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 people. The first show sold out and a second was added and actually had more people than the first. It’s quite a special event to see a quiet singer/songwriter and actually be able to hear the songs without folks talking loudly over their beers in the middle of the set. Laura Gibson opened and it was an impressive set. Was quite a fan of the singing saw, especially. Damien played solo for a rather long set. Always great to see him play. Unwed Sailor wrapped up their spring tour last night in Tulsa after about 4 weeks of touring. Many thanks to all who came out to see them. Johnathon has started a new band with Bryce from Ester Drang and some other Tulsa friends called Native Lights. Their debut show (at least I think their debut) is on 23 May in Tulsa. I’m wrapping up plans for the mewithoutyou vinyl release of It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A…Continue readingDamien Jurado, mewithoutyou, Unwed Sailor

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Did anyone see the latest issue of Harp where Dr. Dog put Bosque Brown Plays Mara Lee Miller in their top 10 for 2006? Oh yeah, go see them rock the Dallas area on 9 February: Baptist Generals, Bosque Brown, Theater Fire, and Doug Burr at the Granada Theater. Saxon Shore have a new demo up on their myspace page and are planning to rock in the attic this weekend. Speaking of top 10 lists, here’s one from James of Yndi Halda (James are you on the plane from the UK yet?): 1. Damien Jurado – And Now That I’m In Your Shadow 2. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar 3. Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go 4. Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche 5. Acid Mothers Temple – Starless and Bible Black Sabbath 6. Black Ox Orkestar – Nisht Azoy 7. Vetiver – To Find Me Gone 8. Joanna Newsom – YS 9. Pajo – 1968 10. Micah P Hinson – And The Opera Circuit Krister from The Magic Lantern and Do You Dream of Noise? has this top 10: Cult of Luna – Somewhere Along the Highway Loscil – Plume Mono/Worlds End Girlfriend – Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain Sickoakes –…Continue reading

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Foxhole’s Push/Pull is reviewed on The Silent Ballet here. I updated the online catalog to add the A Lily cd which is James from Yndi Halda’s ambient side-project and highly recommended. I also added new releases from Damien Jurado, Woven Hand, and the Mono/World’s End Girlfriend split. Take a look and order away. :::scott:::