Out today @respektor What We Saw … @rolling stone said Regina Spektor has become her generation’s Joni Mitchell – a singer-songwriter who nail-guns emotional truths between wisecracks. Her latest, even tighter and more flamboyant than 2009’s Far, may be her best.
Vows is out today! by @kimbramusic
If you missed @respektor on @latenight with David Letterman!
Ever since Nickel Creek went on “indefinite hiatus” in 2007, Chris Thile has gotten more attention than the other two members of the progressive-bluegrass band. Yet even as Thile has been exploring virtuosity with Punch Brothers, Sara Watkins has been fiddling away at her own explorations.
“Sun Midnight Sun,” her second solo album, draws from deep traditional roots, but its branches reach from an ominously frantic version of “You’re the One I Love” (which the Everly Brothers recorded in 1964) to the nearly seven minutes of increasingly bitter writhing that make up “When It Pleases You” (written by Adele’s favorite songsmith of late, Dan Wilson).
Watkins is, it almost goes without saying, in beautiful voice and agile bow throughout, and producer Blake Mills never gives her or the music too much tasteful sheen.
“Sun Midnight Sun” shines with a brisk, memorable gorgeousness that makes a Nickel Creek reunion seem almost undesirable. - Jon M. Gilbertson
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Listen to @erichutchinson new record Moving Up Living Down
NEW INTERVIEW
“I love it here,” Eric Hutchinson raves about living in Manhattan, his home for the past five years and, he says, a primary influence on the making of his latest LP, Moving Up Living Down (Warner Brothers Records). “I’d write songs all day in my little studio in New York and I’d go out at night and eat, drink, and soak up some inspiration.”
Much like the urban energies and nightlife diversions it draws from, the album emanates no shortage of uplifting rhythms and effervescent pop, folk, and R&B distinctions. As a follow-up to his debut, Sounds Like This, which topped the Billboard Heatseekers chart upon its release in 2007 and has sold over a quarter of a million copies to date, it’s solid and soulful.
Read more: http://blogcritics.org/music/article/an-interview-with-eric-hutchinson/#ixzz1uOSlLCPs
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