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Free Basin’ Fridays – Diana Darby “I V (Intravenous)” LP Giveaway!

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

TGIFBF! It’s Free Basin’ Friday! This week we couldn’t be more stoked to give away a LP copy of Diana Darby’s IV. 

Diana Darby’s I V (intravenous) is a brand new album of songs that have passed through seven years of fire in a real life, retaining what Pitchfork called “minimal, whispered rendition(s)” of “powerfully fatalistic evaluations of hope.”

I V follows in the footsteps of three critically acclaimed releases and continues Darby’s unique ability to create beautiful and scary confessional tapestries, full of “fine lyrics and stellar arrangements” (Pop Matters). It is sure to reconnect Darby to her loving cult — and entrance an entirely new crowd of noir-folk fans with her deceptively lovely songcraft.

Though living in Nashville for the past several years, Darby returned to New York in 2011 to record new songs inspired by a staggering amount of deeply challenging circumstances. Her guitar and vocal tracks were cut live from ferociously focused single takes. Additional instruments and harmonies were added back home. The result is a nuanced, intense, gorgeous full-length album with top-notch studio players (Viktor Krauss, Dan Dugmore, and David Henry) adding to Diana’s vision.

The rare combination of chillingly evocative musicianship, coupled with Diana’s voice and words has produced a fourth album that is anunforgettable psychotropic journey.

Leave a comment below with your name and email (kept private) for your chance to win! Winner will be announced next Friday.

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NEWS BONANZA!

Monday, November 19th, 2007

You know with all this press rolling on in, one of these days we’re all going to be able to move out of Matt Sullivan’s parent’s house and in to strangely similar looking condos. Hell, they might even turn the electricity on, so we can actually heat up our frank ‘n’ beans straight out the can.

Jesus almighty, here’s hoping.

Oh shit, turn off the lights there’s an auditor at the door.

We’ll hide, you take a gander at these press scans:

SEATTLE MAGAZINE/SKYSCRAPER (The Blakes)

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KITCHEN SINK (Karen Dalton; ed. This is a beautifully written piece)

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PLAN B/TOKION (Summer Records Anthology)

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Good stuff!


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OS MUTANTES ON THE FADER MIX ALBUM!

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Os Mutantes, our favorite Brazilian psyche-rock band are some talented, influential motherfuckers.  We truly don’t show them enough love here at The News Page but starting today we’re going to try and do better.

You’ve probably heard of the magazine The Fader right? Beautiful cover photography, solid content, some pretty impressive reviews?  Well, each and every month they release a mix-album with there most current issue, highlighting some great bands from the past, present, and future (don’t ask).  This month, our little Brazilians found themselves a spot on the list for there enjoyable as hell cut, “A Minha Menina”.  Oh and by the way, did we mention that the album is completely and totally free?

‘Cause it is.  Just go to THIS WEBPAGE, click a few buttons and like robot-magic, it’s all yours.

The rest of the tracklisting looks like this:

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TSK’S TILSON IN SEATTLE SOUND

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Tilson. Oh Tilson. How we and the world love you so.

But really what can we say that does better justice to his musical and personal greatness then showcase, for you, this positively positive piece in the most recent issue of Seattle Sound Magazine.

Who couldn’t love a smiling face like that?

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We find it most entertaining that Tilson takes the writer to a Shell station to buy a doo-rag.

Ah hah hah.

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The Blakes CMJ Pictures!

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

We wish we could’ve flown each and every single one of your, our FAN-tastic fans all out the Big ‘ole Rotten Apple for the two nights of CMJ. We wish we could piled you up on a big old jet airliner and sent you out in support of your, and ours, favorite boozy rock-trio, The Blakes, as they jammed out two shows for public consumption. God, how we wish you could’ve heard the boys tweak their songs in to gentle acoustic slices of beauty on Friday at Planetary, only to come back in a fog of distorted gee-tar for round two at The Cake Shop on Saturday. We wish, we wish, we wish – but we’re a fledgling record company with only enough money for our fantastic bands, so stop being so fucking greedy.

Instead just look at these great pictures from the various shows!

Live KEXP Showcase @ The Hit Factory (photos by: Doron Gild)

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Black Angels are “At War”

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Once again our stupid government has got itself involved in a conflict, seemingly only for the purpose of drawing attention from the buffoon in office and the mess he’s making of our international and domestic policies.  There’s going to be a lot of films in the years to come documenting the different levels of this soon-to-be acknowledged catastrophic fuck-up by the higher ups, as there well should be.   Scott Kesterson, a Portland documentarian spent a year of his life embedded with a unit, amongst the violence and sadness and tragedy that a conflict like this brings to any and all involved.  For that reason alone you should check out his film At War…

… and it doesn’t hurt that the trailer for the film features “Young Men Dead” by our favorite Austin rock-and-roll gods, The Black Angels.   Seriously, with musical taste like that, director Scott Kesterson must’ve made a good movie.  Take a looksie for yourself, you won’t be disappointed.

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Starbucks loves Nicole Willis

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Corporate coffee giant Starbucks, no matter what you think of them, puts out a surprisingly diverse selection of music at their nauseatingly aesthetic stores. Seemingly, their next big step in conquering all facets of the Universe is building an I-Tunes page solely dedicated to the music they sell, and the music they feel fits the ‘Coffeehouse Sound‘.

Turns out our very own Finnish crooner Nicole Willis (and those irascible Soul Investigators) fits the stringent qualifications of the ‘coffeehouse sound’ and is being featured, sort of, on the Starbucks I-Tunes page.

If you just pop on over to the Starbucks I-Tunes page and scroll down to the bottom of the page, and take a gander at the ‘For Your Collection’ section, there she is, Nicole Willis – Starbucks Goddess.

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Betty, oh, Betty

Friday, August 31st, 2007

In all the hype of Bumbershoot and the release of the new Blakes EP, and the upcoming release of the Summer Records Anthology, I’ve neglected someone I truly love:

Betty Davis.

Sweet, sweet Betty Davis, with her window-rattling funk bass, and her take-no-shit-from-you holler. How could I ever forget you? I haven’t, and neither should you because of the rest of the world certainly has not.

BET.com recently placed Miss Davis in their Top 25 Countdown, quoting Carlos Santana in saying, ‘Madonna is more like Marie Osmond compared to Betty Davis. [She] was a real ferocious Black Panther woman. I can see why Miles was very attracted to her.’

Uh huh. You got that right. And that’s not all.

Rhino Records, purveyors of wonderful re-issues from every corner of music history, deemed They Same I’m Different as one of their Rhino Recommends album, saying, ‘Among ’70s Funk aficionados, Betty Davis is something of a Fakahatchee Orchid: truly rare, exquisite, and without peer.’ You can read the whole, exquisitely written review right here.

Just wanted to remind you: the world loves Betty Davis, and so do we.

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The Blakes Spin.com Artist of the Day!

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Yup, you read that right. Our very own, newest of new signees, The Blakes have been picked by Spin.com as their Artist of the Day, a prestigious honor previously bestowed on great bands like The Pharmacy and No Age.

A quote from Spin.com, ahem:

‘Soak the Kinks in cheap booze, reignite the Stooges’ strut and add some modern Strokes of ambition, and you have the Blakes. The jagged and glassy-eyed “Two Times” (written in seven minutes) peaks with an enraptured chant of “Shake shake shake,” while the polished “Don’t Bother Me” elevates on a fluid glide aboard an invisible jet. The Blakes play gritty-yet-hazy rock music, a throwback to a more vagabond era.’

With all this buzz building, The Blakes show at Bumbershoot (Sound Transit Stage, Monday September 3rd) is going to be cuh-razy. Seriously, like a strait jacket.

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Are The Coen Brothers Black Angels Fans?

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Seems like it, as the brand spanking new red-band trailer for their absolutely awesome looking adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men features The Black Angels’ ‘Young Men Dead’. Anything involving the Coen Brothers is cause for celebration, but the Coen Brothers plus The Black Angels? Well, there isn’t even words to describe how awesome it is.

For all of you over the age of 17 (sorry kiddies) you can view the trailer here. Just click on the blood stain in the corner.

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