Black Swans
Hot on the heels of a split 7” with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, The Black Swans and Misra Records will be releasing Don’t Blame the Stars on May 31st via Bloodshot Records. In 2004, the band formed in Columbus, Ohio, where frontman Jerry DeCicca developed his sound and built up a capacious knowledge of popular music. The Black Swans have five records, and Don’t Blame the Stars is...
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Hot on the heels of a split 7” with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, The Black Swans and Misra Records will be releasing Don’t Blame the Stars on May 31st via Bloodshot Records. In 2004, the band formed in Columbus, Ohio, where frontman Jerry DeCicca developed his sound and built up a capacious knowledge of popular music. The Black Swans have five records, and Don’t Blame the Stars is their 4th LP; their previous records have received high-marks from a wide-range of music reviewers for Pitchfork, Popmatters, Stylus, the Onion A/V Club, Dusted, Harp and Spin.
Pitchfork: "Strange, smart, soulful..."
Dusted: "One of the best, most overlooked new folk records of the psych-folk revival..."
Links:
www.theblackswans.com
http://www.youtube.com/theblackswansband
http://theblackswans.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Black-Swans/240348966463
Ed Askew
Anyone who loves “outsider” folk legends from Tom Rapp to Roy Harper or Gary Higgins to Peter Grudzien knows the name of the legendary bard Ed Askew. His 1968 ESP Record Ask the Unicorn is quite simply one of the era’s finest artifacts, full of lilting, prickly, chiming songs of loss, love and escapism — maybe the gay Astral Weeks for the underground. Around the turn of the century, an equally compelling second album surfaced, Little Eyes, where our hero, armed only with tiple (a sort of latin uke/banjo/guitar), laid out more heartbreaking baroque odes, all recorded in a single continuous take! Recorded for ESP in 1970, it never got past the test pressing stage and was eventually lost, until de Stijil came sniffing some thirty years on.
Imperfiction is now available for the first time on vinyl via Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag City, with vintage photos and liners and sound that will transport fans back to the old days of Askew in all of its seemingly transient glory. For fans of Daniel Johnson, early Jonathan Richman, Smog, Palace Brothers and other lo-fi troubadours
The gravity of those years echoes in Askew’s throat as he sings his way through the brittle, haunted Imperfiction, the rare lost album that genuinely feels adrift. - Pitchfork
Sometimes, but not often, you hear the first few seconds of a song and fall instantly in love. Thats how it was when I heard the first several notes of Deep Water, a cut off the album Imperfiction by Ed Askew. - My Old Kentucky Blog
Links:
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/ed-askew
http://edaskew.bandcamp.com/
Honey Boat-
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BLACK SWANS & ED ASKEW & HONEY BOAT
with guests TBA
8PM
$8.00
18+
www.themetrogallery.net
Buy tickets here:
http://sonar.thundertix.com/venues/8/events/3346
