Making Bloomington a better place to live one show at a time
Damien Juardo (singer/songwriter/proud papa to be) stopped by Chicago’s WBEZ studio’s for some chit-chat and to play a few tracks off his stellar new album, Maraqopa. His travels bring him through Bloomington on May 26th at Russian Recording with JBM and Mike Adams At His Honest Weight.
Retribution Gospel Choir recently released a video for “The Stone (Revolution!)”. The video shows the Low side project having fun in the recording studio with a collection of horns and percussion instruments.
RCG are currenrtly on the road in support of their latest release, The Revolution EP, out now on Sub Pop. Their tour brings them to The Bishop tomorrow night with Dreamers of The Ghetto.
Here We Go Magic have released the video for “How Do I Know,” the lead single off of their latest, A Different Ship, out May 8 (which you can stream now in full here via AOL Spinner). The video is directed by Fleet Foxes’ Sean Pecknold and tells the story of a dancing robot being returned to the factory from whence she came.
Here We Go Magic will be at The Bishop on May 16 with Hospitality.
Etherial dream-pop duo Exitmusic have been living on the road as of late, touring with The Joy Formidable and School of Seven Bells, a tour tour that brings them to The Bishop this Sunday. Before venturing out, the duo and their touring band stopped by New York’s Cutting Room Studios to record a live session for Seattle’s venerable KEXP. Enjoy now, enjoy more Sunday.
Gauntlet Hair dropped into the realm of Portland’s Into The Woods.tv to record a wooded version of their song “Light’s Out” for the ‘Far From Home Series.’
The group hits the road this week with a stop at Russian Recording on Saturday night with dance upstart Pictureplane. Watch now, enjoy live later. Tickets $10 adv / $12 dos and available at Landlocked Music and here.
Vermont singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell rose to prominence with the release of her 2010 album Hadestown which featured collaborations with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown and Ben Knox Miller of The Low Anthem. Mitchell is back with her latest, Young Man in America released on her own Wilderland Records label.
She recently stopped by NPR’s World Cafe to talk about the new album and play a few new tracks.
Listen to Anaïs Mitchell on World Cafe
We welcome Anaïs Mitchell to The Bishop on Tuesday April 17th. Tickets are $10 adv / $12 dos and are available at The Bishop and Landlocked Music.
Hanni El Khatib has had quite a ride the past year and a half. The Los Angeles skateboarder cum rocker opened for Florence + The Machine and his cover of Funkadelic’s “I Got A Thing” was heard the world over as part of Nike’s “Chosen” campaign.
The coming year could be even brighter now that The Black Key’s Dan Auerbach has decided to produce his next album.
“A friend owns a bar in Paris and introduced us when I was deejaying after a show,” Khatib told LA Weekly of connecting with the Black Keys member. “He went deep into music and started dropping knowledge about all these obscure L.A. bands. We ended up going back and forth deejaying all night.”
We welcome Hanni to The Bishop Thursday April 19 with The Sundelles and Charlie Wilson’s War. Tickets are $8 and are available at The Bishop and Landlocked Music.
Here We Go Magic are hitting the road this spring in support of their latest album, A Different Ship, hitting stores May 8. We are happy to bring them to The Bishop on May 16 with Hospitality and happier to share new jams with the release of their album’s second single “How Do I Know” via the peeps at AOL Spinner.
Sharon Van Etten and Okkervil River ex-pats Shearwater stopped by the AV Club offices to record an off menu cover of the classic Stevie Nicks / Tom Petty duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” Compare, contrast and enjoy the modern take to the orignal below.
Sharon Van Etten and Shearwater cover “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”
A Place To Bury Strangers recently had their song “So Far Away” given the remix treatment by School of Seven Bells. Compare and contrast the two below and feel free to shout requests for the remix live at A Place To Bury Strangers when they open for The Joy Formidable at The Bluebird March 22 and at School of Seven Bells when they swing by The Bishop April 29.
“So Far Away (School of Seven Bells Remix)”
“So Far Away (OG version)