Weekly Roundup

Bonus Roundup: Jan 15 - 21, 2012

01.26.12 | Steve

Let's kick it with another batch of new songs and videos in this week's Bonus Roundup!

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Unearthed Music

Cheyenne Marie Mize - We Don't Need

01.25.12 | Steve

Cheyenne Marie Mize released an eclectic and enjoyable EP We Don't Need that we music fans absolutely do need. Don't miss this one!

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Gigs We Dig

NYC Show: Cass McCombs at the Bowery Ballroom Jan 25th

01.24.12 | Steve

Tomorrow night (January 25th), Cass McCombs will be playing a show at the Bowery Ballroom. He is touring behind his two 2011 releases, Wit's End and Humor Risk. It should be a really good show. Read on more for more details.

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Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: Jan 15 - 21, 2012

01.23.12 | Steve

It's been a crazy week and we weren't able to get this Roundup posted yesterday, but the wait is now over. Here's six new songs for all of you to dig!

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Episodes in Virtuosity

Episodes in Virtuosity: John Williams & John Etheridge

01.23.12 | Dave

In 2006 Sony released an album of two John's - Williams and Etheridge. The former is the legendary classical virtuoso and the latter is an exemplary jazz guitarist. The album's content is a hodgepodge of classical, jazz, world, and a few visits to the places between. The mixing of their own musical languages sounds effortless and having seen them perform I know it can look that way too. These two are marvelously talented and bring their artistry together with an audible joy for the work. 

I listened to this album a lot when it was first released and I've recently found cause to go back and listen again. It's been a refreshing and fortifying revisit and I am happy that I am still moved to smile by this music. This is a guitar players album with a little something for everyone. Taste, technique, tact, and attack, the John's did it right with their album Places Between.

John Williams & John Etheridge: Places Between

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Unearthed Music

Ryan Ferreira

01.21.12 | Dave

Ryan Ferreira is a Brooklyn based guitarist/composer who works with ambient sound. In his own words his artistic ambition is to create " ambient soundscapes that provide a comfortable open environment for the listener." I have been enjoying the simplicity and stasis of his music lately via his webpage and his bandcamp page. Sometimes I am moved to use a lot of words when I hear music. Other times I am not. The compositions of Ryan Ferreira are not asking you to think too hard about what you are hearing, just to interact with it in an unhurried and placid way. 

    

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Gigs We Dig

Norm Sherman CD Release Party TONIGHT!

01.20.12 | Dave

From the oldest epics chiseled onto tablets in the third millennium BC, to the Herculean friezes of Greece and Rome, a man's place in history has always been determined not but the strength of his character or the size of his heart, but by the smell of his fingers, and sound of his guitar. -Norm Sherman

Norm Sherman is the host of the award winning weekly flash fiction podcast The Drabblecast who also brings his spoken wit, sardonic sense of humor, and literary acumen to the stage. His previous album featured classics such as Daddy Drinks Because You Cry and everybody's favorite Everybody's Got Nipples. In celebration of the release of his second album, The Esoteric Order ofSherman, he will be hosting a record release concert with his long time stage partner Dusty Magnum (aka DaveWhoDigs). In addition to the concert, the evenings entertainment will also include variety acts by Paco Fish, Marla Meringue, and a few more surprises to add to the nights rambunctiousness.

The event will be hosted by the good people at the EMP Collective at 306 East Redwood Street in Baltimore MD at 8:00 pm tonight! The space will be also be featuring the art work of Ryan Haase with his collection entitled Night Sweats - A Thousand Ways to Die. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Furthermore, you can follow the event via twitter by way of The Drabblecast and myself, DaveWhoDigs for live updates throughout the evening. There will be burlesque, magic, music, door prizes, and a bathroom obstacle course - what's not to love? Come on out Baltimore and get your weird on with Norm and Dusty.

The Esoteric Order Of Sherman will be available via itunes January 24th.

Norm Sherman: Mongolian Deathworm ( Just Another Lonely Night)

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Weekly Roundup

Bonus Roundup: Jan 8 - 14, 2012

01.19.12 | Steve

Bonus Roundup is way for us to quickly share more of the great music sent our way. I wasn't sure it would become a regular feature but I don't see the submissions of cool songs and videos slowing down any time soon. That's not a complaint.

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Picture In A Frame

Brando and Wax

01.19.12 | Kyle

Marlon Brando. Vinyl. White cat. Wellesian ambiance.

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Mp3s

The Jolly-Boat Pirates

01.16.12 | Dave

The Jolly-Boat Pirates were a free jazz project on Umlaut Records that lasted from 2004-2008. The ensemble was a quartet of three Swedes and one American - They were Niklas Barno on trumpet, Devin Gray on drums, Joel Grip on double bass, and Lars Ahlund on saxophones. Furthermore, their time together happened to coincide with the time of my undergraduate study at the Peabody Institute of Music where they were also studying.

The Jolly-Boat Pirates had a few years on me at the time, I suppose they still do now, but the point is that seeing them perform and hearing this kind of jazz music making felt and sounded like something I had never experienced before. It felt somehow more organic, more open to responding to itself as it created itself. Their live performances had a way of messing with my sense of time. You cannot always tap your foot along in a measured way when you listen to them, but I was engaged in the kind of way that allowed large quantities of time to slip away undetected. I found them to be completely engrossing then, and I still do today. Recently I have re-discovered the first of their two releases and have gotten hooked on their sound all over again.

The Jolly-Boat Pirates: Bro

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