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Here's the last song of our house show with Damien Jurado last night in Colorado Springs.
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Here's the last song of our house show with Damien Jurado last night in Colorado Springs.
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All this discussion on whether or not Slowcoustic is done, over, and complete is unwarranted. "
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Friday night's Noise Pop Festival offered a chance to see a clash of styles within a couple blocks of each other, both in terms of the music played and the venues.
Read MoreEarly last year (!!!) We Are Augustines released the single for Chapel Song which has a lovely B-Side of Damien Jurado's Ohio. It is a beauty if I had to say.
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Kristian Matsson and Amanda Hollingby Matsson aka The Tallest Man On Earth and Idiot Wind aka husband and wife are the near perfect pair.
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Song obsessions are those songs that your brain picks for you, those ear worms that get stuck in your head and have you singing them to yourself or going back to hit repeat on your ipod.
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Christmas is a social occasion, a time to be with family and friends.
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But it's also November and according to the folk in the air-conditioned refuge of the Austin Visitors Bureau's Airstream trailer - everything here happens in Airstream trailers - this heat is unseasonable.
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Now he's announced a solo tour of North America in October to support the record, with dates opened by Advance Base (f/k/a Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) and Damien Jurado.
Read MoreDirector Tyler Kalberg's "Museum of Flight" was filmed during Damien Jurado's recent five-week tour of Europe.
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If you had never heard Damien Jurado's previous albums before going to his show at Johnny Brenda's Sunday night, you would not have known that his performance did not reflect his typical style.
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He husks his woes, others' woes, and invented woes over minor chords, strummed slowly as they reluctantly fill the air.
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Seattle native Damien Jurado has strayed from the twangy guitar-picking on Rehearsals for Departure and the alt-electric rock on I Break Chairs to meld together a myriad of influences for his latest record, Maraqopa.
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I discovered/remembered the other day via a random search in my iTunes library about the Damien Jurado demo for "Nothing Is The News" on his new album, Maraqopa.
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Song obsessions are those songs that get stuck in your head.
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WHAT YOU WON'T notice on first listen is how stunningly simple the songs on Damien Jurado's Maraqopa are.
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Seattle songwriter Damien Jurado has been making exceptionally good music for a very long time.
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Sometimes you just listen to Abbey Simmons.
Read MoreA lot of producers can do "atmosphere," but Richard Swift goes a step further, engineering tracks to evoke a strong sensation of physical presence.
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As far as I'm concerned, Richard Swift is batting a thousand in 2012 and the latest project his ears and hands have graced, Pure Bathing Culture 's self-titled debut EP is another home-run.
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This should need no introduction around these parts.
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Just in case you all missed it when I mentioned it on Twitter the other day (and why aren't you following me on twitter?) – but Kim Janssen recently performed for the Onder Invloed project (translates to "Under the Influence" for us pesky English types).
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Since his first in-studio appearance back in 2003, Seattle songwriter Damien Jurado has been a frequent guest on the Morning Show and even wrote the "John in the Morning" theme, which you'll hear promptly at 6AM every weekday.
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I did not collect sports cards except in my early teens, when I lugged around a binder of Pro Set hockey cards.
Read MoreOn June 5, singer/songwriter Laura Burhenn's 1960's-recalling project, the Mynabirds , will follow up 2010's exquisite What We Lose in the Fire, We Gain in the Flood with a new album, GENERALS , via Saddle Creek.
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A couple years ago, I reviewed Damien Jurado's phenomenal Saint Bartlett after the fine folks at Secretly Canadian sent us a copy.
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It would be wrong to say that Damien Jurado is approaching musical maturity – he's always sounded mature.
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Damien Jurado sat down to perform two new songs off his forthcoming album acoustic.
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Soundwave reinvents a sample from Black El's "The Ride" , and Lamar finds the bassline, the feeling at its heart.
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"Nothing Is The News" – was nearly twice as long as this second single.
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Damien Jurado and his cracked, wavering voice won me over.
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Damien Jurado's latest track called "Museum of Flight" is a pleasant, mellow acoustic strum with soft drumming, and light fills of synth and guitar.
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In the video for " Nothing Is The News ," the languid psych-rock first single from Damien Jurado's new album Maraquopa , a couple flees from a gang of baseball bat-wielding miscreants.
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Today's song is a sneak peak at the new Damien Jurado album due out next month.
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Damien Jurado's last album, Saint Bartlett , has slowly become my favorite in his 15 year discography.
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"First came the scream and blood on the floor, the alcohol and the magazines I have been chilled, haunted and intrigued ever since hearing the opening lines of Damien Jurado 's amazing Where Shall You Take Me. One listen to Jurado's songs is akin to eavesdropping on a conversation you know you shouldn't hear, but have heard too much to tune it out. It causes you to lean forward, intent to hear the details of the infidelity, knowing full well the pleasure of the sin will never outweigh the pain it creates.
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March through the interesting LA label Not Not Fun.
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Closer to 20 years of making music than 10 years, Damien Jurado's guitar tone is a signature one.
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Damien Jurado has been around a while; his career started back in the mid 1990′s when he started releasing lo-fi recordings of his music on his own cassette-only label before attracting attention from Sub Pop. He's since relocated labels to Secretly Canadian, but his personal, affecting music hasn't changed much over the years.
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In anticipation of Damien Jurado 's latest album Maraqopa , the single 'Nothing Is The News' is now available for download.
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