Watch Chvrches Cover The Game Of Thrones Theme
A couple of weeks ago, the narco-folk singer Marissa Nadler posted a wordless, a capella cover of the theme from the HBO show Game Of Thrones that she'd recorded.
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A couple of weeks ago, the narco-folk singer Marissa Nadler posted a wordless, a capella cover of the theme from the HBO show Game Of Thrones that she'd recorded.
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Game Of Thrones makes its triumphant return to HBO on Sunday night, and I am so amped.
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Full Albums features covers of every track off a classic album.
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Before Angel Olsen released her wonderful second album, 2012's Half Way Home , the greatest demand she had to fulfill was providing faster service during busy Sunday brunches at the Chicago cafe where she worked.
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Boston-area singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler has shared a video for "Wedding", from her excellent self-titled record , released in 2011 via her label Box of Cedar.
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Swans came to NYC for two sold-out shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg this week (Wednesday, 2/6, and Thursday, 2/7), scheduled to replace the one cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy.
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Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel.
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Folk singer Marissa Nadler played a couple California dates last week and she's got two more upcoming shows scheduled at the moment, both of which happen in NYC.
Read MoreNate Hall – A Great River (Neurot) – The voice of U.S. Christmas released his first solo album this year, proving that he's more than just a guy who wails over damaged, deafening psychedelic swamp blues.
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Boston, Massachusetts singer songwriter Marissa Nadler isn't one to shy away from covering classic tracks, and today's song is no different.
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Back in 2008 Snowblink (a.k.a. singer Daniela Gesundheit and a varying cast of backing musicians) appeared seemingly out of nowhere on the Daytrotter Sessions and recorded a few tunes that kept to the quintessential Daytrotter vibe.
Read MoreParlor Tricks And Porch Favorites – The 2001 debut album from Patrick Gubler still makes me giddy every time I hear it.
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There are some musicians who can be quite open and chatty onstage, giving the audience much of themselves (see Allison's recent review of Sebadoh ) and then there are those on the opposite end of the spectrum, saying little and adding an air of mystery to their performance.
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As we've previously reported, Poland's OFF Festival, which takes place this year from 2nd-5th August in Katowice, is unusual in terms of its sheer variety.
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Thirty-one year old Boston-based singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler has been releasing records since 2004's Ballads of Living and Dying.
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Can we please sit back, and take a moment to talk about Marissa Nadler's voice?
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To press play on any of Marissa Nadler 's six albums is to enter a peaceful but painful dream.
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I didn't really have a theme for this post but I know it has been a few days since my last post and I thought I better get a few items up for you folks.
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Easily one of the better performances during Sasquatch! this past weekend came from New York band The Walkmen.
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It's been a busy few years for dream-folk singer Marissa Nadler. 2009 saw the release of the brilliant Little Hells , a record of love and loss that seemed to allow Nadler to open up and express herself in a more confident manner than before, and step out from the reverb-laden shadows of the music.
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For two albums, Boston's Hallelujah the Hills has been cranking out fuzzy but powerful rock tunes, ones full of tape hiss and static that aren't exactly lo-fi.
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Hallelujah the Hills are returning in May with their third record, No One Knows What Will Happen Next , and after releasing two great albums -- 2007's Collective Psychosis Begone and 2009's Colonial Drones -- on Misra Records, the band has struck out on its own to put out the new collection on their own Discrete Pageantry label.
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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It wouldn't really be fair to say that Sophia Knapp is a reed that knows to bend with the wind, especially when in the scheme of things we talk only of the gentlest breeze.
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Dream-folk singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler is previewing her upcoming album The Sister , the companion to her 2011 self-titled LP , with the opening track "The Wrecking Ball Company".
Read MorePromise and the Monster is a Stockholm folk-rock act with a surprisingly frigid style.
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Back in November, dream-folk singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler hinted at a sister recording to last June's self-titled release.
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Singer-songwriter Carter Tanton 's first appearance in music was under the alt-country moniker of Tulsa.
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Few acts are able to pull off a front-and-center vocal delivery like The Mountain Goats.
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In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. For a month when few new records are coming out and music journalists spend a lot of time meticulously crafting numerical lists of their favorite albums of the year, there are still a wealth of great live shows hitting the San Francisco area in December.
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After delivering several albums with flashes of brilliance but a lack of consistency, mr. Gnome have taken their biggest stride with Madness in Miniature , their third full-length album.
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Bradford Cox's "solo" project Atlas Sound tops the list of new releases this week.
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The Day of the Dead it may be, but this week's list of new releases hasn't given up the ghost.
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Boston singer-songwriter Carter Tanton 's latest full-length, Freeclouds , is out November 1 on Western Vinyl.
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Carter Tanton 's latest single, "Fake Pretend" is a spiraling web of echoes and glittering pop, showcasing the sublime vocals of Marissa Nadler.
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In the "Largehearted Boy Cross-Media Cultural Exchange Program" series (thanks to Jami Attenberg for the title), authors interview musicians (and vice versa).
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Morning time in Pickathon-land started with kids-o-plenty dashing past me; an act which sent plumes of dust both skyward and camp-ward like mini Mt. St. Helens eruptions.
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Keith Klenowski While 2010 was unquestionably the year of The National with the release of their breakout record High Violet , the band haven't been entirely quiet this year, continuing to tour and also releasing a couple of new tracks for soundtracks to various things.
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Marissa Nadler has never written songs quite as autobiographical as the ones on her June-released self-titled album, though the Boston singer tells Spinner that she's taken care to mask certain details -- such as names.
Read MoreMountain Man's Amelia Randall Meath talks books with Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
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