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Chriss Sutherland (Fire On Fire / Review
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Ben Ratliff / NY TimesIf you’re in the Portland, Me., area and you want ragged folk-rock, you come see this guy.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/arts/music/08play.html?_r=1 NY Times March 4 2009 Chriss Sutherland (Fire On Fire) - Worried Love By Ben Ratliff If you’re in the Portland, Me., area and you want ragged folk-rock, you come see this guy. Chriss Sutherland, now in his early 30s, helped start the band Fire on Fire, and some of his band mates help out on “Worried Love” (Peapod), his second solo album. His raspy holler brings emotion and a little wildness, but there’s something else; you might not get what it is until the middle of the record, when he sings his version of the flamenco singer Camaron de la Isla’s hit “Volando Voy,” in Spanish, complete with ragged palmas (hand claps). It’s Andalusian grit translated into a modern American hippie mood, and it works....
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James Blackshaw releases new album
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The Line of Best FitWe’re big fans of James Blackshaw at TLOBF Towers, and we’re chuffed to hear that he’s due torelease a new album, his first on new label Young Gods. view full screen ...
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James Blackshaw interviewed for UK's BBC 4 - listen online
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It will air on Friday April 24 between 6 and 9 AM UK time. James talks about his music and plays live as well. Listen to the interview here....
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Fire On Fire / The Orchard / Review
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Jennifer Kelly / Blurt MagazineFire on Fire, out of Maine, bring you the best in backwoods weirdness,buttoned, corseted, poker-back-postured and deeply disturbed. Daguerreotype medleys of various stringed instruments - guitar, banjo, acoustic bass and Dobro - meander in precise, pizzicato patterns over decidedly non-linear narratives.http://www.blurt-online.com/reviews/view/1010/ Blurt Magazine 04/21/2009 Fire on Fire The Orchard (Young God) by JENNIFER KELLY Fire on Fire, out of Maine, bring you the best in backwoods weirdness, buttoned, corseted, poker-back-postured and deeply disturbed. Daguerreotype medleys of various stringed instruments - guitar, banjo, acoustic bass and Dobro - meander in precise, pizzicato patterns over decidedly non-linear narratives. Church loft harmonies swoop and quaver, and an accordion wheeze sad sea shanties. It's all paced at a stately, percussive tempo, the beat as regular as a drunk's steps when he's trying to fool the patrolmen. The volume is tamped down to all-natural levels. Yet don't be lulled. These songs are as bug-eyed, Pentecostal, end-of-days mad, even if they are dipped in sepia ink. This is Fire on Fire's first full-length, following on last year's five-song EP. If you've kept up with New England experimentalism, their acid-tinged, banjo-plucked Americana might sound suspiciously like Cerberus Shoal. Three of the five members......
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Larkin Grimm/Live Review
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Time Out NY/Sophie Harris There are some shows that make you so grateful you braved the pouring rain/trek across town/Sunday night ennui to get there—the sort of shows where you think, Aargh, imagine if I’d missed this! And last night’s Akron/Family–Larkin Grimm gig at Union Pool was just such a performance. TIME OUT NY ONLINE REVIEW OF LARKIN AND AKRON/FAMILY SHOW UNION POOL BROOKLYN By Sophie Harris 3/30/09 Larkin Grimm and Akron/Family rock Union Pool Posted in The Volume by Sophie Harris on March 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pm There are some shows that make you so grateful you braved the pouring rain/trek across town/Sunday night ennui to get there—the sort of shows where you think, Aargh, imagine if I’d missed this! And last night’s Akron/Family–Larkin Grimm gig at Union Pool was just such a performance. First off, for the out-and-out brilliance of Young God signee and LES res Larkin Grimm, whom we tipped in December. The delicate arrangements and spindly, folkish tones on her debut album, Parplar, suggest a kind of wan, winsome character, as does her Grimm’s fairytale background (born into a cult, Grimm hitchhiked her way across Alaska, was befriended by a shaman, joined Dirty Projectors…). But......