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![Chris Thile & Michael Daves: "Sleep with One Eye Open" [video]](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-latestrelease/media/images/thile-daves-sleep-with-one-eye-open-video.jpg "Chris Thile & Michael Daves: \"Sleep with One Eye Open\" [video]")
Tuesday, April 5, 2011|0 CommentsWatch Chris Thile, Michael Daves "Sleep with One Eye Open" Video on Facebook
Chris Thile and Michael Daves's debut album, Sleep with One Eye Open, is a collection of 16 traditional tunes by bluegrass legends like The Monroe Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Jimmy Martin, and Flatt & Scruggs. The duo recently performed a number of songs from the album at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, where they kick off their East Coast tour next month. Check out their performance of the title track in a new video posted to Facebook. It's the first in a series of performance videos that will be unveiled in the coming weeks leading up to the album's release.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011The Low Anthem Performs on WFUV's "Words and Music from Studio A," Their Music "Always Compelling, Inventive and Fresh"
Before they left for their current European tour, The Low Anthem visited NPR member station WFUV in New York to discuss their latest release, Smart Flesh, and perform a number of songs off the album. You can hear the performances on WFUV's Words and Music from Studio A and their conversation with host Claudia Marshall on npr.org. The Low Anthem's music "is at times a rowdy stomp, at others a breathless, hymn-like hush," says Marshall, "always compelling, inventive and fresh. Welcome to folk music 3.0."
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![Emmylou Harris: "Hard Bargain" [cover]](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-latestrelease/media/images/harris-hard-bargain.jpg "Emmylou Harris: \"Hard Bargain\" [cover]")
Tuesday, March 29, 2011Download "The Road" from Emmylou Harris's Forthcoming Album, "Hard Bargain"
There's just one month to go before the release of Emmylou Harris's Hard Bargain. The album is available for pre-order in the Nonesuch Store with a manuscript lyric sheet of the song "The Road," in which she recalls the storied time she spent with her mentor Gram Parsons. And there are now two ways to take home the song today: purchase the single from iTunes and download the song for free here.
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![k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang: "Sing it Loud" [cover]](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-latestrelease/media/images/lang-sing-it-loud.jpg "k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang: \"Sing it Loud\" [cover]")
Tuesday, March 29, 2011k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang's "Sing it Loud" Streaming in Full on Amazon; UK Tour Announced
Sing it Loud, the new album from k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang, is now streaming in its entirety on Amazon.com till April 12, when the album makes its North American debut. lang and the band have confirmed six shows in the UK this spring, prior to their US summer tour. UK fans can catch lang on TV as well on Later with Jools Holland April 19 and The Alan Titchmarsh Show April 20. Mojo gives the album four stars.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011Emmylou Harris, Jessica Lea Mayfield SXSW Sets to Stream Live; Mayfield Song Named NPR Song of the Day
SXSW is in full swing today in Austin, with countless showcases, performances, parties, events, and radio broadcast on tap. Emmylou Harris and Jessica Lea Mayfield are among today's SXSW performers who can be heard around the world when their sets stream live online: Harris via NY public radio station WFUV, Mayfield on the Waterloo Records site. "Our Hearts Are Wrong," off Mayfield's album Tell Me, has been named NPR Song of the Day.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011The Low Anthem Performs "Smart Flesh" Songs in Daytrotter Session
As The Low Anthem takes their tour to Canada for shows in Toronto and Montreal, the band's Daytrotter session has been published, with live takes on five songs from their album Smart Flesh. "Without question, Smart Flesh will be a contender for album of the year when it comes to that," says Daytrotter. The band heads next to Boston, where the Boston Globe calls the album "splendid" with "hints of forebears from Bob Dylan to Vic Chesnutt to the Band."
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Thursday, February 24, 2011The Low Anthem's New Album "Stunningly Memorable," Says AP, "Sincere and Beautiful"; NPR.org Streams First Tour Date
The Low Anthem kicks their tour at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, DC, tonight. NPR's All Songs Considered will be broadcasting the concert live online at npr.org. The Associated Press calls their new album, Smart Flesh, "stunningly memorable ... Decidedly eclectic, the Low Anthem use simple chords, haunting sounds and unusual instrumentation to create something sincere and beautiful." On this week's New York Times Popcast, Times writer David Carr says: "You don't hear singing like that every other day. It's very, very impressive."
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Monday, February 14, 2011Hear The Low Anthem's "Smart Flesh" in Its Entirety as NPR First Listen, "Beautiful Through and Through"
The Low Anthem's new album, Smart Flesh, is due out next week, on February 22. Until then, you can listen to the album streaming in its entirety as an NPR First Listen on npr.org. The band makes records "worth discovering slowly and embracing with loving care," says NPR's Stephen Thompson. Smart Flesh "showcases a band that's never been on surer footing," he says. "Alternately rustic and relevant, these songs sound haunted in every possible way ... beautiful through and through." Clash Music says: "this is the human condition set to music."
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Thursday, February 10, 2011"Howlin' for You" Film Trailer Premieres at IMDB, Featuring Music by The Black Keys
IMDB has premiered a new film trailer for Howlin' for You, directed by Chris Marrs Piliero, starring a whole host of familiar faces, and featuring music by The Black Keys. "Alexa Wolff, a sexy assassin with a troubled past, unknowingly falls in love with the man who killed her father," writes the site in its description of Howlin' for You. "He is not her first love, though. Two other men came before. But they would not have her. Now, all grown up with an appetite for revenge, Alexa’s leaving a trail of bloody corpses and broken hearts in her wake." Check it out at imdb.com.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The Low Anthem Marks Reagan Centennial with Stream of "Smart Flesh" Song "Hey, All You Hippies!"
The Low Anthem's new album, Smart Flesh, is due out in just two weeks, on February 22. The album, the majority of which was recorded in a cavernous, vacant pasta sauce factory, touches on such themes as love and longing and, in one particular song, changing political winds. On that note, and to mark the centennial of Ronald Reagan's birth, the song—the evocatively titled "Hey, All You Hippies!"—is now streaming on the band's website. To hear how the two are linked, listen to the song at lowanthem.com. The Low Anthem begins its US tour in Washington, DC, on February 24.
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