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Punch Brothers Coasters by Matthew Diffee
New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee illustrated an exclusive set of five custom paper coasters featuring each member of Punch Brothers to be included with pre-orders of the band's forthcoming album, Who's Feeling Young Now?, due out February 14. Order today in the Nonesuch Store.
The album, the band's follow-up to 2010's Grammy-nominated Antifogmatic, was produced by Grammy Award winner Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse) and features ten songs written by Punch Brothers, with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on two tunes, plus the group’s take on Radiohead’s “Kid A” and the Swedish group Väsen’s “Flippen.” Pre-orders also include an instant download of the album track "Movement and Location."
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Punch Brothers: "Movement and Location" Preview
Punch Brothers' 2012 album Who's Feeling Young Now?, the follow-up to 2010's Grammy-nominated Antifogmatic, was produced by Grammy Award winner Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse) and features ten songs written by Punch Brothers, with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on two tunes, plus the group’s take on Radiohead’s “Kid A” and the Swedish group Väsen’s “Flippen.” Catch a preview of thealbum's opening track, "Movement and Location," here.
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Punch Brothers: "Clara" Preview
Punch Brothers' 2012 album Who's Feeling Young Now?, the follow-up to 2010's Grammy-nominated Antifogmatic, was produced by Grammy Award winner Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse) and features ten songs written by Punch Brothers, with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on two tunes, plus the group’s take on Radiohead’s “Kid A” and the Swedish group Väsen’s “Flippen.” Catch a preview of "Clara," one of the album's band-penned tunes, here.
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Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2011
The 38th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival took place June 16-19, 2011, set 8,750 feet up in bucolic Telluride, Colorado. Making music in various combinations were Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Emmylou Harris, Punch Brothers, and Sara Watkins. Just some of the impromptu pairings pictured here include Thile and fellow Punch Brother Noam Pikelny with Béla Fleck; Nickel Creek band mates Thile and Watkins; Watkins and Punch Brothers' Chris Eldridge; Pikelny in a pick-off with Watkins and The Decemberists; and Harris with Old Crow Medicine Show.
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park hosted the 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival October 1-3, 2010, with several Nonesuch artists there to perform: T Bone Burnett with Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Randy Newman, and HSB regular Emmylou Harris, whom the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed "the silver-haired poster girl for San Francisco's favorite annual live music event."
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Punch Brothers: "This Is the Song" (Live from the Lower East Side)
The Punch Brothers' honed the songs on their 2010 album, Antifogmatic, during a residency at New York's The Living Room. The deluxe edition of Antifogmatic includes a seven-song DVD, Live from the Lower East Side: It's p-Bingo Night!, from which this performance of the album track "This Is the Song" is taken.
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Punch Brothers at Bonnaroo
Punch Brothers celebrated the June 15, 2010, release of their album Antifogmatic a few days early with a stop at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 11. Michael Witcher, the photographer and brother of the band's fiddle player, Gabe Witcher, took these photos of Punch Brothers in action.
For even more of his photos from Bonnaroo, head to flickr.com.
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Punch Brothers: A Conversation About "Antifogmatic"
Go behind the scenes of Antifogmatic, the second disc from Punch Brothers, in this eight-minute video. All five band members talk about the wholly collaborative process that went into the writing and recording of the album, what it was like to work with producer Jon Brion, and the origin of the title Antifogmatic. Includes interviews, a look inside the studio, and live performance footage of songs from the album.
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Punch Brothers: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
In a scene from the forthcoming documentary How to Grow a Band, a film about Punch Brothers, the band performs Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major on banjo, mandolin, and fiddles at New York City's The Living Room. Video provided by and courtesy of Shaftway Productions, makers of the film.
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