There are two broad views you can take of Roadside Graves latest, We Can’t Take Care of Ourselves: As the concept album that it is, inspired by the S.E. Hinton classic The Outsiders, or as a mark of maturation in the band’s work, musical styling distinct of thematic impulses. Though The Outsiders concept will certainly [...]
Before last year’s Hampton’s Lullaby placed them firmly on the national radar, Athens, GA’s Futurebirds self-recorded and released their eponymous debut EP. This week Autumn Tone is releasing a remastered version of the EP digitally in conjunction with a vinyl edition release by nascent Athens label, Holy Owned Subsidiary. From the opening chords of the [...]
Via Autumn Tone, we’re releasing Dirty Gold’s debut EP, Roar, today. At five tracks, the EP is a set of shimmering beachside pop, here just in time for the change in season. Get a taste, below. MP3: Dirty Gold :: California Sunrise ——————— _____________________________________________________________________________________
Our label, Autumn Tone, is releasing the upcoming Dirty Gold EP, Roar, this spring. In the meantime, the single that initially caught our attention, “California Sunrise,” is now available via iTunes, etc. Purchase Now: Dirty Gold :: California Sunrise (Single) iTunes: Dirty Gold :: California Sunrise (Single)
Covered in kudzu and swathed in a blanket of humidity, spanish moss, feedback and reverb exists Futurebirds. Here, at this intersection, we find a synthesis of the two extremes of Neil Young’s yin and yang. It’s at this crossroads, on this plane that Futurebirds meld the sweet, lilting, pedal steel and harmonies of the Stray [...]
Saturday night, at Pianos in NYC, Aquarium Drunkard presents Roadside Graves EP release show. The band released You Won’t Be Happy With Me, on Autumn Tone, last month right after SXSW, so if you’re in the city come out and hear the new tunes live.
When a piano silhouette sparkles through the first moments of “Demons,” you might think you’d reached for the wrong CD. The uptempo percussion sequence that immediately follows would only embolden this belief–that is, until John Gleason’s familiar rasp comes brimming into focus. And, as with its opener, so it goes throughout much of the Roadside [...]
Last month Roadside Graves debuted “Liv Tyler,” the first single off their forthcoming EP, You Won’t Be Happy With Me (out March 23rd). The band now has a video for the track, shot by Travis Huggett, in and around their hometown of Metuchen, NJ (see below). I described the direction of new EP to a [...]
This Tuesday Autumn Tone (AD’s label) is digitally reissuing Roadside Graves debut LP, If Shacking Up Is All You Want To Do, with an additional six bonus tracks. This comes out exactly one month before the band’s upcoming EP, You Won’t Be Happy With Me —due out March 23rd. Below, Graves’ primary vocalist, John Gleason, [...]
Die Young is an intimidating title for a debut full-length. It casts a lot of weight about its small frame – a twelve song package of deceptively airy and sprightly vocals spun around a churning, rhythmic and engaging set of pop that takes its cues from a host of 90s indie and classic rock and [...]
