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26 shares Weaver founded Deep Sea Arcade as a teenager with his friend Nic McKenzie, but they didnt release their first album, Outlands, until 2012. The album was noted for its 60s-inspired sound and received critical acclaim. He had been diagnosed with bowel cancer, his family told Double J in a statement Their sophomore effort, 2018s Blacklight, was recorded by Grammy-winning producer Eric J Dubowsky, who was this week recognised at the APRA Music Awards for his work with Vera Blue. Blac...

Australian musician Nick Weaver lost his battle with bowel cancer on April 21 His mother Channel Seven journalist Helen Wellings shared her touching eulogy  Pair were inseparable and Ms Wellings described her son as her guiding light Nick diagnosed with bowel cancer in February that had already spread to liver Hes renowned for his work with Salmon Brothers and band Deep Sea Arcade

Michelle Zauner. (Photo by Barbora Mrazkova) Twenty twenty-one will be a big year for Michelle Zauner, who is a writer, the host of a series of Vice videos about fusion cuisines, the director of a music video for Better Oblivion Community Center (the duo of rock artists Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers), and the soundtrack composer for an upcoming open-world video game. But Zauner is probably best known as Japanese Breakfast, the indie pop artist behind the critically acclaimed albums Psycho...

Gigulate Modest Mouse Released “Sad Sappy Sucker” 20 Years Ago Today 20 years ago today, Modest Mouse released Sad Sappy Sucker. The band’s other debut album. Read our recent Modest Mouse live review: The post Modest Mouse Released “Sad Sappy Sucker” 20 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.

(5 out of 5 stars) "I first heard a few cuts of "The Creek Drank the Cradle" via some MP3s a good friend sent me. Having *no* idea who "Iron & Wine" was, I was immediately taken by the lo-fi, harmonious, hushed vocals, and soft, slow, easy pacing. I swore that this had to be some lost recording from the late 1960s from some unknown progressive (for the 60s) folk/blues/country inspired band. It sounded nice, but I didnt end up listening much for a few weeks. After getting the album and learni...

21 May 2021 Spencer Livingston and Alex Moore put their heads, hearts — and parts of their names — together to come up with Livingmore in 2014. The Los Angeles-based indie alternative rockers, who have experienced a few changes in morphing from a duo into a quartet, sound more and more determined to enjoy themselves while trying to make a living. Hard evidence of that attempt can be found on their impressive sophomore full-length album Take Me, which will be released on 21 May, and the mus...

With the release of her first book, Crying in H Mart, and third album, Jubilee, the Eugene native is exorcising her grief and looking for something grander. By Conner Reed 4/16/2021 at 5:00pm Header photo by Peter Ash Lee Michelle Zauner never much cared for nonfiction. “I wanted to write like the dirty realist white male writers who felt truly literary to me,” she says on the phone from Brooklyn in early March. “Philip Roth or Raymond Carver or Tobias Wolff or John Updike.â€...

This week, Billboard is publishing a series of lists and articles celebrating the music of 20 years ago. Our 2001 Week continues with an interview with Shins singer/songwriter James Mercer, as he looks back on the song that took him from a struggling Southwestern musician with an uncertain future to frontman for one of the biggest indie bands of the 21st century: "New Slang."  In the late-90s, James Mercer was a twenty-something guitarist/vocalist, building tracks on a computer in a New Mexi...

New socially distanced waterfront venue at Zidell Yards will host Waterfront Blues Fest, Portland Pride OregonLive.com 2 hrs ago Jamie Hale, oregonlive.com As an uncertain summer approaches for big festivals around Oregon, a new venue in downtown Portland is stepping in to host a few of the city’s most-popular events. The Lot at Zidell Yards, a new socially distanced events venue on Portland’s south waterfront, will host the Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland Pride and ot...

Find out what big decision David Lee Roth made in 1985 and what song took Santana to the top of the charts in 2000.