Laura Gibson To Tour West With Juana Molina, Preorder limited signed ed.

January 23, 2009 In Laura Gibson

Laura Gibson To Tour West With Juana Molina, Preorder limited signed ed.

This just in:Â Laura Gibson will tour the west coast in February with recording artist Juana Molina who will soon release Proximamente on Domino Records.Â More Laura Gibson dates on sidebar.

In related LG news we are pleased to announce the first 200 orders for her forthcoming Beasts of Seasons will be signed by the artist. Order now to get your copy.

Feb 10 Triple Door w/ Juana Molina Seattle, Washington
Feb 11 Lola’s Room- Crystal w/ Juana Molina Portland, Oregon
Feb 15 Soho w/ Juana Molina Santa Barbara, California
Feb 16 Detroit Bar w/ Juana Molina Costa Mesa, California
Feb 17 Troubadour w/ Juana Molina Los Angeles, California

January 23, 2009 In Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond FREE/donation EP download

Trumpets For Paper Children sampler mix

Your week just got better. Loch Lomond is releasing a five song EP entitled Trumpets For Paper Children (for free/donation) culling two songs each from both Paper The Walls and Lament For Children, and adding the all-new “Trumpet Song” as icing on the cake. This is a cohesive and compelling collection for those new to the band.

Just a gentle reminder: Do you tip your bartender, server, or barista? Consider this courtesy when presented with the gift of music. No one is getting rich here. In all honestly, most people do not pay for music when we make it available freely in the HUSHshop. (Some do, and are very generous.) Loch Lomond is okay with giving these songs away, but your gesture of reciprocity in the form of a modest suggested donation ($2.49) is heartfelt and goes straight to the band when you elect to give back. Thanks!

January 23, 2009 In Laura Gibson, Run On Sentence

Run On Sentence & Laura Gibson get national attention.

We like to point out when our roster artists are in the national spotlight.

Just Yesterday, Run On Sentence’s “Stonewall” was featured on NPR’s well curated Song of the Day feature.

“On Oh When the Wind Comes Down, Hamman’s visions of folk music are realized with rich imagery and entrancing instrumentation, as he crafts vivid storylines and long strings of compelling narration. He slips and slides from one character to another throughout the record, his versatile voice and musical styles setting the scene.”

Meanwhile the lovely Laura Gibson is found gracing the pages of the fashionable Nylon Magazine in the latest issue:

“The Portland singer/ songwriter has been through a lot of Northern winters, which might be why her tunes are perfect for them – tingled melodies plucked from a nylon guitar, with the lulling pace of a mom singing her kids to sleep.”

January 15, 2009 In Laura Gibson

Laura Gibson shares from “Beasts of Seasons.” Pre-order!

Now available as a pre-order in the HUSH shop, the anticipated and gorgeous Beasts of Seasons is due out on Feb 24th! In this video Laura Gibson introduces “Funeral Song” and plays on location at Portland’s Lone Fir pioneer cemetery, her former backyard when writing songs for Beasts of Seasons. The album will be released Feb 24th on HUSH Records.

Laura Gibson shares from “Beasts of Seasons” from HUSH Records on Vimeo.

Also available in HD on YouTube.Â (Compare and contrast with Vimeo if you’re bored.)Â Yo, and subscribe to the HUSH YouTube channel too.

January 15, 2009 In Chad Crouch

Chad Crouch goes ambient, makes anti-viral videos.

[dispensing with my usual third person plural voice, here’s some straight talk from Yours Truly]

I’ve started a YouTube Channel for my Sound of Picture songs. I think this type of music thrives when combined with imagery. In this case, I’m breaking form by pairing the music to moving images instead of simply photos.

Furthermore, I’ve started composing ambient music, which will be deployed as per usual via the Sound of Picture podcast. Two of the compositions, “Rubber Molecules” and “Electron Map” are featured in the following:

I’ve been thinking of them as antiviral videos simply because they require a different sort of attention span than YouTube tends to nurture. But, perhaps the HD resolution will delight in an unexpected way on the “People’s Tele”. So, subscribe (push that yellow button), no?

watch in HD

January 5, 2009 In Chad Crouch

Sound Of Picture Vol 2 now available FREE

Sound of Picture Vol 2 Sampler Mix

Now available for free/donation in the HUSHshop.

Hot on the heels of Vol 1, we have 20 more short instrumental tracks to accompany photographs collected for your enjoyment and/or use (under a CC BY-NC license) by Chad Crouch. For more on that, there’s this Creative Commons blog entry about Crouch’s (aka Podington Bear) Sound of Picture project.

Enable your album art window, or gander at your iPod to see the corresponding photos! For quality-conscious content creators both volumes are now also available as lossless quality downloads at this bandcamp page (however the tracks are missing their corresponding photos, so the HUSHshop is the recommended source for most users).

Keep abreast with the Sound Of Picture Project via the free podcast.

January 5, 2009 In Kind Of Like Spitting, Novi Split

Ben Barnett & David J (Novi Split) highlights

Stopping off at Portland’s The Artistery, the trifecta of Ben Barnett (of Kind of Like Spitting), David J (of Novi Split) and Sean Bonnette (of Andrew Jackson Jihad) made for a memorable evening’s performance. All were in fine form, playing a pile of covers and trying out new material on the second night of their tour of the west. Many more clips can be found here, including a lively take on “Punk Rock Girl” and a highly recommended kitchen performance of Tom T Hall’s “Chicken Song” by David J.
Novi Split - "Bright Bleak" from HUSH Records on Vimeo. Novi Split - "Old Times" from HUSH Records on Vimeo. Ben Barnett - "Are You Sure This Is Where You Want to Be" from HUSH Records on Vimeo. Ben Barnett - "Best Of Things" from HUSH Records on Vimeo.