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Top Five: Naseem
For the last in our award-winning “Best of 2013″ series, Naseem bucks the trend and instead offers up his Top Five New Year’s Resolutions for 2014. 1. More photos. We see a lot of things on the road and in our own backyards, and despite this love of photography and documenting all the cities we…
Best Of: Jenée
For her Best Of list, Jenée thinks about where we’ve been, from Towaco, NJ to Minneapolis, MN, from unfinished firehouses to fancypants mansions. Here are her top five venues of 2013. 1. Newport Folk Festival, Newport Rhode Island. Here she is, there. 2. The Strathmore Mansion, North Bethesda, MD. An old beautiful house just outside…
Best Of: Travis & Chris
When you share a drumkit, you have a special, intimate bond that no one can understand. Or, we’re just combining the Best Of lists of Chris and Travis. A bunch of different categories here, featuring a lucky brass band and a completely insane and enjoyable Disney movie. Chris 1.) Favorite song of the year that…
Best Of: George
2013 Best Of lists continue with guitarist-in-spooky-lighting extraordinaire George Hall… Barrence Whitfield & The Savages “Oscar Levant” So Oscar Levant was a mid-20th century composer/actor/wit who I vaguely remember from pop culture references when I was a kid, but that doesn’t actually matter. Valerie June “Wanna Be On Your Mind” Trippy, hypnotic & sexy in a way…
Best Of: Nick
We’re feeling nostalgic for 2013, so all this week each one of us is chiming in with random Best Of lists, because we know you haven’t seen enough of those. Today we start with our bass-face-making extraordinaire, Nick, and his list of ‘five awesome songs, in no particular order, from bands we played with in…
Happy New Year
There’s too much to say about 2013, really. So we won’t. Poor taste to keep looking back anyway, right? We’ll only say that we’re truly thankful for the opportunities we got, from releasing Battles to kicking off the Newport Folk Fest to playing with amazing musicians (Josh Ritter, Lucius, the Beverly High School Marching Band)…
Album of the Year
As we walked off stage at our last show of 2013 last night in Jersey, we learned our album Battles was named Album of the Year at the Boston Music Awards. What a year. Thank you Boston. Here’s some stuff people are saying: Boston Herald: “Paisley punks Bad Rabbits and roots rockers Kingsley Flood went from…