LIARS need no presentation, do they? They’re back in Portugal for the first time since 2006, when they shared the bill with Comets on Fire, and after cancelling their shows in 2008 to pursue a much more profitable tour supporting Radiohead. Liars will be presenting their latest album, “Sisterworld”, headlining the first day of the festival, playing in the Milhões stage at 2AM.
Portugal is known (is it?) by its summer festivals that are actually sunny. For the first time, Bolachas will be covering one of them. If you do visit Bolachas, you should have seen the Milhões de Festa (that’s Millions of Party) banner below the header by now. MdF is a relatively new summer festival that takes place at the end of July (next week: 22/23/24) at the town of Barcelos, northern Portugal. Great food, cheap ticket & beer, plenty of room for everyone, camping with actually decent conditions, a pool with a goddamn clown in it, dozens of bands. We’ll be writing a couple of posts about the bands which will play on each day of the festival during the next week, starting today. Oh, and while we don’t really care about Twitter, we do have an account that was used during Primavera Sound 2010 (I wish the full report was still online but this year’s databank crash dumped almost two full years of blogging). Follow @bolachasorg to get live updates during the fest (at least until my Android’s battery runs out) and expect a full review after the fest.
Canadian folk-more-or-less-rock ensemble Siskiyou (featuring members of Great Lake Swimmers) is going to release their second album, “Keep Away the Dead” next October 4th on Montréal’s Constellation Records (GY!BE, Silver Mt. Zion, Evangelista). “Twigs and Stones” is the advance song from the record and it features the fantastic Colin Stetson on trumpet, trombone, french horn and sax.
More info about “Keep Away the Dead” (as well as pre-order links) on Constellation’s website. Stream or download “Twigs and Stones” below.
Twigs And Stones – SISKIYOU by Constellation Records
Two years after the magnificent “We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River”, alt-country’s finest act Richmond Fontaine are back with the first single of their new album, “The High Country”, available next August 29th on Trash Aesthetics/Decor Records. “Lost in the Trees” could be the soundtrack of a car chase; it might be one of the rockiest songs of their entire discography. Solid. You can stream it below on the Soundcloud widget.
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TA708 Richmond Fontaine – Lost in the Trees by Trash Aesthetics
First song from the debut album of the new Saddle Creek signing, Los Angeles’ husband-wife folky duo Big Harp. Chris Senseney’s great baritone voice seems to be the missing link between The National’s Matt Berninger and Bill Callahan.. do you really need more reasons to take a listen? Just enter your email on the widget below and you’re good to go.
Debut album “White Hat” will be in stores next September 13th.
