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TakeRoot Festival 2019: our picks

The Grote Zaal of De Oosterpoort during the 2018′s TakeRoot festival.

TakeRoot Festival. Saturday, 2 November 2019, at De Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands. Tickets for sale here.

Coming of age in the era of MySpace meant stumbling into a lot of “A little bit of everything, except country and rap” on your fellow scenester’s profiles. Fast forward some 15 years, and there’s a rapper headlining your favorite indie festival, much to the disgust of a few folks who haven’t grown from their proud everything-except-country-and-rap pedestal. But most young alternative Europeans still look at country music with the same disgusted look that your aunt made the first time she stumbled upon a 50 Cent music video.

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Bolachas Sessions #2: Zachary Cale + The Black Swans > 23/11/12

The second show of the concert series we’re presenting in partnership with Mercado Negro (Aveiro, PT’s finest venue) takes place next Friday. This time around we bring you Zachary Cale and The Black Swans, two of the best American songwriters the 00s have brought us. Here’s what other people said about their latest records…

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J. Tex might have spent all his life in Denmark, but his roots lie deep in American soil: he was actually born in Detroit, so you can now stop not taking him seriously as a country singer just because he comes from chilly Scandinavia. (Come on, everyone loves Scandinavian songwriters, why shouldn’t you?) “Look Up Look Down” smells classic through its three minutes and is the first single off his latest record – the first album I’ve heard from him and his Volunteers – named House on the Hill, which was just released last week. You can get it via Swedish alt label Heptown Records.

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Estes Estados Unidos

Americana act These United States released their a video for their song “Maps” off their fifth, selftitled album released earlier this year. Maxwell Sorensen did it and I thought you should also know more about the amazing album artwork, done by Todd Roeth. Here.

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My dear friends from Blessed Feathers, who released an album on Cakes and Tapes around this time last year will put out a new record, Peaceful Beasts In An Ocean Of Weeds next October 9. But first, they teamed up with Peter Wolf Crier to do a pretty good cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Porcelain”.

The new album will be released as hand-numbered, limited-edition digital vinyl discs. All pre-orders of the album placed before street date will receive a free copy of the new Summer/Fall 2012 issue of frontman Donivan Berube’s literary zine, Sleeping in a Torn Quilt / Dreaming of Gold. I own the first issue and the zine alone is totally worth the money you’ll spend on the record. Also, go see them live if you’re around:

09/07 – Milwaukee, WI @ Yellow Phone Music Conference
09/09 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Hotel Foster#
10/08 – Milwaukee, WI @ Stonefly Brewery*
10/09 – Rock Island, IL @ Rozz-Tox QC*
10/10 – Champaign, IL @ Mike N Molly’s*
10/11 – North Manchester, IN @ The Firehouse*
10/12 – Columbus, OH @ Rumba Cafe*
10/13 – Youngstown, OH Cedar’s Lounge*
10/14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Howlers Coyote Cafe*
10/16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Brewery (The AV Club CMJ Party)
10/17 – New York, NY @ Stratosphere Studio* (Fred Perry & Insound Vinyl CMJ Party)

# – w/ Hugh Bob & the Hustle

* – w/ Way Yes (Lefse Records)

Stream the C&T-released album From the Mouths of the Middle Class here:

<a href=“http://cakesandtapes.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-mouths-of-the-middle-class” data-mce-href=“http://cakesandtapes.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-mouths-of-the-middle-class”>From the Mouths of the Middle Class by Blessed Feathers</a>

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