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Featured Artist: Ruthie Foster

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

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 Album: Let It Burn
Label: Blue Corn Music
Genre: Blues : R&B
UPC: 677967120128
Territory: Restricted
Release Date: 1.31.12

Soulful vocalist Ruthie Foster’s latest work is a deeply intimate recording: a smoky mix of original songs coupled with inventive interpretations of an unexpected collection of covers – ranging from Adele to Los Lobos, and from The Black Keys to Johnny Cash. Recorded in New Orleans at the legendary Piety Street Studio, with a small group of A-List musicians that includes George Porter Jr. of the legendary Meters, Ruthie takes the listener on the most personal visit yet with her deeply moving vocals. She is supported along the way by some very special guests – gospel legends The Blind Boys of Alabama and Stax Records soul man William Bell (on a re-invention of his classic ‘You Don’t Miss Your Water.’)

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Featured Artist: Dana Falconberry

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

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Featured Artist: Dana FalconberryDana Falconberry’s newest release, Though I Didn’t Call It Came, celebrates, explores, and at times laments the vast landscapes in which the songs are set. Touching on themes of childhood curiosity, mortality, and the aching beauty of solitude, the EP’s songs interweave the human experience with the world surrounding it. She guides her listeners down moonlit paths and sandy shores until they are standing right alongside her under the birches, wide-eyed and wondering at the eagles circling overhead.

A Michigan native, Falconberry has thrived musically in Austin, TX, hailed by the Austin Chronicle as one of the city’s “most promising singer-songwriters” and “most arresting female vocalists.” She has captivated audiences with her powerful live shows and haunting recordings, receiving acclaim far beyond the reaches of her hometown. The past few years have found her touring extensively through the US, Europe, and Japan. In 2011, she starred in the critically-lauded music documentary on the Austin music scene, Echotone, which was awarded a New York Times Critics’ Pick. (more…)

Featured Artist: Matthew Dear

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

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 Album: Headcage
Label: Ghostly International
Genre: Electronic : Indie
UPC: 804297815107
Territory: World
Release Date: 1.17.12

Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dance floor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He’s had remixes commissioned by The XX, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, and Chemical Brothers; he’s made mixes for the Fabric mix series and Get Physical’s Body Language. He maintains four aliases (Audion, False, Jabberjaw, and Matthew Dear), each with its own style and distinct visual identity. He straddles multiple musical worlds and belongs to none—and he’s just hitting his stride.

Matthew Dear’s EP, Headcage, stands as a testament to the New Yorker’s work as a relentless songwriter, producer and in a new light, collaborator. Working with other producers and vocalists as well as mixing/tracking at Nicolas Vernhes’ famed Rare Book Room studio has lent Headcage an openness and poise to the four songs presented here.

Hit the jump for more on Dear, a free promo track and a video.

 

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Featured Artist: Nicole Henry – “Set For the Season: Live In Japan”

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

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(Banister Records, Inc.)

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Featured Artist: Nicole Henry Set For the Season: Live In Japan

Happy Holiday’s from IODA! To wrap up the season we bring you Nicole Henry’s superb live Christmas album Set for the Season: Live In Japan.

Set for the Season was recorded over four nights of performances at the Cotton Club in Tokyo, Japan (2009) during Nicole’s ninth tour of the country since 2005 (after being awarded HMV’s Best new Jazz Artist and Best Vocal Jazz award for her first two albums, The Nearness of You and The Very Thought of You). The recording features Pete Wallace (Piano), James McCoy (Bass) and Dave Chiverton (Drums). Set For the Season includes holiday classics in addition to an amazing bonus performance of “I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water” – a highly requested audience favorite.

Find out more about Nicole Henry after the jump!
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Featured Artist: POLIÇA

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

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Featured Artist: POLIÇAAfter collaborating in the studio and live on their most recent project (GAYNGS), it became apparent to vocalist Channy Leaneach (formerly Casselle) and producer Ryan Olson that they should form a collective of their own. Olson’s pop sensibilities and electronic adventurism would prove to be the perfect vehicle for Channy’s recent evolution from a roots-folk band vocalist to a R&B-bred performer. Thus, POLIÇA was born.

In June of 2011 the two began writing the songs that make up POLIÇA’s debut, Give You The Ghost. Initially the tracks were arranged with Olson’s beats and sequences, leaving room for Channy to apply her dynamic experimentation. Playing with vocal processing and synthesized textures, her additions fit perfectly into the lush, electronic sound-scape of Olson’s arrangements.

Hit the jump for more including a live video of POLIÇA performing “Wandering Star”!

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Featured Artist: yU

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

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 Album: The Earn
Label: Mello Music Group
Genre: Hip-Hop : Rap
UPC: 659123021722
Territory: World
Release Date: 12.13.11

yU is back with his sophomore project The Earn a progression that is as fluid, lyrical, and thought provoking as his critically acclaimed debut. The Earn, is a timely meditation on the struggle to advance, set afire by yU’s potent wordplay.

“With The Earn, yU succeeds at crafting an inspired record with deep introspection, poignant rhymes, and smooth production delivering some of the most striking Hip Hop I’ve heard all year” – Jeff Leon at Kevin Nottingham

His first real shine came with a spot on 2003′s The Antidote: The Healing Pt. 2 compilation from Urban Ave 31. The project featured singer Raheem DeVaughn and yU’s crew the Remainz, with a buzz spreading to Europe and introducing the budding lyricist to an overseas audience. At home, a new generation of talent was bubbling in the Washington D.C./Md./Va. area, which led to the formation of the Diamond District, a group consisting of yU, producer/MC Oddissee, MC X.O., and named after the geographical region in which they all came of age. He then continued to garner success with his solo debut Before Taxes which was named to the Best of 2010 List by HipHopDX, Al Lindstrom, and Above Ground Mag.. yU sharpened his skills through performances on a European tour and appearances at CMJ, SXSW, A3C, and the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival.

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