Tag: Woods
[Altered Zones] Sun and Shade is available now through Woodsist and iTunes. Read more about Woods here.
With their sixth LP (Sun & Shade) set to hit shops on June 14th, Woods have lined up a month-long leg of North American dates alongside the Fresh & Onlys, rounded out by a brief, late summer run through the UK. Check out all the details below, including shows with such Woodsist alums as Kurt Vile, White Fence and Ducktails. We also created a sampler with two streaming cuts from the band’s new record…
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Animal Collective @ Prospect Park
Pitchfork has confirmed the initial lineup of its annual summer festival. Set to go on sale at 12 p.m. CST today via this official site, here’s the initial day-by-day breakdown…
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Ducktails and Woods have confirmed a brief February tour that’ll take them from Burlington to Baltimore and include “some collaborative moments” and an acoustic sampling of Woods’ next album. Here are the dates, followed by a special playlist, video, and our extensive Ducktails interview from the current issue of self-titled.
Woods & Ducktails tour dates:
2/2 Burlington, VT – Monkey House
2/3 Portland, ME – Apohadion
2/4 New York, NY – Monster Island Basement
2/7 Philadelphia, PA - Chapel at First Unitarian Church
2/8 Baltimore, MD – Golden West
Ducktails only:
1/8 Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool
1/15 Philadelphia, PA – Pi Lam
1/18 Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands *
* = w/ Smith Westerns
Check out the latest Kanye leak and streaming versions of the songs it heavily samples after the jump. Does this mean Bon Iver can officially collect his ghetto pass now? [Your Audio Fix]
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Real Estate
The last time we saw Woods, they were wailing away in front of a crowd that couldn’t hear a damn thing they were saying/playing. Hence why we’re glad to hear they’ll be playing a proper venue in March, as the Brooklyn band kicks off a two-week tour with Real Estate at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Check out the full itinerary after the jump, along with a free MP3 from each band.
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Annie
We sift the ‘net for today’s top stories so you don’t have to…
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Words and Photos by Aaron Richter
The Band: Woods
The Album: Songs of Shame (Woodsist)
What’s Been Said: “Woods can evoke any number of their lo-fi ancestors, from early Guided by Voices to the murkier depths of the Siltbreeze or Flying Nun back catalogs, but they’re still able to retain their own immediately recognizable off-kilter character.” — Pitchfork, Best New Music
“To say that Woods sound like a lot of bands before them isn’t exactly exposing the man behind the curtain, as they don’t try to hide behind much except arguably their lo-fi production and halfway-feigned ruralism. Woods’s surprisingly wide and presumably indie-literate audience must like them exactly because they are so familiar and fit so nicely into parameters set years ago, back when bands reclaiming folk and psych for a generation of alienated white kids had social and political resonance.” — Tiny Mix Tapes
“These guys are hype darlings with some backbone, content to quietly perfect their craft and let the rest work itself out.” — The Decibel Tolls
“Charmingly dilapidated and strangely poignant.” — us
Our Take:
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Mother’s Day is this Sunday. (Shame on y’all who forgot!) And what better way to celebrate than to put Mom to work reviewing music, right? We gave self-titled contributor Cassie Marketos a batch of songs—including tracks by Micachu, HEALTH, the Juan Maclean, Phoenix, Woods and St. Vincent—to force-feed her mom (and dad) and record their reactions. Says Cassie, “Young people don’t listen to our parents—not about our friends, not about our jobs and especially not about our music. So when I sent my folks these songs, I was already sniggering to myself over how much they wouldn’t ‘get it.’ Um, can I get a fork to eat those words with? My mom and dad may be your standard-issue parental types, but their astute reactions to contemporary music might just mean that I have to start accounting for all their other opinions about my life. Dammit.”
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