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March 26, 2013 – Kurt Vile is keeping it in Philadelphia ahead of the April 9 release of Wakin on a Pretty Daze (one of SPIN's 50 Albums You Gotta Hear in 2013) via Matador. The album cover is a public mural in the City of Brotherly Love, and an adorable commercial for the LP actually aired on Philly's local CW affiliate. …
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March 21, 2013 – When SPIN visited Kurt Vile in the studio in December, he revealed that he and his wife welcomed their second daughter into the world just hours into mixing his forthcoming fifth album Wakin On a Pretty Daze. That Fleetwood Mac-inspired opus ("all rock," hold the cheese) is due out April 9 via Matador, and so far everything associated with the thing has been pretty great. …
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February 20, 2013 – "We started as something of a picnic party," says Pickathon founder Zale Schoenborn of his annual, three-day music festival, which come August 2, will return to Pendarvis Farm, just 20 minutes outside of Portland, Oregon. …
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February 11, 2013 – Kurt Vile's been teasing his upcoming "all rock, no-cheese" album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, for a while. …
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February 8, 2013 – The cover art for Kurt Vile's next album, as revealed late last year, is a freaking mural right there in his hometown of Philadelphia. Titled Wakin on a Pretty Daze, the album is on its way sometime in 2013 via Matador Records, and the label's newly released making-of video demonstrates the wall-sized artwork has some serious thought behind it.Street artist Steve Powers, a.k.a. …
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January 15, 2013 – Bradford Cox and Kurt Vile have obvious similarities, from their prolific home-recording approaches to their shared affinity for atmospheric rock. In fact, Deerhunter frontman Cox even covered "Freak Train," a song from Vile's 2009 Matador debut Childish Prodigy, a few years ago on a free mixtape released under his Atlas Sound solo guise. …
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December 20, 2012 – Rocky who? Liberty Bell wha? …
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December 4, 2012 – "I was cocky," Kurt Vile says with a laugh. "I didn't think it'd happen: I had a week in the studio booked, didn't think the baby would come early. She came a week early." Vile is currently prowling the leafy length of Bainbridge Street in his native Philadelphia, en route with his band, the Violators, to procure a fresh set of amp tubes for afternoon rehearsals. …
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November 28, 2012 – Matador Records will close out the 2012 edition of their vinyl singles club, "Singles Going Home Alone," with a split 7-inch from woozy rocker Kurt Vile and folk songstress Meg Baird, along with two unreleased songs by early 1980s Boston-based trio Primitive Romance. …
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