Laura Marling Enchants L.A.'s Hollywood Forever Cemetery With Songs of Loss and Beauty
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May 22, 2013 Early on in her still-young career, which included a stint with London folkies Noah and the Whale, demure English singer-songwriter Laura Marling copped to a stage fright that turned adoring audiences into forbidding challenges. …
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May 21, 2013 This week's round-up of streamable albums includes new releases from The-Dream, Mykki Blanco, Roomrunner, and more. …
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May 17, 2013 The magnificent Laura Marling doesn't even try on this cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark." She doesn't need to. Los Angeles singer-songwriter Eddie Berman kicks off his sleepy-eyed Sunday morning rendition of the 1984 heartland hit, and when he sings the line, "Hey there baby, I could use a little help," the inordinately talented young woman to his right cracks her mouth just enough to let a perfect harmony slip out. …
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May 7, 2013 Last month, Laura Marling's "Master Hunter" came crashing out of the gate like an amped up combination of Bill Callahan's baritone blues and Fiona Apple's frenetic folk. The former comparison seems almost too fitting considering the title of her forthcoming album, Once I Was an Eagle, sounds like a retort to Callahan's 2009 masterpiece Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle. …
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April 16, 2013 First Jay-Z name-checks Bob Dylan's "Idiot Wind," now comes another mention of a classic Dylan kiss-off, from a less improbable source. Laura Marling has actually been performing "Master Hunter" live for more than a year, but the song will appear on the British singer-songwriter's upcoming album, Once I Was an Eagle, out May 28 via Ribbon Music. …
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March 27, 2013 Laura Marling has never been one to shy away from canonical ghosts, but now she's taking that a few centuries further. The U.K. singer and songwriter, set to do battle with the monsters of folk once again on new album Once I Was an Eagle (due out May 28 via Ribbon Music), has also written music for a new production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. …
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March 8, 2013 Laura Marling has shown growing confidence on each of the English singer and songwriter's albums, most recently 2011's A Creature I Don't Know, which brought her into dialogue with lions of '70s folk (Cohen, Mitchell, Sandy Denny). "Where Can I Go?," the first single from upcoming follow-up Once I Was an Eagle — due out on May 28 via Ribbon Music — is her most assured yet. …
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June 9, 2012 SPIN's Manchester journey continues as Thom Yorke teases a collaboration with Jack White and Major Lazer send the crowd on an interstellar journey, but a handful of fierce ladies with guitars truly own the day.
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The crowd was so thick in all places that, to really catch a glimpse of Radiohead in the flesh, you'd have to be patient. …
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May 30, 2012 Life doesn't come easy for Laura Marling. On 2011's enchanting, unsettling A Creature I Don't Know, the London singer-songwriter cooed, in hushed, pure tones, hard-won stories of love and loss set to crystalline acoustic guitar-led folk rock. It's captivating stuff, no less so live. (A U.S. …
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Red Hare, Nites Of Midnite
Christopher Paul Stelling, False Cities
Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Roomrunner, Ideal Cities
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
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