Alaska Folk Festival 2017 Guest Artist The Murphy Beds perform at 8 p.m. Thursday at Centennial Hall. (Photo by Anna Colliton/Courtesy of the Artist)
Irish folk music duo The Murphy Beds of New York, are this year’s Guest Artist for the 43rd annual Alaska Folk Festival. Jefferson Hamer and Eamon O’Leary are known for their close harmonies and dynamic arrangements featuring guitar, bouzouki and Mandolin. Together they reinvent traditional folk songs with a repertoire from Scotland, England, America, and write original tunes.
The Murphy Beds’ first set is Thursday at 8 p.m. They’ll also be leading workshops throughout the weekend, host a dance at the JACC, and will close the festival at 9 p.m. Sunday.
Today Juneau musician and Alaska Hip Hop and R&B Awards winner Veinglorious dropped a his latest track “Pray for Me.” Despite the title, the song doesn’t dwell on religion. Instead Ryan Carrillo dedicates this mellow jam to the one thing we all have, yet can’t control: time.
“This song goes out to the most beautiful thing that we have, and that’s time. We should hold onto that as long as possible. This is for the beautiful memories that we all have, and remember,” sings Carillo during the opening lines of “Pray For Me.”
Hear Veinglorious freestyling live on the Jackie Moon show earlier this year:
FRIDAY celebrate Halloween Early with KXLL – Excellent Radio for Zombie Walk, Juneau’s annual flesh eating flash mob! Meet in the Cope Park parking lot at 7 p.m. for a brief safety meeting and to go over this year’s route to Marine Park.
Costume contest & candy giveaway to follow with Prizes from Coppa & GonZo AK for:
Gabe, Matt and Casey of The Bad Tenants in the KXLL Studio. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)
Northwest hip-hop blues hybridThe Bad Tenants, is doing a mini tour of Southeast Alaska. Their first stop is Juneau, and tonight they’ll play at the Rendezvous in support of Porkfest, a fundraiser to benefit theUganda Rural Community Support Foundation. The Bad Tenants joined KXLL Host Annie B. to discuss their upcoming shows and the band’s history of playing in Alaska.
Friday night the band will play at Skagway’sRed Onion Saloon. They’ll headline theSoutheast Alaska State Fair Saturday, before playing a midnight set at the Pioneer Bar in Haines.
Eric Mountcastle and James Rosales of the Seattle band SHIVERTWINS perform at the 2014 Southeast Alaska State Fair. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)
The Seattle-based punk band SHIVERTWINS stopped in Juneau today en route to Haines for its annual trip to the Southeast Alaska State Fair. Last Friday, the band released it’s new single, “Rearrange”” accompanied by a self-directed music video.
Guitar player and vocalist Eric Mountcastle and bass player James Rosales joined KXLL Host Annie B. to talk about life in the big city and how their band has evolved since leaving Juneau two years ago.
The four piece garage rock band will take the Southeast Alaska State Fair Main Stage on Friday, at 2 p.m.
The music video for SHIVERTWINS’ new single “Rearrange” starts unassumingly, with guitarist and lead singer Eric Mountcastle looking into the camera before placing an LP labeled “Rearrange” onto a record player. Though the opening chords, bright guitars and hand claps seem to promise upbeat power pop chorus, Mountcastle’s droning, Ian Curtis-inspired vocals reveal they aren’t the same boys singing tongue-in-cheek Black Lips covers.
Mountcastle’s lyrics describe the journey the band has taken since 2014, moving awayfrom Juneau to making things work as musicians in a real city, “I ain’t got my parents’ money but I got my own change. And I think it’s time for me to rearrange.” But the single is more than a clever hook, it’s symbolic of their second year as a band. Last fall the SHIVERTWINS experienced lineup change, welcoming drummer and longtime collaborator Cole Paramore to the band. In January, they released an 8-track EP called 19 AGAIN.
The single was recorded between Paramore’s Bellevue practice space and theband members’ North Seattle apartment where guitarist Lance Fohrenkam recorded, mixed and mastered the songs, while bassist James Rosales and Paramore were touring in New York.
Filming took place in the same apartment, with band members seated in a circle in their practice space, appearing to pass the camera to each other. Recorded in a single take, the video is marked by memorable vignettes of each band member in front of the camera, some awkwardly self-aware, but very telling of their personalities.
At about three minutes in, a switch flips and things get manic. The video’s catastrophic end was suggested by their roommate and Juneau buddy Kurt Wade, who has a cameo at the 2:43 minute mark.
The release arrives just before their yearly pilgrimage to the Southeast Alaska State Fair where they’ll take the main stage Friday, July 29th at 2 p.m.
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