Our dear friend Dave Noyes passed away this week. He was a founding member of Seekonk, Rustic Overtones, Plains, and Mehetable.
His friends have started a Gofundme campaign to lend a hand to his family. Please donate if you are able.
We’ve made Seekonk’s final album “Pinkwood 2” free for download.
Tiger Saw debuts the first new song from their seventh album “The Featherweight” (out March 15 on Burst & Bloom). Dylan Metrano explains the song is about his days in 1990’s post-punk band Hamlet Idiot:
Happy new year! On March 15, Tiger Saw will be releasing our seventh album, “The Featherweight”. Here’s the first single “Our Songs Were Skeleton Keys”.
This is a song about the 1990’s, and the culture of playing shows, supporting live music, making music with my friends, record collecting, and being inspired by all that was happening around us. It’s a song about being young and capable of anything, and the amazing community that I was in. For those who don’t know, Hamlet Idiot was a band I was in from 1992-1999, and many of the posters and records shown here are from that band.
I continue to be inspired today by the community around me, some of whom have been at it since back then. Keep on at it, friends.
With love, Dylan / Tiger Saw
ps. We have an incredible lineup on “The Featherweight”. Here’s the players on this song:
Chris Klaxton – trumpet
Eric Klaxton – tenor saxophone
Jocelyn MacKenzie – vocals
Marc McElroy – clavinet, Rhodes
Dylan Metrano – vocals
Jocelyn MacKenzie – vocals
Jim Rioux – drums
Erik Tans – bass
2018 was another year.
Burst & Bloom was busy, with the following seven releases in 2018:
Late Lights Late Lights, Guy Capecelatro III Splintering, Songs for Pam compilation, The Eastern Sleds There’s No Place Left To Go, Cape Breton Poems book + CD by Guy Capecelatro III, Tangle of Bone book by Rebecca Hennessy, Jim Rioux yes I will Yes.
We encourage you to seek them out if you haven’t already. As we do each year, we solicited “top ten” lists from some Burst & Bloom artists, friends, and family, and we present them here for you.
Julien Baker & Phoebe Bridgers (photo: Dylan Metrano)
Once again, we present our end-of-the-year favorites from the Burst & Bloom family and friends. It is our hope that you might discover something that has made us happy in 2017, and that it will make you happy as well.
Burst & Bloom had a banner year, releasing the following: “A Light I Can Feel: A Tribute to Brown Bird” compilation 2CD, the Buzzy zine anthology book, the free “Burst & Bloom 50” compilation, Guy Capecelatro III’s “Hope is the Thing With Feathers” CD, The Great Auk’s “Paradox” CD, and Cape Snow’s “The Last of the Light” CD. We encourage you to check these out, if you haven’t already.
Here are the lists… Continue reading
We’d like to welcome The Great Auk to the Burst & Bloom family! The Great Auk is the acoustic and sometimes semi-plugged-in duo of Carrie Bradley and Bernie Jungle. Their songs run from acoustic to electric, big harmonies to near whispers, and distortion to silence, as Bradley and Jungle deliver stories, vivid imagery from the mundane to the phantasmagoric, humor, a love of language, and a lot of conversation between the strings.
Listen below, and order HERE.
Cape Snow‘s “The Last of the Light” in out now! You can stream or download it HERE. CD’s available HERE. Hand-screened t-shirts available HERE (includes download!).
Chris Hislop interviewed Cape Snow’s Bree Scanlon about the new album, being a trans-continental band, and playing live for the first time. Read it HERE.
The band is playing a few select dates in support of the album. See the live page for details.
Coming Soon
For our 50th release, we invited Burst & Bloom artists and friends to cover songs from our catalog. Every artist who’s released an album on Burst & Bloom has been covered for this collection. Only one song per release is represented. Burst & Bloom 50 will be available free-of-charge digitally in the coming weeks. Thank you for your support and stay tuned!
Ackport covers Bellows
Best Girl Athlete covers Guy Capecelatro III
Dan Blakeslee covers Tiger Saw
Breakfastsong covers The Landladys
Justin Carloni covers Jim Rioux
Cape Snow covers Mara Flynn
Guy Capecelatro III covers Eastern Mountain Time
Chris Decato covers Tiger Saw
Eastern Mountain Time covers Friendship
Mara Flynn covers Guy Capecelatro III & Craig Werth
Friendship covers Seekonk
Wesley Hartley covers Guy Capecelatro III
Scott Houston covers Guy Capecelatro III
Marc McElroy covers The Landladys
Eric Ott covers Hello Shark
Pale Wallace covers Ruin/ Renewal
Gregg Porter covers Hello Shark
Jim Rioux covers Cape Snow
Jerusha Robinson covers Mara Flynn
Blake Seale Jr. covers Guy Capecelatro III
Peter Squires covers Pale Wallace
Erik Tans covers Tiny Fires
Tiger Saw covers Wesley Hartley
Zach Tremblay covers Gideon Brown
Craig Werth covers The Verms
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