A few weeks ago we posted an early take of "When You Were Born" (aka "When Yer Born") from The Long Count. At the time, Aaron Dessner told us the track would eventually include Kim Deal singing on it. Now... CONTINUE READING THE LONG COUNT (BRYCE & AARON DESSNER, KIM & KELLEY DEAL, MATT BERNINGER, SHARA WORDEN) @ BAM 10/28/09»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in , , (4 comments)
Tags: Aaron Dessner | Bryce Dessner | Kelley Deal | Kim Deal | Matt Berninger | Matthew Ritchie | My Brightest Diamond | The Breeders | The National | Treasure Island
We had Andrew Youssef shoot the Decemberists' tour opener back in May, which might have been all the L.A. Decemberists show coverage we needed, if it wasn't for the band's twist on last night's US tour closer at UCLA's Royce... CONTINUE READING THE DECEMBERISTS (THE HAZARDS OF LOVE VISUALIZED) @ ROYCE HALL, LA 10/19/09»
Posted on October 20, 2009 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Becky Stark | My Brightest Diamond | The Decemberists
Some 90 acts descended upon Champaign-Urbana, IL this past weekend, performing across 14 venues and four days for the fifth annual Pygmalion Music Festival. We sent photographer John Gitchoff to circle the fest, and he delivers this spread including shots... CONTINUE READING PYGMALION 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on September 22, 2009 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Headlights | Iron And Wine | Japandroids | Low | Lucero | Maps And Atlases | Maserati | My Brightest Diamond | Owen | Pygmalion | Ra Ra Riot | RJD2 | So Many Dynamos | The Antlers | The Books | The Hood Internet | Wavves | William Fitzsimmons | Zach Hill
We've seen live videos of the Decemberists doing Decemberists tunes everywhere from The Colbert Report to The Tonight Show (Leno version) lately, but those professional clips don't contain half the thrill of this fan-captured-yet-still-electrifying cover of Heart's "Crazy On You."... CONTINUE READING THE DECEMBERISTS COVER HEART »
Posted on June 2, 2009 in (27 comments)
Tags: Heart | Lavender Diamond | My Brightest Diamond | Reading | The Decemberists | The Gossip | The Mary Onettes
When the Decemberists (and Shara Worden) played "The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid" on Leno, it felt a bit fragmented. There was no such problem last night in Hollywood when the band launched their A Short Fazed Hovel Tour. Over the... CONTINUE READING THE DECEMBERISTS @ HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM 5/19/09»
Posted on May 20, 2009 in , (11 comments)
Tags: Becky Stark | Lavender Diamond | My Brightest Diamond | Pixies | Real Estate | The Decemberists
Like they did at The Colbert Report, the Decemberists brought Shara Worden and their mythical prog jam "The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid" to Leno last night (Shara plays the "jealous forest queen" obvs). The difference between the two shows being... CONTINUE READING THE DECEMBERISTS BRING "THE WANTING COMES IN WAVES/REPAID" TO LENO»
Posted on May 15, 2009 in (11 comments)
Tags: Jay Leno | Lavender Diamond | My Brightest Diamond | The Dead Weather | The Decemberists | Vampire Weekend
The fear with any supertalent variety show like last night's Dark Was The Night live event is that the appeal on paper will far outstrip the appeal of having your ass glued to a seat for four hours. And it... CONTINUE READING DARK WAS THE NIGHT LIVE @ RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, NYC 5/3/09»
Posted on May 4, 2009 in , , (22 comments)
Tags: Aaron Dessner | Bon Iver | Bryce Dessner | Dark Was The Night | Dave Sitek | David Byrne | Deradoorian | Dirty Projectors | Doveman | Feist | My Brightest Diamond | Pete Seeger | Sharon Jones | St. Vincent | The National | TV On The Radio
Last night Austin's Stubb's Bar-B-Q hosted the live debut of Decemberists' Hazards Of Love, the latest morbid prog opera from a band famous for them. NPR.org streamed the ambitious performance of this dictionary rock LP start to finish, adding a... CONTINUE READING SXSW 2009: DECEMBERISTS DEBUT HAZARDS OF LOVE»
Posted on March 19, 2009 in (42 comments)
Tags: All Points West | Bon Jovi | Lavender Diamond | My Brightest Diamond | SXSW | The Dead Weather | The Decemberists
A few weeks ago rumors swirled about some Very Special Secret Guests slated to appear at last night's Shuffle Mode special at BAM. So you know, see above photo. The night's lineup was already expansively staffed, with Clogs (which features... CONTINUE READING CLOGS/BELL ORCHESTRE WITH THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC, SUFJAN STEVENS & MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND @ BAM, BROOKLYN 2/26/09»
Posted on February 27, 2009 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Aaron Dessner | Bell Orchestre | Clogs | My Brightest Diamond | Sufjan Stevens
The second installment of Guilt By Association comes out in February. In case you don't remember Vol. 1, the compilation featured contemporary indie bands covering so-called "guilty pleasures." Of course, the problem with these sorts of things is that the... CONTINUE READING TAKKA TAKKA COVER PHIL COLLINS »
Posted on November 20, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Billy Joel | Frightened Rabbit | Jarvis Cocker | Kaki King | My Brightest Diamond | Phil Collins | Rafter | Takka Takka | The Forms
Many moons ago we described My Brightest Diamond's "Inside A Boy" as a song with a crunching guitar sound, a lot of bight. At first, the Rafa Toro-animated video for A Thousand Shark's Teeth's opener appears to take the song... CONTINUE READING NEW MY BRIGHEST DIAMOND VIDEO - "INSIDE A BOY" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on October 28, 2008 in , (1 comments)
Tags: My Brightest Diamond
As we've seen from her Roy Orbison at SXSW and Whitney Houston at a karaoke bar, etc., Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, isn't afraid of tackling covers. In this week's Drop she took on the Edith Piaf classic, "Adieu... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP LVI: HEAR NEW MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND, WIN HBO GOODS»
Posted on September 24, 2008 in , (1 comments)
Tags: Jens Lekman | My Brightest Diamond
Shara Worden -- Outsiders expert -- has a new video for the dreamy A Thousand Shark's Teeth track "From The Top Of The World." I have no idea what is going on in it. It's like a fairy tale made... CONTINUE READING NEW MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND VIDEO - "FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD"»
Posted on August 21, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: My Brightest Diamond | Patrick Wolf
Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy usually focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This time... CONTINUE READING THE OUTSIDERS: VOL. 15»
Posted on June 30, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Clark | My Brightest Diamond | Wildbirds And Peacedrums
Last time we saw Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, she was covering Roy Orbison by her lonesome at our SXSW party. She's back with her own material, backed by what sounds like an army of strings, piano twinkles, drums,... CONTINUE READING NEW MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND - "INSIDE A BOY"»
Posted on April 16, 2008 in (9 comments)
Tags: My Brightest Diamond
In addition to shooting a ton of performances in Austin last week, we subjected many of our favorite acts to Texas music trivia. You saw part one. In this follow-up, we test the smarts of Islands, My Brightest Diamond, Peter... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S TEXAS MUSIC TRIVIA - ROUND 2»
Posted on March 19, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Born Ruffians | Colour Revolt | Islands | My Brightest Diamond | Pattern Is Movement | Peter Morén | Rogue Wave | SXSW | The Big Sleep | The Cribs | The Ringers | YACHT
The people of Austin are nice enough to welcome thousands (and thousands) of vagabond music fans into their city for a few days each year, so we decided to pay their stomping ground homage with a friendly game of Texas... CONTINUE READING SXSW: STEREOGUM'S TEXAS MUSIC TRIVIA - ROUND 1»
Posted on March 16, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Colour Revolt | My Brightest Diamond | Simian Mobile Disco | SXSW | The Ringers | Wye Oak | YACHT
It turns out Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, was the perfect choice to play the first slot of our three-day Stereogum/PASTE party. Armed with only her voice and guitar, the karaoke star and major rock 'n' roll supporter eased... CONTINUE READING SXSW: MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND COVERS ROY ORBISON»
Posted on March 14, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: My Brightest Diamond | Roy Orbison | SXSW
If you're a party hopper, today is your day. Well if you allow us to be biased for a minute ... you probably should head to Volume for our party (My Brightest Diamond, Nada Surf, Destroyer, Peter Morén, et al)... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THURSDAY PARTY PICKS»
Posted on March 13, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | My Brightest Diamond | Nada Surf | Peter Morén | Robyn | SXSW | The Duke Spirit
Who says blog threads aren't productive? As some of our close readers may have noticed, buried in the lively discussion following the "Rock Is Dead" post, our favorite "Lucky"-covering karaoke singer Shara Worden aka My Brightest Diamond posted a link... CONTINUE READING NEW MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND - "ROCK N ROLL WILL NEVER DIE"»
Posted on October 25, 2007 in (7 comments)
Tags: My Brightest Diamond | Sufjan Stevens
We've noticed a growing trend of icy remixes. Like, when someone gets their hands on someone else's music, they decide to coat it in icicle snares and snowflake synths, maybe some drifting guitar bursts. If the original's already icy? Well,... CONTINUE READING NEW MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND - "WE WERE SPARKLING (CASEY FOUBERT REMIX)"»
Posted on September 17, 2007 in , (4 comments)
Tags: My Brightest Diamond
Won't be 'til next year, but brace yourself for a project being billed as a joke gone, well, right: Are You Still With Me?!, a tribute to Huey Lewis. Conceived over laughs in '04, the project's coming to fruition in... CONTINUE READING OH NO! OH MY! COVER HUEY LEWIS»
Posted on July 23, 2007 in (17 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Apostle Of Hustle | Bound Stems | Catfish Haven | Grizzly Bear | Huey Lewis | My Brightest Diamond | Oh No! Oh My! | Panda Bear | The Long Winters | The National
You know how when you're at the karaoke bar and your one friend that really thinks she can sing grabs the mic and does some Whitney and thinks its gonna sound really good but it really doesn't? Well, then you're... CONTINUE READING MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND SINGS WHITNEY HOUSTON»
Posted on June 14, 2007 in (10 comments)
Tags: My Brightest Diamond | Whitney Houston
