New Wye Oak Video - "Sight, Flight" (Stereogum Premiere)

Baltimore duo Wye Oak turn a pretty trick on their touching The Knot standout "Sight, Flight," sending their pretty, dusky country-tinged track into a fit of fanning noise that swells to a breaking point before pulling back into its languid... CONTINUE READING NEW WYE OAK VIDEO - "SIGHT, FLIGHT" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»

Posted on September 9, 2009 in MP3, Video (4 comments)
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Stream Wye Oak's New LP

The Baltimore duo's dusky, pretty sophomore album The Knot (out 7/21) is now streaming at MergeRecords.com.... CONTINUE READING STREAM WYE OAK'S NEW LP»

Posted on June 11, 2009 (0 comments)
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New Wye Oak - "Take It In"

Andy Stack and singing waitress Jenn Wasner were responsible for one of our favorite sets at CMJ last year. The new songs they played got us psyched for the Baltimore duo's sophomore LP. Now six months later we can share... CONTINUE READING NEW WYE OAK - "TAKE IT IN"»

Posted on April 16, 2009 in Album Art, MP3, Tour Dates (3 comments)
Tags: Golden Silvers | Wye Oak

Stereogum's Top 8 From CMJ '08

The crew here managed to fly through some 70+ sets of music last week, and boy is our abilty-to-wade-through-the-sadness-that's-passing-for-buzzed-up-indie-rock tired. There's a very scientific formula to attaining that coveted "Guess I should see this band 'cause everybody's saying I should"... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S TOP 8 FROM CMJ '08»

CMJ '08: The Music Tapes & Wye Oak @ Mercury Lounge

Joining the Tobacco triumph a few days earlier, Mercury Lounge hosted a couple more of my favorite sets this fest in the recently revitalized (and recently Mangum-ized) Music Tapes, and Baltimore breakout Wye Oak. The successive sets were a contrast... CONTINUE READING CMJ '08: THE MUSIC TAPES & WYE OAK @ MERCURY LOUNGE»

Posted on October 26, 2008 in Concert (1 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Sharon Jones | The Music Tapes | Wye Oak

New Wye Oak Video - "Please Concrete"

Baltimore duo Wye Oak have given us the swirling, multi-layered "Warning" along with "I Don't Feel Young" -- in both unplugged and QYDJ forms. Here, we get a look and listen at another If Children track, "Please Concrete," via its... CONTINUE READING NEW WYE OAK VIDEO - "PLEASE CONCRETE"»

Posted on September 29, 2008 in Video (2 comments)
Tags: Jane's Addiction | Wye Oak

SXSW: Stereogum's Texas Music Trivia - Round 1

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»

SXSW: Wye Oak Perform "I Don't Feel Young" In A Yaris

Miles from their beloved Baltimore, Wye Oak's Andy Stack and Jenn Waster gamely jumped into an air-conditioned Yaris outside a Merge Showcase and played us an intimate, stripped-down and strummed "I Don't Feel Young" from their forthcoming debut If Children.... CONTINUE READING SXSW: WYE OAK PERFORM "I DON'T FEEL YOUNG" IN A YARIS»

Posted on March 16, 2008 in Video (8 comments)
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Quit Your Day Job: Wye Oak

Baltimore's Wye Oak play hushed, sometimes loud, always lush pop. It's refreshingly tough to pin the duo down, but not in some over-eclectic, pseudo-avant way. It's also refreshing to say they legitimately know how to write songs with great hooks.... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: WYE OAK»

Posted on March 5, 2008 in MP3, Quit Your Day Job (6 comments)
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Carrie Brownstein Angling For A Job At Maxim

After citing Maxim's no-listen review of the new Black Crowes LP, blogger-Kinney launches into a couple of her own. Carrie goes deep on Kaki King's Dreaming Of Revenge: "'Life Being What It Is' is King at his best, while 'Open Mouth' is King even better than he usually is. 'Air and Kilometers' is a beautiful song about traveling in a plane in a country that uses the metric system and 'Montreal' is about a city in Canada." Also she notes that Wye Oak's If Children is "Whitney Houston's 'The Greatest Love Of All' except angrier and totally against mid-wives."

We'd hire her! But both Maxim and Carrie need to remember that when it comes to phony reviews David Cross is not afraid of you and will beat your ass.

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Posted on February 28, 2008 (2 comments)

New Wye Oak - "Warning"

The female-fronted Baltimore duo Wye Oak used to be called Monarch. Wonder if they changed their name after being confused with Monarch!, the female-fronted French doom band? No confusion, really: The noisy, swirling, multi-layered, shoegazing pop of Jenn Wasner and... CONTINUE READING NEW WYE OAK - "WARNING"»

Posted on January 16, 2008 in MP3 (4 comments)
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