Happening this Thursday, October 19th at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room is an all-ages show featuring Nashville, Tenessee's
Humming House along with Becca Mancari. It takes place from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. Tickets are available for $15.00 in advance or $18.00 the day of show. Minors incur a $2.00 surcharge. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook. Below are links to the artist's websites and socials. Continue on for the latest on these two featured acts.
- Humming House Online:
Website - Facebook - Twitter - Instagram
- Becca Mancari Online:
Website - Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - Spotify
Nashville band Humming House recently released their third full-length album Companion via Soundly Music. The follow-up to 2015's Revelries, the new album finds the Music City quartet expanding their sound into a new territory, creating sonic landscapes that remain compelling and honest while still maintaining a sense of intimacy that is derived from their roots of making music as friends all together in the same room. Companion is available everywhere for stream or purchase via Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and more HERE.
"Companion is our third studio album and a redefinition of the Humming House sound," frontman Justin Wade Tam told American Songwriter who featured a special preview of the full album yesterday. "Our goal was to embrace where we’ve been as a band while simultaneously attempting to remove the barriers of genre and instrumentation. On our last album, we set out to arrange pop songs with solely acoustic instruments. While we enjoyed the exercise and are proud of it, we wanted to dive deeper."
"The album's 12 tracks seek to be just as the LP's title suggests: musical companions for trying times," continued American Songwriter. "Thematically, many of the songs on Companion achieve a sense of universality by daring to venture into the deeply personal."
The story of Companion mirrors the story of the band: it's one of collaboration, experimentation, and showing up for each other over and again. There are songs of hope and of desperation so that the prevailing mood is one of exchange and balance. While their established acoustic sound still centers the creative impulses of the songs, the added electric influence and expanded instrumentation imbue the new songs with a dynamism that is irresistible.
The lead single "Takin' Over" was the first taste of the record to be released back in July; Baeble warned listeners "Beware, it's wildly infectious" and Billboard called it "a lively jaunt of a tune" with "infectious ebullience." It was followed by the album's title track paired with a heartwarming crowd-sourced video. It debuted on Huffington Post who raved "Humming House, consistently shining as an energetic band filled with uplifting, infectious tunes, up the ante on Companion." Glide Magazine also recently stated "Over years of touring, the group has managed to craft a sound that is incredibly tight but also unbelievably catchy."
Watch the video for "Takin' Over" HERE.
Watch the video for "Companion" HERE.
The first half of the album is infused with catchy indie/rock, especially on songs such as "Can't Stay Away," "Takin' Over," and "Make It Through." These new songs adhere to Humming House's desire to move you and is emblematic of those moments in our lives where the rhythm of the things that we love - music, friends, family - commandeer our bodies until we're compelled to move in joy. "Sign Me Up" and "Companion" nod to Paul Simon, while later tracks like "Silver Lining," "Find What Waits," and "London" gesture to the band's long engagement with classical composition and songwriter-driven melodies so strong in the realm of Americana.
Humming House is Justin Wade Tam, Bobby Chase, Joshua Wolak, and Benjamin Jones. The band formed organically out of jam sessions that Tam held in his living room in East Nashville - evidence that some of the best projects come from spontaneous collaboration and the subsequent seeing it through. Now, three albums and six years later, Humming House continues to embody what is best about the Nashville each transplant chooses to call home.
Track List:
01) Companion
02) Takin' Over
03) Hope In My Head
04) Make It Through
05) Sign Me Up
06) Can't Stay Away
07) Silver Lining
08) London
09) I Want It All
10) Fall In The Water
11) Wishing Well
12) Find What Waits
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The Nashville-based singer and songwriter Becca Mancari recently released her debut album Good Woman today via Gold Tooth Records. The album is now available for streaming and purchase via all major retailers.
Good Woman was featured as an NPR Music First Listen written by Ann Powers who said, "Her voice, sometimes feminine and sometimes echoing beyond easy gender categories, is the voice of a quiet observer coming to realizations that matter. Some of the songs on Good Woman are joyful and jangly, others moody, but they always exude exquisite self-awareness."
The Nashville Scene published an in-depth interview with Mancari that touches working with producer Kyle Ryan, the everlasting influence of Lavender Country's Patrick Haggerty and traveling the world with her family as a child.
Rolling Stone Country recently premiered the "gorgeous, panoramic" video for "Golden," the third single to be released from the forthcoming album. American Songwriter said "Golden" "...begins on a gentle note before swelling to a sparkling, layered chorus evocative of the song’s bittersweet message."
The Fader recently shared the video for "Summertime Mama" and called the album "nine beautiful and buoyant tracks." The video features guest appearences fromBermuda Triangle, Becca's band with Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakesand Jesse Lafser. The band recently released their first single, "Rosey."
NPR Music's Jewly Hight premiered "Arizona Fire" and said, "...the symbolic spaciousness that can be found in the music of Becca Mancari, an important new voice emerging from Nashville's indie country, folk and rock circles, is striking."
Rolling Stone Country named Mancari one of 10 New Country Artists You Need To Know and called her music, "The spacey soundtrack for sunbaked afternoons, full of atmospheric Americana, hazy folk-rock and songwriting that drifts, drawls and draws you in."
Becca Mancari is currently on the road with Humming House and will tour with her band Bermuda Triangle in early October. The Good Woman album release show will occur on November 12 at 3rd and Lindsley with support from Good Buddy, Sun Seeker and special guests. Find a full list of upcoming tour dates below.
Good Woman Tracklist:
1) Arizona Fire
2) Waiting So Long
3) Summertime Mama
4) Golden
5) Long Way Down
6) Dirty Dishes
7) Devil's Mouth
8) Kitchen Dancing
9) Good Woman