Kevin Morby, Sam Cohen @ The Opera House, Wednesday

Kevin Morby explores themes of religion and devotion on his new album Oh My God produced with show opener Sam Cohen. Check the clips. 

Watch Anna St. Louis perform her song "Water"

"Water" is off the new Anna St. Louis album If Only There Was A River out now. 

If Only There Was a River is the first full-length studio album from Anna St. Louis. The songwriter, who originally hails from Kansas City, began writing songs after moving to Los Angeles five years ago and has previously released a cassette of recordings on Woodsist / Mare Records, appropriately titled “First Songs”.
On her proper studio debut, St. Louis, spreads her wings and expands on the promise hinted at on First Songs. To achieve that, St. Louis enlisted Kyle Thomas (King Tuff) and Kevin Morby to produce the album, which was engineered by Thomas in his home in Mount Washington, LA. The collection of 11 songs also features Justin Sullivan (Night Shop) on drums and multi-instrumentalist Oliver Hill (Pavo Pavo). While hints of influences like Loretta Lynn, John Fahey and Townes Van Zandt peek out of the corners of the songs, If Only There Was a River is not a nostalgic affair. Rather it marks the emergence of an artist fully coming into their own.

“Being from the Midwest means a certain tone is woven into ones’ fabric," says co-producer Kevin Morby of Woods fame. "And every now and then, someone comes along who has the power to convey that feeling in their cadence alone. And so all hail Anna St Louis, who lets us into her world of heartache, wonder and a never-ending, never-beginning dance with time. Her album is for the mystics, reminding us that the world is full of magic at every turn, if only we let ourselves see it. Sometimes just by stating a simple observation, St. Louis lets us in on an infinite truth that perhaps we wouldn’t have seen otherwise. To step into the world of Anna St. Louis is to step into a world where the heart leads straight to the soul and where everything is cloaked in beautiful mystery. If Only There Was a River is a record of longing - of a soul reaching for more."

You can order a copy of If Only There Was a River right here. Check out Anna's performance of "Water" below.

Woods cover The Kinks, play The Horseshoe w/Parquet Courts July 17

To coincide with the Woods' East Coast tour with the amazing Parquet Courts, your favourite family band will be issuing a single on July 9 which will feature a B-side cover of The Kinks' klassic God's Children from the 1971 film Percy.

The topside of the seven will be a new version of Be All Be Easy originally recorded for 2011's Sun and Shade album, however, this updated take features new Woods drummer Aaron Neveu. Of course, we both know you really just want to hear what they do with the Ray Davies number, so here you go – the tour dates follow the song clip....


WOODS tour dates
 Sat-Jul-13 Boston, MA TT The Bears *
Sun-Jul-14 Portland, ME Space 538 *
Mon-Jul-15 Burlington, VT Signal Kitchen *
Tue-Jul-16 Montreal, QC Il Motore *
Wed-Jul-17 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern *
Thu-Jul-18 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
Fri-Jul-19 Chicago, IL Pitchfork Music Festival
Mon-Jul-22 Louisville, KY Zanzabar *
Tue-Jul-23 Charlottesville, VA Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar *
Wed-Jul-24 Philadelphia, PA Morgan's Pier *
Thu-Jul-25 Baltimore, MD Ottobar *
Sat-Jul-27 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom #

* = w/ Parquet Courts
# = w/ Alex Bleeker and The Freaks