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NPR has posted the entire 24 minute video of Chris Thile and Michael Daves performing live at a Tiny Desk Concert at the headquarters of NPR Music in Washington, DC. These initially impromptu concerts have grown into a regular NPR feature, recorded at the desk of Bob Boilen, host of the network's All Songs Considered [...]
On the road supporting their just released debut album Sleep With One Eye Open, Chris Thile and Michael Daves rolled into Charlottesville last night and set The Southern Cafe and Music Hall’s stage on fire. Playing to a standing room only crowd (which included talent from many of Central Virginia’s Bluegrass and Americana acts, including [...]
This Friday, April 15, will mark the official premiere of How To Grow A Band, the documentary film by Mark Meatto that followed Chris Thile and Punch Brothers across the US and the UK over the past two years. It will be shown on Friday during the Nashville Film Festival at Nashville’s Regal 16 Green [...]
Regarding the upcoming Chris Thile & Michael Daves duo project we mentioned yesterday... Nonesuch is giving away a free track in exchange for your email address, Chris and Micheal's frenetic take on My Little Girl In Tennessee, famously recorded previously by Flatt & Scruggs and The Osborne Brothers. Here's a taste of the tune, and [...]
Chris Thile has engendered minor controversy in the bluegrass community since he began to veer off the main road with Nickel Creek in 2002. Rightly celebrated as an enfant terrible in the '90s, Thile's unpredictable musical adventures often left his early fans scratching their heads, even as he captured new ones with each new venture. [...]
There is much to report from and about Punch Brothers, Chris Thile's merry band of alt-bluegrass pranksters. Their current Nonesuch album, Antifogmatic, has just been released on vinyl for all you audiophiles out there. It is packaged with a copy of the CD, and an MP3 download for $21 in their web store. The project [...]
Punch Brothers continue to pop up everywhere you look, offering more evidence of how large an audience they have found for their unique acoustic/bluegrass/pop/rock hybrid. Two more prestigious publications have taken a look at their output in the past few days. Their brand new album, Antifogmatic, is reviewed in today's edition of The Wall Street [...]
If you missed Punch Brothers on The Tonight Show last night, here is the video from the June 16 episode. The song is Rye Whiskey, from their newly-released CD, Antifogmatic. Listening to the lyric, it would seem that the brothers are largely in favor of the distillation in question. The video below is for the [...]
Punch Brothers will perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight (6/17). They will be on promoting their brand new CD, Antifogmatic, and playing one of the songs from the album, Rye Whiskey. It seems that the boys have taken a lesson from the TV appearances for their previous CD (Punch), where they chose [...]
Today's the day, all you Punch Brothers fans. Antifogmatic, the second release from Chris Thile and his merry band - the second under this name, at least - is out today on Nonesuch Records. While their previous effort (Punch) was focused primarily on a single, multi-movement composition of Thile's (The Blind Leaving The Blind), this [...]
