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Punch Brothers appeared live last night on Conan on TBS, and performed a track from their latest album, All Ashore. It's one called It's All Part Of The Plan - not really bluegrass in the strictest interpretation of Mr. Monroe's music, but they play it with bluegrass instruments, and an awful lot of people who [...]
Punch Brothers are back this summer with a new album, extensive touring in support, and a live video performance of one of the new songs. All Ashore is the name of the album, continuing in their mildly nautical theme of recent projects, which will release on July 20. The band assembled in a living room [...]
What would you call an online music festival where popular artists and entertainers are asked to make a video of themselves performing in bed? Why Bedstock, of course! The idea is to request donations to make music available for children and teens who are stuck sick in bed. MyMusicRx organizes the event, and puts all the videos [...]
My fellow Americans: the state of acoustic music in our country is strong. Earlier last week in our Nation’s capital many were sitting down for principle. By week’s end, throngs were standing up in repeated ovation for American Acoustic music, recognizing it as a national treasure that should be protected and nurtured. Enthusiastic audiences had [...]
While hosting A Prairie Home Companion last Saturday, Chris Thile and Punch Brothers debuted a new song with help from Sarah Jarosz that seems to have predicted the Denver Broncos win in Sunday's Super Bowl. Thile is well known as a sports fan, though most of his athletic numbers have been focused on summer's game of [...]
When standing beneath the monumental Natural Chimneys (120 foot limestone pillars and the only remaining evidence that this part of the world was once completely undersea) in Mount Solon, Virginia, i'’s hard to imagine a more beautiful location for a music festival. That's just one of many things that keeps people coming back to the [...]
When Punch Brothers played The Ryman Auditorium on February 27, they also spent a few minutes backstage with Martin Fisher of The Center For Popular Music, and recorded Rye Whiskey on an Edison-style wax cylinder for their archives. This video includes both the live recording session, and playback of the cylinder. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="63099"] [...]
Punch Brothers took new music from their just-released album, The Phosphorescent Blues, to late night TV, appearing yesterday on Conan. They performed a tongue-in-cheek song of seduction, Magnet, with fiddler Gabe Witcher operating some sort of mechanized percussion. Check it out. [jwplayer player="7" mediaid="191691"]
Punch Brothers have released a third single in advance of the January 27 debut of their latest Nonesuch album, The Phosphorescent Blues. This new track is My Oh My, and like the previous singles Julep and I Blew It Off, is presented as a static video. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="61666"] All three singles are available [...]
Punch Brothers have released another song from their upcoming album on video. As they did for I Blew It Off last month, Julep is presented as a static video. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="61143"] The new record, The Phosphorescent Blues, is due January 27 from Nonesuch.
