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04.30.2008
"If Sleater-Kinney and Mary Timony had a baby named Lightning Johnson."
That's how the Moaners are described on a flier for tonight's show at the... |
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08.06.2007
Video for "Brainwash" off of The Moaner's latest release Blackwing Yalobusha
Originally posted by Skizz Cyzyk
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07.18.2007
Check out this message straight from Laura on the new book featuring the Moaners
Hey...
Just thought I'd let you know that we are in a... |
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07.06.2007
Blackwing Yalobusha is the first really good record of 2007. It’s been a long time coming. Despite five albums of melancholic otherworldly charm... |
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05.24.2007
The Moaners' "Mississippi Moan: The Making of Blackwing Yalobusha" will be Paste Magazine's short film of the week, beginningMay 29th!
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05.04.2007
Singer-guitarist Melissa Swingle once played spookily atmospheric, Southern-steeped country rock in Trailer Bride, but when she founded the Moaners... |
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04.19.2007
It seems that a new keyboard-drums indie duo pops up every week, but duos of the guitar-drums variety aren't nearly as in vogue as they were during... |
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04.19.2007
After a decade fronting the goth-country act Trailer Bride, singer-guitarist Melissa Swingle needed a new direction. So four years ago, she recruited... |
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04.03.2007
When people talk about Mississippi being a whole other part of the world, they're talking about places like the Sardis Motel. That's where The... |
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04.03.2007
It's not age or gender or backstory that makes Chapel Hill's The Moaners one of the most relevant bands on Yep Roc Records' lengthy but partially... |
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03.21.2007
The Moaners were already rockin' the messed-up blues with impressive results on their debut album, 2005's Dark Snack, but they dig deeper into the... |
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03.14.2007
To follow-up their impressively hard-rocking debut, Dark Snack, The Moaners headed past the cotton fields and deep into the creeping kudzu and... |
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03.14.2007
"People probably look at me and think, 'Hey, she probably likes Karen Carpenter,'" says Melissa Swingle, skinny white girl/singer-guitarist for... |
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03.14.2007
If Southern Gothic had a sound, it would be the voice of Melissa Swingle. Her plaintive, haunting wail is perfect for the dark, creepy country-blues... |
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02.23.2007
A studio with a past always seems to be a turn-on for musicians, and the Moaners-singer-guitarist Melissa Swingle and drummer Laura King-are no... |
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The Moaners
Blackwing Yalobusha
During the fall of 2006 the North Carolina-based garage-blues duo The Moaners decided to revisit their Mississippi roots and travel by van and backcountry blacktop to...
NEWS
- Six Questions for The Moaners on Washingtonpost.com
- New Moaners video for "Brainwash"
- The Moaners featured in the book "Chasing the Rising Sun"
- Popmatters calls The Moaner's Blackwing Yalobusha "fabulous and compelling"
- "Mississippi Moan: The Making of Blackwing Yalobusha" will be Paste Magazine's short film of the week 5/29