In between bouts of recording, though, Rose-Garcia has upcoming gigs at Austin City Limits and tours scheduled with Shovels & Rope and fellow Pickathon performers like JD McPherson and The Devil Makes Three.
The still untitled LP will be released at some point in 2014, with an EP or live compilation possibly dropping before that. Hopefully these songs will either have to make me go to looping more or have minimal accompaniment or something like that.” He continues, “I’m trying to do that to encourage myself to come up with new ways to play music live. “Music house is going down!”Īlthough still early in the process, Rose-Garcia divulges, “The next album will be bigger,” emphasizing the latter half of the word, “than my live show. There’s a Hammond pipe organ from the ‘80s and a lap steel, some violins and of course, the now-famous suitcase drum. He’s been inviting friends over to jam and excitedly tells me, “I’ve been sitting on the floor for the past three days drinking wine and playing music.” He has a house to himself in Austin and has converted it into a personal studio with a 1979 Tascam 8-track reel-to-reel recorder. When I call him post-fest, Rose-Garcia is taking a break from recording his next album. Much more mellow than his current live performances, Roll the Bones highlights Rose-Garcia more as a lo-fi singer-songwriter, playing acoustic guitars and occasionally taming his growl to a whisper. However, this sound is a huge evolution from his first full-length album, Roll the Bones, which was self-released in 2011 and landed him a spot as the official busker of the Railroad Revival Tour with Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Mumford & Sons and Old Crow Medicine Show. Gritty groans and sexy moans carry his stories of both accepting and trying to overcome personal challenges masked with old-timey Western imagery. And when he sings, Rose-Garcia unleashes an unearthly howl. He fingerpicks while keeping time with a double-pedal kick drum, hitting a snare fitted into his suitcase drum and a tambourine fashioned to its side. The sound emitted from his hollow body guitar, mildly distorted amp and suitcase drum belie the young singer’s lean frame. Don’t cheat it and don’t be scared.”Īs Shakey Graves, Rose-Garcia plays a gnarly composite of blues and folk as a one-man-band of epic sonic proportions. There’s ways to make people pay attention to you, and not manipulative ways.
And if I’m not bringing it, then that’s about the only thing. “After Pickathon,” he begins, throwing in an “A.P.” to keep up the metaphor, he realized, “I can’t really be afraid. and A.D.” Before the festival, he admits, “I was sort of feeling lost, like ‘where do I go from here? How do I move forward? What’s the next step for me? What kind of music am I going to play? Where do I even want to be?’” Personal experiences aside, Rose-Garcia tells me during our interview that he’s starting to look at his burgeoning career, “like B.C. Not like, ‘Hey, Alejandro!’ Then I’m like, ‘Oh shit, is my mom here? What, am I in trouble?’” It sounds intuitive, because you do know me as Shakey. “It makes me more comfortable than people calling me my own name if they don’t know me. “I think it’s rad,” he declares during a phone call a few weeks after the festival. Engaging and friendly, his sharp sense of humor brightened conversations, even as he happily responded to catcalls (of which there were plenty at Pickathon) and shouts like “Yo, Shakey!”
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He spent a good half an hour chatting backstage about Bruce Springsteen, his hometown of Austin and how to keep track of all the people he meets. By that point, late afternoon on the third and final day of the festival, everyone knew the name Shakey Graves.Įven though he wasn’t playing until that night, the man-known-as-Shakey-Graves was already dressed in his now-recognized stage garb: slim-fitting slacks rolled at the ankles and a tight white tank. The Lone Bellow had just played a killer set at The Woods Stage on the last day of Pickathon Indie Roots Music Festival, a relatively small gathering outside Portland, Ore. I first met Alejandro Rose-Garcia in a forest. And if you’re taking a peek at this during the work day and just want to see the darn list already, we’ve got you covered-head on over to page 12 in the gallery below. We’ve included our 20 favorite finds and their complete profiles (or reviews in a few cases) below for you to discover yourself. From the un-fightable, infectious pop of Haim, the ragged garage rock of Mikal Cronin, the punishing punch of a Savages track to Majical Cloudz’s reflective slow-churners, we were in for a treat in 2013 with breakout acts.Īlong the way, we made plenty of discoveries in our weekly Best of What’s Next profiles, which are featured first at PASTE.COM. If our year-end lists of songs and albums were any indication, it was a great year for emerging artists.
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