Parlor Hawk
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Parlor Hawk is a folk rock
band. Their music has drawn comparisons to Brett Dennen
and Ryan Adams
Parlor Hawk released their debut album Hoarse & Roaring in the summer of 2010. The album was produced by folk singer/songwriter Joshua James
, mastered by Reuben Cohen (Across The Universe, Slumdog Millionaire Soundtracks) and mixed by Todd Burke (Belle & Sebastian, Johnny Cash, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper). Hoarse & Roaring also features Branden Campbell (bassist of platinum rock group Neon Trees
) on every track. Shortly, the band was featured on the July 2010 iTunes
Indie Spotlight Podcast. In December the album was featured on the iTunes
Indie Spotlight page as a "Best of 2010" Singer/Songwriter Album. Music from their album was also featured on the Yamaha
Experience Music: A Tunecore
Music Sampler which reached #1 on the Amazon.com
Free MP3 Albums Chart with more than 20,000 downloads in the USA. In January 2011 their home state paper, The Salt Lake Tribune
, singled the band out as 2011's Next Emerging Band.
Parlor Hawk toured with Joshua James
during the summer of 2010 and The Desert Noises in the fall. They played a residency in Singapore in May 2011. Parlor Hawk also played a handful of festivals in 2010 including Neon Reverb Festival, Desert Rocks Festival, Fork Festival (headliner), and Earth Festival.
The band have also played shows with mainstream and indie acts including: The Civil Wars
, Train
, Priscilla Ahn
, Johnny Flynn
, The Weepies
, Matt Costa
, Barenaked Ladies
, Isaac Russell, Sharon Van Etten
, Rocky Votolato
, Matt Pond PA
, OK SWEETHEART
, Julie Feeney
, Mindy Gledhill
, Carney, Frontier Ruckus
, Sahara Smith
, Vita Chambers
, Hey Monday
, Imagine Dragons
, and many more.
- iTunes Indie Spotlight "Best of 2010" Singer/Songwriter Album
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
band. Their music has drawn comparisons to Brett Dennen
Brett Dennen
Brett Dennen is a folk/pop singer and songwriter from Northern California.-Biography:Brett Dennen attended UC Santa Cruz from 2000–2004, where he was a student at Kresge College....
and Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams
David Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...
Parlor Hawk released their debut album Hoarse & Roaring in the summer of 2010. The album was produced by folk singer/songwriter Joshua James
Joshua James (folk singer)
Joshua James is an American rock and folk musician currently based out of Provo, Utah. Joshua James is often compared to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joe Purdy, Bright Eyes or Ray LaMontagne...
, mastered by Reuben Cohen (Across The Universe, Slumdog Millionaire Soundtracks) and mixed by Todd Burke (Belle & Sebastian, Johnny Cash, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper). Hoarse & Roaring also features Branden Campbell (bassist of platinum rock group Neon Trees
Neon Trees
Neon Trees is an American alternative rock band from Provo, Utah, with origins in Murrieta, California. The band received nationwide exposure in late 2008 when they opened several North American tour dates for the rock band The Killers. Not long after, the band was signed by Mercury Records and...
) on every track. Shortly, the band was featured on the July 2010 iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
Indie Spotlight Podcast. In December the album was featured on the iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
Indie Spotlight page as a "Best of 2010" Singer/Songwriter Album. Music from their album was also featured on the Yamaha
Yamaha
Yamaha may refer to:* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services** Yamaha Motor Company, a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company...
Experience Music: A Tunecore
TuneCore
TuneCore is an online distribution service for music founded in 2005. TuneCore principally offers musicians and other rights-holders the opportunity to place their music into online retailers such as iTunes, AmazonMP3, Zune Marketplace, Rhapsody, eMusic, and others for sale.-History and...
Music Sampler which reached #1 on the Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
Free MP3 Albums Chart with more than 20,000 downloads in the USA. In January 2011 their home state paper, The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune is the largest-circulated daily newspaper in the U.S. city of Salt Lake City. It is distributed by Newspaper Agency Corporation, which also distributes the Deseret News. The Tribune — or "Trib," as it is locally known — is currently owned by the Denver-based MediaNews Group....
, singled the band out as 2011's Next Emerging Band.
Parlor Hawk toured with Joshua James
Joshua James (folk singer)
Joshua James is an American rock and folk musician currently based out of Provo, Utah. Joshua James is often compared to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joe Purdy, Bright Eyes or Ray LaMontagne...
during the summer of 2010 and The Desert Noises in the fall. They played a residency in Singapore in May 2011. Parlor Hawk also played a handful of festivals in 2010 including Neon Reverb Festival, Desert Rocks Festival, Fork Festival (headliner), and Earth Festival.
The band have also played shows with mainstream and indie acts including: The Civil Wars
The Civil Wars (band)
The Civil Wars are a duo composed of singer-songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White. The two bandmembers met during a Nashville, Tennessee songwriting session. Their debut album, Barton Hollow, was released in the US in 2011, selling 25,000 copies in its first week. The album debuted at No. 1...
, Train
Train (band)
Train is an American pop rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1994. The band currently comprises a core trio of Patrick Monahan , Jimmy Stafford and Scott Underwood ....
, Priscilla Ahn
Priscilla Ahn
Priscilla Ahn is an American singer-songwriter.-Early life and education:Ahn was born Priscilla Natalie Hartranft in Fort Stewart, Georgia to Kay and Harry Hartranft and spent her childhood living in the USA and South Korea. She lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania for several years and attended...
, Johnny Flynn
Johnny Flynn
Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit are an English folk rock band signed to Transgressive Records. They are fronted by Johnny Flynn , an actor, poet and songwriter who cites W.B. Yeats and Shakespeare among his influences...
, The Weepies
The Weepies
The Weepies are an indie pop-folk duo of married singer-songwriters Deb Talan and Steve Tannen. Their music has been described as "subtly intoxicating folk-pop".-Formation and early years :...
, Matt Costa
Matt Costa
Matthew Albert Costa is a singer-songwriter from Huntington Beach, California.He has five independent releases: two self-recorded EPs, and three full-length CDs released via Brushfire Records.-Life:...
, Barenaked Ladies
Steven Page
Steven Jay Page , is a Canadian musician. Along with Ed Robertson, he was a founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and a primary songwriter of the music group Barenaked Ladies ; he left the band in 2009 to pursue a solo career....
, Isaac Russell, Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten is an American singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York City.Her songs were described by the music website Pitchfork Media as having "some echoes of folk tradition but generally in a more personal, introspective space." NPR Music asserts: "Her songs are heartfelt without being...
, Rocky Votolato
Rocky Votolato
Rocky Votolato is an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Dallas, Texas on March 8, 1977. He was raised in a small town called Frost, roughly 50 miles south of Dallas, until the age of 13. After his parents were divorced, his mother remarried and moved the family to the Pacific Northwest...
, Matt Pond PA
Matt Pond PA
Matt Pond PA is a New York based band formed in Philadelphia by singer-songwriter Matt Pond. They have released eight LPs and eight EPs since 1998....
, OK SWEETHEART
OK Sweetheart
OK Sweetheart is an indie folk group from Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, with late 60's pop influences.OK Sweetheart formed when singer Erin Austin won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest for Pop and a subsequent Lennon Award for track "You Let Me Down" in late 2008. The track was released on the band's...
, Julie Feeney
Julie Feeney
Julie Feeney, award-winning Irish composer, song-writer, singer and music producer.-Overview:Feeney is an award-winning and critically acclaimed Irish composer, singer, record producer, musician, songwriter, theatre artist and educator. She composes both instrumental and electronic music, and...
, Mindy Gledhill
Mindy Gledhill
Mindy Gledhill is an indie folk singer. She is also known for her guest vocal work for "America's Best DJ 2011" Kaskade.Gledhill released her debut album The Sum of All Grace in the beginning of 2004 on Lumen Records...
, Carney, Frontier Ruckus
Frontier Ruckus
Frontier Ruckus is an American folk-rock band from Michigan. The project is centered on the lyrically intensive songs of Matthew Milia, and was formed by Milia and banjo player David Winston Jones while living in Metro Detroit. The band released its debut full-length record, The Orion Songbook,...
, Sahara Smith
Sahara Smith
Sahara Smith is a young American singer-songwriter born in Austin, Texas in 1988. Growing up in the hill country of Wimberley, Texas, she started performing locally at age fourteen. At fifteen, Sahara was selected to compete in A Prairie Home Companion's 'Talent from 12-20' contest and took home...
, Vita Chambers
Vita Chambers
Vita Chambers is a Canadian-Barbadian singer signed to SRP Records. She began her career by posting a video and four original songs on her MySpace page. Her music is inspired by the songs that her cousin sang to her as a child. Shortly after, she was signed to SRP/Universal Motown in June 2009...
, Hey Monday
Hey Monday
Hey Monday is an American rock band from West Palm Beach, Florida, formed in 2008. They released their debut album Hold on Tight in 2008 which produced notable singles "Homecoming" and "How You Love Me Now". The album was followed up with their 2010 EP Beneath It All, which achieved moderate...
, Imagine Dragons
Imagine Dragons
Imagine Dragons is an indie rock band based in Las Vegas, Nevada.After winning four back-to-back battles of the bands, the band entered the studio for the first time in 2009. They released two EPs titled Imagine Dragons EP and Hell and Silence EP in 2010, both recorded at Battle Born Studios...
, and many more.
Albums
- Hoarse & Roaring feat. Joshua JamesJoshua James (folk singer)Joshua James is an American rock and folk musician currently based out of Provo, Utah. Joshua James is often compared to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joe Purdy, Bright Eyes or Ray LaMontagne...
, Branden CampbellNeon TreesNeon Trees is an American alternative rock band from Provo, Utah, with origins in Murrieta, California. The band received nationwide exposure in late 2008 when they opened several North American tour dates for the rock band The Killers. Not long after, the band was signed by Mercury Records and...
- iTunes Indie Spotlight "Best of 2010" Singer/Songwriter Album
Compilation albums
- Glory Glory Glory: A Northplatte Christmas, Northplatte RecordsNorthplatte RecordsNorthplatte Records is an American independent record label founded by singer/songwriter Joshua James and McKay Stevens. The label's quick ascent began when Paste Magazine darling Joshua James and successive artist Isaac Russell came to prominence in singer/songwriter markets.-Fork Fest:In Oct...
(2009) - "Holy Holy Holy" - Experience Music: A TunecoreTuneCoreTuneCore is an online distribution service for music founded in 2005. TuneCore principally offers musicians and other rights-holders the opportunity to place their music into online retailers such as iTunes, AmazonMP3, Zune Marketplace, Rhapsody, eMusic, and others for sale.-History and...
Music Sampler, YamahaYamahaYamaha may refer to:* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services** Yamaha Motor Company, a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company...
USA (2010) - "Home" - Experience Music: A TunecoreTuneCoreTuneCore is an online distribution service for music founded in 2005. TuneCore principally offers musicians and other rights-holders the opportunity to place their music into online retailers such as iTunes, AmazonMP3, Zune Marketplace, Rhapsody, eMusic, and others for sale.-History and...
2010 Singer/Songwriter Sampler, GERGERGER or Ger may refer to:* Great Eastern Railway, a British railway company formed in 1862* The Olympic and FIFA country code for * Great Eastern Run, a running event in Peterborough, United Kingdom* Granular endoplasmic reticulum, a cell organelle...
(2010) - "Julian" - KRCLKRCL-External links:*...
90.9 FM Presents Locals Only Vol. 1 (2011) - "Short Road"
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | "Every Bone" | Matt Eastin & Aaron Hymes | YouTube |