Veggas Pub in Riverwest hosted a fun evening of folk and singer-songwriter music on Saturday evening featuring artists Dead, Dead Swans and Wylie Jakobs along with band Pay the Devil closing. Dead, Dead Swans is the singer-songwriter project of John Swan. His style encompasses somber folk and alternative country driven by Swan’s powerful vocals. Having lived in Illinois for some
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Dead, Dead Swans released a new album earlier this month. The ten-song album from the folk-country singer-songwriter was written in various places across the Midwest, giving it a well-traveled aura. There’s a beautiful drear to John Swan’s voice, and when it’s combined with the somber strum of banjo, mournful cry of harmonica and/or lamenting pulse of tambourine, his songs deliver
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Add Dead, Dead Swans’ latest EP to your toasty winter music selection. It’s four tracks written this past fall, bringing a most potently somber flavor of folk layered with banjo and fiddle (from Sheilagh Dandy Lyon) that puts you right in a remote Wisconsin cabin. Singer-songwriter John Swan hollers of losses, departures and hollowed memories with irrefutable conviction, intimately conveyed.
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Check out tons of new music this week, including Jacob Latimore, Buffalo Nichols, Diet Lite and more.
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Dead, Dead Swans put out their first full length album, “Lenses.” The 11 tracks of folk and country songs explore heartache and sadness.
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Check out the latest from Milwaukee, with tracks from Lakeyah, Shle Berry, Holy Pinto and more.
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Dead, Dead Swans capture the tension and apathy of a relationship that crumbles on their single from “Lenses.”
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Folk act Dead, Dead Swans are out with a new two-piece. Both songs are stripped-down with just acoustic guitar; “I Find Myself” is about falling in love and having a better outlook on life from it, and “This Song Brought to You By a Falling Bomb” brings imagery of the verge of a mental breakdown. There’s rawness of two polar
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Folk rock band Dead, Dead Swans dropped a new single. It’s an acoustic one about getting home late for Christmas ready to have a few drinks like old times. The singer reflects on how things used to be this time of year, from a snow-eating dog to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and now he wants to re-live what he can.
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Indie folk project Dead, Dead Swans have a new single out. Recorded in a bedroom with just one microphone, it’s a song that touches on someone appearing different than you once remembered them. Fittingly, it’s got a gentle acoustic melody that accommodates Swan’s gruff and honest vocals. It certainly makes you want to call up an old friend.
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Check out this week’s playlist, with new music from Fox Face, Boy Lonely, Joe Quinto and more!
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Folk trio Dead, Dead Swans are out with their debut EP. It’s four songs that touch on very personal sentiments; “Less of Me” is about having a difficult relationship with your father and confronting those emotions, “The Ash” deals with intense inner turmoil, and the remaining two tracks tackle the strange patterns we notice within our lives. Dead, Dead Swans
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