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May 20, 2013 | 3:21 PM | By

Download “Come and Wake Me Up” from Our Griffins (playing Johnny Brenda’s on 5/31)

Our Griffins

With their new LP Michael Boyd ready for release, Our Griffins have shared a new video for their song “Come and Wake Me Up.”  The song is the first taste of the upcoming album from Easton, PA’s DJ Brown and is available as a free download on Our Griffins’ Bandcamp.  With hushed vocals and prominent percussion, the song wanders and floats through a gradual crescendo of trembling guitar chords, mirroring the girl wandering through the woods in the accompanying video directed by Brad Kunkle.  Our Griffins will open for Nightlands at Johnny Brenda’s on May 31st; tickets and information can be found here.  Watch the video below and download the song here.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Previews, Events, Recordings, Johnny Brenda's, Our Griffins
March 25, 2013 | 9:24 AM | By

Tonight’s Concert Picks: Our Griffins at North Star Bar, Benoit Pioulard at the First Unitarian Chapel

OGEaston, PA native DJ Brown, aka Our Griffins, is at North Star Bar‘s Victorian Dining Room series tonight. Brown hasn’t released anything since his first EP two years ago, but he’s been in the studio for the past few months, and you can bet he’ll be using tonight’s set to flesh out some of that new material. The new record was recorded in Dallas, TX by Grammy award winning producer Stuart Sikes, so there’s no doubt the spotlight will soon be lent more and more to this gifted young songwriter. Supporting bands are blues-rockers Penrose, who just released a new album, and the wonderful folk duo Sun Flights whose lovely harmony-laden tunes will send you home singing. The free 21+ show begins at 9 p.m. Below, watch Our Griffins’ recent Random Tea Room session.

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FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Previews, Events, Benoît Pioulard, First Unitarian Chapel, North Star Bar, Our Griffins
March 21, 2013 | 12:18 PM | By

Watch Our Griffins perform “Blood on My Sleeve” in a Random Tea Room session (playing a free show at North Star Bar on 3/25)

OGTaking a quick break from recording a new LP, Our Griffins (the project of Easton, PA’s DJ Brown) performed a quietly poetic rendition of “Blood on My Sleeve” for The Random Tea Room‘s new video series.  Brown was backed by Travis Hobbie (guitar/vox), Alex Luquet (bass) and Eric Slick (drums) for the series’ tenth installment.  Watch the video below and revisit Our Griffins’ Key Studio Session from last December here.  More information for the free 21+ show at North Star Bar with Penrose and The Sun Flights on March 25th can be found here.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Previews, Events, Scene, North Star Bar, Our Griffins, Penrose, Random Tea Sessions, The Sun Flights
January 7, 2013 | 3:50 PM | By

Download The Key Studio Sessions Vol. 6 (feat. Reef the Lost Cauze, Kingsfoil, Bad Braids + more)

The latest edition of our Key Studio Sessions compilations is out today – now streamable and downloadable from Soundcloud! Check out highlights from fall of 2012 with The Key Studio Sessions Vol. 6, including some hard-hitting hip-hop from Ethel Cee and Reef the Lost Cauze, expressive Americana from The Districts, bright pop-rock from Kingsfoil, dense shoegaze from Nothing and more. Special thanks to guest engineer Chris Williams and production assistants Beth Ann Downey, Fred Knittel, Madeleine Lesperance, and Dan Malloy as well as photographers Laura Jane Brubaker, Kyle Costill, Shamus McGroggan, Marley McNamara, and Julie Miller for sharing their work.

Looking for more? Visit WXPN’s Soundcloud page to download The Key Studio Sessions Vol. 1 through Vol. 5.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Downloads, Recordings, Ape School, Artic Splash, Aspiga, Bad Braids, Cold Fronts, Ethel Cee, Gracie, I&I, John the Conqueror, Kingsfoil, Nothing, Our Griffins, Reef The Lost Cauze, Roomtone, The Districts, The Key Studio Sessions Volume 6, Tommy Conwell, XVSK
December 26, 2012 | 12:00 PM | By

The Key Studio Sessions: Our Griffins

The close of the year is the ideal time for quiet contemplation, and of everybody we’ve recorded for The Key Studio Sessions these past twelve months, few do it quite as well as Easton native DJ Brown. Recording and performing as Our Griffins, he released a stunning EP called Conversations late last year and made a handful of regional appearances in support of it. After recording with us in the spring, Brown / OG went into a period of hibernation with a handful of song-sketches (we hear one, “Stand Alone,” close out the session), but a recent appearance at The Living Room in New York indicate that he may be ready to re-emerge and take the next steps along his musical path. Download his Key Studio Session below – you’ll hear hints of Nick Drake and Catherine Wheel in its warm, haunting tones – and keep tabs on Brown’s appearances on his Facebook page.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Downloads, Recordings, Our Griffins, The Key Studio Sessions