The Barr Brothers are drawing from that late 90’s/early 00’s indie moment when bands made music that felt both intimate and epic.
Here’s the thing about The Barr Brothers: they’ve never been your average alt-country band.
But on Let It Hiss, they’ve stopped caring about labels entirely. Instead, …
The Barr Brothers by Lauren Kallen
Jim James of My Morning Jacket has joined The Barr Brothers on their third Let It Hiss single English Harbour.
“We’d been imagining Jim’s soaring voice on the song’s opening melody for …
The Barr Brothers by Lauren Kallen
The Barr Brothers have set their new album Let It Hiss for release on October 17th.
It represents a ‘transformation’ and ‘reconnection’ for brothers Brad and Andrew Barr, who co-produced the LP at their Montreal studio.…
The Barr Brothers live in Manchester (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Barr Brothers are preparing for their July tour of Europe with a live video for Defibrillation.
The Barr Brothers return with a wonderfully considered and cohesive third album, Queens Of The Breakers.
Before we get into the details, it’s worth pointing out just how well this record hangs together as a whole. It’s loaded with standout tracks, so it’d be easy to miss that, more than …
The Barr Brothers live in Manchester, January 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
It Came To Me is the first official video released by The Barr Brothers from their new album Queens Of The Breakers.
The Barr Brothers live in Manchester (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Barr Brothers will join up again with The War On Drugs to support the band’s European tour in November.
The Barr Brothers live in Manchester (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Barr Brothers will play UK shows in London, Winchester and Manchester after the release of their new album Queens Of The Breakers on October 13th.
The Barr Brothers (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Barr Brothers are touring with Calexico and play the Shepherds Bush Empire in London tonight (April 28th). To mark the occasion the band have also today announced the surprise release of a brand new EP entitled ‘Alta Falls‘.
The Barr Brothers live in Manchester, January 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Barr Brothers were at a packed out Deaf Institute in Manchester last weekend as part of a UK tour launched to support their essential 2014 album ‘Sleeping Operator‘.
Relive the evening, and support act Kate Stables, …
The Barr Brothers will release ‘Come In The Water‘ as the latest single to be taken from their superb 2014 album ‘Sleeping Operator‘.
A track as stunning as The Barr Brothers‘ ‘Love Ain’t Enough’ deserves a video to match; animator and director Dustin Grella has pretty much managed it with a continuous shot of 50 cardboard cut-outs and 15 paintings. Check it out in full on Live4ever at this link.
‘Love Ain’t Enough’ is a highlight of The Barr Brothers’ 2014 album ‘Sleeping Operator’
Live4ever’s Essential Listening 2014 series comes to an end today with The Albums.
It’s been a year when albums have once again come under attack from the established order, described as ‘edging closer to extinction’ by George Ergatoudis. He of course being the man behind Radio 1’s lamentable playlists so …
During the recording sessions for ‘Sleeping Operator‘ The Barr Brothers, in their prolific nature, created 40 new tunes.
Now, condensed into thirteen, they have collectively compiled a folk-rock wonder capable of nurturing and nourishing every wound that might scar the surface of our skin.
Meditative, hypnotic, but always unusual …
Wonderful live version of the track which will feature on The Barr Brothers’ new album ‘Sleeping Operator’, released next week