Latest Buzz on The Long Winters

• 8-16-2010
• Sky Larkin releases new album
• !, The Long Winters and Boat, who break into a spontaneous round of applause. John Goodmanson kept it on there, epitomising the notion that Kaleide may be about science, but it's also about love, friendship and romance, good and bad. It's a heart in a lab coat. LINKS: weareskylarkin.com twitter.com/weareskylarkin youtube.com/skylarkinskylarkin vimeo.com/weareskylarkin facebook.com/pages/sky-larkin/10561491364 myspace.com/skylarkinskylarkin ...

• 8-16-2010
• Introducing Sky Larkin
• side of the highway - but it turned out to be a dirt track to a railroad. And by the side of the tracks was a pile of bones that had been picked clean, probably by a mountain lion. So it's about that apocalypse fantasy moment of what you could do if you had no time." It's a fable that ends in a gang-chant of "one pile of bones so they'll know we were friends", assisted by members of Seattle musical mates Telekinesis!, The Long Winters and Boat, who break into a spontaneous round of applause. John ...

• 7-28-2010
• Tonight: Toad the Wet Sprocket & Hey Marseilles @ Crystal Ballroom
• played SXSW 2009, are booked for the main stage at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party, and were selected for both Bumbershoot and CMJ 2009. Recent months have seen them share bills with The Constantines, Cotton Jones, and fellow Seattleites The Long Winters and David Bazan. A re-mix & re-release of To Travels & Trunks is planned for early 2010. website: http://www.heymarseilles.com Filed under: events, music Tagged: Hey Marseilles, pdxpipeline events, portland events, portland music, toad the wet ...

• 7-22-2010
• The Morning Benders want ice cream, may as well move to Toronto
• 's will release Buzzard on September 21 on their own. Paste catches up with John Roderick of The Long Winters, who ...

• 7-09-2010
• Tonight in Music: Carissa's Wierd, Fol Chen, Too Beautiful to Live, Neil Hamburger, and More
• to Live, the Long Winters (Columbia City Theater) Too Beautiful to Live, the local freeform talk ...

• 7-08-2010
• This One Time John Roderick Drove Me All Over Seattle and Told Me Everything He Knows About the City
• John Roderick is not just the lead singer of the Long Winters, he is also a historian ...

• 7-06-2010
• Luke Burbank's thriving "Too Beautiful to Live" podcast records live shows at Columbia City Theater with Sir Mix-A-Lot, Blue Scholars, The Long Winters
• at the Columbia City Theater with guests Sir Mix-A-Lot, The Long Winters, Rachel Flotard, Andy Haynes, and Ben Huh ...

• 6-23-2010
• John Hodgman, Neil Gaiman Jam With OK Go and Long Winters
• group sing-along. To help them out, the duo called on The Long Winters' John Roderick and OK Go's Damian ...

• 6-22-2010
• OK Go, The Long Winters: John Hodgman, Neil Gaiman Jam With OK Go and Long Winters
• group sing-along. To help them out, the duo called on The Long Winters' John Roderick and OK Go's Damian ...

• 6-22-2010
• My Vinyl Collection (June 2010 update)
• "] Lifesavas Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack Spirit in Stone The Long Winters Putting the Days to Bed ...

• 6-15-2010
• “State Of Our Affairs” by MT. Desolation
• ,Noah and the Whale, The Long Winters and Mumford and Sons, this I know is going to be good. Here's a slow burning ...

• 6-15-2010
• Festival / 2010 Sasquatch! Music Festival
• ! In the few cases where I was totally unfamiliar with a band, as in during Local Natives and the Long Winters ...

• 6-14-2010
• Sasquatch! Festival 2010: Day 2 Wrap Up and More Photos
• a few copies of The Wild Hunt by itself. The Long Winters Ladies and gents, John Roderick has a new ...

• 6-09-2010
• Check Out: Mt. Desolation – “State of Our Affairs”
• If you were wondering what the sum of The Killers, Keane, The Long Winters, and Mumford & Sons ...

• 6-02-2010
• Sasquatch Music Festival 2010, Day 2
• of stature), Avi Buffalo, Vetiver, Girls and The Long Winters (who did rock it out for their final number ...

• 6-01-2010
• Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, My Morning Jacket, She & Him (& more) rock Sasquatch!: Music Mix was on the scene
• to Midlake and the Long Winters, who covered the Dead's "Touch of Grey" for some reason. They Might Be Giants ...

• 6-01-2010
• Sasquatch: Some Belated Notes on Sunday
• A few more notes from Sunday: The Long Winters covered the Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey ...

• 6-01-2010
• The 10 Best Moments of Sasquatch Festival
• : THE LONG WINTERS Would rock festivals be a viable, nationwide success story in 2010 without the Grateful ...

• 6-01-2010
• The 10 Best Moments of Sasquatch Festival
• : THE LONG WINTERS Would rock festivals be a viable, nationwide success story in 2010 without the Grateful ...

• 5-31-2010
• A Few Photos from Day 2 of Sasquatch Festival
• , LCD Soundsystem, Avi Buffalo, The Long Winters, They Might Be Giants, Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam Band ...

• 5-31-2010
• Sasquatch! Sunday Notes & Photos: Tune-Yards, LCD Soundsystem, Dirty Projectors, Pavment, The xx, and The Long Winters On the Dead
• contribute to our coverage.The Long Winters, 2:15 p.m.(ish), Sasquatch! Mainstage: Sure, we're ... ...

• 5-27-2010
• LCD Soundsystem at The Kool Haus in Toronto
• of The Long Winters. The AV Club talks to Ben Bridwell of Band Of Horses, who are playing the Toronto Islands ...

• 5-26-2010
• Top Five Reasons I’m Not Moving To Portland
• By John Roderick Of The Long Winters 5. Flat topography encourages hippies to build ridiculous ...

• 5-25-2010
• Win Tickets to the Long Winters, I Mean the Newton Girls!
• uncovered in this post, the Newton Girls are indeed the Long Winters. They're playing Sasquatch this weekend ...

• 5-24-2010
• The Sasquatch Is Coming
• Rumpus RoomLuke Burbank2:05pm - 2:50pmYetiJets Overhead2:15pm - 3:00pmSasquatchThe Long Winters2:35pm ...

• 5-23-2010
• Sunday Night Thread: The Week Ahead
• Broken Bells, LCD Soundsystem, Caribou, Bobby Bare Jr., The Long Winters, Vetiver, Local Natives ...

• 5-20-2010
• 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival Mix
• a Paleontologist" 18. Dirty Projectors - "No More" 19. The xx - "Basic Space" 20. The Long Winters -"Pushover" 21 ...

• 5-14-2010
• Song du Jour Nr. 108
• Pushover by The Long Winters from Putting the Days to Bed ...

• 2-17-2010
• Sasquatch! Line Up Announced
• -By Truckers Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Fool's Gold Freelance Whales Fresh Espresso Fruit Bats Garfunkel & Oates Girls The Hold Steady Hudson Mohawke Japandroids Jets Overhead Kid Cudi Laura Marling LCD Soundsystem Local Natives The Lonely Forest The Long Winters The Low Anthem Luke Burbank Massive Attack Mayer Hawthorne MGMT Midlake The Middle East Miike Snow Minus the Bear Morning Teleportation The Mountain Goats Mumford & Sons My Morning Jacket Nada Surf The National Neon Indian The New ...

• 2-16-2010
• Sasquatch! Festival Lineup Announced
• out recently. Tickets are on sale now.Go here for deets. 2010 Sasquatch! Festival Line-Up: My Morning Jacket Massive Attack Pavement Ween Vampire Weekend MGMT Band of Horses The National LCD Soundsystem Tegan & Sara Broken Social Scene Passion Pit Deadmau5 She & Him Public Enemy Nada Surf The New Pornographers The Hold Steady The xx Dirty Projectors OK Go Drive By Truckers Kid Cudi The Long Winters Minus the Bear The Mountain Goats Quasi Camera Obscura Fruit Bats Brother Ali Midlake Dr. Dog ...

• 2-16-2010
• Pavement, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Massive Attack Lead Sasquatch! 2010 Lineup
• Vampire Weekend MGMT Band of Horses The National LCD Soundsystem Tegan & Sara Broken Social Scene Passion Pit She & Him Public Enemy Nada Surf The New Pornographers The XX Dirty Projectors OK Go Drive By Truckers Kid Cudi Deadmau5 The Long Winters Minus The Bear The Mountain Goats Quasi Camera Obscura Fruit Bats Brother Ali Midlake Dr. Dog The Hold Steady Caribou Simian Mobile Disco City & Colour No Age The Temper Trap Vetiver Miike Snow Portugal. The Man Telekinesis The Middle East Mayer Hawthorne ...

• 2-16-2010
• Sasquatch 2010 Lineup Announced
• Passion Pit She & Him Public Enemy Nada Surf The New Pornographers The XX Dirty Projectors OK Go Drive By Truckers Kid Cudi Deadmau5 The Long Winters Minus The Bear The Mountain Goats Quasi Camera Obscura Fruit Bats Brother Ali Midlake Dr. Dog The Hold Steady Caribou Simian Mobile Disco City & Colour No Age The Temper Trap Vetiver Miike Snow Portugal. The Man Telekinesis The Middle East Mayer Hawthorne Why? Girls Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes Wale The Lonely Forest Japandroids Boyz Noize Yacht ...

• 2-16-2010
• Sasquatch! 2010 Lineup Announced; Pavement, My Morning Jacket, Massive Attack Headline
• . Other bands include Ween, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, and Band of Horses, as well as The National, LCD Soundsystem, Tegan & Sara, Broken Social Scene, Passion Pit, Deadmau5, She & Him, Public Enemy, Nada Surf, The New Pornographers, The Hold Steady, The xx, Dirty Projectors, OK Go, Drive By Truckers, Kid Cudi, The Long Winters, Minus the Bear, The Mountain Goats, Quasi, Camera Obscura, Fruit Bats, Brother Ali, Midlake, Dr. Dog, Caribou, Simian Mobile Disco, City & Colour, No Age, he Temper Trap, Vetiver ... Steady, The xx, Dirty Projectors, OK Go, Drive By Truckers, Kid Cudi, The Long Winters, Minus the Bear, The Mountain Goats, Quasi, Camera Obscura, Fruit Bats, Brother Ali, Midlake, Dr. Dog, Caribou, Simian Mobile Disco, City & Colour, No Age, he Temper Trap, Vetiver, Miike Snow, Portugal. The Man, Telekinesis, Mayer Hawthorne, Why?, Girls, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Wale, The Lonely Forest, Japandroids, Boys Noize, Yacht, Freelance Whales, Laura Marling, Patrick Watson, Past Lives, Cymbals ...

• 2-15-2010
• 2010 Sasquatch! Festival Lineup Announced
• Passion Pit deadmau5 She & Him Public Enemy Nada Surf The New Pornographers The Hold Steady The xx Dirty Projectors OK Go Drive-By Truckers Kid Cudi The Long Winters Minus the Bear The Mountain Goats Quasi Camera Obscura Fruit Bats Brother Ali Midlake Dr. Dog Caribou Simian Mobile Disco City & Colour No Age The Temper Trap Vetiver Miike Snow Portugal. The Man Telekinesis Mayer Hawthorne WHY? Girls Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Wale The Lonely Forest Japandroids Boys Noize YACHT Freelance Whales ...

• 1-31-2010
• The Long Winters: Cinnamon
• Found at: youtube

• 1-19-2010
• Spoon, Shins' James Mercer, Yo La Tengo Cover Love Songs for Starbucks
• version of Kylie Minogue's "Hand on Your Heart". Elvis Perkins, Grand Archives, Mate of State, the Long Winters, and the Avett Brothers also make appearances. The compilation is for sale on iTunes right now, and we've got the tracklist below. Sweetheart 2010: 01 Jose Gonzalez: "Hand on Your Heart" (Kylie Minogue cover) 02 Grand Archives: "Cupid" (Sam Cooke cover) 03 James Mercer & Robert Mercer: "Spanish Harlem Incident" (Bob Dylan cover ... ) 04 Spoon: "Love Song" (The Damned cover) 05 Elvis Perkins: "Teneme en Tu Corazon (Keep Me in Your Heart)" (traditional) 06 The Long Winters: "Give Me All Your Lovin'" (ZZ Top cover) 07 Yo La Tengo: "You Make Me Feel Good" (The Zombies cover) 08 Céu: "Eu Amo Você (I Love You)" (Tim Maia cover) 09 Diane Birch: "I Go Crazy" (Paul Davis cover) 10 Jason Collett and Zeus: "Every Night" (Paul McCartney cover) 11 The Avett Brothers: "I Love" (Tom T. Hall cover) 12 Mates of State: "Long Way Home" (Tom ...

• 1-04-2010
• doe bay fest - The Long Winters
• Found at: youtube

• 1-04-2010
• John Roderick of the Long Winters talks skateboarding | 13 Songs
• Found at: youtube

• 12-17-2009
• Long Winters Frontman John Roderick Talks Kathleen Edwards Collaboration
• [Homepage photo by Eric Ryan Anderson] John Roderick has waited his entire life to have his own home studio, to serve as yet another way for him to make music on his own terms. But when he finally got that studio, he began wishing for an authority figure. "I've kinda worked really hard to get to a place where no one can tell me what to do, you know," the Long Winters frontman tells Paste. "That's been my goal for my whole creative life, to get to a place where nobody's the boss of me. And now ... a Wes Anderson film." Much like when the Long Winters were first establishing themselves with The Worst You Can Do Is Harm, the encouraging words Roderick and Edwards received soon turned into offers to contribute to the album, from Laura Veirs and Tucker Martine, to Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla, to the Minus 5's Scott McCaughey. "The whole adventure had just taken a life of its own where everybody, all these friends that we bumped into and talked to, all said, 'Oh my god, how exciting! You ...

• 11-27-2009
• Ben Gibbard, David Bazan, Fleet Foxes, Many More Contribute to Seattle Charity Comp
• through e-mail, from Ben Gibbard, The Dutchess and the Duke, Throw Me the Statue, The Long Winters, Unnatural Helpers and David Bazan. All album proceeds go to neighborhood food banks and Arts Corps, Seattle's largest arts education organization. To purchase the compilation, out now for $7, visit GiveSeattle.org or visit one of 13 Seattle locations. Tracklist (not in order), as provided by TwentyFourBit: Arthur and Yu – "Magic Mountain" Cave Singers – "Growing Paln" Champagne Champagne (feat ...

• 11-17-2009
• News in Brief: GIVE, Pit Er Pat, Thavius Beck, Quintron and Miss Pussycat
• -- Various Seattle artists have contributed to GIVE Seattle 2009, a benefit compilation released by the local coffee roaster Caffé Vita, which is out today. It includes tracks from Fleet Foxes, J. Tillman, Grand Archives, Kinski, Le Loup, and the Cave Singers, with contributions forthcoming from folks like Ben Gibbard, the Dutchess and the Duke, and the Long Winters. Proceeds go to arts education nonprofit Art Corps and to local food banks. -- On January 26, Thrill Jockey will release ...

• 8-30-2009
• Modest Mouse, Katy Perry Sign Up For Bumbershoot
• The 39th annual Bumbershoot, Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, has begun to reveal a small portion of the 2009 lineup. Sheryl Crow, Modest Mouse, Katy Perry, Michael Franti & Spearhead and De La Soul will all grace the bill for the event, which runs from September 5 to 7 at the 74-acre Seattle Center. The festival will encompass live music, comedy, theatre, dance, film and visual arts. Other artists set to play are Raphael Saadiq, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, The Long Winters, Sly & Robbie ...

• 8-10-2009
• The Long Winters "Delicate Hands"
• Found at: youtube

• 8-10-2009
• 13 Songs | John Roderick of the Long Winters | Episode 5
• Found at: youtube

• 8-10-2009
• The Long Winters - Through With Love Preview
• Found at: youtube

• 8-10-2009
• [Music] The Long Winters - Pushover
• Found at: youtube

• 8-10-2009
• The Long Winters - Pushover
• Found at: youtube

• 8-10-2009
• The Long Winters - Fire Island, AK
• Found at: youtube

• 8-10-2009
• The Long Winters - Mimi
• Found at: youtube

• 8-10-2009
• 13 Songs | John Roderick of the Long Winters | Episode 4
• Found at: youtube

• 8-03-2009
• "Blue Diamonds" - The Long Winters
• Found at: youtube

• 8-03-2009
• The long winters - The Commander Thinks Aloud (with lyrics)
• Found at: youtube

• 7-20-2009
• The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (from Ink19)
• The third record from Seattle's The Long Winters is as fine a collection of short, punchy indie rock tunes as you could find in 2006. Lead songwriter John Roderick's off-kilter lyrical sensibilities and occasionally oddball vocals are offset by an almost unerring sense of melody. It's a combination that should appeal to fans of bands like The Shins and Death Cab for Cutie."Unkind girlish walk/ Like a deed to the world without the talk," Roderick sings enigmatically on the harmony-laden opener "P......

• 7-14-2009
• Bumbershoot 2009 Lineup
• The lineup for Seattle's Bumbershoot 2009 was just announced recently, and advanced three-day tickets are on sale now for only $80. Based on the lineup that's been announced already I'd call that a good deal. Bumbershoot 2009 LineupSheryl CrowModest MouseKaty PerryMichael Franti & SpearheadDe La SoulRaphael SaadiqIsobel Campbell & Mark LaneganThe Long WintersSly [...] ...

• 6-12-2009
• The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (from Entertainment Weekly)
• An underappreciated songwriter, The Long Winters frontman John Roderick hasa flair for undercutting his hopeless romanticism with stingingself-awareness. The singer's engaging internal battle is apparent on Putting the Days to Bed's country-flecked "Hindsight," where he longingly looks back on a tornrelationship with barbs like "You never told me your secrets/So I guessthey stay safe with me." Marked by clean-cut choruses that alternatebetween punchy and pretty, Roderick's knotty tales never wra......

• 6-08-2009
• The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (from Stylus Magazine)
• One has to begin with it: this album does not sound like "The Commander Thinks Aloud." The centerpiece of the Long Winters' Ultimatum EP, John Roderick's ditty about re-entering Earth's atmosphere was a great glass tower of a song, a more blatant studio construction than any of the sunny, skewed guitar pop the Winters spent two albums and the rest of Ultimatum refining. Putting the Days to Bed, Roderick and company's third full-length, isn't an album of "The Commander Thinks Aloud"'s, or even ......

• 6-08-2009
• The Long Winters - The Worst You Can Do Is Harm (from Pitchfork)
• WASHINGTON-- In a stunning move reflecting yet another shift in our nation's defense strategy, the Pentagon today unveiled plans to resuscitate a controversial weapons project that has been neglected for over a decade. "Ladies and gentleman, tomorrow's battles will not be fought on the ground, in the air, or even under the water, but will require entirely new military technology to be developed," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced in a press conference t......

• 6-08-2009
• The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall (from Pitchfork)
• I tore the shrinkwrap off this album and the smell of dandelions spilled out. Dandelions, and breezy windfalls. My knees got weak from the aroma, the sense of a smart man writing what was on his mind, and not being so cynical that he doused his thoughts in the petals of harmony. Instead, he doused his music in stories. They could be real, they could be fake, but you don't know for sure because they're just too vague for interpretation, and you don't wanna project your own shit onto m......

• 6-08-2009
• The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall (from Tiny Mix Tapes)
• John Roderick's Long Winters are a pretty little band with a pretty little name that conjures up snow days (naturally) and snowy music, something like Low or the Early Day Miners. Their previous album, The Worst You Can Do is Harm, was a forgettable affair with a couple of gems ("Carparts") that made the release of a new 'un something of interest. At first listen, When I Pretend to Fall seems equally forgettable, even a little ingratiating on jesus-christ-so-fuckin'-earnest numbers like "C......

• 6-08-2009
• The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (from Prefix Magazine)
• I sometimes wonder what makes certain people who have a way with words choose which path to follow: become a songwriter or focus on non-musical prose and poetry. John Roderick, the singer-songwriter at the center of the Long Winters, could seemingly craft some killer short stories. The problem on Putting the Days to Bed is that the music that accompanies Roderick's witty, insightful lyrics usually isn't half as appealing. The music on Putting the Days to Bed basically falls into two categories: ......

• 6-08-2009
• The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (from Pitchfork)
• The Long Winters frontman-cum-producer John Roderick may have spent formative years in Anchorage, Alaska but there's nothing overtly chilly about the Seattle quartet's third full-length, Putting the Days to Bed. Never mind that on "Hindsight" Roderick deliberates about holding a snowball of a girl and croons about "craving the sun" (all in that crazy awesome voice of his: part dude from Okkervil River, part Craig Finn), this stuff's about as wintry as possible, arriving mid-s......

• 6-05-2009
• LONG WINTERS, THE - The Worst You Can Do Is Harm (from Aquarius Records)
• From the lead-off track, I might have expected The Long Winters' debut full length to be somewhat of a dour downer of an album, but by the second song things definitely pick up. Barsuk has likened mainman John Roderick's songwriting style and vocal delivery to Smog and/or The Band, but for me it brought to mind a number of other artists. Robert Pollard/Guided by Voices or David Gedge/Wedding Present or Andy Partidge/XTC are just a few. To be honest, I'm really not sure if I found this album appe......

• 3-22-2009
• The Long Winters - Pushover - Live @ Easy Street Records WS
• Found at: youtube

• 2-27-2009
• the Long Winters - New Girl (Live in Toronto)
• Found at: youtube

• 2-27-2009
• The Pitchfork Guide to Musicians on Twitter
• the actual artist updates it? Um, no. Sample Tweet: "Make sure you cop GhostDeini The Great this Tuesday December 16!!" Worth Following? We wish. The Long Winters (John Roderick) Does it seem like the actual artist updates it? Yes. Sample Tweet: "It's not that I don't want to hang out with you because I'm some 'big-shot rock star'. It's because I'm a guy who likes to have a good time." Worth Following? Yes, especially if you're one of Roderick's exes. Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor) Does it seem ...

• 2-19-2009
• Vaselines, Grizzly Bear, Sonics Headed to SXSW
• , Cadence Weapon, Cage, Cheeseburger, Coathangers, Coliseum, Cousin Cole, dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Deer Tick, the Drones, Ecstatic Sunshine, Mickey Factz, Tim Finn, Future of the Left, Gang Gang Dance, Sebastien Grainger, Grizzly Bear, Handsome Family, Handsome Furs, Harlem Shakes, Grant Hart, HEALTH, Heavenly States, the Homosexuals, Human Highway, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Japanese Motors, Japanther, Jeremy Jay, the Juan Maclean, Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, the Long Winters ...

• 8-13-2008
• Grinderman, Oldham Songs, Lou Reed in Wenders Film
• 's photographer is set to familiar tunes from Iron & Wine, Calexico, Beirut, Jason Collett, and the Long Winters, plus a few offerings composed specifically for the film. Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney bring us new song "Torn and Brayed" (plus "Death to Everyone" from Oldham's Bonnie "Prince" Billy classic I See a Darkness makes an appearance). Meanwhile, Wenders' old pal Nick Cave and his Grinderman serve up "Dream (Song for Finn)" and "Song for Frank". Palermo Shooting also includes Portishead's "The Rip ...

• 8-02-2008
• The Long Winters - Honest
• Found at: youtube

• 8-02-2008
• The Long Winters - Live at the Showbox - 7/5/08
• Found at: youtube

• 8-01-2008
• The Local Music Show - Interview...
• Found at: myspace

• 8-01-2008
• Fire Island, AK
• Found at: myspace

• 8-01-2008
• The Long Winters
• Found at: myspace

• 7-26-2008
• the long winters - cinnamon
• Found at: youtube

• 7-26-2008
• The Long Winters - Rich Wife - Live @ Easy Street Records WS
• Found at: youtube

• 7-26-2008
• The Long Winters - Fire Island AK, Live @ Easy Street WS
• Found at: youtube

• 7-26-2008
• The Long Winters - Blue Diamonds [Live]
• Found at: youtube

• 7-26-2008
• The Long Winters -"Scared Straight"
• Found at: youtube

• 7-25-2006
• The Long Winters - Putting The Days To Bed (from Lost At Sea)
• "Hindsight" is 20-20 and so is songwriter John Roderick's vision of what a glorious pop-rock record should be. Overflowing with vibrant, solar-powered melodies and skyscraper-sized hooks, Putting The Days To Bed, the third full-length release from The Long Winters, is " ... familiar, but not too familiar," to borrow a line from the guns-a-blazin' rocker "(It's A) Departure." Like 2003's When I Pretend To Fall, Putting The Days To Bed dispenses large doses of guitar-driven ecstasy, but balances o......

• 7-24-2006
• The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (from Delusions of Adequacy)
• Coming up with RIYLs is extremely difficult for such a unique band as The Long Winters, so the ones listed here should not necessarily be taken literally but used more as a point of reference. For example, musically speaking, John Vanderslice and The Long Winters may not be synonymous, but like his Barsuk labelmate, The Long Winters' mainman John Roderick eschews the rules of commercial rock and instead uses music as more of an art form to express his literate narratives. But don't expect any s......

• 5-03-2006
• The Long Winters - Ultimatum EP (from Delusions of Adequacy)
• Ultimatum, the first release from the Long Winters since 2003's When I Pretend to Fall, more firmly establishes this act in the current canon of rising indie-pop wunderkids. Lead singer/songwriter John Roderick more clearly highlights his unique songwriting style on this much more experimental release and takes a place alongside fellow artists John Vanderslice and John Darnielle. The four new songs on Ultimatum offer a new twist on the Long Winters' sound, adding in string quartets and analog sy......

• 1-01-2006
• The Long Winters - Putting The Days To Bed (from Nude as the News)
• Sometimes a band is all about a voice. Not neccesarily a voice in the general, creative sense, but an actual human voice that leaves its distinguishing mark on every bit of a body of work and begins to elicit trust and familiarity out of those who hear it repeatedly. You could say Spoon, Modest Mouse, hell, even R.E.M. might fit into that category, and you can add to that list John Roderick and the Long Winters. Roderick's singing style hinges on his overpronunciation of words (and non-words), ......

• 1-01-2006
• The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (from Robert Christgau)
• No text for this review; see http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php....

• 1-01-2006
• The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (from cokemachineglow)
• Like a meteorite in the Jurassic sky, in many ways the year 1998 signaled the end of "alternative" rock. Looking back, that year was the next logical step in a long progression; as grunge went through several watered-down generations, the genre lost more and more edge (less alternative, more mainstream), until finally, Hootie -- that deep-voiced, Dolphins-loving force of destruction -- happened. Hootie & the Blowfish's Cracked Rear View sold over 16 million copies, paving the way for VH1 anthems......

• 10-20-2005
• The Long Winters - Ultimatum (from Lost At Sea)
• For John Roderick, the mission is almost over. Sometime in 2006, his band The Long Winters will release a full-length follow-up to 2003's astonishing guitar-driven pop album, When I Pretend To Fall, and when they do, he'll likely feel that a sort of homecoming is in order. In a way, it's like he's returning to Earth after spending months in space, much like the homesick astronaut of "The Commander Thinks Aloud" who longs to see "Boys and girls in cars" and "Dogs and birds on the lawn." Does t......

• 5-12-2003
• The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall (from Delusions of Adequacy)
• After a number of aborted attempts at bands, songwriter, Alaska native, and former Harvey Danger member John Roderick finally got it right last year when his latest group, the Long Winters, released their debut full-length, The Worst You Can Do is Harm. Only days after returning home from touring the country twice in support of that effort, Roderick and friends (Eric Corson, Michael Schilling, Eric Corson) headed back into the studio to try and keep the momentum going with their second effort, W......