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LISTEN: The Young Sinclairs - (I Need You) To Be Strong

The Young Sinclairs - (I Need You) To Be Strong

you were always talking you were too proud to listen
laughing at me for a while
you've had it bad but I doubt you're worried
I just wanna see you smile
I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you to be strong
all the years you want to do alone
songs to show her for she's dying
please believe I'd never try and turn you
don't belong and don't be mine
I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you to be strong
I can feel it when I start to dream

LISTEN: River James - Fragile

River James - Fragile

River James follow-up last months incredible 'Arlington' with a new track entitled 'Fragile.' If these two tracks are anything to go by, their upcoming EP is definitely something to look forward to!

WATCH: Bruce Springsteen - Ain't Good Enough For You

If this video doesn't put a smile on your face for the whole weekend, I don't know what will! This and 'Save My Love' are easily two of the best songs I've heard all year and up there with the best songs Bruce has ever written. Magic!

WATCH: Desert River

Desert River from Nicholas Waggoner on Vimeo.

Beautiful video. 

via The Adventure Blog

WATCH: Ueli Steck - The Swiss Machine

Wow. This guy is incredible! Time to check out the full length film!

http://www.uelisteck.ch/en.html

LISTEN: Nightlands - Suzerain (A Letter to the Judge)

Nightlands - Suzerain (A Letter to the Judge) from Mark Schoneveld on Vimeo.

Just discovered this over on Trippin Through The Dew and loved it on the first listen. Time to head over to his bandcamp and listen to the other tracks available from the album, 'Forget the Mantra.'

"Nightlands is the recording project of Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist Dave Hartley. The music he creates in his bedroom is itself a bed of delicate, chiming strings and bubbling synths beneath a blanket of choral vocal arrangements. It's dreamy in the literal sense -- the seeds for the album were sown when Hartley began archiving musical ideas that occurred in his sleep with a simple bedside tape recorder. As a result his debut album Forget the Mantra is, in essence, a field recording of Hartley's dreams -- a travel journal through pop music and a collection of psych-hymns from the first human lunar colony. The songs sound both huge and intimate, breathy and cavernous like massive echoes of a faraway concert. It's the big, shadow music from just across the lake.

The album deals with themes of anxiety, fear and the limits of concentration. Therein, it mines Hartley's personal history as often as it does influences The Beach Boys, The Traveling Wilburys and Hawkwind. Side A pulses with layers of tom tom drums on wide-open standout slow jam "300 Clouds" and nimbly-picked acoustic melodies on "Suzerain (A Letter to the Judge)," like Crosby, Stills & Nash gone comsic-kraut. The songs roll and gallop then stop to breathe, always exhaling with what sounds like a thousand voices. Through its experimental back half -- reminiscent of Bowie's Low or Kate Bush's "The Ninth Wave" from Hounds of Love -- full of vocal samples from Hartley's real life, the more pop-leaning front end is given greater context, like a close study of a plant's blossom before traveling down through its root architecture.

Hartley, who for years has been a prolific sideman in many Philadelphia ensembles (most notably The War on Drugs), laid these songs to tape on a Tascam 388 insularly over several months, inviting friends along for feedback and ultimately, some additional tracking."

via Secretly Canadian

LOOK: Logging Photos from Oconto County, Wisconsin (1823-1920)

"Temporary cabins were constructed right after the harvest season in fall, by the woodsmen, in the area to be worked. These log buildings housed the loggers and other camp residents for that particular winter. These were typical of the late 1800's from the Wheeler area, which is now known as Lakewood, in the northwestern part of the county. Often they were dismantled and rebuilt the next fall in a new location."

Joe Ziereis and son George 

6 Men On Logs.
"The relative size of these northern Wisconsin trees can be understood when compared to the size of the full grown men standing on them. After cutting, came the trimming off of all the branches, which were then cut to use and sell as firewood."

See more here.

WATCH: The Annual Fjällräven Classic

ome join Fjällräven Classic – a trek in the Lapland mountains of Sweden and a folk festival for one and all - young and old, people who like to speed through life as well as those who like to stroll, experienced mountain foxes and curious beginners. With the right preparations, you and a group of people who share your goal will conquer a 110-kilometre challenge.

We know you will enjoy reaching out to the wilderness, but in the best moments the wilderness will be reaching out to you. When you least expect it. And that is what makes your experience unique.

Welcome to a wonderful opportunity to interact with Sweden's most breathtaking wilderness and gain a memory for life.

via Fjällräven.com

"We were thrilled to have Outside TV overseas for the Fjällräven Classic this year, capturing the event and its surroundings. Get a sneak peak of the feature in photos here and stay tuned for Outside TV´s take on the long-distance trek."

via Fjällräven US

WATCH: Neil Young - Journey Through the Past (Live 1971 for the BBC)