Morby shared a statement about the track, explaining that the song, which was recently rediscovered on an old tape, just wasn’t a fit for Singing Saw: “In honor of Singing Saw having just turned five ...

Kevin Morby has just announced that his first album for Dead Oceans is titled Singing Saw and will be out April 15. The songs for Singing Saw began when Morby moved into a new apartment in LA’s Mount ...

Singer-songwriter Kevin Morby relied heavily on his guitar playing on his previous records, "Harlem River" and "Still Life." But as the former Woods member wrote his third album, he leaned on two very ...

(Nanowerk News) The eerie, ethereal sound of the singing saw has been a part of folk music traditions around the globe, from China to Appalachia, since the proliferation of cheap, flexible steel in ...

Nobody's quite sure when man first realized that the saw, beyond being useful for cutting wood, had a hidden capacity to entertain. But over the past couple of hundred years at least -- since "sprung" ...

It's an instrument that sounds like Halloween — a ghostly whine from another dimension. But it doesn't take long to hear the familiar melodies of Christmas: "The First Noel," "Silent Night," even ...

Julian Koster is best known as the banjo and saw player in Neutral Milk Hotel, and on his solo debut he wields his saw for a series of classic Christmas songs. Save this story Save this story ...

Morby tossed out a red herring when he released Singing Saw ‘s first single, “I Have Been to the Mountain,” in January. Beyond referencing Martin Luther King, Jr., the song addresses Eric Garner’s ...

Although his choice of musical instrument is unusual, the songs Music Tapes main man Julian Koster plays on it are not. Sometimes lonely and sometimes haunting, the songs on Koster's first holiday ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) The bike under the tree: As a devout fan of The Muppets, the ...