Thao & The Get Down Stay DownTempleRibbon Music [2020] After 2016’s A Man Alive release Thao Nguyen lost interest in her music and the group as she struggled with multiple life issues. The good news is that she has returned with the groups fifth album Temple and it probably represents one of the most personal … Read more
The Fire Note received over 20,000 songs this year to check out. Pairing them down to 10 was simply crazy but we did just that for this week’s Top 10. Below you will find 10 tracks that simply made us listen again and again. Enjoy. #10 “Bonnie Brae” Harper Simon The bar is already crazy … Read more
Here is the new Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s video for “The Feeling Kind”. Directed by Morgan Wise, the video features Thao and some friends on the new span of the Bay Bridge in Thao’s home city of San Francisco. The video is also the first film production ever allowed to shoot on … Read more
Here is Thao & the Get Down Stay Down’s frontwoman Thao Nguyen performing the track “Kindness be Conceived” from the group’s critically acclaimed new album We The Common (TFN Review). The band is on tour through the winter with upcoming performances at the Austin City Limits Festival, Bumbershoot and Mumford & Sons’ Gentlemen of the … Read more
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down continues to celebrate the release of their critically acclaimed new record We The Common (Fire Note Review) by premiering the fourth episode of Shorts, a short quasi-biopic about the making of We The Common. Titled “Peddling My Wares” and directed by Lauren Tabak, the video can be viewed/shared … Read more
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down We The Common Ribbon Music [2013] Fire Note Says: We the Common delivers on the promise of earlier work and is the finest album yet from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down! Album Review: Thao Nguyen first came to my attention with 2008’s We Brave Bee Stings … Read more