Seeing as how we have already been talking about Damien Jurado this morning, “Working Titles” seemed like a good pick for song of the week. The Buzz surrounding Jurado’s latest release Maraqopa is ...

Seattle songwriter Damien Jurado has announced that the followup to 2012’s Maraqopa, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, will be out on January 21 via Secretly Canadian. That’s the album artwork ...

Damien Jurado has announced a new album. It’s called What’s New, Tomboy?, and it’s out May 1 via Mama Bird. Listen to the song “Birds Tricked into the Trees” below. Find physical editions of What’s ...

What are you to think when what you've written about as an observer becomes your life? For 15 years, Damien Jurado has traced the twisted heartstrings of the dissolute and disaffected as they struggle ...

On "Lincoln," the opening track of his new record, In the Shape of a Storm, Damien Jurado hauntingly sings, "There is nothing left to hide." The declaration could serve as a mission statement of sorts ...

Two phrases on the cover of Damien Jurado's new album point to a change in direction: First, it's credited to "Damien Jurado And Gathered In Song," implying the presence of something sonically meatier ...

Damien Jurado has always offered the impression that he’s an aloof observer, an artist who cites the perils of circumstance, but hesitates to lock into the quagmire. Confining his sound to the ...

Damien Jurado released his 14th album and first for Mama Bird Recording Co. earlier this month, In the Shape of a Storm. To coincide with the release, Jurado popped into the Paste Studio to perform ...

I have seen Damien Jurado live a few times already this year because he is pretty much my favorite and I don’t just mean out of local artists. My favorite ever. Yeah that’s right, forever ever. Each ...

Hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are back from their holiday journey to the heartland, rested and ready to celebrate the new year with a batch of new music from some of their favorite artists, and ...

It was a shock to see Damien Jurado take the stage at the Neptune Theatre Friday night clad entirely in white. Usually dressed dark and down, the brilliant Seattle songwriter strode onto the stage ...

The opening track on Saint Bartlett, Damien Jurado’s ninth full-length album, was written in six minutes. Jurado was sitting in the studio—he had 12 songs prepared to record—when his producer and ...