Reviews
NPR Song of the Day & Free Download
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Drew Grow & the Pastors’ Wives “It All Comes Right” is the NPR Song of the Day and we are giving away a free download of the studio version HERE. We also decided to give away an alternate version HERE which originally appeared on Drew Grow’s solo EP “The Comfort Feel” – released December of 2010. Go get them! We don’t give away tracks often, but our full-on love relationship with NPR has led us to celebrate by giving you free music. Thanks for your support.
NPR Song of the Day
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Kelli Schaefer’s song City Morgue is today’s NPR song of the day. Click here to read the article and hear the song in the same famous NPR player where you hear all those great “First Listen” albums.
Seattle Times
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
They hail from Portland but copious touring and a tremendous showing at August’s Doe Bay Festival gained DG&tPW an ardent following in Seattle. For good reason: This electric/acoustic quartet is one of the newest and brightest lights in the Northwest. Grow’s been making music for a long time, and over the past 18 months with the Pastors’ Wives — upright bass, electric and occasional slide guitar, drums — has arrived at a garage-gospel style that’s as gripping as it is unusual.
Their self-titled album is at once rustic and novel, possessed of the same straightforward pop sensibility as Brill and Phil Spector mediated by Grow’s unabashed, Facebook-ian need to share. Nothing awkward or emo here, though — Grow’s oblique lyrics and unorthodox production keep the music at a weird, unpredictable smolder even as the whole band sings with neck-vein-bulging intensity. This one unfolds very slowly, sensuously, and leaves a lingering afterglow. JZ
Portland Mercury
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
AT THIS SUMMER’S Doe Bay Festival, held on Orcas Island in the stunningly beautiful San Juan Archipelago off the coast of Northwest Washington, Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives turned in a knockout set for the second year running. In the late afternoon sun, with a few guests including Kelli Schaefer and the Portland Cello Project, the quartet delivered an impassioned testimony that stood head-and-shoulders above the mellow folk-rock that made up the bulk of the festival’s lineup. (more…)
Seattle Weekly
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
It’s well after midnight on a Tuesday in August, and I am sitting on Drew Grow’s back porch in southeast Portland, chain-smoking with the songwriter and the other three members of his band, the Pastors’ Wives, and arguing about what descriptor would best suit the band’s frustratingly indescribable self-titled debut album of punk-rock spirituals about breaking up with religion.
“I think I’ve suffered because I was not able to invent…a new kind of music,” Grow says. “It just took me a long time to cut through the bullshit and embrace who I am.” (more…)
Black Dog
Friday, April 9th, 2010
Preview the new Kelli Schaefer single “Black Dog” at the Portland Mercury Blog – “End Hits”
The b-side, titled “Home” will be available tonight @ the Backspace [115 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR] and available online next week, April 13!
Sound on the Sound | Pt. 2
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Earlier this week, I testified to the spine-tingling spirituals of Drew Grow & the Pastors’ Wives calling them my favorite live discovery of 2010. The impetus of my confession were two brand new songs from the band, and I’m so pleased I get to share one of those new tunes with you today, “Do You Feel It.”
“Do You Feel It” by Drew Grow & The Pastors’ Wives (courtesy of Amigo/Amiga) available for listen here
If you like what you hear and you live in Portland (or you can make the drive down), Drew Grow & the Pastors’ Wives will be celebrating the release of “Do You Feel It” tonight at The Woods. Opening for them will be Seattle’s own Friday Mile. Do me proud Portland, and don’t miss this.
Oregonian
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Portland band Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives have been steadily building a following the past year around town and out of it with each new song they release. Full Review (and leak) here.
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Sound on the Sound
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Often the hardest things for me to write about are the things I love the most. No one wants to be the blogger who cried “best band ever” over and over again, and there’s more self-imposed pressure to find the perfect description for what you find to be most compelling. That’s why there’s been nary a mention of what was quite possibly my favorite show and live discovery of 2010 thus far: Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives.
(Full story <a href=”http://www.soundonthesound.com/2010/03/15/drew-grow-the-pastors-wives-release-new-songs-plot-west-coast-tour-with-stops-at-columbia-city-theater-and-doe-bay”>here</a>