you may now buy my new album, because i was in love, and my home recordings directly from me. 

just go to my website - http://www.sharonvanetten.com

heart,
sharon

My review on pitchfork!
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13226-because-i-was-in-love/

Thank you, Matthew Murphy!!!!!


heart,
sharon

I recently contributed vocals to a theme song to the feature film, Woman's Prison.
The song, Coming Home, was written by Jeremy Joyce, and the film was written and directed by Katie Madonna Lee.

Here is the trailer.


You can find more information on the film here.
womansprisonmovie.com

I Wish I Knew by Sharon Van Etten (song of the day)
by Stuart Anderson

TRACK: I Wish I Knew

WHO: Sharon Van Etten

WHAT: Charming, blue, acoustic folk pop with bags of heart and a little bit of hiss. No boos though.

THE HYPE: "Sharon Van Etten plays bittersweet neofolk so slow, spare and subtle that you might have to crane your neck to hear it...definitely worth the effort." - Time Out New York

WE SAY: Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten describes her own material as "sad prairie folk music". While it's true that I Wish I Knew is tinged with enough melancholy to reduce even Chuck Norris to tears, it also fills the heart with starlight and gives hope to music fans everywhere because it proves that there are still proper musicians and artists out there and that the cynical, overexposed, bland, ostentatious and heinously rubbish reality shows that clog up television schedules haven't quite won the battle yet.
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Zebulon Rising
by Buzz Poole

It's standing-room-only on a recent Sunday at the Williamsburg club Zebulon, and the place hushes instantly as Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten takes a seat behind the microphone and unleashes her tremendous voice, as warming as the crowded but not cramped room, which is candlelit and mirrored, with vinyl-sleeve visages—Coltrane, Blakey, Sun Ra, Fela—lining the walls like stained glass in a church. Spurred on by TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone, she'd met with the Zebulon co-owners—two French brothers named Joce and Jef Soubiran—and not too long thereafter had a show, and then another, and then a night every month where she both plays and curates, another in a long line of young artists championed by the nearly five-year-old club. "It was very nurturing and encouraging," she recalls. "In the most intimidating city for music I could possibly move to, I found a home at Zebulon."...

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The 38th Uncut Playlist Of 2008
2008-09-25 10:23:01
by John Mulvey

First thing today: the arrival of our new issue means I can finally mention the Uncut Music Award business we've been plotting for the past few months. Please have a look at our new dedicated blog, and let us know what you like the look of on the longlist.

Continued...

Not sure if there are any contenders for next year's award amidst this lot, on our weekly playlist. Some interesting new things for you to have a listen to, though: the Myspace of Sharon Van Etten, a really intriguing new American folksinger; and Amazing Baby. You can download their debut EP for free here. A lot of hype gathering on this lot in the wake of the moderately overrated MGMT, though they strike me as substantially better at this point, rather like a psychedelic Brooklyn Super Furry Animals, possibly. ....
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Posted 11/28/2008 2:24 PM by Faith-Ann Young

If a song could sound diaphanous, this would be the one. Sharon's silky, melancholy vocals weep over loose acoustic strumming, imperfect yet immaculate, lonesome yet soothing. "I Wish I Knew" effortlessly whisks you away from the big city onto an austere, Icelandic plain, barren of human hullabaloo. On Van Etten? The Bushwick-based songwriter has played with Wildbirds and Peacedrums and Luke Temple, performed at CMJ, and sung in Miles Anthony Benjamin Robinson's new record (arranged by TV on The Radio member and Brooklyn luminary Kyp Malone). We recommend to intake her brand of "sad prairie folk music" whenever you need a humbling escape...
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http://www.connectsavannah.com/show_article.php?article_id=1738

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Wright & Van Etten

Good, good, good. Corbi Wright offers hushed, contemplative acoustic guitar-based "anti-folk" (whatever the hell that means anymore) that's both naive and extremely nuanced at the same time. The beyond intimate nature of the emotions displayed and the manner in which it is dispatched practically begs for rapt attention and silent contemplation on the part of the audience. Close your eyes and meet her halfway. Plus, if you're on your best behavior, she just might lull you with a Loren Mazzacane Connors tune. Friend and collaborator Sharon Van Etten's dreamy, Brit-folk-infused (think solo Syd or Nick Drake) oblique odes to warm impermanence, a la just-left-Roxy-era Eno or PJ Harvey on Tuinals. Local acoustic artists Joe Nelson and the duo of Jeff & Martha open. Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.