Month: May 2016
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After blowing our collective minds with last year’s massive 4-disc 10 Years Solo Live set, BRAD MEHLDAU has reunited with his trio for the first time since 2012 with a new record on Nonesuch called Blues & Ballads. Gene is doing cartwheels. No, seriously.
On the heels of the epic and life –changing four disc 10 Years Live set, BRAD MEHLDAU returns with his magical trio, Larry Grenadier (bass), and Jeff Ballard (drums) with Blues and Ballads, the trio’s first new release since 2012’s Where Do You Start, on June 3 on Nonesuch Records. At Horizon Records, where we do…
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NEW STUFF 5/27: Fresh swamp-rock from TONY JOE WHITE, a MILES DAVIS tribute album from ROBERT GLASPER, re-electronica’d BETH ORTON, and more!
Talk about a grab bag o’stuff: This week’s New Releases challenge the word “eclectic” to be a little more diverse. We’ve got a new Tony Joe White album dripping with backwoods boggy funk, a tribute to Miles Davis from jazz pianist Robert Glasper, a Mark Kozelek covers album that paints some standards red, and scuzz-rocker Catfish…
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JAMES MCMURTRY IS PLAYING THE GREY EAGLE ON JULY 22nd. This is good!
Our friend, the acclaimed songsmith and gnarly guitar player JAMES MCMURTRY returns to the GREY EAGLE on July 22nd! His latest release, Complicated Game, like all his releases has been an ongoing (and no doubt perennial) favorite. James & the boys aren’t stopping in Greenville this go-round, unless it’s for lunch in the The Bohemian…
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JAMES MCMURTRY IS PLAYING THE GREY EAGLE ON JULY 22nd. This is good.
Our friend, the acclaimed songsmith and gnarly guitar player JAMES MCMURTRY returns to the GREY EAGLE on July 22nd! His latest release, Complicated Game, like all his releases has been an ongoing (and no doubt perennial) favorite. James & the boys aren’t stopping in Greenville this go-round, unless it’s for lunch in the The Bohemian…
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NEW RELEASES, 5/20: ERIC CLAPTON releases (maybe) his final record, TOM PETTY’s MUDCRUTCH reunion rolls on, and BOB DYLAN delves further into the Great American Songbook!
Some major classic-rock titans have new stuff out this week, including Eric Clapton’s reunion with Slowhand producer Glyn Johns, Tom Petty’s second effort with his pre-Heartbreakers outfit, and Bob Dylan’s second take on the Great American Songbook. But we’ve also FINALLY got the new Honeycutters in on CD, not to mention some jazz-rap alchemy from…
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NEW RELEASES 5/13: DARRELL SCOTT’S “Couchville Sessions,” HARDWORKING AMERICANS’ “Rest In Chaos,” the FRUIT BATS’ ‘Absolute Loser,” ODDISEE’S “Odd Tape,” & more!
A small but fierce batch o’new product this week, including masterful songsmith (and friend of Horizon) Darrell Scott’s laid-back homegrown wonder, a raucous all-star sizzler from the Hardworking Americans, some lovely indie-pop from the Fruit Bats and a prime-era Grateful Dead set! Read on… NEW GOODIES: DARRELL SCOTT, Couchville Sessions (CD/LP) On paper, this is…
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Longtime Carolina favorite sons & Horizon-friendly arena warriors THE AVETT BROTHERS have returned with a new album, TRUE SADNESS! They’re playing Bon Secours Wellness Arena on SATURDAY, OCT. 29th! Tickets on-sale NOW!
They’re headed back. We’re glad. THE AVETT BROTHERS have built a following starting from their earliest, modest old-timey/punky releases to the globe-trotting Madison Square Garden-level post-modern folk-pop-roots-punk-type rock icon status they’ve now earned. See them light up the arena in downtown Greenville on October 29th with songs from their new album True Sadness, out now…
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The ASHEVILLE PERCUSSION FEST IS COMING, June 17-19!!
Three days of beating, banging and shaking, all in service of the oldest form of musical communication we have! There will be workshops and seminars on all forms of the percussive arts, both at the Odyssey Community School and at the Diana Wortham Theatre. More details to come….
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JOHN BYCE brings the EXCONS back to IPA this Saturday, May 7th, with a little help from ANALOG MOON & MOURNING DOVE!
Beatmaster JOHN BYCE has been a little scarce on the Upstate music scene lately, which is why it’s just so nice to hear he’s bringing his indie-roots-rock outfit the EXCONS back to Independent Public Ale House this Saturday, with the Asheville space-rock band ANALOG MOON and the lovely Greenville folk duo MOURNING DOVE in tow! This is…
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FREE PLANET RADIO at the TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER, Saturday May 21st!
Join world music supergroup Free Planet Radio in concert at the Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave. Tryon, NC on Saturday, May 21 at 8:00pm! For over a decade, Free Planet Radio has brought its exciting and innovative world-jazz-classical music blend to both concert stages and classrooms. Based in Asheville NC, this musical partnership began as the shared vision…