Month: November 2017
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BLACK FRIDAY 2017 was the best in the history of HORIZON RECORDS! We opened at 9AM; you poured in early and all day, joining us in pursuit of music, hangin out and good times!
We are once again humbled and grateful to all the people who came in today and picked up an amazing selection of special releases. Thanks to you, Greenville, we had our biggest Black Friday yet, and so much great music flowed out of our doors today. And we’ve still got some amazing titles in-stock from…
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NEW RELEASES, 11/24: BJORK, NOEL GALLAGHER, a Christmas album from ELVIS, and some great reissues from THE RAMONES and EAGLES are on-deck for our BLACK FRIDAY listening pleasure!
The last material we heard from Björk was a bit of downer, wasn’t it? 2015’s ‘Vulnicura’ was a sweeping, majestic break-up album that saw her creating a raw, emotive narrative within her otherworldly soundscapes. It was incredible, but damn it was gloomy. Happily, the febrile ‘Utopia’ sees her on more upbeat – but no less…
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NEW RELEASES, 11/17: SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS, MAVIS STAPLES, MORRISSEY, RONNIE EARL, BUTCHER BROWN, NINE INCH NAILS, DARRELL SCOTT & more!
When Sharon Jones died of pancreatic cancer last year, the world lost its greatest exponent of vintage soul; that she’d first hit her stride in the ’00s with the revivalist, detail-obsessed Daptone label, made the accomplishment all the more striking. Recorded over her last two years with longtime sidemen, genre-masters all, Jones meets darkness with…
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What a great and respectful crowd for American Primitive Guitar master, GLENN JONES tonight. We thank you, and PETE NOLAN & ED YAZIJIAN for opening the show!
Whoever said that Greenville’s music scene ain’t gettin’ it right wasn’t in the cozy confines of Horizon Records tonight, when Glenn Jones sat down in front of a great crowd and conjured magic from his specially tuned guitars and banjo. And as an extra treat, Pete Nolan and Ed Yazijian treated us to some incredible…
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NEW RELEASES, 11/10: ANGEL OLSEN, ARETHA FRANKLIN, WALK THE MOON, FOUR TET and some amazing reissues from METALLICA, HUSKER DU & R.E.M.!
Indie queen Angel Olsen has come a long way from her days as part of the Cairo Gang; her legion of fervid fans steadily growing with each subsequent release. It’s a trajectory that mirrors the evolution of Olsen’s sound—and the size of her band—from the stark, indie-folk of 2012’s Strange Cacti, to the expansive, swirling…
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BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN have returned with more beautiful dual-banjo virtuosity called ECHO IN THE VALLEY, out now on ROUNDER RECORDS!
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, the king and queen of the banjo, have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and…
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NEW RELEASES 11/3: Kicking off November with BOB DYLAN, a TOMMY EMMANUEL/DAVID GRISMAN collaboration, SCOTT MILLER, BLITZEN TRAPPER & more!
Tragic love, drug abuse, science fiction, and Americana: Blitzen Trapper managed to squeeze all that, and more, into their rock opera, Wild and Reckless, which was produced for the stage in their hometown of Portland, Ore., earlier this year. But that wasn’t enough for frontman Eric Earley and crew. Taking seven of the songs from…