Month: April 2019
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The MOUNTAIN GOATS have invented a whole dang genre with their new album ‘In League With Dragons,” out TOMORROW on MERGE Records. Welcome to the world of “dragon-noir.”
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS have created some alluring musical worlds before, worlds of stories about lost youth, urban diaspora, punk roots and goth pretensions, with a musical scope that encompasses indie noise, soft rock grace notes, jangle-rock guitars and smooth swinging rhythms.
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NEW RELEASES, 4/26: KELLY FINNIGAN, ANDERS OSBORNE, THE CRANBERRIES, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, REIGNING SOUND, KEVIN MORBY, KRONOS QUARTET and more!
It shouldn’t bother anyone that Kelly Finnigan, frontman for the Bay Area-based Monophonics, has decided to throw his solo hat into the retro soul ring. It’s akin to another Democrat running for the party’s nomination for president in 2020. Sure, the field is a little crowded, but an additional point of view is welcome to…
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We’re getting one from the vaults with MERGE Records’ reissue of REIGNING SOUND’s Abdication…For Your Love, out now!
The album found Reigning Sound picking up where the gorgeous, organ-heavy Love And Curses left off; Cartwright can still turn out rockers with the best of them, charging through the Springsteen-esque “Watching My Baby” like the best bar band in town on Saturday night. But with ballads like the heart-tugging “Not Far Away,”
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Greenville’s own MAC MCCLOUD has brought us “MY HEART IS SINKING,” six songs of sizzlin’ snappy blues, in-stock now on CD at Horizon Records
Mac has struck gold with a long-overdue new release from one of its own favorite sons. MAC MCCLOUD’s deeply personal new solo effort, My Heart is Sinking is more than rocket science; it’s the blues. It’s Mac’s first album since 2002, and he sounds better than ever. What we got here is six songs split…
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RECORD STORE DAY 2019 has come and gone, but we’re still celebrating the 12th anniversary of the event that changed indie-record-store history with plenty of special-edition RSD releases!
Well, Greenville and neighbors near and far, this has been (and is still rollin’ steady) a real treat and a blessing of a Record Store Day ; so much love it’s hard to process, so many nice peoples, a GREAT set from the awe inspiring Tyler Ramsey. Good food and vibe from The Bohemian Cafe,…
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Spartanburg’s beloved legends and Austin’s favorite sons UNCLE WALT’S BAND rides again, thanks to OMNIVORE RECORDINGS’ new reissue of their self-titled 1974 debut album, with tasty bonus tracks!
11 tracks plus 11 bonus tracks on vinyl LP and CD! Amazing and enlightening liner notes, commentaries and rare historic images in the booklet; and did we mention the limited-edition show poster, free with purchase while they last?
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NEW RELEASES, 4/19: THE YAWPERS, CAGE THE ELEPHANT, THE ROLLING STONES, TECH N9NE, WYNTON MARSALIS and more!
Through their first three albums, The Yawpers divined a signature style—what Pitchfork described as “an expansive vision of rock ‘n’ roll, one that cherrypicks from various folk traditions: punk, rockabilly, blues, whatever they might have on hand or find in the trash.” The sound is a front-heavy, groovy, fire & brimstone punk-blues overlying a dynamic…
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MOUNTAINWALKER (aka AARON BERG), WASTED WINE and J. MICHAEL KING bring some cosmic mystic Americana hip-hop, world-music exotica and down-home folk-blues to the RADIO ROOM on Sunday, April 14th!
Graham Parsons once called what he did, “cosmic American music,” and that’s a good fit for Mountainwalker, as well, even if it ain’t country-rock by a long stretch. There’s hip-hop here, there’s poetry, there are jazz-influenced time changes and folk-style intimacy, there’s hushed soul and fiery anger and wounded hearts and above all else, damn…
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Thanks to TYLER RAMSEY for stopping by on RECORD STORE DAY to play songs from For The Morning, his first album in seven years, and to help us ring in RSD 2019 in The Bohemian Cafe!
Our Record Store Day festivities got kicked up a notch with an in-store performance from TYLER RAMSEY, who regaled us with tunes from For The Morning, his first new album in seven years. The long-awaited new record, out now on CD and vinyl LP,
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NEW RELEASES, 4/12 (aka pre-Record Store Day): SHOVELS & ROPE, SUN KIL MOON, WIDESPREAD PANIC, ANDERSON PAAK, BRUCE HORNSBY, BUDOS BAND and more!
The Budos Band have spent the last 15 years slowly-but-surely adding elements of proto-metal to their groove-drenched instrumental Afrobeat. 2014’s Burnt Offering feels like a confession of sorts, the band copping to their stoned-teenager proclivities by giving the album a grim title, artwork depicting a