Category: News & Releases – Latest & Greatest
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KAMASI WASHINGTON continues to smash through the boundaries of jazz on his epic new album, HEAVEN & EARTH, over 2 hours of music on 2CDs or 4 vinyl LPs!
The long-awaited follow up to Washington’s debut The Epic, Heaven & Earth is comprised of two halves, which find Washington confronting quotidian realities with cosmic themes. A further investigation of Washington’s world building ideas,
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Many thanks to AMERICAN AQUARIUM, THE RADIO ROOM, Mr. BJ BARHAM, NEW WEST RECORDS and of course, you, for helping us put on a great acoustic in-store sampling of the band’s new album, Things Change!
Tonight, BJ BARHAM played a brief and beautiful in-store solo acoustic preview of AMERICAN AQUARIUM’s Radio Room show to a great crowd. Songs and stories were shared, copies of the band’s
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The Upstate’s own NIEL BROOKS has released a mesmerizing new album, SEWN INTO THE SKY, in-stock now only on vinyl LP!
Who says you can’t make a gorgeous “dark night of the soul” album that’s largely without vocals? That’s what our friend Niel Brooks has done with his new album, Sewn Into The Sky. With his intricate acoustic guitar playing and unerring sense of mood, the melodies unwind gently, moving down unexpected
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Damn right, BUDDY GUY’s new album, “THE BLUES IS ALIVE AND WELL” is a powerful dose of true blues from the last man standing.
The original pure blues light of the great Buddy Guy, the man with the quicksilver guitar skills and the soul-man’s shout, shines a little brighter now, and that we should value his blistering new album, The Blues Is Alive And Well (out now on CD and vinyl LP) more than ever.
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PAUL THORN’s MISSION TEMPLE FIREWORKS REVIVAL just left town, but we’re still diggin’ on the gospel-soaked album that inspired it, “Don’t Let The Devil Ride!”
We’re blown away down to our socks by the new PAUL THORN album, Don’t Let The Devil Ride, in-stock now on CD and available on vinyl May 11th. Already one of our favorite songwriters
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THE WOOD BROTHERS stopped in to HORIZON RECORDS to play a show in celebration of RECORD STORE DAY (and their wonderful new album, “One Drop Of Truth”), and it was EPIC.
HORIZON RECORDS AND THE BOHEMIAN CAFE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OLIVER WOOD, CHRIS WOOD and JANO RIX for their dazzling in-store show today, and for their love and respect for RECORD STORE DAY in general. We were blown away by their performance, and their willingness to hop behind the
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SON LITTLE is coming to the RADIO ROOM in Greenville on April 18th to spread a little sensual, souful R&B love from his latest album, NEW MAGIC. This is good!
Mr. Aaron Livingston, aka SON LITTLE, will grace the Upstate with his presence on Wednesday, April 18th! Shout it from the rooftops: SOUL AIN’T DEAD! And if a new generation of soul music pioneers is indeed coming over the horizon, Son Little has proved he has earned his place right there at front with the…
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SUPERCHUNK says to hell with aging gracefully and unleashes some serious socially conscious thunder on “What A Time To Be Alive,” out now on MERGE RECORDS!
After the shocking, and for many, demoralizing result of the 2016 election, “I didn’t buy the silver lining some were promoting that ‘well, at least art and music will be great now!’,” says Superchunk co-founder and frontman Mac McCaughan. “Obviously, any sane person would gladly trade four to eight years
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Horizon fave BELLE ADAIR releases a dream-rock gem called TUSCUMBIA, in-stock now from SINGLE LOCK RECORDS, straight outta Alabama!
Combining mellow, atmospheric rock and swirling, retro power-pop, it’s more Big Star than Swampers, but it’s an ideal gateway into the blissed-out world of Belle Adair, a group that manages to make even worry and isolation sound inviting. Recorded at Muscle Shoals’ legendary FAME Studios with Wilco producer/engineer Tom Schick, Tuscumbia calls to mind everything…
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The exciting and adventurous BROOKLYN RIDER have created another masterful collaboration with PHILIP GLASS, releasing his “String Quartets Nos. 6 & 7” on Orange Mountain Music.
It’s often said that the distilled essence of composers can be heard in their string quartets. And so it is with Glass, whose quartets here show a craftsman of considerable invention. String Quartet No. 6 begins as a bustling burst of dense energy, its second movement beautifully meandering, rich, and complex. The single-movement String Quartet…