Here’s the latest stuff we’re into!
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JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE casts his incisive eye over the American landscape and finds hard times on his new album, THE SAINT OF LOST CAUSES, out now!
For The Saint of Lost Causes, Earle is focused on a different America – the disenfranchised and the downtrodden, the…
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ESPARANZA SPALDING casts 12 LITTLE SPELLS, a dynamic and experimental collection that explores the healing properties of art, in-stock NOW on CD and vinyl LP!
Each song is dedicated to a corresponding body part, which is weird but also delightful. On “Until The Next Full,”…
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NEW RELEASES, 5/17: THE NATIONAL, NICK LOWE & LOS STRAITJACKETS, CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM, INTERPOL, ENDLESS BOOGIE and more!
The second Lowe/Los Straitjackets studio collaboration EP features only four selections, running a total of 14 minutes. Three are new…
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The 2019 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF THE CAROLINAS season (formerly the SWANNANOA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL) will be gracing Greenville, with performances at the FINE ARTS CENTER every Monday in July!
Beginning in 2015, the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival began including Greenville as part of its schedule after a 45-year gap.…
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NEW RELEASES, 5/10: ESPERANZA SPALDING, MAC DEMARCO, THE BB KING BLUES BAND, DUKE ROBILLIARD all in the house today!
This is the funkiest record of Mac DeMarco’s career, with its serene charm and more introspective songs proving its creator…
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THE YAWPERS’ bring their rawkin’ punk-rockabilly-blues-whatever-else-they-can-find sound in order to answer the HUMAN QUESTION, in-stock now on CD & LP!
On their fourth album Human Question, the Denver trio zooms out to a more vast and accessible stylistic and spiritual…
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NEW RELEASES, 5/3: BIG THIEF, VAMPIRE WEEKEND, DOYLE BRAMHALL II & SMOKESTACK, JUDAH & THE LION and more!
Over the course of their previous two albums, New York foursome Big Thief pruned their meaty alt-rock back into mellow…
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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…
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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…