Month: March 2017
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SARAH JAROSZ & OLD SALT UNION both played amazing shows at Horizon Records in The Bohemian Café this week, and both shows were packed! We thank YOU, and we love you! Now let’s get ready for RECORD STORE DAY!
We’re still reeling from the two in-store shows we’ve had at Horizon in the Bohemian Café over the last few days. Both SARAH JAROSZ and OLD SALT UNION brought the acoustic-music thunder, and we were thrilled that they both had a packed house to play to. THANK YOU, GREENVILLE! Now let’s get ready for the…
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NEW RELEASES, 3/31: RODNEY CROWELL, AIMEE MANN, TIM O’BRIEN, MASTODON, THE MAVERICKS, BOB DYLAN, and many more. Whew!
The title of Aimee Mann’s latest solo effort, her ninth, registers like a punch to the gut. In a world full of self-consciously clever and willfully obtuse album titles, Mental Illness is the equivalent of washing someone’s mouth out with soap. It’s not something you mull over or analyze in search of some hidden subtext…
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HAUSCHKA, master of the prepared piano, returns with “What If,” an experimental, kaleidoscopic work of mad genius.
Since 2004, Volker Bertelmann – aka HAUSCHKA– has, steadily earned a remarkable reputation as a purveyor of imaginative, distinctive, prepared piano music. On What If – which finds him adding player pianos (also known as pianolas) to his arsenal – Bertelmann expands his range even further, defying expectations and delivering what is without a doubt…
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Bluegrass-jazzers OLD SALT UNION are comin’ to town THIS THURSDAY! They’ll play an in-store at Horizon Records in The Bohemian Cafe at 4:30, then head over to THE SPINNING JENNY!
Old Salt Union is known for playing music by their own set of rules. While the men who make up the group are not complete rebels, they are certainly focused on exposing people to a purer, more exciting, and more original form of music. Drawing influence from Bill Monroe, Sam Bush and Del McCoury, to…
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NEW RELEASES, 3/17: GARY CLARK JR, SPOON, DEPECHE MODE, CONOR OBERST, RICK ROSS, TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND & a 50th anniversary reissue of a landmark ZOMBIES album!
The title track of Hot Thoughts starts like a Kraftwerk tune: electronic drone, metronomic beats and clipped robotic vocals. Then the guitars crash in, and you’re reminded almost no one engineers post-punk propulsion into precision-tuned rock-and-roll melody better than Spoon auteur Britt Daniel. Nearly 25 years in, his group has made maybe their best record…
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NEW RELEASES 3/24: Holy cow, do we have lot of new stuff, from ODDISEE, DREW HOLCOMB, JESUS & MARY CHAIN, CRAIG FINN, RUTHIE FOSTER, and a bunch of jazz/classical titles for Gene!
Oddisee, a Maryland native and Brooklyn transplant, has been one of the country’s top independent hip-hop producers for more than half a decade, amassing a sizeable fan base out of the rap nostalgists and beatheads attracted to his mellow, expansive instrumentals. But his new record marks a first; the rapping on The Iceberg—fluid, dynamic and…
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CHUCK PROPHET’s new album, BOBBY FULLER DIED FOR YOUR SINS, is out on YEP ROC RECORDS, is 13 songs of gritty California noir.
‘Bobby Fuller’ finds Chuck coming full circle. He cut the album to tape at Hyde Street Studio in San Francisco, which also happens to be the same studio where Prophet did his very first recording session, while still in high school. Chuck brought out his ’64 Stratocaster for the sessions, conjuring a sound that Jonathan…
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NEW RELEASES, 3/10: SHINS, MAGNETIC FIELDS, the REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, MARTY STUART, PIETA BROWN, and more!
The Shins’ freaky fifth album, Heartworms, teems with psychedelia that’ll please the lava-lamp-and-incense crowd. From Magical Mystery Tour-styled sound effects (“Painting a Hole”) to hypnotic island vibes (“The Fear”), the project contains some of the band’s most adventurous music yet. And songs like “Name For You” and “Cherry Hearts” prove Mercer still pens some of…
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Trumpeter TERELL STAFFORD is ferocious, gentle, swingin’ and deep in the pocket on his new album, “FORGIVE & FORGET,” out now!
Veteran trumpeter Terell Stafford delivers the second installment of saxophonist Herb Harris‘s dynamic “Jazz Masters Unlimited” series production, with the unveiling of Forgive and Forget, providing a forum for Stafford’s talents and improvisational skills. Showcasing a repertoire penned and arranged by Harris, the trumpeter surrounds himself with a formidable quintet that makes his performance here…
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THE SPINNING JENNY has announced some shows that we’re thrilled about, including appearances by THE HONEYCUTTERS this Friday and JIM LAUDERDALE on MAY 4th!
“The Honeycutters, an Asheville, NC-based original country roots band… Led by songwriter Amanda Anne Platt, The Honeycutters include Tal Taylor on mandolin, Rick Cooper on bass, Josh Milligan on drums, and Matt Smith rounds out the band on pedal steel, electric guitar, and dobro to create a sound that carries just as well across the…