Month: June 2017
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JASON ISBELL has released his dazzling new album The Nashville Sound. THE 400 UNIT is back on album the first time since 2011. And we’re ready to celebrate.
“We at Horizon remain super-energized by what Jason Isbell brings, the sound of his crack band, the 400 Unit, and what this all means to the music scene. Hell, he just sold out 5 nights at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in less than two hours! It seems the wider world has discovered (at last) that…
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NEW RELEASES 6/30: Our faves LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES return, as does CODY CHESNUTT, and we’ve got an amazing debut album from JAMES ELKINGTON!
Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires deliver a verbose musical assault flush with punk insurgence and righteous indignation. With the exception of only a small handful of songs (out of 17 overall), Youth Identification surges like a veritable call to arms; a driving, deliberative battle cry that rails against the decay of cultural institutions,…
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NEW RELEASES 6/23: Yes we do have the new BANDITOS album, along with a JEFF TWEEDY solo album, and some sheer psychedelic weirdness from KING GIZZARD!
Many bands never get off the ground because they can’t find their “home.” Banditos, as confirmed by their second album Visionland, have no such concerns. For them, home is ‘70s Muscle Shoals country-soul colliding with psychedelia and occult, and stamped by the identifiable quaver of singer Mary Beth Richardson. Banditos’ bread and butter is four-to-the-floor…
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NEW RELEASES: JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT have returned, STEVE EARLE embraces his inner outlaw, the FLEET FOXES are somewhat improbably back, and LORDE indulges in some Melodrama.
“Am I the last of my kind?” Jason Isbell ponders on his new album, The Nashville Sound. Isbell, who hails from the Muscle Shoals region of Northwest Alabama, is singing, as he often does, in character, this time a down-and-out survivor struggling to play catch up with the rapidly changing country he calls home.
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NEW RELEASES 6/9: LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM & CHRISTINE MCVIE, KRONOS QUARTET, CHUCK BERRY, JACK DEJOHNETTE, ANI DIFRANCO, GOV’T MULE, SUFJAN STEVENS, AMANDA ANNE PLATT & THE HONEYCUTTERS & more!
So this is what happens when a group of old jazz hands get into a Levon Helm kind of way. Hudson is the name of an album, a supergroup and a song on the album by the supergroup. The combination of Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, John Medeski and Larry Grenadier is capable of so much;…
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It was fifty years ago today; that’s right, THE BEATLES’ epic, world-changing album, SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND. And now the band has created four different 50th anniversary reissues!
It was 50 years ago this June 1st when The Beatles’ John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr astonished and delighted the world, ushering in the Summer of Love with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a groundbreaking masterwork that became popular music’s most universally acclaimed album. To salute the occasion, The Beatles…
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Expansive postmodern blues-rock n’ drone masters ENDLESS BOOGIE has returned with the much-anticipated follow-up to 2015’s life-changing Nothing For The Water with VIBE KILLER,a (sort-of) concept album.
Our story opens w/a jowly narrative enunciated by singer/guitarist Paul “Top Dollar” Major (as Aaron Burr) callin’ out all them sissy Dem-Rep blaggards, letting ’em know he’s on his own path. Naturally what follows is some tasty sun zoom riffage a’tween TD ‘n Jesper “The Governor” Eklow and the wily Dollar, backed solidly by the…
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NEW RELEASES 6/2: NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS return, along with DAN AUERBACH, ROGER WATERS, ALT-J, THE HANDSOME FAMILY and a slew of killer reissues!
With their swampy riffs and mud-covered rock n’ roll, the North Mississippi Allstars have always honored the past while keeping an eye on the future. That tradition continues with their forthcoming album, Prayer For Peace, a collection of Allstars originals as well as reinterpretations of works by legendary artists that have influenced the band. Anchored…