Month: August 2018
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NEW RELEASES, 8/31: IRON & WINE, AMOS LEE, ALKALINE TRIO, MOGWAI, DAVID OLNEY, ATLAS ROAD CREW & a stunning reissue of a classic by THE BAND!
For fans of Iron & Wine, it’s Christmas in August. “Weed Garden” is a six-track EP including songs written by Sam Beam mostly while working toward his last full album, “Beast Epic,” and they sound very much like it.
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NEW RELEASES, 8/24: INTERPOL, THE DEVIL MAKES THREE, NEIL & LIAM FINN, ALICE IN CHAINS, MARK LANEGAN & the long-awaited release of SLEEP’s new album on vinyl!
It’s ironic that The Devil Makes Three score their biggest successes with solid showings on the bluegrass charts. Although their earlier efforts found them extolling a kind of swampy, roots-relevant approach,
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NEW RELEASES, 8/17: BLUE OCTOBER, CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, CULLEN OMORI and more!
Vocalist and main songwriter Justin Furstenfeld is in a happy place in his personal life being a proud and doting dad judging by his various social media posts. This is reflected in the album’s general upbeat air in the music which is a mixture of rock, dance, 80′s influences, indie, pop and more. The title…
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Two new rockin’ country albums out today: SHOOTER JENNINGS’ self-titled release and a killer duet album from ROBBIE FULKS & LINDA GAIL LEWIS!
With SHOOTER, Jennings truly puts his own mark on country music, living up to his extraordinary birthright with unparalleled passion, experience, and heart. Jennings’ decade-plus relationship with the GRAMMY® Award-winning Cobb extends all the way back to 2005 and his first trio of solo albums.
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Many thanks to T. HARDY MORRIS for bringing his neo-psychedelic garage country-rock to HORIZON RECORDS this afternoon, before he headed off to his full-band show at the RADIO ROOM!
T. Hardy Morris played a fantastic in-store set with us today, and we were blown away by the haunting chemistry between him and pedal-steel player Kiffy Meyers. Thank you all for coming out to this event, and as always, we love you.
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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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NATHAN SALSBURG’s new album, “Third,” is his first solo album in five years, and we’ve missed his singular style of acoustic guitar wizardry.
Third is the stunning third album by Nathan Salsburg, one of his generation’s most gifted and idiosyncratic acoustic guitarists. It’s been five years since his last solo record (Hard for to Win and Can’t Be Won, 2013) — but not because he hasn’t been playing guitar.
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Cosmic Americana music heroes unite on DAVE ALVIN and JIMMIE DALE GILMORE’s odyssey across the American west, ‘Downey to Lubbock,’ and they’re playing the Grey Eagle in Asheville on Sat., Nov 10th!
Friends for over three decades, it took Alvin – the founder of seminal punk roots band The Blasters – and Gilmore, of the pioneering country-folk trio The Flatlanders, until last year to collaborate at long last. .
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NEW RELEASES 8/3: JIM LAUDERDALE, SHEMEKIA COPELAND, AMANDA SHIRES, HOT RIZE, HOUNDMOUTH, LUCERO & more!
Time Flies is an awe-inspiring demonstration of versatility, enough to fill several volumes and not merely be contained by a single one. The rest of the record finds Lauderdale dwelling on other enterprise as well, from the mournful title track to the tale about the scene-stealing shuckster detailed in “Wearing Out Your Cool”