Month: July 2019
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Thanks to The NATHAN BOWLES TRIO for their fantastic in-store show at Horizon Records!
We enjoyed ourselves immensely at today’s in-store show, experiencing unique, inspiring, genre-blurring music, courtesy of NATHAN BOWLES, CASEY TOLL and REX MCMURRY. A good time was had by all, some ears were opened, toes were tappin’, it was all good. If you missed it, we have Nathan & Co.’s new album PLAINLY MISTAKEN in-stock on…
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THE RACONTEURS are quite unexpectedly back in business, with a new album out now on Third Man Records, and upcoming shows in Charlotte & Columbia!
A new RACONTEURS studio record, Help Us Stranger, is in-stock now at Horizon Records on CD and vinyl LP. It’s this revered rock collective’s third studio effort and first in over a decade. Expect trademark melodies, crunchy rock grooves and ferocious riff-age.
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NEW RELEASES: OF MONSTERS & MEN, FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB, DELBERT MCCLINTON, SOUNDGARDEN, BILLIE EILISH & more!
Bandana, the new joint release by Freddie Gibbs and Madib, is weirder, more freewheeling, more Madlib-y than its predecessor. Gibbs remains unphased; he fields each beat like Omar Vizquel and splits it down the middle with raw charisma, torrential flows, and economic, impactful writing.
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Prepare yourselves for the COSMIC HONKY TONK REVUE, featuring CHUCK MEAD & HIS GRASSY KNOLL BOYS, JIM LAUDERDALE and JASON RINGENBERG, at THE SPINNING JENNY on JULY 26th!
Got-dang, we got a hot show coming to The Spinning Jenny in Greer on July 26th! We’re excited to see Mr. JIM LAUDERDALE, The Scorchers’ own JASON RINGENBERG, and former BR549 frontman CHUCK MEAD back in the Upstate.
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NEW RELEASES, 7/19: THOM YORKE, FLAMING LIPS, PRINCE, LARRY SPARKS, TUXEDO & a sneak peak at some soon-to-be-released titles!
Thom Yorke describes his excellent new solo album Anima as “dystopian,” which isn’t exactly the hugest surprise in the world. With or without Radiohead, he’s spent his whole career mapping out the dystopia we’re living in—he does futuristic apocalypse the way John Fogerty does choogle.
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NEW RELEASES, 7/12: PURPLE MOUNTAINS, KHRUANGBIN, a sweet reissue from GOMEZ, RANKY TANKY, GAUCHE & more!
Long live David Berman. After shutting it all down in a 2009 message board post, the mythic musician’s project Silver Jews took on an indie cult status so strong he almost resented taking a full decade off from making music. But now he’s returned with a new name and the same dark outlook.