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DAVID RAWLINGS loses the machine and whips out POOR DAVID’S ALMANACK on his new album, out NOW from ACONY RECORDS on CD & vinyl LP!
For Poor David’s Almanack, Rawlings leaves the Dave Rawlings Machine moniker behind and serves up a wry mixture of acoustic and electric music rich in ageless American vernacular. The album of ten new songs was captured by studio wizards Ken Scott (Beatles, David Bowie) and Matt Andrews on analog tape during a week of sessions…
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NEW RELEASES, 8/11: DAVID RAWLINGS returns with his new almanack, RICHARD THOMPSON’s second volume of acoustic classics, plus WILL HOGE, GUIDED BY VOICES & more!
David Rawlings has made a career out of a sort of unassuming generosity. Though he’s led his own band, the Dave Rawlings Machine, he’s spent much of his adult life supporting the work of bigger names like Old Crow Medicine Show, Bright Eyes and Ryan Adams, who covered Rawlings’ song “To Be Young (Is To…
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The wit, wisdom, soul and perseverance of SHERMAN HOLMES, of the legendary HOLMES BROS., shines on his new album THE RICHMOND SESSIONS.
Sherman Holmes’ solo debut The Richmond Sessions can’t help being a milestone: It’s the esteemed singer and bassist’s first recording since the passing of his brother and musical partners, Wendell Holmes and Popsy Dixon, both in 2015. But his solo debut, dedicated to the memories of Wendell and Popsy, is no somber affair. The blend…
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A bit late to the game on this one, but we’re getting “Heavy Meta” with RON GALLO on his great new album, courtesy of NEW WEST RECORDS!
Ron Gallo got his musical start during his eight-year stint as leader of the Philadelphia combo Toy Soldiers. The band began as a guitar/drums duo, evolving into a sprawling 12-piece and eventually settling into a more manageable quintet before calling it quits in 2014. Most of the songs on HEAVY META were written in a…
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NEW RELEASES 8/4: HARD WORKING AMERICANS, a new RANDY NEWMAN, our pals OLD SALT UNION return, and an amazing GRANT GREEN reissue!
Set to join the list of iconic live albums of the modern Rock era, Jam band supergroup Hard Working Americans bring listeners We’re All in This Together on August 4, 2017. Consisting of members from Widespread Panic, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, and Great American Taxi. they pool the talents of bassist Dave Schools, drummer Duane Trucks,…
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The 2017 SWANNANOA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL has one last performance at the FINE ARTS CENTER in Greenville! The FINALE CONCERT of this amazing series is tonight!
Founded in 1970, The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival is the premier chamber music festival of The Carolinas. This year, SCMF will present over 15 events at 3 different venues during its five-week season. The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival is unique amongst classical music festivals for its approach to performance – which values the audience experience,
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JOHN MORELAND brought the soulful acoustic heartbreak of his new album BIG BAD LUV to Horizon Records on his way to THE GREY EAGLE, and we were amazed and grateful.
While Moreland isn’t exactly copping a rosy outlook on these songs, there is more of a positive vibe that’s in keeping with the upbeat music. “Old Wounds” doesn’t avoid talking about the hard times, but it also advises to “find the heaven following the hurt.” On “Salisaw Blue,” a noose hanging down from the sky…
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NEW RELEASES 7/28: July ends with an ARCADE FIRE dance party, a live set from CAGE THE ELEPHANT, some smokin’ guitar from REX BROWN and a slew of APHEX TWIN reissues!
Arcade Fire’s fifth LP Everything Now opens with its title track, twice. The first version, logged under the name “Everything_Now (Continued),” lasts for just under one woozy minute, and it in no way prepares the listener for what’s to come. When the dirgelike intro gives way to the full five-minute “Everything Now,” the explosion of…
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ROBERT ELLIS has largely traded his rugged alt-country sound for a more atmospheric blend of pop, rock and soulful vocals, and he’s coming to the new RADIO ROOM on Monday, July 24th!
Robert Ellis is very apparently a breakup album, a challenging endeavor in this year of Beyoncé’s gauntlet of women’s blues, Lemonade. From a different corner of the musical universe, in an utterly different voice than one Jay-Z would ever employ, Ellis (who, it happens, hails from Beyoncé’s hometown of Houston) speaks for the man who…
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NEW RELEASES: There’s somehow ANOTHER new CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD, a beautiful tribute album from GALACTIC’s STANTON MOORE, some fresh old-school blues from the NIGHTHAWKS, and more!
The notion of being Barefoot In The Head perfectly expresses the enduring hippie instincts of Chris Robinson’s prolific band. It also conveys the laidback rustic stoner vibe of this latest album, on which keening steel guitar and country harmonies in songs like “Blonde Light Of Morning” and “If You Had A Heart To Break” locates…