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NEW RELEASES 3/11: KENDRICK LAMAR, BRIAN FALLON, PETE YORN JEFF BUCKLEY & more!
This week, Kendrick Lamar drops a surprise album of genius on us all, former Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon steps out with a solo album, Pete Yorn returns to form, Jeff Buckley speaks to us from beyond and Gene gets a Classical Corner album by Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim to play incessantly. It’s all…
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HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER plays solo acoustic at INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ALE HOUSE on Weds., March 9th!
M.C. Taylor, aka Hiss Golden Messenger, is one of modern music’s great musical alchemists. He somehow finds common ground between alt-country’s ragged twang, the richly produced, laid-back Laurel Canyon rock of the 1970’s and the most incisive folk singer/songwriters of the past few decades, but instead of seeming chaotic or awkward, the sounds all fit…
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OUT TODAY: NEW STUFF by LORETTA LYNN, M WARD, FRANK SOLIVAN, RAY LAMONTAGNE & more!!
Horizon welcomes an eclectic slate of new releases this week, as the Queen Of Country, Loretta Lynn unveils her first new album in a decade, Frank Solivan gets out of the Dirty Kitchen, M Ward gives us the bad news, and Robert Pollard is guided by different voices. Read on…. NEW GOODIES FRANK SOLIVAN,…
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NEW STUFF OUT 2/26: MOUNT MORIAH, WACO BROS. & a tribute to BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON!
This week, Mount Moriah stretches out the increasingly loose definition of “Americana,” the Waco Bros. keep it gritty. Shooter Jennings goes disco (that is not a joke), we get some tasty Gene-jazz-and classical from Ralph Alessi and Tord Gustavsen, and Willie Nelson spends summertime with Mr. Gershwin. Read on…. NEW GOODIES MOUNT MORIAH, How To Dance (CD/LP) Mount…
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Alligator Records’ new tribute album, GOD DON’T NEVER CHANGE: THE SONGS OF BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON is amazing. Some of our favorite artists, including Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Luther Dickinson and Derek Trucks pay homage to a legendary bluesman.
If you can judge a person by the company they keep, then the late, legendary bluesman Blind Willie Johnson must have been quite a guy. At least, that’s what Alligator Records’ new tribute album, “God Don’t Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson” tells us. After all, how many other musicians could bring TOM…
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CARLOS HENRIQUEZ, bassist of Jazz At Lincoln Center BRINGS IT on his debut CD, “Bronx Pyramid!”
Carlos Henriquez’s THE BRONX PYRAMID marks the Bronx-born, Nuyorican bassist’s first album as a leader and the emergence of a fully fledged Latin jazz master. Joined by guest stars Rubén Blades and Pedrito Martinez and band members including drummer and fellow Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra member Ali Jackson, Henriquez expertly blends modern jazz with…
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JB “the Indicator” aka John Byce picks the best of 2015 releases. We stock em, you’ll like em.
JB knows. As an avid music collector, a bodacious drummer, a true connoisseur of sonic wonderment trends in modern rock and related music each year The Indicator offers us his distillation of the year’s expansive releases dialed down to 17 must-haves. This is a veritable check list for 12 months of great tunes from High-Fidelity…
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Horizon Records Celebrates 40 Years
Horizon Records “an adventure for your ears” in Greenville, SC clocks 40. In a retail world of disappearing independents and Mom & Pop’s under the crush of online competition and music stores thriving in some places and cases whilst iconic stores are closing in many others from the onslaught of escalating real estate values, Horizon…
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SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA and GILLES PETERSON collaborate through space and time on this 2-LP collection, “In The Orbit Of Ra.” Get lost in the endless universe of Ra’s one-of-a-kind mind as Peterson compiles his favorite moments from the galactic-jazz bandleader.
“I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.” — Sun Ra.
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BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN: Makin’ beautiful music together since 2014.
The first couple duo of global banjo artistry and folk eclecticism co-bill a family effort. You know BELA FLECK already. Master of the banjo. 13-time Grammy-winner. Conqueror of jazz, classical, bluegrass, progressive and world music. Teacher, student and all-around guru of his instrument.