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NEW 12/18: BARONESS, CAGE THE ELEPHANT, CASS MCOMBS & PUSHA T.
We’ve got the “eclectic” angle covered with this week’s New Releases. Got some heavy-rock from Baroness, some fresh-from-the-vault folk from Cass McCombs, the hottest rapper around (Pusha T) has a new album, and there’s even a classical phenom for Gene to geek out on. Read on… NEW GOODIES BARONESS, Purple (CD/LP) Anthemic, riff-heavy hard-rockers speaker-splitting…
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WEBB WILDER’s “Mississippi Moderne” throws blues, roots music and psychedelic rock into the blender, and does its natural thang.
“Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if you need ‘em.” — The Webb Wilder Credo – WEBB WILDER’S piping-hot new platter, Mississippi Moderne, brings a world of swampadelic, Wilderized wisdom, bluster, and mayhem, and he brought all of that chaos with him to his performance cafe-side on Friday, Dec. 18th. “Before there…
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UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL Dec. 18, 2015: Sounds Familiar
by Vincent Harris, photos by Josh Weeks. Gene Berger’s musical passions have helped keep Horizon Records alive through economic downturns and a digital revolution When Gene Berger opened Horizon Records in 1975, setting up shop at 347 S. Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville, he wasn’t really interested in peddling Top 40 albums. “I was a classic…
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JUST RELEASED, 12/11: GRIMES, JENNYLEE, EVA CASSIDY & NEIL FINN/PAUL KELLY!
Yes, we finally have the new Grimes album, along with a killer live set by Neil Finn & Paul Kelly, a massive box of goodness from Miles Davis, the new Jennylee solo album, and an amazing set of Art Blakey reissues from Blue Note. Read on… NEW GOODIES GRIMES, Art Angels (CD/LP) The Matador Records…
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OUT TODAY 12/4: COLDPLAY, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, RICK ROSS & ROGER WATERS
Black Friday done come and gone, but the New Release train rolls on. We’ve got fresh stuff from Coldplay, G. Love, Johnny Marr and Rick Ross, plus some incredible reissue goodness from John Abercrombie & Fleetwood Mac! Read on… NEW GOODIES COLDPLAY, Head Full Of Dreams (CD) Blissfully melodic new album features collaborations with Beyonce,…
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NEW RELEASES 11/20: SHOVELS & ROPE, ADELE, BRAD MEHLDAU & RUSH.
We done hit the pre-Black Friday stride here. The long-awaited new ADELE is here, SHOVELS & ROPE have sprung a fresh platter on us, the GRATEFUL DEAD bid us fare thee well, and ROGER WATERS rebuilds The Wall. And Gene continues to rant, enthuse and praise the gospel of BRAD MEHLDAU. The reissues are stout…
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NEW STUFF 11/13: KURT COBAIN, NEIL YOUNG, MUTEMATH, CHRIS ISAAK & more!
This week’s New Releases seem to be set on “Blasts From The Past.” We’ve got a tribute to the late Ted Hawkins featuring James McMurtry, among others, a box-set-sized treasure trove of Kurt Cobain stuff, the first new Squeeze and ELO albums in more than a decade, and even a quick hello from the Brian…
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NEW RELEASES 11/6: EL VY, NATALIE MERCHANT, BILLY GIBBONS & more!
Normally, we throw a little classical love Gene’s way when the New Releases come out, but danged if this week ain’t nearly all-classical, all-the-time, both new and reissued. But we’ve also got fresh stuff from The National’s frontman’s side-gig, EL VY, NATALIE MERCHANT, BILLY “ZZ TOP” GIBBONS and more! Read on… NEW GOODIES EL VY,…
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SOUTHERN LIVING Apr 18, 2015: The 5 Best Record Stores in the South
by Hannah Hays Jack White’s Third Man Records may be the South’s most recognizable record store, but smaller vinyl Valhallas can be found all across the region. To name our five favorites, we asked the help of Reed Watson, a co-manager of Florence, Alabama-based record label Single Lock and drummer for Belle Adair, who spent a…
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THE GREENVILLE NEWS APRIL 10, 2015: Record Store Day heralds renaissance of vinyl albums
by Donna Isbell Walker, photo by Mykal McEldowney. Record stores and the vinyl albums on their shelves may feel like a relic of 1975. In 2015, when it seems everyone carries around a cell phone or tablet stuffed with hundreds of their favorite songs, the era of 33-rpm LPs that require a turntable and an…