NERIJA sits at the forefront of innovation within the explosive modern UK jazz scene. A seven-person (mostly women) group who blend individual passions with a commitment to the unified voice, their accomplished debut album BLUME (brought to us by Domino Records)
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Horizon Records will have THE NATIONAL’s new album “I Am Easy To Find” in-stock this Friday on CD, a limited edition indie-store-only clear double-vinyl LP and a deluxe 3xLP version with each album in the package a different color!
Read more →For The Saint of Lost Causes, Earle is focused on a different America – the disenfranchised and the downtrodden, the oppressed and the oppressors, the hopeful and the hopeless, as well as their geography. “I was trying to look through the eyes of America,” Earle says.
Read more →On their fourth album Human Question, the Denver trio zooms out to a more vast and accessible stylistic and spiritual universe. The 38-minute thrill ride generates growth and cathartic self-reflection for audience and performer alike. If there was justice in this world, the Yawpers would be the savior that rock-n-roll didn’t know it was waiting for.
Read more →THE MOUNTAIN GOATS have created some alluring musical worlds before, worlds of stories about lost youth, urban diaspora, punk roots and goth pretensions, with a musical scope that encompasses indie noise, soft rock grace notes, jangle-rock guitars and smooth swinging rhythms.
Read more →The album found Reigning Sound picking up where the gorgeous, organ-heavy Love And Curses left off; Cartwright can still turn out rockers with the best of them, charging through the Springsteen-esque “Watching My Baby” like the best bar band in town on Saturday night. But with ballads like the heart-tugging “Not Far Away,”
Read more →11 tracks plus 11 bonus tracks on vinyl LP and CD! Amazing and enlightening liner notes, commentaries and rare historic images in the booklet; and did we mention the limited-edition show poster, free with purchase while they last?
Read more →EXCONS, one of our fave local bands, have released their long-awaited second album, Sea Shanties, and they played an awesome in-store set tonight to showcase some tunes and celebrate. Our buddy John “The Indicator” Byce gave us the lowdown on the new stuff.
Read more →In the midst of a crushing cold spell, we suggest these two caliente-infused Latin jazz re-issues: CESAR MARIANO & CIA’s Sao Paulo, Brasil and THE LEBRON BROTHERS’ Psychedelic Goes Latin, from the modest-sized re-issue specialty labels Mr. Bongo and Get On Down, respectively. Stop by and pick up one of both of these gems, fire up the gas logs,
Read more →‘Continuous music’ pioneer and literal force of nature Lubomyr Melnyk has released a dazzling new album called Fallen Trees on December 7, a challenging, monumental work that coincides with Melnyk’s 70th birthday. Despite the autumnal hint in its title, there’s little suggestion of him slowing down.
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