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THE NATIONAL’s new album “I Am Easy To Find” is in-stock now, and we’ve got two special editions of the LP along with the CD!
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!
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JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE casts his incisive eye over the American landscape and finds hard times on his new album, THE SAINT OF LOST CAUSES, out now!
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.
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THE YAWPERS’ bring their rawkin’ punk-rockabilly-blues-whatever-else-they-can-find sound in order to answer the HUMAN QUESTION, in-stock now on CD & LP!
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…
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The MOUNTAIN GOATS have invented a whole dang genre with their new album ‘In League With Dragons,” out TOMORROW on MERGE Records. Welcome to the world of “dragon-noir.”
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.
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We’re getting one from the vaults with MERGE Records’ reissue of REIGNING SOUND’s Abdication…For Your Love, out now!
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,”
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Spartanburg’s beloved legends and Austin’s favorite sons UNCLE WALT’S BAND rides again, thanks to OMNIVORE RECORDINGS’ new reissue of their self-titled 1974 debut album, with tasty bonus tracks!
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?
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Greenville’s own EXCONS rocked an in-store show to celebrate their new album, SEA SHANTIES, and though the show might be over, we’ve still got their CDs and vinyl LP’s in the house!
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.
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Check out these red-hot Latin jazz reissues by CESAR MARIANO & CIA and THE LEBRON BROTHERS, in-stock now at Horizon Records!
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…
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LUBOMYR MELNYK, “the prophet of the piano,” presents “FALLEN TREES,” a new album that further demonstrates his singular, boundary-shattering talent.
‘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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ROSANNE CASH has returned with a long-awaited dose of songwriting greatness called SHE REMEMBERS EVERYTHING.
Rosanne Cash is back with her first new album in nearly five years, She Remembers Everything. The poetic, personal and incisive collection features ten songs, all written or co-written by Cash, that reckon with a flawed and fragile world from a uniquely feminine perspective. In most songs, hearing the protagonists’ words as Cash’s own would