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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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.
Read more →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
Read more →VIKINGUR OLAFSSON’s “Johan Sebastian Bach” is essentially a perfect record. Olafsson delivers sublime listening on all levels; thoughtful and seamless curating and recreating of selections by one of history’s most important composers,
Read more →The renowned ERIC BACHMANN (of Archers Of Loaf, and Crooked Fingers) played at Horizon on Friday Sept. 7th, to celebrate the release of his superlative new record “No Recover.” We were enthralled by his unique and delightfully dark songwriting poetics
Read more →Third is the stunning third album by Nathan Salsburg, one of his generation’s most gifted and idiosyncratic acoustic guitarists. It’s been five years since his last solo record (Hard for to Win and Can’t Be Won, 2013) — but not because he hasn’t been playing guitar.
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