Category: News & Releases – Latest & Greatest
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TYLER CHILDERS’ debut album Purgatory is simultaneously modern and as ancient; a powerful release co-produced by STURGILL SIMPSON. Catch him at the NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRE in Charlotte on Sept. 20th with COLTER WALL!
Like many great Southern storytellers, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers has fallen in love with a place. The people, landmarks and legendary moments from his childhood home of Lawrence County, Kentucky
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The wit, wisdom, soul and perseverance of SHERMAN HOLMES, of the legendary HOLMES BROS., shines on his new album THE RICHMOND SESSIONS.
Sherman Holmes’ solo debut The Richmond Sessions can’t help being a milestone: It’s the esteemed singer and bassist’s first recording since the passing of his brother and musical partners, Wendell Holmes and Popsy Dixon, both in 2015. But his solo debut, dedicated to the memories of Wendell and Popsy, is no somber affair. The blend…
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A bit late to the game on this one, but we’re getting “Heavy Meta” with RON GALLO on his great new album, courtesy of NEW WEST RECORDS!
Ron Gallo got his musical start during his eight-year stint as leader of the Philadelphia combo Toy Soldiers. The band began as a guitar/drums duo, evolving into a sprawling 12-piece and eventually settling into a more manageable quintet before calling it quits in 2014. Most of the songs on HEAVY META were written in a…
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The infectiously melodic, magically eccentric indie-rockers ELF POWER played a packed in-store on Friday before their full show at THE SPINNING JENNY, and the love was flowing. We thank you.
The opening track “Halloween Out Walking” combines minimal and beautiful folk rock arrangements with otherworldly Moog synthesizer gurglings to awe-inspiring effect. Other highlights include “Watery Shreds”, a piano ballad that transforms itself into an explosive an unexpected distorted guitar drone freakout, sounding like an unlikely marriage of
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GOV’T MULE returns with some gnarly blues-psych-rock common sense on REVOLUTION COME, REVOLUTION GO.
“It was very poignant that we went into the studio in Austin, Texas, to begin recording on Election Day,” Grammy Award-winning vocalist and guitar legend Warren Haynes recalls of the November 2016 recording sessions. “Like most people, we really had no idea that the election was going to turn out the way it did. That…
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It was fifty years ago today; that’s right, THE BEATLES’ epic, world-changing album, SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND. And now the band has created four different 50th anniversary reissues!
It was 50 years ago this June 1st when The Beatles’ John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr astonished and delighted the world, ushering in the Summer of Love with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a groundbreaking masterwork that became popular music’s most universally acclaimed album. To salute the occasion, The Beatles…
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Expansive postmodern blues-rock n’ drone masters ENDLESS BOOGIE has returned with the much-anticipated follow-up to 2015’s life-changing Nothing For The Water with VIBE KILLER,a (sort-of) concept album.
Our story opens w/a jowly narrative enunciated by singer/guitarist Paul “Top Dollar” Major (as Aaron Burr) callin’ out all them sissy Dem-Rep blaggards, letting ’em know he’s on his own path. Naturally what follows is some tasty sun zoom riffage a’tween TD ‘n Jesper “The Governor” Eklow and the wily Dollar, backed solidly by the…
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PAUL WELLER’s new album KIND REVOLUTION is yet another effortless collection of Brit-rock from The Modfather.
On studio album number twelve (there have also been five official live sets), Weller slings out another ten examples of what he once coined “heavy soul.” His booming, instantly recognizable voice drives songs that run the gamut from the sweeping, Beach Boys inflected widescreen pop of “The Impossible Idea” to the retro folk/pop with somewhat…
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THE MASTERSONS new album TRANSIENT LULLABY takes the blur of the road and creates a “late-night music” follow-up to their acclaimed debut
Don’t bother asking The Mastersons where they’re from. Brooklyn, Austin, Los Angeles, Terlingua; they’ve called each home in just the last few years alone. If you really want to get to know this husband-and-wife duo, the better question to ask is where they’re going. Perhaps more than any other band playing today, The Mastersons live…
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SARAH JAROSZ & OLD SALT UNION both played amazing shows at Horizon Records in The Bohemian Café this week, and both shows were packed! We thank YOU, and we love you! Now let’s get ready for RECORD STORE DAY!
We’re still reeling from the two in-store shows we’ve had at Horizon in the Bohemian Café over the last few days. Both SARAH JAROSZ and OLD SALT UNION brought the acoustic-music thunder, and we were thrilled that they both had a packed house to play to. THANK YOU, GREENVILLE! Now let’s get ready for the…