Category: What We’re Into – Recent Interest
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NEW RELEASES 11/25: GILLIAN WELCH, JACK LEE, & two great compilations from SOUL JAZZ RECORDS & GILLES PETERSON! New METALLICA & TRIBE CALLED QUEST are in-stock!
Gillian Welch’s 1996 debut, Revival, is one of the era’s most influential albums, its retro stylings and bleak evocations of the dust bowl era marking the transition from alt-country to Americana. Welch’s revivalism was no Carter Family copyism; here was a startlingly good songwriter who could put you in the place of a barroom girl…
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NEW RELEASES, 11/18: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST says goodbye, and METALLICA returns, along with some jazz/classical goodness by GAVIN BRYARS & KEITH JARRETT, a new NATHANIEL RATELIFF EP, and more!
It’s been eight years since Metallica’s last studio album. But that’s small change next to their long haul to this two-disc resurrection: via the jagged apocalypse of 1988’s …And Justice for All and the focused brawn of 1991’s Metallica. The mostly epic-length tracks – almost entirely written by drummer Lars Ulrich and singer-guitarist James Hetfield…
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NEW RELEASES 11/11: DANIEL BACHMAN, YONRICO SCOTT, STING, RHONDA VINCENT, and a slew of amazing reissues by BOWIE, SABBATH & THE BAND!
Guitarist and former wunderkind Daniel Bachman, at 26, can no longer be considered “precocious.” On even his earliest recordings, released under the moniker Sacred Harp, Bachman’s guitar prowess and compositional voice were staggeringly mature. There was something refreshingly novel about a guitarist not old enough to vote possessing such clarity of vision. But novelty wears…
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NEW RELEASES 11/4: There’s somehow a new CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD release, and poet-rapper COMMON’s “Black America Again” has arrived.
A companion EP arriving just three months after their critically acclaimed studio album, ‘Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel,’ the five track collection, includes “New Cannonball Rag,” “Shadow Cosmos” and “Roan County Banjo,” all of which were recorded during the same Stinson Beach sessions that resulted in the prior full-length. With these songs…
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NEW RELEASES 10/28: We close out the month with a new DATURA 4, ALEJANDRO ESOCOVEDO, THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, and compilations, jazz and classical goodness galore!
An interesting bunch of stuff in our New Releases section this week. Datura 4 brings the heaviness, Brian Jonestown Massacre keeps it weird, Alejandro Escovedo returns with his first solo album in four years, and we’ve got extra compilation and Gene-centric jazz-and-classical goodness. Read on…. DATURA 4, Hairy Mountain (CD/LP) Rock n Roll fans, please…
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NEW RELEASES, 10/21: YES! The new LEONARD COHEN is here, along with an amazing album by the supreme hip-hop duo NX WORRIES, a new PRETENDERS album produced by DAN AUERBACH, and more!
In this week’s New Releases, we reverently bow our heads and welcome the new album by the ageless Leonard Cohen, we celebrate the return of American Football (the band, not the sport), we dive into the demented hip-hop weirdness of Nx Worries, and we delight in a new Pretenders album produced by Dan Auerbach! Read…
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NEW RELEASES, 10/14: BLACKBERRY SMOKE, CONOR OBERST, DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, SUZANNE VEGA, KINGS OF LEON & more!
The throwback Southern rockers Blackberry Smoke kick off our New Releases this week, followed by a bluesy David Bromberg album, the swan song from experimental metal gurus Dillinger Escape Plan, a truly moving tribute to Italian opera by Jonas Kaufmann, a truly lovely downer from Conor Oberst and a star-studded tribute to the Night Tripper,…
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ADIA VICTORIA is playing at Horizon in The Bohemian Cafe on Saturday, Oct. 15th before her FALL FOR GREENVILLE gig that night!
Adia Victoria is establishing a fresh reference point on the musical landscape. From blood-born howls to idiosyncratic phrasing, she is the big red dot saying You Are Here. The Nashville-based artist travels the lands of rock, afro punk, and country, squarely situated in the continent of the Blues. Ask about her artistic goals, and the…
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The KANSAS BIBLE COMPANY is bringin’ surf, soul, prog, hip-hop, classical, pep band and good old rock and roll in one big groovy ball!
At their full-strength, the Kansas Bible Company sports three guitarists, two drummers and a five-piece horn section, and even if they aren’t that supersized when they take the stage at The Bohemian Cafe on Saturday, Oct. 15th at 3:30 p.m.,their stripped-down mode is seven pieces. The KBC will drop by the day after their psychedelic…
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NEW RELEASES, 9/30: DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, JOHN PRINE (!!!!), MANDOLIN ORANGE, PIXIES, BON IVER and a LOT more!
Holy cow, y’all, do we have some new stuff for you this week. We were already pumped about the new Drive-By Truckers, and then we got new John Prine, Mandolin Orange, The Growlers, The Pixies, Danny Brown, Van Morrison, and a wonderfully heartbreaking album by Luke Winslow-King. Read on… DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, American Band (CD/LP) Drive-By…