Cranky Dub Master Archive

              Grammy Award winning jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, Brad Mehldau, has two new albums, After Bach II and Après Fauré, out on Nonesuch Records!   Following 2018’s stunning After Bach, After Bach II continues Mehldau’s performances of both Bach and Bach-inspired pieces, while Après Fauré sees a similar […]Read More »

Following 2015’s (aptly titled) The Epic and 2018’s Heaven and Earth, the Los Angeles saxophonist, composer, and band leader juggernaut’s Fearless Movement is “a celebration of music, dance, and the ever changing maze of the mind that makes us who we are”.Read More »

After six years as a group, East Los Angeles based R&B/Soul nonet, The Sinseers, have finally released their debut album, Sinseerly Yours, and boy was it worth the wait! From early ’60s pop, Jamaican dancehall and rocksteady, and, of course, ’60s soul, Thee Sinseers have reinterpreted these sounds through an unmistakably modern Chicano soul lens, […]Read More »

The seven Kanneh-Mason brothers and sisters, who range in age from their early teens to their mid-20s, all play either violin, piano or celloRead More »

For decades, both legendary pianist MCCOY TYNER and the marvelous MODERN JAZZ QUARTET contributed volumes to the vocabulary of jazz music.Read More »

Across a dozen tracks, the group glides easily between the cerebral complexity of Indian rhythm and the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, sounding equally at home with the rigors of raga.Read More »

Anchored by evocative melodies and an enthralling lyrical narrative, THE NATIONAL's new album FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN signalsRead More »

Half-funny, half-tragic dispatches from North Carolina unfurling somewhere between the wailing skuzz of Nineties shoegaze and classic country twang, that distorted lap steel and Hartzman’s voiceRead More »

Verve Records' "Acoustic Sounds Series" has outdone themselves this time out with a reissue of ALICE COLTRANE's classic 1971 album "Journey In Satchidananda."Read More »

International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame member SAM BUSH pays tribute to his longtime friend and collaborator John Hartford. Bush plays every instrument—acoustic guitar, mandolin,Read More »

Heads up, y'all, Blue Note Records is coming through strong with an amazing vinyl reissue of HERBIE HANCOCK's 1964 classic EMPYREAN ISLES.Read More »

Magnolia was composed from the heart and from the spirit of those in the studio those late nights in Loveland. It is the culmination of an emotional and artistic release that was not afforded or recognized before the band sat at their instrumentsRead More »

LOVIN’ OF THE GAME, is the new release from the 12-time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year and GRAMMY Award-winner, and is built upon a rock-solid foundation of bluegrass prowess.Read More »

YO LA TENGO have raced time for nearly four decades and, to our ears, they just keep winning. The trio’s latest victory is called THIS STUPID WORLD, a spellbinding set of reflective songsRead More »

In this company, Bill continues his journey, tunneling underneath the weathered exterior of what seems to be and into the more nuanced life everything takes on in the darkRead More »

The live solo album features the pianist and composer’s interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison.Read More »

Folks can argue if STEVE YOUNG's debut ROCK, SALT AND NAILS is the first “outlaw country” album. We at Horizon would humbly submit "Seven Bridges Road,"Read More »

THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND's debut, self-titled album is a landmark in Southern rock. The one that started it all, and the home of their classic broken-hearted anthem, "Can't You See."Read More »

“As long as I can remember I wanted to make a record with my dad,” BILLY STRINGS says, his dad, Terry Barber, seated next to him. It’s been a bucket list thing for me, something I’ve been afraid I wouldn’t find the time to do.Read More »

On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder’s living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his first great masterpieceRead More »

The set’s coaxingly soulful title track is unfurled by Redman’s tenor, which is surrounded by Blade’s bustling brushwork, Mehldaus nudging chordsRead More »

FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN are true masters of progressive bluegrass. They have built a reputation as one of the most exciting bands on the scene, delivering electrifying live performances andRead More »

Here, Kendrick Lamar has done everything possible to remind listeners that he’s just a man, as full of fear and regret and flaws and a thousand tightly wound contradictions as any other.Read More »

That pose that Amanda Shires strikes on the cover of Take It Like a Man — is it the look of allure, or alarm? Even after some time spent with the record therein, it still seems like it could be either.Read More »

Just four months after JACK WHITE released the ultra-modern, brutalist fuzz of FEAR OF THE DAWN in April, then he returns with ENTERING HEAVEN ALIVE. Where Fear of the Dawn was sharp edgesRead More »

James Elkington produced the album, and it features appearances from Bill Callahan, Meg Baird, British novelist Max Porter, and Shelley’s husband Nathan Salsburg. Shelley recorded the album about a year ago,Read More »

Calling You From My Mountain, out June 24th on Rebel Records, finds the legendary bluegrass standard-bearer and erstwhile musical pioneer touching on topics that deal pointedly with today’s troubling circumstances.Read More »

Her third full-length album CROOKED TREE is the first for the respected Nonesuch label and Tuttle is taking no chances. She not only employed iconic veteranRead More »

There is a hazy, loose, recording-in-the-afternoon, feeling throughout the album as Vile lets his inner thoughts seep out through synths, guitars, and lyricsRead More »

Prepare yourselves for the glorious, genius weirdness of FRANK ZAPPA, because Horizon has a treasure trove of new Zappa releases in the stacks.Read More »

The DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO have established themselves as the world's premier funky organ trioRead More »

We've always loved NIEL BROOKS at Horizon,Read More »

Though the song selection throughout is first-rate, it’s a disparate enough group of tunes that Raise the Roof would be eclectic,Read More »

Expertly curated, every single song on ‘Valentine’s relatively restrained 10-song tracklist feels like a fully-realized gem. VALENTINE,Read More »

Strings and his musical cohorts have somehow managed to follow up their 2019 Grammy winning LP Home with an even stronger collective effort and oneRead More »

In a brilliant economy of words, JAMES MCMURTRY can bring alive entire characters and expansive landscapes in songs,Read More »

NATHAN SALSBURG's PSALMS is perhaps the most personal work of the Kentucky singer, songwriter and archivist's careerRead More »

Thanks to this new slate of killer releases from the MOUNTAIN GOATS, HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER and LAMBCHOPRead More »

HOME VIDEO, explores a slice of 2000s Christian youth culture from the perspective of a girl who lived through itRead More »

“This project is about what you need to do to survive in America,” says TIM O'BRIEN, about his latest album, HE WALKED ON.Read More »

Life is good, y'all. JOHN HIATT and THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND have made an album together called LEFTOVER FEELINGSRead More »

Producers and musicians ADRIAN YOUNGE and ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD have not overlooked what Bartz did duringRead More »

Now, by both looking forward and glancing back, Neil has brought us THREE NEW RELEASESRead More »

The unit, also referred to as DLO3, will certainly evoke the ‘60s organ jazz stylings of Jimmy Smith and Baby Face Willette;Read More »

Thanks to a killer reissue from BRIAN & ROGER ENO, and new releases from, the great NILS FRAHMRead More »

The Ohio-based cult independent soul label, COLEMINE has responded with a pair of killer compilations featuring aRead More »

JEFF TWEEDY has increasingly turned his songwriting gaze inward as heRead More »

The archives feature deep dives into unreleased content from different eras of her storied career.Read More »

New West Records is proud to partner with Pylon to reissue their two studio albums CHOMP and GYRATE back into the masses.Read More »

Run the Jewels 4 bursts in with guns blazing as “Yankee and the Brave (Ep. 4)” sees Mike taking on the role of an armed assailant trapped and surrounded by policeRead More »

"Suite: April 2020" is a musical snapshot of life in the world in which we’ve all found ourselves. I’ve tried to portray on the piano some experiencesRead More »

But his new album, THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, finds Chuck Prophet in something of a nostalgic mood. When he looks back, it can be with anger,Read More »

KENNY ROBY knew from the start there would be a lot to say for the emotionally and musically expansive THE RESERVOIR, in-stock now at HORIZON RECORDS.Read More »

“We would have done it ten years ago if it were up to me,” Mehldau says. “Josh, Christian, and Brian are all my heroes. It’s like playing with The Avengers.” Read More »

Angels Around is in-stock now on vinyl LP and CD at Horizon Records, and we've got Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio – Reflections too!Read More »

The LA songwriter’s ability to paint this lingering feeling of dread so vividly is perhaps the biggest factor in her rapid rise to cultish indie household nameRead More »

græ is in-stock now at HORIZON RECORDS' webstore and it's available on LP and CD for curbside pickup.Read More »

American Aquarium decided to team up with producer SHOOTER JENNNINGS for LAMENTATIONS, the new album in-stock NOW at Horizon RecordsRead More »

So naturally we are excited about GIGATON, the first new Pearl Jam album in nearly 7 years, and easily the most wide-ranging collection of songs they'veRead More »

Drive-By Truckers is kicking off the new election year with The Unraveling, our first new album in 3 1/2 yearsRead More »

Gandelsman’s understanding and interpretation of Bach’s music is multi-layered and unique, drawing not only on his classical training but also on the experience he has gained over the past decade with the Silk Road Ensemble,Read More »

Greenville's own MARCUS KING (now an east Nashville resident) was already one of the fastest-rising stars on the national music scene, but with his first-ever solo album, in-stock NOW at Horizon RecordsRead More »

Trombonist, bandleader, songwriter, arranger and producer JAMES REESE never issued an album with his band, THE PROGRESSIONSRead More »

Thanks to all who cared to share and donated. And for those who haven't had a chance yet, we're still taking jackets, coats, sweaters, non-perishable food items and cash or check donations all through the holidays. There's no expiration on kindness or giving!Read More »

The latest chapter in the highly-acclaimed BOB DYLAN Bootleg Series revisits Dylan’s pivotal musical journeys to Nashville, from 1967 to 1969, focusing on previously unavailable recordings made with Johnny Cash and unreleased tracks from the John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, and Self Portrait sessions.Read More »

We had a funky good time when JACK RYAN and Co., aka THE SHADY RECRUITS did their thang at Horizon Records in The Bohemian Cafe, playing some of the groove-heavy jazz-rock tunesRead More »

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)Read More »

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.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 wouldRead 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 poeticsRead 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.Read More »

Friends for over three decades, it took Alvin – the founder of seminal punk roots band The Blasters – and Gilmore, of the pioneering country-folk trio The Flatlanders, until last year to collaborate at long last. .Read More »

The Brad Mehldau Trio's Seymour Reads the Constitution is out now on CD and vinyl LP, featuring the boundary-breaking pianist and his longtime trio, drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier.Read More »

Record Store Day 2018 was nothing short of amazing, thanks to our incredible customers and a marvelous in-store performance by The Wood Brothers.Read More »

Uncle Walt’s Band, from Spartanburg, South Carolina, was an eclectic music trio that moved to Nashville in 1972 and shortly thereafter to Austin at the urging of Willis Alan Ramsey. ​Read More »

S.C. Bach returns for a very big spring concert on Sunday March 25 from 3:30-6pm at Christ Church in Greenville (Saturday 7-9:30pm at Wofford in Spartanburg). Artistic director and conductor David Rhyne offers us the beauty and majesty of Bach’s music yet again since his choir and instrumentalists were re-formed and rejuvenated when they started a new era in Greenville in 2014.Read More »

He took a Dylan-esque, Byrds-type rock & roll sound, tinged more than a little by his Florida Southern roots and the greatest American rock band EVER, and backed all of it up with an underlying uncompromising instinct & integrity in the art. Just Google the story of his fight with his record label about not raising the list price of his Hard Promises LP to $9.98 from $8.98. And find the story of his intense and loving defense of Roger McGuinn during a studio session.Read More »

The Giovanni Guidi Trio plays jazz of uncommon originality and reflective depth. On their second ECM album, Italian pianist Guidi, US bassist Morgan, and Portuguese drummer Lobo continue the work begun on the 2011 recording City of Broken Dreams, with pensive, abstract ballads which shimmer with inner tension. Each of the players has a strong sense for the dialectics of sound and silence.Read More »

Of his 12th studio album and its enigmatic title, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar offers the following: "Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for “The Wild Ones” (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was “Ken.” I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes.Read More »

It's hard to believe that finally, after over 40 years in the biz, after working with everyone from Paul Simon, James Taylor and Guy Clark to Elvis Costello, Derek Trucks and Dan Auerbach, not to mention virtually everyone in bluegrass from JD Crowe to Alison Krauss, and after releasing a dazzling catalog of solo projects, Jerry Douglas has never released a studio album featuring his namesake band. Until now, that is, with What If.Read More »

For Poor David’s Almanack, Rawlings leaves the Dave Rawlings Machine moniker behind and serves up a wry mixture of acoustic and electric music rich in ageless American vernacular. The album of ten new songs was captured by studio wizards Ken Scott (Beatles, David Bowie) and Matt Andrews on analog tape during a week of sessions at legendary Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Rawlings and longtime compatriot Gillian WelchRead More »

While Moreland isn’t exactly copping a rosy outlook on these songs, there is more of a positive vibe that’s in keeping with the upbeat music. “Old Wounds” doesn’t avoid talking about the hard times, but it also advises to “find the heaven following the hurt.” On “Salisaw Blue,” a noose hanging down from the sky is balanced out with a neon sign flashing out the album’s title phrase.Read More »

Each release is newly remastered from the original analog tapes, and will contain the original OK COMPUTER twelve track album, eight B-sides, and the Radiohead completist’s dream: “I Promise,” “Lift,” and “Man Of War.” That's right, the original studio recordings of these three previously unreleased and long sought after OK COMPUTER era tracks finally receive their first of official issue on OKNOTOK!Read More »

After spending much of the last two years on the road, relentlessly showcasing their critically acclaimed 2015 self-titled debut album, the six bandmates of Banditos regrouped in late 2016 at Plum Creek Sound Studios in Dripping Springs, TX and democratically poured out sonic influences and emotionally charged personal experiences for their new album Visionland. Produced by Israel Nash and Ted Young, the Birmingham/Nashville-based group’s second full-length has one foot firmly planted in reality as the other tip-toes in and out of mental complexities, self-perception and altered-state illusions.The results are revealing, exhilarating and profound. The album-titled track reveals these defining, cohesive thematic intricacies.Read More »

"We at Horizon remain super-energized by what Jason Isbell brings, the sound of his crack band, the 400 Unit, and what this all means to the music scene. Hell, he just sold out 5 nights at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in less than two hours! It seems the wider world has discovered (at last) that so-called country music goes way beyond formulaic "get drunk-cheatin'-pickup-truck-Wal-Mart"-style country.Read More »

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 on the road, perpetually in motion and always creating. Movement is their muse. On tour, in the unpredictable adventures and characters they cross,Read More »

In December 2016, after more than a year of touring, songwriter Joan Shelley, together with guitarist Nathan Salsburg, headed to Chicago, where they joined Jeff Tweedy for five days in Wilco’s studio. Spencer Tweedy, home from college, joined on drums, while James Elkington shifted between piano and resonator guitar. Jeff added electric accents and some bass, but mostly, he helped the band stay out of its own way. “He was protecting the songs. He was stopping us before we went too far,” Shelley says. Indeed, half of these songs on the album that resulted are first takes.Read More »

The rise of Americana music has struck a nerve with Crowell. “I have declared my loyalty to Americana. It’s a hard category for people to get their heads around, or at least the terminology is. But all the people who represent it—Townes van Zandt, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and more recent stars like John Paul White and Jason Isbell—share a common thread, and that thread is poetry. Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me.” There is also a powerful undercurrent of the blues running through the record. “Recently, I think—I hope—that my study of the blues is starting to show up in my music. Those artists, whether it’s Lightnin’ Hopkins or John Lee Hooker or the acoustic Delta players, connected to something fundamental. With that in mind, I’m trying to move forward but also get back there.”Read More »

GARLAND JEFFREYS has been making provocative, personally charged urban rock and roll since the late 1960s. He started out in Greenwich Village performing highly respected songs that reflected on life as a multi-racial man in America. ‘14 Steps To Harlem,’ the third album in six years by this ‘beloved rock-soul-reggae singer-songwriter’ (New York Times) has released on his own label Luna Park Records. Produced with James Maddock with core band members Mark Bosch, Charly Roth, Brian Stanley and Tom Curiano, guest spots by Brian Mitchell and Ben Stivers, a gorgeous duet with daughter Savannah and a radiant violin solo by Laurie Anderson, this record delivers what fans have come to expect from Jeffreys: edgy immediacy and literate, emotionally raw lyrics coupled with a still supple voice capable of singing in a practically limitless number of styles.Read More »

Since 2004, Volker Bertelmann – aka HAUSCHKA– has, steadily earned a remarkable reputation as a purveyor of imaginative, distinctive, prepared piano music. On What If – which finds him adding player pianos (also known as pianolas) to his arsenal – Bertelmann expands his range even further, defying expectations and delivering what is without a doubt his most ingenious album yet. While engaging with his trademark technique of utilizing unusual objects – art erasers, for example – to treat (or ‘prepare’) the piano,Read More »

Click "Read More" or call 864-467-3000 for ticket info! The ground-breaking Southern-psyche-blues-rockers Gov't Mule are headed back to the Upstate. We're stoked. They'll be playing the Peace Center on April 23rd, fresh off the Wanee Festival and just in time for Record Store Day weekend. get ready for some endless boogie. Oh yeah! Mr. Warren has hinted that a new Mule album is nearly done and might even be out in time for the show, but even if it isn't, your friendly neighborhood Horizon Records has Mule titles galore on CD & LP!Read More »