The Halo Benders are Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill. Don't Tell Me Know is their second of three, and the eleven song effort ranges into folk, alt-country and power-pop.
The Men's hugely influential album Leave Home came out during an exciting time in New York City. DIY lofts and shitty bars littered downtown Manhattan and North Brooklyn. The Acheron had just opened it's doors. Kill Your Idols had broken up.
The Real Folk Blues is a 1966 compilation album of Muddy Waters recordings and features some of Waters' first recordings. In 2017, the album was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in the category of 'Classics of Blues Recordings Album.'
Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine team up for their first outing together on the excellent A Beginner's Mind. It’s a concept album that transcends the concept—in this case, popular film—which is no mean feat, even if Sufjan fans know they can rely on
Muddy Waters' Folk Singer remains rightly revered as the greatest-sounding blues album ever released-and, to date, one of the only bonafide audiophile records in the genre.
