Drive-By Truckers released The Unraveling on Jan 31st 2020 and set out for what was supposed to be a full year of touring. Needless to say, it did not go as planned.
A Certain Ratio's ACR: EPR on colored 12" vinyl. This release completes A Certain Ratio's 2021 trilogy of EPs and was recorded with the internal brief of "anything goes... "
A Certain Ratio's ACR: EPR on colored 12" vinyl. This release completes A Certain Ratio's 2021 trilogy of EPs and was recorded with the internal brief of "anything goes... "
Here's Volume One, dating from my earliest studio adventures in the '60s. Come To The Sunshine was the first such arrangement. It was written about my dad and his band 'The White Swan Serenaders' (who played at the White Swan Hotel in Punxsutawny, PA.)
Throughout their meticulously crafted new project, AGAIN, Minnesota-raised, Vermont-based musician Lutalo embeds golden lines of poetry that inspire curiosity about the world and empathy for everyone searching for a way through it.
Delusions is laden with vividly lush portraits of the places the band calls home - Atlanta, their music community, their physical house, and the sense of home they have in one another.
On Lauren Auder's The Infinite Spine, she sings gloomy, pained, and tender lyrics over a blend of iridescent orchestral pop backing and blurry, ethereal musical atmospheres while illustrating her struggle coming to terms with her identity as a trans woman
Cut during the blues revival period of the late 1960s. Released just a few years after the Phil Spector-produced River Deep Mountain High, The Hunter boasts several fine blues workouts in which the Stax sound figures prominently.
With his critically acclaimed, major label debut, Child Of The State, churning out the #1 hit "Mercy" and two Top 5 singles ("Take Me Away," "Supercharged"), Ayron Jones shows no signs of slowing down.
The classic 1967 Chess album Muddy, Brass & The Blues, adds horns and prominent organ to Muddy Waters' basic band format. Waters' earlier work had been built around his returning to sounds and influences from his past
Bursting with the kinetic energy of vibrant creative collaboration, the album synthesizes disparate styles into a cohesive tapestry of lush cosmic soul
All Her Plans, the third album from Melbourne, Australia's Cable Ties, finds the trio of Jenny McKechnie, Shauna Boyle, and Nick Brown at their punchiest and most assured.
Sheila Chandra's 1992 debut album for Real World, Weaving My Ancestors' Voices began a trilogy that cemented her as one of the most accomplished musicians of her generation. An intensely beautiful album celebrating the ultimate instrument - the voice.
Purple Vinyl. Reissue. To hear Sheila Chandra's work is to realise that the voice is the purest expression of human emotion; the closest instrumental connection to our bodies. The compositions on The Zen Kiss have an added poignance when encountered today
"Baby Goat 2" - Gen Z's self-proclaimed Baby G.O.A.T., Young Devyn is truly a student of many musical genres and her dedication to her craft knows no bounds.
Recorded in Lary 7's legendary apartment studio Plastikville over nearly a decade, Larynx is the first full-length retrospective of the East Village icon's hybrid music and engineering practice.
Self-described as ‘Gay Church Folk Music’ by leader Joel Gibb, The Hidden Cameras won overwhelming critical acclaim, blending superb lyrics with heart-rending melodies and grand, fulsome arrangements.
"I wish I could tell my younger self 'you don't have to stick to the dreams people have for you. You can dream bigger. You are more than capable, you are more than able. I think about some nerdy punk kid in the rural south who needs to hear that now.'"
