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CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE

posted February 16th, 2023

Cory Hanson’s third solo LP, Western Cum is a high-stepping, hard-dancing, first love/heartbreak, tonight’s-the-night, future nostalgia kind of good time. It follows unpredictably upon 2021’s luminescent Pale Horse Rider, upping the heat to molten levels, six strings at a time.

Insatiably in search of greener pastures, Cory draws with vampiric glee from the madness coursing through the world outside; a spiraling shitshow that’s reawakened a compulsion in him – an old ambition, even! - to crush brutality and elegance together into a fresh... (read more)

Artists in this story: Cory Hanson

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POWER TO THE P(EU)OPLE

posted February 15th, 2023

Some bands just play a few gigs here and there, while others embrace their civic duty to bring the music to the masses, night after night! No Age, with their insatiable desire to elevate folks beyond the clouds of despair and disillusionment with a conceptual allegiance to the idea of People Helping People, land squarely in the latter category. With a U.S. run already under their belts, Dean and Randy now set their sights to the U.K. and Europe to further spread the gospel of... (read more)

Artists in this story: No Age

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ETERNAL MELODIES

posted February 13th, 2023

Every Alasdair Roberts album displays a unique dimension, existing somewhere between the two complimentary poles of "pop" and "folk" while oscillating from superlative original songs to masterful interpretation of traditional songs from Scotland and beyond. The forthcoming Grief In The Kitchen and Mirth In The Hall, his fifth full-length collection of traditional songs, finds Alasdair returning to his roots, where this thing of music and song hasn’t come the eons it’s traveled to simply entertain - it also cuts deep to the bone.

"The... (read more)

Artists in this story: Alasdair Roberts

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BABY ON BOARD

posted February 7th, 2023

With the impending arrival of Drag On Girard on March 24th, the brilliance of Mike Polizze’s music, beyond the obvious — his singing/screaming guitar leads, classic song construction and vivid hope + dream feels —is the shifting, dynamic personality of each Purling Hiss album. This time out, the colliding circles of time seem to have inspired both the songs and the band, as the sentiment-drenched mood explodes in a wild tangle of guitars set to overwhelm the room.

With "Baby", the second single from ... (read more)

Artists in this story: Purling Hiss

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THE FOREST IN ME, IS THE FOREST IN YOU?

posted January 30th, 2023

More in tune now with the rhythm of the sun and moon, Xylouris White (Dirty Jim White and George Xylouris) speak to each other across great distances with the intuition and fellowship that can only be found over years in each other’s company. With fewer distractions, appreciative of the freedom to play with new sounds and spaces, they carve The Forest In Me from unbelievably thin air.

Once you set the needle down on the record and hear for yourself, the... (read more)

Artists in this story: Xylouris White

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YOUR RIGHT TO WORSHIP

posted January 24th, 2023

It seems awhile ago, but it wasn’t – not in days and months...or whatever time is. But in terms of phases – we’ve been in and out of all kinds of bags since last summer, right? There’s "us" before we heard the rest that 2022 had to offer, and then there’s us today. And coming on seven months later, fresh as it still is, “Hello, Hi” is disappearing in the rearview, like everything else that’s going down the road.

But July 2022, it... (read more)

Artists in this story: Ty Segall, Ty Segall & Emmett Kelly

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GOOD GRIEF

posted January 17th, 2023

Critically-acclaimed, criminally-overachieving Glasgow-based singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts is known as a superlative original songwriter as well as an interpreter of traditional songs from Scotland and beyond. For the past twenty years, his recordings have alternated between these two complimentary poles, with ‘pop’ records such as The Amber Gatherers and A Wonder Working Stone nestling in his expansive back catalogue alongside “folk” albums such as No Earthly Man and What News (with Amble Skuse and David McGuinness). Alasdair's records possess a further dimension in their collation... (read more)

Artists in this story: Alasdair Roberts

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YTI⅃AƎЯ CHECK! GET IN THE CALLAVAN

posted January 12th, 2023

YTI⅃AƎЯ is what you make it! And thus far, we've made it in CD and cassette forms, while offering it as a D/L, stream and what have ye online. With the 2xLP vinyl version set for release at the end of February, Bill Callahan's taking the show on the once road again, for three weeks of shows around the American East, Southeast and Midwest in late February and early March.

Pitting dreams of songs against performances of those songs in live reality, Bill... (read more)

Artists in this story: Bill Callahan

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ON THE ROAD WITH BONNY

posted January 11th, 2023

A new year means a fresh new start and a refreshingly new chance to catch Bonnie 'Prince' Billy live in action! This May, the "Prince" tackles cities major and places minor dotted across the pacific northwest and Canada. Rolling into summer, as the days get hotter in July, the state of Colorado gets a full-on Bonny tour of its own. Whether you're a local resident or a known traveler on the BPB train, performances amidst the Rocky Mountains sure sounds highly engaging, doesn't it? You're welcome for the early warning!

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Artists in this story: Bonnie "Prince" Billy

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IN YER DREAMS

posted January 10th, 2023

It’s 2023, and even the turn of this new century seems a long time ago now — but oddly, Purling Hiss’s guitar-band ethos feels ever more timeless, even as time accelerates and passes us and them (and decades of the mighty rock and roll) in the outside lane. Drag On Girard, the first full length Purling Hiss album in six years, cruises through diverse states of mind and places in time — dreams from the past and the future, careening lawlessly as they slide around... (read more)

Artists in this story: Purling Hiss