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THE PEACERS KICK OUT THE GHOST JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS!

posted February 25th, 2021

With Blexxed RecThe Peacers have gone full-spectrum psych-pop! Strumming every guitar and every bass drum, rebuilding pop once again in it’s own fiendish mirror image, Blexxed Rec is a blessed event for all yer rock and roll people.

The perfect gutter groover to hold up your next hole-in-the-sock hop, "Ghost of A Motherfucker" is a down and dank ditty with sharply focused melodic tendencies, lit up by Bo Moore's falsetto-feinting lead vox. Coolly surveying the state of yesterday's well-respected man today, with... (read more)

Artists in this story: The Peacers

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WORKING BUMS' BLUES

posted February 23rd, 2021

Does anyone remember the local bar scene? Sure, it was a lifetime ago (the longest lifetime: a year and counting...), but we still recall those unsung heroes of every local scene; musicians who put their blood, sweat and tears into trying to capture the blood, sweat and tears of somebody else's music. Sure, almost everybody starts off performing covers before eventually finding their own original voice, leaving behind the quiet triumph 'n tragedy of those who continue to try and draw custom via a spirited... (read more)

Artists in this story: New Bums

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BILL AND NATHAN WILL SEE YOU NOW, GOD

posted February 18th, 2021

Upon first blush, Keys, the debut album from Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles, is a collection of guitar and banjo duets — but from the get-go, it also clear that their agreed-upon duo is also a living organism, growing ambitiously within itself as it plays. Diversity of song is matched by instrumentation: Bill’s guitar and Nathan’s banjo are joined over time by voice, piano, percussion, pump organ, electric organ and requinto, sketching, as they go, the richness and rusticity, traditionalism and open space of which... (read more)

Artists in this story: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles

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WE WOULD DIE 4 U, AZ!

posted February 16th, 2021

In Glen Echo there are multitudes — all the moments in a life: the good time grooves, shifts in community, moments of loss and generosity that you know you will carry forever, the dark recesses late at night that echo with wonder. You name it, AZITA’s got some hot and sour theme music for it!

AZITA is equal parts droll and dire; her dispassionate view of fates and outcomes for all of us here together on the planet is textured with unique, cinematic details and... (read more)

Artists in this story: AZITA

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PALE HORSE RIDERING FOR THE FEELING

posted February 11th, 2021

Waiting placidly for end of days, a rictus grin flashing winningly as he summons strength for the already-in-progress epic clash, Cory Hanson delivers a new music video for Pale Horse Rider.
 


The third single/title track from the forthcoming album ascends to climactic heights (both within itself and in the context of the larger record coming into view) via majestic country gospel-inflections and ambient steel guitar, swelling to a repeated chorus radiating with cries of catharsis from our Cory... (read more)

Artists in this story: Cory Hanson

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THE BEASTLY DUO - SUPERWOLVES

posted February 9th, 2021

Where once was Superwolf, now roam Superwolves, the new album and demon spawn of Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, out digitally April 30th on Drag City and available physically on June 18th. Today marks the arrival of their new single “Hall of Death,” which follows “Make Worry For Me.” Sweeney and Will Oldham (aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) wrote “Hall Of Death” with visionary Tuareg guitarist and producer Ahmoudou Madassane. The song features Oldham and Sweeney in their traditional respective... (read more)

Artists in this story: Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

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JURKEN ON IT

posted February 5th, 2021

I Stand Corrected is the debut of a new talent AND a new label, Country Thyme. When a label's formed to release a record, you'll usually hear something crucial upon dropping the needle: in this instance, the sounds of an honest-to-god, old-school song cycle in best riches-to-rags style. Classically uneasy, this claustrophobic journey rises and falls on the songs of E.R. Jurken and his spectral tenor, haunted via multiple overdubs, making heart stopping orchestral pop with the orchestra mostly muted.

I Stand Corrected took some... (read more)

Artists in this story: E.R. Jurken