New West Records is proud to reissue Vic Chesnutt’s seminal Texas Hotel and New West Records catalog throughout 2017. Chesnutt’s 1990 debut album, Little, was produced by Michael Stipe and will
Guided By Voices’ August By Cake (April 7, GBV Inc Records) is the one hundredth studio album that Robert Pollard has released since 1986’s Forever Since Breakfast. To put that
In loving memory of the woman who taught us that we’re gonna make it after all.
It was perfectly apropos for the late drummer Butch Trucks, one of the original members of The Allman Brother Band, to nickname one of his own groups “Freight Train.” Even
Allman Brothers Band founding member and drummer Butch Trucks has died at the age of 69. The uncle of Derek, played through all incarnations of the band and was always
Thundercat will release his third full-length studio album Drunk on February 24 via Brainfeeder. The album is a 23-track epic journey into the often hilarious, sometimes dark mind of the Grammy-winning singer/bassist and finds a
In 1969 the three astronauts of Apollo 11 completed their mission–the first manned lunar landing. They were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and…the other guy. “The other guy” was Michael Collins.
Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite
[rating=8.00] Regardless of his guise, the one thing that’s consistent about Tommy Stinson’s musical career is his proficiency for pure, unabashed thrash ‘n’ roll. It was nurtured as a core
In a gritty industrial area of Van Nuys, California, behind a powder-coating plant, lie a dozen neatly stacked repurposed shipping containers. One of these is ‘home’ to The Knitts, a
