Archive: 2020

To celebrate the one year anniversary of the release of Local Natives’ critically acclaimed album Violet Street, the band has announced a curated remix album with a coalition of eclectic DJs, electronic artists, and producers, to be released digitally May 1 via Loma Vista Recordings. In the lead up to May, the group will be launching […]

Just days into 2020, Durham, North Carolina’s Hiss Golden Messenger—well-rested from a holiday respite after a busy 2019 that included some 60 shows across the United States and the release of the gripping Terms of Surrender—loaded into their home region’s legendary hub, Cat’s Cradle, for a two-night stand. For nearly 90 minutes, they smoke, sorting through the […]

The MTV Unplugged TV show debuted about a year before Tesla’s Five Man Acoustical Jam album, so it’s technically unfair to give Tesla credit for kicking off the 1990s unplugged phenomenon, but Tesla’s chart-topping live acoustic album demonstrated the potential of the unplugged format, if a band was willing to reconsider its catalog in a […]

Alex Dixon is a bassist, producer, pianist and grandson of perhaps the blues greatest songwriter, Willie Dixon. Alex learned the idiom from his grandfather at an early age and has long wanted to deliver a traditional Chicago blues album as he does here with The Real McCoy. Dixon delivers a mix of originals and well-known […]

Steve Earle & The Dukes will release Ghosts of West Virginia on May 22nd, 2020 via New West Records. The album was produced by Steve Earle and engineered by Ray Kennedy at Jimi Hendrix’s legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City. The 10-song set is Earle’s 20th studio album and was mixed entirely in mono, lending […]

Craig Finn is today announcing a special Record Store Day double LP release. Produced by Josh Kaufman, All These Perfect Crosses carries b-sides, alternative versions and demos of tracks recorded throughout his trilogy of acclaimed solo albums for Partisan Records. Faith In The Future (2015), We All Want The Same Things (2017) and I Need A New War (2019) charted the journeys, and catalogued the stories, […]

Naked Garden is a companion piece to Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real’s return to form of 2019’s Turn Off The News (Build A Garden). Produced by the band and John Alagia, the same team that collaborated upon last year’s title, this 15-track collection assembles previously-unreleased songs and alternate cuts from sessions at Shangri-La […]

Rush has unveiled the 40th-anniversary re-release of their iconic LP Permanent Waves. The Super Deluxe Edition includes two CDs and three high-quality 180-gram black vinyl LPs. The set encompasses the Abbey Road Mastering Studios 2015 remastered edition of the album for the first time on CD, along with previously unreleased and newly restored bonus content newly […]

Minneapolis indie juggernauts, Solid Gold, have made a bang yet again with their captivating electro-retro mood-inducing creations. Having taken six years off, the band has spent the past several years focusing on several other high-profile collaborations (Coulter with GAYNGS and Taggart and Rosewood, and Hurlburt with Aero Flynn, GAYNGS and Har Mar Superstar). The band […]