To record the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album, Everything Is Fine, Texas based Dark Americana artist Danny Kiranos aka Amigo The Devil hunkered down at Modern Electric Sound Recorders in Dallas with producer Beau Bedford (also leader of The Texas Gentlemen) to capture the brutal honesty and somber atmosphere that has become a benchmark for his sound. In…
Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures on 2LPPosthumous Third Release featuring Previously Unreleased Tracks, Alternate Versions of Existing Classics and Brand New CompositionsFollowing her tragic passing on July 23, 2011, some of the producers and musicians who worked closely with 5x Grammy Award winning artist Amy Winehouse, among them Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, spent time listening over the many recordings that…
Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Within the panorama and filmic landscapes that open up from the music, stories and fragments of stories are told, about people, the spaces they occupy, their closeness and the distance that lies between them. Written and recorded over 3 years in London, Switzerland and in an ancient barn not far…
Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on blue marbled 180-gram audiophile vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (also known as Trail Of Dead) is an American alternative rock band best known for their wild, energetic live shows. Since their formation in 1994, they have…
Like the other more familiar and phenomenally successful duos Goffin King, Barry Greenwich or Mann Weil, Peter Anders and Vini Poncia also graduated from the Brill Building era school of songwriting. Friends since high school, Anders and Poncia debuted as members of the Providence, Rhode Island vocal group The Videls whose second single Mister Lonely…
Anderson Paak is quickly making noise as one of H&B s hottest up and coming acts. He was named to Rolling Stone Magazine 10 Artists You Need To Know” in November 2014. He was also a part of select dates for Jhene Aiko s Enter the Void tour. Born in Oxnard, California this Ventura county…
On his brand new album Inside Problems, Andrew Bird acknowledges all of the complex thoughts, questions and middle-of-the-night obsessions swirling around in each of us. Inside Problems is a collection of eleven original songs that take on those inner demons that run amok when things get especially quiet. It s a lush and rousing entry to his acclaimed, constantly evolving…
Oh! The Grandeur is the second album from Andrew Bird s Bowl of Fire, released in 1999 on the heels of their debut the year prior. Recorded in New Orleans, the record expands on the groups unique blend of freewheeling folk and swing. This will be the first ever vinyl pressing of the album, more than…
Thrills is the first album from Andrew Bird s Bowl of Fire, originally released in 1998 upon his departure from Squirrel Nut Zippers. The new project saw him deftly blending an assortment of genres, most notably traditional folk music and swing, mapping a clear path to the sound he is widely associated with today. This…
While spending time trying to conquer the audio of live-stream at-home performances, I got better acquainted with my friend Adam McDaniel, a local engineer and producer in Asheville, NC. Adam and I had known each other for years. When the band was a bit smaller I would often rent his studio, Drop of Sun, for pre-recording…
The descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature and film. But there s also an abyss above. There s a winding white staircase that goes ever upward into the great unknown – each step, each turn, requiring a greater boldness and confidence than the one before. This is the…
Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate…
2022 s Big Time brought Angel Olsen to a deeper, truer sense of self than ever before. Borne from the twin stars of grief and love, the album delivered beautiful sense of certainty, the sure-footed sound of an artist fully, finally at home with herself. But within that wisdom comes the realization that there is no finish…
After her highly-acclaimed 2010 debut Strange Cacti landed in the hands of listeners, it became very obvious the special presence Angel Olsen offered to music fans. She had a fresh edge to her sound, a warm and wonderful range, and a level of skill and charm out of this world.2012 s Half Way Home is…