Take One Car is a group of good friends and family, from Upstate, NY, brought together by some collective desire to make music. They spent the last 4 years performing, traveling, writing & recording in some form or another. On Record Store Day, they will be releasing their second full-length album, It’s Going To Be A Nice Day, on wax.
While the record does not officially street until RSD, you can actually pre-order a copy starting tomorrow (April 13)!
Just shipped! Hop Along‘s Get Disowned — available everywhere on May 5!
Hit up Hot Green Records (formed by members of Algernon Cadwallader) to pre-order the album today! The first 50 to order receive an old, beloved B-side, on cassette. Get it while the tape’s hot!!
Also, the June 1 Philadelphia record release show date is now up!
Already Gone is the second full length album from West Coast dream-drone unit En, the duo of Maxwell August Croy and James Devane, following their well-received debut album The Absent Coast (released in 2010 on Root Strata, which Croy runs alongside Jefre Cantu-Ledesma). For their sophomore release, the pair have opened up their tonal palette considerably. While the comparisons that critics made of their first album to the work of Tim Hecker and Stars of the Lid still hold true, Already Gone finds Croy and Devane mining even richer sonic climes. Here, the duo pull back the curtain on some of their source material, a move that allows the diversity of their instrumentation to resonate. On The Sea Saw Swell, Croy’s acoustic koto pings across the stereo spectrum as a looping guitar figure from Devane apparates from the haze of a beautiful, slowly shifting drone. The side-long closer Elysia is likely the duo’s defining recording to date, an epic slow-burner that reaches heights both angelic and cacophonous. Ultimately, it is the harmonious marriage of the organic and the obscured that recurs throughout the album that proves its defining trait, and it is precisely what makes En stand out in the ever-growing field of contemporary drone/ambient musics.
En tour Japan with Grouper in late April.
Available from Experimedia, the vinyl edition consists of 500 copies total (100 clear, 400 black), and includes digital download coupons.
Legendary saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his tight-knit working band will deliver Four MFs Playin’ Tunes on deluxe 180-gram vinyl on April 21, 2012.
This is the first recording of the Branford Marsalis Quartet with an electrifying young drummer that joined the band three years ago and the results are a nimble and sparkling album, featuring ambitious original compositions by members of the band, a Thelonious Monk classic, and one standard dating to 1930.
The record blends the beautiful and subtle ballad sounds of the 2004 release Eternal with the ecstatic contrasts of the critically-acclaimed Braggtown. In other words, this just might be the Branford Marsalis Quartet’s most sublime musical achievement yet.
This is the first vinyl release from Marsalis Music, and will not be available digitally until August (but the vinyl contains a digital download code).
In describing Four MFs Playin’ Tunes, Marsalis recalls a television interview program on which famed bandleader and drummer Art Blakey was asked to describe jazz in one word. Blakey’s answer? “Intensity, intensity, intensity.” The Branford Marsalis Quartet has built their reputation by bringing intensity to each and every live and recorded performance, including the ballads. Says Marsalis, “Even if people don’t know what we’re doing, they’ll feel what we’re doing.”
Hit up your local Independent Record Store around April 21 (Record Store Day) to grab a copy!
Shop Radio Cast has teamed up with Lobster Records to release two Park albums, It Won’t Snow Where You’re Going and No Signal on limited edition color vinyl!
It Won’t Snow Where You’re Going will be released on a single LP available in a Fire Orange with Black Smoke limited to 250 copies or a yellow with black swirl. No Signal will be released on a double LP available on a clear purple mix limited to 250 copies, and a cloudy blue limited to 250.
Both records are shipping out from our plant this week, and pre-orders are open, so hit up Shop Radio Cast to grab your copy!
There couldn’t be a more typical story than the one of Cincinnati, Ohio’s Alone at 3AM’s earnest beginnings; four high school friends pick up guitars at a party, get drunk and play music. The thing though that separates their story from the scores of garage bands around the world is that they’ve actually stuck with it and have woven their music into the fabrics of their lives. Despite the tender, head-hanging undertones that their name suggests, A3A play charging, dynamic, good ol’ rock-n-roll that is anything but self-loathing.
Hot off the press and available soon is A3A’s new LP – Midwest Mess. Pressed on whiskey-cola colored wax, stay tuned to grab a copy!
Magic City broke ground in the cold hard winter of 2009. Ever since, they have been building on their St. Louis foundation by touring the Midwest, East Coast and Southern climes. Their full-length LP Les Animaux Épouvantables was released on July 23, 2011 on Tower Groove Records.
We were pumped when they approached us about pressing a split 7″ they recorded with Up The Academy at the Harveyville Project in August 2011 — it is going t be released this friday (March 30 2012); and we highly recommend you hit up their release show this Friday at the Tap Room in St. Louis!
On Record Store Day, Guestroom Records in Oklahoma will be releasing their very own 7″ again this year!
This release is a collaborative 7” from some of their friends who are in other bands. No big deal, just some guys in Other Lives, The Chainsaw Kittens, and The Flaming Lips. They’ve created a little side project called Winter Boys and this release is the first offering from the collaborative. Hand numbered, screen printed, and limited to 700 copies… it’s dreamy.
A little over a year ago, local artists John G and Jake Kelly collaborated on an art show called TEN IMAGINARY MOVIES. For the show Jake created ten full size posters for made up films: z-grade horror flicks, 70’s sci-fi trash and giant monster movies. John was responsible for creating the phony ephemera that heightened the illusion of reality: movie stills, VHS boxes, action figures and comic book adaptations.
The fake comic book adaptations were for the Cleveland-set THE LAKE ERIE MONSTER, and once the show was over the pair decided to continue their collaboration and turn this imaginary comic book adaptation, of an imaginary film, into a reality. Jake scripted a toxic waste monster story set in 1970’s era Cleveland and John created appropriately dark and compelling artwork. They are serializing the epic tale over the fist five issues of the ongoing series, each also containing brand new supplemental horror stories by the artists. The result is a Rust-Belt horror anthology, complete with a cackling host (a zombified Commodore Perry) and presented in full, eye-gouging color.
To celebrate the release of the first issue, the duo are having a party at Blue Arrow Records (16001 Waterloo Rd.) on Saturday, March 31st from 6-9pm. There will be a limited edition art print for the first 30 who buy the book. John Neely (of “the BIG O” radio show, as heard on 89.3 WCSB) will be spinning Cleveland and greater Ohio punk rock records.
The Lake Erie Monster #1 will be available in area stores and for mail order online at the Shiner Comics Store in April.
Enjoying a constant critical high and a never ending creative peak, Paul Weller continues to push the boundaries with Sonik Kicks. The album is the follow up to the Mercury Prize Award nominated Wake Up The Nation and is Paul’s eleventh solo album.
Sonik Kicks features fourteen brand new tracks and includes special guest appearances from both Noel Gallagher and Graham Coxon. With Sonik Kicks Paul Weller once again shakes up his palate and stirs his influences anew. He mixes pop art punch with soulful communication; jazzy explorations into psychedelia and dub with razor-sharp melodies and abstract soundscapes with clear- eyed forest-folk.
There are a variety of versions of the record available for pre-order from Yep Rock now!
