One of our favorite duos took to the stage at Issue Project Room this week -- Alan Licht & Aki Onda. They also revived their trio with pianist Michael Snow. Hoping for another album from these gents. Photo from IPR's Instagram feed.
Darin Gray - William Tyler - Joe Westerlund Trio at Apop Records in St. Louis, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. We didn't get to hear this choice meet up, but hoping it was a cross of Impossible Truth and Face of Collapse.
Our Vineyard mate Chris Forsyth is back with another killer jam called Solar Motel. It's right-on described as "a four-part suite that reimagines and reanimates the collected history of guitar-driven rock, lighting out for fresh territory in the process" by the Paradise of Bachelors lads who issued this one. If you know how Forsyth's love of six-string has blossomed under a marque moon for many a years, then you got a sense of what goes on here. Forsyth is also heading out with the notch Solar Motel Band for a tour in February and other assorited dates -- check those tour dates on the above link.
Rich Stim and MX-80 lay down truth on ol' St. Nick, an (almost) oldie from their 2005 album We're An American Band.
From our friends at Flannelgraph Records, who have been releasing the benefit album The Holidays Don't Have to be so Rotten for the past four years. The 4th volume is out now -- and so is this:
It is our honor to be releasing a limited edition of 7" records featuring the song that Loren Connors contributed to last year's instrumental holiday benefit compilation.