"Come senators, congressmen
please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
and rattle your walls
For the times, they are a-changin'"
Well we survived our first week and most of this week of re-opening. A quiet yet pleasing phase with only a few “I won’t wear a mask” type clowns. It was so great to see some of our old regulars starting to wander back in. It’s not exactly normal (whatever that was) but its a lot better than locked up and curbside and mail order only (both are still available of course). We no longer have any free masks at the front door, we have graduated to NO MASK, NO ENTRY. If acting responsibly toward yourself and your neighbors and us is too big a burden, it’s ok, we’ll see you later (or maybe not) when we get loosened up more fully.
To the music news: This week sees a wildly anticipated new never previously released hidden gem archived since 1975 from the evergreen favorite NEIL YOUNG. We also are stoked about a new dark, snarky and incisive BOB DYLAN (CD in stock now, vinyl LP hits in July). Recent trend setter folky and unfiltered singer songwriter PHOEBE BRIDGERS offers us her sophomore solo release Punisher. If these weren’t enough, four of the fearless warriors of the Acoustic Giants tribe known collectively, occasionally as GOAT RODEO are back with Not Our First Rodeo. Its YO-YO MA, EDGAR MEYER, CHRIS THILE and STUART DUNCAN, and that’s all ya gotta know. There’s more new stuff hitting, just scroll down and scan the goodies.
So do come see us, bring a mask (or bandana) and remember we got some Rules:
- NO MASK, NO ENTRY.
- HAND SANITIZER applied at entrance and departure.
- SOCIAL DISTANCING at all times while in the store.
- LIMITED CAPACITY – we have a CDC mandated max capacity of 10 shoppers at a time.
- NO CHILDREN ARE ALLOWED (FOR NOW).
l6 years or older only.
If you haven't shopped our snazzy new webstore, check it out here. Even after the pandemic is behind us we know mobil and at home shopping is a good option; importantly it has allowed us to offer preorders; here are just a few of the most anticipated releases. Click through to preorder:
Khruangbin - Mordechai
The Jayhawks - XOXO
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
X - Alphabetland
Joshua Redman - RoundAgain
Lettuce - Resonate
Willie Nelson - First Rose of Spring
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Now more than ever, we thank you! As this pandemic and national unrest rolls on, I know we are all struggling in our own way. It's our belief that music can be a positive force for each of us in the midst of all this mess.
Come see us if you can, stay safe
Curbside and Store Hours: 11am - 6pm, seven days
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new!
BOB DYLAN
Rough And Rowdy Ways
CD
vinyl LP available 7/24
buy it here!
Rough and Rowdy Ways is Bob Dylan's first album of original material in eight years and his first since becoming the only songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 2016. His brilliance is clearly not a surprise, but what it surprising is that he continues to make significant albums thought out his six decade career. These 10 new tracks continue some of the sonic explorations (tin pan alley meets brooding delta blues from a rambling troubadour) of his last three studio albums of American standards, but now from his lips we have the collected thoughts of one of the worlds finest poets. He's backed by his touring band with appearances from Fiona Apple and Blake Mills. Check out "False Prophet" here!
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PHOEBE BRIDGERS
Punisher
ltd. red swirly vinyl LP & CD
buy it here!
Phoebe Bridgers as one of the most clever, tender and prolific songwriters of our era with a sweetly funny flipside to the strikingly sad songs she writes. Punisher is fascinated with, and driven by an impossible tension bringing fierce curiosity to slimy and painful things, interrogating them until they yield up answers that are beautiful and absurd, or faithfully reporting the reality that, sometimes, they are neither. These sessions include Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Conor Oberst as well as Nathaniel Walcott (of Bright Eyes), Nick Zinner (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Jenny Lee Lindberg (of Warpaint), Blake Mills. The album was mixed by Mike Mogis, who also mixed Stranger In The Alps.
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NEIL YOUNG
Homegrown
vinyl LP & CD
buy it here!
This album which was supposed to be released in 1975, is a project that Young himself has called “the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time,” which perfectly describes the warm, semi-acoustic feel of these its 12 songs. Now, after 45 years, Young has decided to release Homegrown in its entirety, and we have it on;
indie exclusive vinyl LP with poster while supplies last,
regular vinyl LP
and CD.
read more
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new from Third Man Records!
LUKE SCHNEIDER
Alter of Harmony
ltd. pearlescent orange vinyl LP & CD
buy it here!
This recording, which can justifiably be described as "new age" in the most essential sense, represents a radical new approach to the versatile and cosmic instrument of the steel guitar. This is something new under the sun, a total reinvention of an iconic instrument. All of the sounds heard on this album were made with a 1967 Emmons Push/Pull pedal steel guitar by Luke Schneider, a popular session musician in Nashville, Tennessee. Luke has been an important band member for artists such as Caitlyn Rose, Margo Price, and Orville Peck.
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10th anniversary expanded edition!
THE NATIONAL
High Violet
purple clear marble 3LP vinyl
buy it here!
Originally released May 11, 2010, the critically acclaimed fifth studio album features the now-classics “Terrible Love,” "Bloodbuzz Ohio,” “England,” and perennial show closer, “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.” In addition to the 10 original tracks, the triple LP package includes a third LP which includes tracks never before available on vinyl, including “Wake Up Your Saints,” an alternate version of “Terrible Love,” ”Walk Off” and more. The vinyl comes on white & purple marbled vinyl.
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GOAT RODEO
Not Our First
vinyl LP & CD
buy it here!
The long-awaited follow-up to the Grammy Award-winning The Goat Rodeo Sessions (2011), with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. Not Our First Goat Rodeo builds on 2011's genre-defying The Goat Rodeo Sessions, which debuted at #1 on Billboard's Classical, Classical Crossover, and Bluegrass charts... 50,000,000 Goat Rodeo fans can't be wrong! Happily mashing up chamber music, bluegrass, jazz, folk and whatever else comes to the collective string driven mindset. read more
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Gene's pick:
Dana Zemtsov & Anna Fedorova
DEBUSSY - MILHAUD - CLARKE - WERKMAN - ENESCO
Silhouettes
CD
buy it here!
"Enjoy an amazing and creative program wander through geographic and cultural sound garden of a French sonic cuisine. Stunning playing from both, wonderfully thoughtful and sensitive in the quiet moments and virtuoso brilliance in the fiery pages. Superlative and natural sound makes the listening a joy." -Gene
Violist Dana Zemtsov and pianist Anna Fedorova joined forces on Silhouettes. "Our upbringing was similar, and filled with Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Georges Brassens, Édith Piaf, Charles Trenet. This could be a logical explanation for us both experiencing this sense of familiarity every time we cross the border to France." Each piece in this album has its own story, its own thoughts and feelings. However, throughout it, if you listen with your eyes closed, you will sense the presence of a furtive silhouette 'à la Française.'
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KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZZARD WIZZARD
Chunky Shrapnel
vomit splatter vinyl LP
buy it here!
13 live performances hand-picked from the band’s 2019 European tour and includes a musical score written by Stu Mackenzie that adds a ‘magical touch of alien melancholy’ throughout the record. It’s an adrenaline fueled psychedelic trip that captures the energy of a live concert while also creating something tailored and unique to King Gizzard.
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new, while they last!
WIDESPREAD PANIC
Sunday Show
5LP vinyl box set
buy it here!
This limited release vinyl LP box set spotlights the band's March 24th 2019 show at the Capital Theatre in Port Chester, NY, remixed by the band's longtime producer John Keane. Two burning sets from Widespread with a sick encore including Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys. Yep, essential...
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still new!
KURT ROSENWINKEL TRIO
Angels Around
vinyl LP & CD
buy it here!
Angels Around traverses new musical frontiers in the standard jazz idiom. While Rosenwinkel, Hutchinson, and Deidda embody and emote the rich traditions of jazz at its purest form, make no mistake, this music is thoroughly contemporary, focused, and for the here and now.
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new!
LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Good Souls Better Angels
vinyl LP & CD
buy it here
Williams unabashedly takes on some of the human, social and political issues of our day with her boldest and most direct album to date.
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