With two decades under their collective belts, The Infamous Stringdusters are suddenly finding themselves with plenty of reasons to celebrate. Twenty of them, to be exact.
20/20, the Nashville-based quintet’s tenth full-length LP, and third to be released on their own record label, Americana Vibes, perfectly encapsulates what the Dusters do best.
Clean harmonies, tight instrumentation, and uniquely accessible melodies that define the group’s sound. The twenty-track LP, the group’s first full-length studio effort since 2022’s Toward the Fray, consists of all entirely new and original songs, something of an anomaly for a band known for littering its live setlists with an array of cover material.
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It’s safe to say that back in 2009 when punk rockers The Bronx released their self-titled debut by their mariachi alter-egos, no-one would have thought this enterprise would still be going 17 years later. What started as a playful experiment in paying tribute to the thriving mariachi tradition that has suffused their native Los Angeles, has become an identity all its own – vibrant and intoxicating.
Singer-songwriter, drummer and multi-instrumentalist 
…This expanded reissue adds 8 songs recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA, a few months after the album sessions. These sessions provided playfully experimental B sides to the album’s singles, two cover songs (the New Order cover “Your Silent Face,” and a Beach Boys cover) for a single on Merge Records, and a compilation track.
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Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Lou Reed became interested in Americana and recorded with Gram Parsons? Well, if that unlikely combination seems intriguing, then The Nude Party’s Look Who’s Back is for you.
Twelve years have passed since we heard from Howling Bells – a lifetime in pop music, let alone in the world. The band, having toured themselves into the ground, took a self-enforced break after the release of Heartstrings in 2014, and this marks their first music together since that decision. Singer 
The only thing that can outlast time is the stories forged in the midst of its unforgiving crawl into an unknown future. These tales act as snapshots of moments we weren’t present for, battling clouded memories and the present to ensure that people and moments never fall victim to humanity’s forgetfulness. For 
For a few minutes in 1976 – America’s bicentennial year and the 15th anniversary of California-sun ambassadors The Beach Boys – the hype was right: Brian Wilson was back. On November 27th, the group’s resident, troubled genius was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. And he was solo, his first TV appearance without brothers Dennis and Carl, Mike Love and Al Jardine since a legendary recital of Surf’s Up in the 1967 documentary Inside Pop. Brian’s three SNL songs included an eerie ‘Good Vibrations’ – alone and skittish at a piano in a faux-sandbox set – and ‘Back Home’, a jaunty original from the Beach Boys’ latest LP, 15 Big Ones, with the SNL band even though the former were in town selling out Madison Square Garden.
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For the front cover of his fifth solo album for Home Normal, 
Contemporary composers working with just intonation tend to have an affinity for early music, when Pythagorean tuning was mainstream and before equal temperament became the standard. 
Back in the early nineties, when Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine came up with their Loveless album, they practically broke the back of Creation Records, which soon after went bankrupt. Yet, nobody at the time envisioned what kind of influence that album would have decades after its initial release.
Backtracking a bit from previously issued volumes of the series, 
Formed in 2020,