…the reissue features 20 tracks, including a bonus 7″ with the previously unreleased song “House” and a new remix of “Playboy of the Western World” by Dirick Cummins. The tracks were newly restored from original 1/4” tape reels and mastered by Josh Bonati.
Third Man Records is re-issuing Connie Converse’s only known collection of songs on vinyl and CD so that a new generation can learn her story and sounds. How Sad, How Lovely is an atmospheric collection of folk songs that contain a lingering sense of what could have been.
Her backstory is fascinating as she began recording these intimate songs in 1949 on reel-to-reel, pre-dating the NYC folk scene with inward-looking tunes that struggle against…
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Third Man Records have released the first-ever live anthology from Ann Arbor, MI–based noise rock legends Laughing Hyenas.
That Girl – Live Recordings 1986–1994 collects 18 ferocious tracks, painstakingly compiled by founding member John Brannon from his personal archive of cassette tapes, then transferred, mixed, and mastered by Grammy® Award–winning producer Bobby Emmett (known for his work with Sturgill Simpson, Jack White, and The Sights).
The collection captures the band’s full-on sonic groove assault in its purest, most unadulterated, and gloriously abrasive form. Highlights include such hard-hitting classics as “Here We Go Again,” recorded live for NYC’s famed WNYU in 1990.
If ever a band deserved an LP of live material…
After turning heads locally in 2023 with their excellent debut album Lush Life, Melbourne band The Belair Lip Bombs made international headlines last year when they were announced as the newest signees to Jack White’s Third Man Records – in turn, making them the very first Australian act to join the label. It’s a big mantle to step up to, but it feels like a task the four-piece are equipped for – after all, it’s the drive and confidence that was present on ‘Lush Life’ that got them the gig in the first place.
The band’s second album Again, despite its title, is not a once-more go-around of ‘Lush Life’. Instead, it looks at that LP’s already-versatile nature and maps out new terrain for the ambitious indie rockers to explore. Such boldness is present in lead single ‘Hey You’, which buzzes with urgency…
The brainchild of drummer Connor Cummins and vocalist Blair Tramel is the epitome of speed. Snooper‘s songs run at a blistering pace, with angular riffs sneaking in one ear and out the other, propelled by frenzied percussion. The Nashville five-piece – completed by bassist Happy Haugen, drummer Brad Barteau, and guitarist Conner Sullivan – squeeze in as many ideas as possible in tunes shy of two minutes, this off-the-cuff musicianship making their 22-minute 2023 debut album, Super Snõõper, feel twice as long and substantial. The wild silliness of abandoning a groove for a totally different one halfway into a barely minute-long song, just for the sake of it, is what makes them addictive.
On Worldwide, Snooper have smoothed out…
Natalie Bergman opens up her sound on her second full-length, trading the heartbroken gospel of 2021’s Mercy for a spacious, airy production style that nods to classic Motown. It’s not often that a contemporary, Caucasian artist earns a comparison to Diana Ross, but listen for a minute to “Lonely Road,” with its sinuous bass, subtle stinging guitars on the upbeats, lush slathering of strings, and the cool, poised vocals at its heart. Bergman’s tone is girlish but in control, sweet but tinged with melancholy and hard-earned knowledge, backlit by a shimmering wash of echo and overtone, and if you flash onto the Supremes for a second, you’re not the only one.
Bergman arrives on this sound unexpectedly. Nothing about the smoldering blues rock…
Legendary artist, Raincoats co-founder, songwriter, filmmaker, and feminist icon Gina Birch has released her eagerly awaited second solo album, Trouble, arriving via Third Man Records. Trouble is heralded by today’s premiere of the album’s blistering centerpiece, “Causing Trouble Again.” An official music video – directed by Birch and famed photographer/filmmaker Dean Chalkley and featuring an all-star collective of fellow female artists including Birch’s longtime friend and co-founder of The Raincoats, Ana da Silva, Neo Naturists co-founder Christine Binnie, singer-songwriter Amy Rigby, X-Ray Spex and Essential Logic co-founder Lora Logic, painter Daisy Parris, artist Georgina Starr, writer Jill Westwood, multi-disciplinary artist and activist Bobby Baker…
The seemingly halcyon ’90s are sounding better than ever in 2025 — Fugazi-fathered hardcore, Liz Phair feminist-pop plainspeak, and in the able hands of Hotline TNT, steaming slabs of guitar noise, Dinosaur Jr. via Teenage Fanclub circa “Everything Flows” buoyed by oceanic waves of Cocteau Twins modulations. It’s enough to make you miss the first Bush administration.
Will Anderson — born in 1989, the year Bush was sworn in — was but a tiny hood rat coming up in Minnesota’s Twin Cities then, but he caught the sonic vibe. And he’s got that low-key wistful Midwestern thing in his music, with a profound tunefulness: His folks raised him on harmony-rich Jayhawks LPs, and you know he listened hard to Hüsker Dü’s post-hardcore albums.