Video of the Day #138: Drag The River
There’s a new Drag The River album out there. At least the CD is, Vinyl is coming soon on Hometown Caravan. I’m a big fan and own most of their back catalog. Here’s a fabulous new video of Drag The River playing a song from the new album History With History. Black In Bluhm Session no 2.
Math and Physics Club – Our Hearts Beat Out Loud
Howdy! What is all this country music? Isn’t this supposed to be a POP website?
I understand your point sir. I have good news for you. This is a pop website at least each and every time there’s a new Cats On Fire release or a new Math and Physics Club release. This time it’s Math and Physics Club. Their new album Our Hearts Beat Out Loud will hit the stores and our hearts tomorrow 19th of November. And holy mother of God or Rose Melberg, This is just fantastic. Ok, I’ve just heard these two songs that you can listen to below, but I’m smiling like The Softies and The Lucksmiths were playing a house concert in my living room. I need this album. It makes me happy. This is the two songs sampler that the finest indiepop label Matinee Recordings is providing for our pleasure.
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Math and Physics Club Website
The Coloradas – Big Empty
There’s a new The Coloradas album in town. The Coloradas is a great roots band from Portland, Maine. I really enjoyed their debut album on Spotify, but never ended up buying it. Time to make amends, because their Euro label Hometown Caravan sells the new one Big Empty in a fairly priced bundle with the debut. Great songwriting and totally my kind of music. Here’s Maxine from the new album. You can listen to the whole thing on that bandcamp page.
The Bottle Rockets / The Brooklyn Side reissued
Bloodshot Records is on a great roll at the moment. The new Robbie Fulks is among the very best of the whole year and the new Lydia Loveless EP and Neko Case full-length are also rather wonderful. And the little bit that I’ve listened to the new Ha Ha Tonka album, makes me think it might be something special and I need to properly check it out. Tomorrow they are doing great things again by reissuing the first two The Bottle Rockets albums.
I find this release rather exciting, because I haven’t even heard these albums beforehand. If I think of my musical past and the way bands like Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Whiskeytown and Son Volt were a real a game changer and opened a whole new musical horizon, it’s just ludicrous and criminal that up until now, I pretty much knew The Bottle Rockets by reputation only. Not So Loud album and Otis Gibbs’ excellent podcast with Bottle Rockets front man Brian Henneman were pretty much all I really knew. This is going to change now and I’m definitely going to add this reissue to my collection.. I’ve already had the possibility to stream these albums over the last weeks and these are just awesome. Especially The Brooklyn Side. This should be classic just like Trace, A.M or Strangers Almanac. Among the people in the know, it probably already is. Yours truly has just been an ignorant fool all these years.
This is The Bottle Rockets and live version of Gravity Fails from Music Fog.
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