The Reverb Conspiracy - Volume 6

From 'Underneath the Rainbow' out 3/18/14 via VICE Records. 

Black Lips-Justice After All

Positive Distractions full album.  Recorded in Dripping Springs, Texas with producer Dan Duszynski.  Contains both EPI & EP II.  Cover art by Lenny Gilmore.  

It Can't Be Simple

Dream Machine

Taken from The Wave Pictures' forthcoming album Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon released on 16th February 2015. It was co-written and co-produced by their hero, Billy Childish. 

They play a headline UK tour in February. Get tickets here: http://showsnear.by/TheWavePictures$

Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon

Pre-Order

I Could Hear The Telephone (3 Floors Above Me)

Track off of her forthcoming album Don't Weigh Down The Light, out June 23rd!

Meg Baird- "Counterfeiters"

7" in stores October 16 on Fat Possum
Buy: store.fatpossum.com/products/necromancer-take-it-easy

10/06 Mobile AL @ Soul Kitchen^
10/07 Baton Rouge LA @ Varsity Theatre^
10/08 Oxford MS @ Proud Larry’s
10/09 Nashville TN @ The Basement
10/14 New York NY @ CMJ - NME at Santos Party House
10/15 New York NY @ CMJ - High Road Touring Showcase at Mercury Lounge
10/17 Williamston MA @ Wind Up Festival - Goodrich Hall
10/22 St. Louis MO @ The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill
10/23 Little Rock AR @ Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Shack
11/19 Birmingham AL @ Alabama Theatre*
12/03 Tallahassee FL @ The Moon*
12/04 Orlando FL @ Beacham Theater*
12/05 Ft. Lauderdale @ Culture Room*

^w/ Houndmouth
*w/ St. Paul and The Broken Bones

Seratones - Necromancer

Popular Music 
All music written and performed by LIFE, lyrics by Mez and Mick Recorded and produced by Ian Dowling
Artwork by Dan Wilson
(C) & (P) LIFE 2016

Popular Music

Volume 6

Julia Robert - Mud Girl

Nice Biscuit - Out Of Sight

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 2013 (LP/CD/digital.) 

https://lnk.to/PoB8
www.paradiseofbachelors.com/steve-gunn

In the city we’re all angling for Quittin’ Time, laboring along and among the hours, searching and scheming for the sweet sound of those two easy words: Time Off. It’s something you take—or sometimes steal, like a thief or a baserunner—but seems you can never get enough of it. It’s regulated, rationed, and billed by volume, like water or electricity or ice cream. Sometimes you have to beg the boss for more, or even for a trifling taste. So let’s make time! Let’s roll the dice and get these old bones out on the road again. 

Steve Gunn’s new album imagines the fugitive moments afforded us during time off, out, and away as occasions for dilatory investigations into our immediate environments and interiors. Time Off (PoB-08) showcases the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter’s oblique character sketches and story-songs, some of which, like “Lurker” and “Street Keeper,” portray specific denizens of his Brooklyn neighborhood. “Old Strange” celebrates Jack Rose, a dear and departed friend and muse. 
Those contemplative studies frame Gunn’s most affecting, accessible and articulate work of pure songcraft to date. His definitive statement as a songwriter, Time Off represents the culmination of nearly fifteen years of stylistic experimentation as a solo artist, a member of GHQ and the Gunn-Truscinski Duo, and more recently, as a guitarist in fellow Philadelphia-bred troubadour Kurt Vile’s touring band the Violators. 
Gunn’s first eponymous album with a full band, Time Off harnesses a core trio format to launch his compositions into new, luminous strata; the songs have evolved through disciplined trio interplay with longtime collaborator John Truscinski on drums and Justin Tripp (formerly of Aspera and Favourite Sons) on bass and guitar. Helena Espvall (Espers) also guests on cello. Steve’s keen baritone voice features more prominently than ever before on these tunes, each of which feels both more rigorous and expansive than previous efforts. 

Here, Gunn the guitarist masterfully deploys the discursive, deconstructed blues style, at once transcendent and methodical, that has become his signature. Close listening reveals the influence of Delta and Piedmont country blues, ecstatic free jazz, and psych, as well as Gnawa and Carnatic music, on the continually unfolding compositions. The fresh emphasis on narrative, characters in counterpoint, and those heavy-duty vocals likewise recall the finest work of Steve’s friend and sometime touring partner, Michael Chapman.
Building on his established penchant for charting musical travelogues that ramble through city and wilderness alike, these dispatches about home are not merely descriptive but corporeal. Gunn’s evocative writing and ductile instrumental phrasing, buttressed by the band’s intuitive playing, carries the listener along bodily for the “Trailways Ramble.” It’s a real collection of foot-tappers and head-nodders, perfect for summer sessions. 

The album opens with the sublime, meditative “Water Wheel”—a paean to “the water wheel’s constant turn/open views and days to burn”—and indeed Time Off sounds as if Steve has swum full circle to reach the headwaters of his musical practice. This is Gunn at the top of his game, utterly unique but steeped in traditions both vernacular and avant-garde. Jump in. 

•	Steve Gunn’s first album with a band, featuring John Truscinski and Justin Tripp
•	His most affecting, accessible, and articulate work of pure songcraft to date, with a new emphasis on vocals
•	Available on virgin vinyl, in a deluxe, limited edition, as well as on CD and digital formats
•	Vinyl edition features matte, tip-on jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and digital download coupon
•	CD housed in heavy 20 pt matte gatefold wallet
•	Package features artwork by Anthony Campuzano, Constance Mensh, and Justin Tripp

Time Off

Steve Gunn - Time Off: "Lurker" (2013, PoB-08)

Download this from http://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/beaches-she-beats

From second album She Beats, out on Chapter Music 3 May 2013.

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Nice Biscuit - Out Of Sight

Fuzz Club Records

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