They were a quartet. But they were not from the mountains, though Calgary was close. The music, on the other hand, was not a joke. People often mentioned whiskey, brimstone, the Mississippi Delta and the Appalachian Mountains when they talk about their music. There were few bands who conjured the intensity of the original blues and folk music pioneers while uniting roots and rock audiences. The Agnostics were one of them.

Hollering, growling, and high, lonesome keening. Duelling slide guitars, tin can banjo, frenetic finger picking, sheet metal percussion, and pounding upright bass. That was The Agnostics.

Critics dropped adjectives like ‘punk’, and made comparisons with Tom Waits, and Captain Beefheart. The band maintained that the punk spirit was born in Delta and the mountains. Beefheart and Waits knew that too.

Since the band’s first gig in 2001, word has spread from Calgary across Canada and across the Atlantic.  Dedicated cult followings emerged throughout North America and Europe; people who knew you have to dig to find the good stuff.  Despite that the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir went on hiatus in 2010, people kept discovering their music, wondering why they had missed the boat. So, in 2013, AMGC reformed.  See them while you can.

KING HOWL from Cagliari, Sardinia, play HEAVY BLUES: the raw sounds of Son House, Howling Wolf, and Charlie Patton are filtered by a multitude of different musical influences coming from stoner rock, 70's classic rock, funk, and punk, in a new crossover labored with spontaneity and naturalness, a flow of sounds that never stops. 

After a first three tracks Ep released in 2010, King Howl attracted conspicuous attention with “King Howl Quartet” (2012, produced by Talk About Records and distributed in all Europe by Go Down Records), the first full-length that imposed a personal sound, pushed by singles like “Morning” and “Drunk”. In 2014, the 4-track “Truck Stop Ep” brought new nuances to King Howl’s trademark, developing more mature songwriting exposed in songs like “Kerouac” or “Time to say Goodbye”. 

The band toured all Italy and central Europe several times (Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Hungary), often included in the bills of international festivals such as Pietrasonica Festival (Osoppo, IT), Time in Jazz (Berchidda, IT), Maximum Festival (Treviso, IT), Crumble Fight Fest (Nantes, FR), Freiburg Fuzz Fest (Freiburg, GER), Swanflight Festival (Schwandorf, GER), Narcao Blues (Narcao, IT) opening (among others) for Fatso Jetson, Yawning Man, Greenleaf, My Sleeping Karma, Siena Root, Bob Margolin.

In July 2017, King Howl released their last full length called “Rougarou”. 10 tracks of blues-fueled – booze-soaked Rock’n’Roll. A new proof for the band’s peculiar sound defined through these years on the road. Currently, the band is working on the next chapter, which will be King Howl’s third full-length album and will be released by early 2022.

Gennargentu Mountains Blues Singer
Sardinia, Italy

"Taloro" EP- 2015
 Talk About Records 


One Week Records is a Digi-label. We release artist recording sessions as a complete event. The artist sleeps, eats and records 10 songs in 7 days. 
The sessions are produced by Joey Cape at his home studio in San Francisco. 

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