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Glide premieres Willie and the Giant’s ”Loose Ends”

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The self-titled debut album from Willie and the Giant is a double shot of vintage rock and soul. The retro-minded Nashville band cut these new songs at all-analog studio Welcome to 1979, where an impressive list of legends and contemporaries have recorded before them—Todd Snider and Dave Schools’ Hard Working Americans, The North Mississippi All-Stars, Those Darlins, Jason Isbell, even Animals frontman Eric Burdon.

We wanted that warm, saturated sound that you can only get from tape,” frontman Will Stewart says, ” and Welcome to 1979 specializes in just that. It was cozy, too. Everything there is intentionally stylized to take you four decades back in time.”

“It definitely felt like a special place,” adds six-foot-five lead guitarist Jon Poor (aka The Giant). “From the minute we walked in, we were instantly at ease.”

This positive feel carried over to the sessions, which found the Nashville group’s Alabama roots on prominent display. Both Stewart and Poor were veterans of the Birmingham scene before relocating to Nashville, striking up a friendship and starting Willie and the Giant. For their self-titled debut LP (out April 21 on Cumberland Brothers Music), the band’s two singer-guitarists, plus bassist Grant Prettyman and drummer Mac Kramer were joined in the studio by friend and ‘Bama staple Matt Slocum—who tours with Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson—on keys. LISTEN HERE…

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The Portland Mercury previews The Handsome Family’s show at The Doug Fir on 4/30

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(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) The husband-and-wife duo known as the Handsome Family have been making odd Americana albums for the past 21 years. The songs are led by Brett Sparks’ deep baritone voice, but it’s largely Rennie Sparks’ lyrics that make them so notable. From historical fiction to odes to inanimate objects, they combine a gothic taste for the macabre with dry, absurdist humor. Their mix of sincere folk tradition and clever alt-country has made them a difficult band to pigeonhole—too weird to fit among Steve Earle or Gillian Welch, not over-the-top enough to be on a playlist with Silver Jews or the Magnetic Fields. While they’ve been critically acclaimed and widely covered for years, it’s the use of their song “Far from Any Road” as last year’s True Detective theme that’s brought their music to a wider audience. Tonight, expect a curious convergence of wide-eyed newcomers and long-time obsessives. READ MORE…

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SF Chronicle: The Handsome Family brings their act to S.F.

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The Handsome Family’s hometown, Albuquerque, has long been dry. But tap lyric writer, bass player and banjo picker Rennie Sparks for water conservation tips, and talk quickly turns toward the area’s vast subterranean oceans.

“If you have a green lawn here, people send you hate mail,” the fast-talking Sparks says from her home, before diving into her real source of fascination. “I can’t wait to swim with the ancient creatures in those oceans — though when we eventually go down there to steal their water, there will be trouble.”

Nevertheless, no tributary is too troubling for Rennie and her husband, vocalist-guitarist-keyboardist Brett Sparks. A deep reserve of dark, lyrical storytelling inspiration seems to have always flowed for the gothic-country duo, perhaps best known for their “True Detective” theme, “Far From Any Road.” Trouble, doom and disaster — whether of the magical, catastrophic sort visited upon the “Far From Any Road” narrator or the ilk born of everyday struggles — are familiar food for the characters that bob to the surface of the duo’s songs.

On 2013’s “Wilderness,” those protagonists include flies, admiring the blood-spattered beauty of their feast, a dead George Custer, before we flash-forward to the Walmart in the spot where the cavalry commander fell (“Flies”). Mary Sweeney, the “Wisconsin Window Smasher” of the 1890s, is conjured up by thoughts of the peckish birds of “Woodpecker,” while in “Owls,” a shut-in is comforted then worried by the fowl that may have made off with his meds.

All creatures, big and small, are rendered with infinite dignity and just a hint of humor by Brett Sparks, who writes all the music.

“Wilderness” gave Rennie a chance to flex her creative muscles and “to turn this little diamond around and get a different flash of life,” within the concept of wildlife, with a companion book of essays and artwork. It’s slightly ironic, then, that of all the creatures she passionately discusses, the silent eels are the ones she strongly identifies with. READ MORE…

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Crave Online: Luna Sol ‘December’ ft. John Garcia Gets Volcanic in The Desert

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When you clicked on this article, you were entering into an agreement, of which you are the prime beneficiary: you’re here to listen to some fucking great music, and we’re here to give it to you. Got it? We good on this formula? Alright, then let’s get the gears in motion.

The spectrum of our premieres ranges wide, and often times we’ll take a chance with some odd nonsense that doesn’t strike the soul or set your veins on fire. This is no such song. The latest offering from Luna Sol, the new high-mountain rock project from Hermano guitarist Dave Angstrom, “December” is a Sabbath-channeling churner of impending doom that features guest vocals from Angstrom’s Hermano bandmate John Garcia of Kyuss and Vista Chino.

Ready for this shit? Tear into the stompin, squealin, fucking riotous good time of “December” exclusively on Crave – a taste of what’s to come from their debut LP Blood Moon, which hits on 4/20 (pre-order) and also features a guest spot from Nick Oliveri (Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age). LISTEN HERE…

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Bloody Disgusting: The Handsome Family Announce West Coast US Spring Tour

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Dark country group The Handsome Family have announced a short Spring tour that will see them play several shows across the West Coast of the US. From the press release: The run kicks off with a set at Indio, Calif.’s Stagecoach festival on April 24—where they will share the bill with artists such as Sturgill Simpson, Gregg Allman, Lydia Loveless, Merle Haggard & Steve Earle—and wraps up with a May 2 show at Bellingham, Wash.’s Green Frog Acoustic Tavern.

Horror fans might recognize the group as the band behind “Far From Any Road”, the theme song to HBO’s True Detective. READ MORE…