Steve is getting ready to head to Europe with The War on Drugs–read on on for dates, the beautiful tour poster and a video of the full band at the recent hometown show–which we reckon is as good a reason as any to trumpet some of the staggeringly positive press the record has garnered. Thanks to everyone!
We’re ecstatic to announce that Steve Gunn’s masterful new album Way Out Weather hits stores today. Check out the 8.0 review on Pitchfork, a Rolling Stone video featuring Steve talking shop with fellow guitar master Matt Sweeney, and interviews with Aquarium Drunkard and Stereogum.
NPR Music’s First Listen is now streaming the entirety of Steve Gunn’s magnificent new record. Also, some apt words from MOJO: “Way Out Weather motors slowly but powerfully, like some 70s muscle-car cruising lazy coast-roads, safe in the knowledge of its own killer torque.”
In addition to the already announced dates (St. Louis, Grinnell, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle), Lavender Country’s historic Fall/Winter 2014 tour will now visit Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New York, and Boston. Come out, come out, y’all!
Today Merge releases Hiss Golden Messenger’s new album Lateness of Dancers, and in honor of the occasion, all four prior HGM releases on PoB are 20% off from now through this Friday, September 12. Use the coupon code HissGoldenTicket during checkout. (This offer has now expired; thanks for your purchases.)
“Way Out Weather,” the title track off the new Steve Gunn album, “is a sun-dappled, easy highway song, the gleam of guitar pressing against the tarriness of Gunn’s voice,” as described by The Guardian. Shot while on a 1000K motorcycle trek through Mongolia in 2007, KT Auleta’s dreamlike video for “Way Out Weather” is a gorgeous, expansive visual accompaniment.
Nansemond, the cinematic new album by Nathan Bowles (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Steve Gunn, HGM), is now available for pre-order. Order now and get an immediate download of the song “Chuckatuck,” premiered today by NPR Music, who call it “hypnotic.”
A cinematic suite of contemplative, elastic set pieces that conjures the titular Virginian river/tribe/extinct county, the second solo album by Nathan Bowles (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Steve Gunn, HGM) deploys banjo, percussion, piano, and voice to explore the rugged country between the poles of Appalachian old-time traditions and ecstatic, minimalist drone. Featuring Tom Carter.
Never did we imagine when we first starting working with our friend Patrick Haggerty of Lavender Country that he’d one day hit the road again with a new band to take his songs and stories of gay liberation to the people. But here we are. So come out, come to Lavender Country!
Here at PoB, we’re big fans of Harvest Records in Asheville, NC, and so we are thrilled about their upcoming festival Transfigurations II, featuring Steve Gunn, Hiss Golden Messenger, and many other PoB pals. Join us for the festival of the summer this Labor Day weekend.
