Read recent critical accolades for Mike Cooper, Lavender Country, and Steve Gunn from Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, BOMB, the Independent Weekly, the Chicago Reader, the Stranger, PopMatters, and more.
In celebration of the Summer Solstice, get 20% off most PoB products through June 22 with coupon code SOLSTICE. Read on for details and other exciting PoB news about upcoming releases.
Who lives in Atlanta and its environs? Please come visit us this weekend, Friday, June 20 through Sunday, June 22, at 9/50: Southeast Arts Presenters Summit at the ACAC. We’ll be exhibiting a visual and audio investigation of our reissue practice that elucidates our folkloristic approach to the re-presentation of archival recordings.
Mike Cooper preorders are on their way to you now. Check out a preview of the packaging, as well as the forthcoming collaborative RVNG INTL record by Cooper and our main man Steve Gunn, from whom you shall be hearing more very, very soon.
Friends, the good people at Pitchfork are streaming the entirety of Mike Cooper’s Trout Steel (PoB-13) and Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co. with Mike Cooper (PoB-14) through June 16, a day before the June 17 release day. Dig in.
Courtesy of Dangerous Minds, we’ve got another Mike Cooper stunner for you. “Country Water,” the opening track on the Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co. 1971-72 double album, is, true to its name, a riverine country rocker complete with sawing fiddle solos and some heavy-duty piano banging.
A heady and elliptical travelogue, Way Out Weather demonstrates a radical widescreen evolution, featuring a larger band and lighting out for lusher, more expansive and impressionistic territories than Time Off (2013). This is the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter’s career-defining statement to date, a self-assured masterpiece.
Listen to the long-form centerpiece track off of our reissue of Cooper’s classic 1970 album Trout Steel and read a dispatch from the man himself from Spain, concerning the poems of Rumi and the studio techniques of dub music.
It’s been incredibly gratifying to see the accolades and respect lavished on this record and on Patrick Haggerty in particular, who most certainly deserves our praise and admiration. Read on for LC mini-documentary videos and more international press on the album and Patrick’s story, including pieces by NPR, the CBC, The Guardian, Pitchfork, The Quietus, and The Boston Globe.
Folks, these are two critical tours not to miss, and they start this week. Catch two of the greatest bands working today, in fine company, including Kurt Vile, Angel Olsen, William Tyler, etc. Stay tuned for more dates TBA.
