Texas Monthly has shared a new video of Allen and his sons Bukka and Bale performing “What of Alicia,” one of the narrative hinges of the Juarez cycle, earlier this year at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. TTU recently honored influential Lubbock natives Terry and his wife Jo Harvey with the inauguration of The Allen Collection, an extensive archive to house artwork and ephemera by both artists.
We’re delighted to welcome Itasca, the musical project of Los Angeles-based guitarist and songwriter Kayla Cohen, to the PoB roster. Stay tuned for more details on a new album to be released in late 2016. In the meantime, Itasca will be touring the U.S. this May. “This feeling that we, as listeners, have been granted access into Itasca’s private inner sanctum is what helps give [Cohen’s music] its quiet gravity.” – Pitchfork
Feast your eyes on a preview of the beautiful packaging for our definitive, deluxe edition of Terry Allen’s 1975 masterpiece Juarez, the first-ever reissue on vinyl, including some of the restored original artwork. Thanks to Uncut for the interview with Terry–which touches on the Velvet Underground, Capt. Beefheart, and beans–and the 9/10 review.
Halfway through her European tour supporting Basia Bulat and Damien Jurado, and nearly a year after the release of her groundbreaking album Loyalty, Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station is sharing an intimate behind-the-scenes look at her songwriting and creative process, touching on how personal experience, emotional ambiguity, and the influences of other artists inform her work. Thanks to Folk Radio UK for the premiere.
In advance of tomorrow’s anticipated Record Store Day revelry/hysteria, we’d like to remind you of our very first official RSD exclusive release, the first-ever reissue of Mike Cooper and Derek Hall’s Out of the Shades EP, available as a beautifully restored 45rpm 7″ exclusively at participating shops tomorrow, April 16, 2016. Stream the little-heard “Skillet,” and remember to keep it good and greasy all the time.
As we bask in the new Spring and look ahead to the oncoming Summer, we’d like call your attention to the many chances you’ll have to see some of our artist’s road-dogging it through a town near you. We’d also like to take a moment to extend our warmest thanks to The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) for nominating us as 2016 Label of the Year. We’re blushing.
We are pleased to announce the first-ever reissue of folk & experimental music icon Mike Cooper’s earliest recordings & PoB’s very first official Record Store Day exclusive release. Named for The Shades, the Reading, UK folk club where Cooper regularly performed, & which housed prodigy Derek Hall—“a guitarist who could actually match Davey Graham both in technique and musical ideas” —this rare EP was issued in 1965. Get it only on RSD 2016.
The behemoth known as SXSW is almost upon us, and several PoB artists will be joining the melee, including rare appearances by Lavender Country, both live onstage (with some special guests sitting in) and at festival world premiere screenings of the new documentary short These C*cksucking Tears. The Weather Station and Nap Eyes will also each be playing several shows.
We are thrilled, humbled, and frankly still a bit awed, to announce our definitive editions of Terry Allen’s art-country classics. These are without a doubt the most extensive, detailed, and deluxe reissue projects we’ve undertaken to date, and we’re damn proud of the results. Pre-order Juarez now, and stream “Cortez Sail” via NPR Music’s Songs We Love. Today’s rainbow is tomorrow’s tamale.
Happy release day to Nap Eyes! The reviews of Thought Rock Fish Scale are coming in, and they are uniformly glowing, including a thoughtful 8.0 review from Pitchfork, a 4/5 from MOJO, a 4/5 from The Irish Times, and an 8/10 from Drowned in Sound. “Brimming with passion and protest… Let this record be the first step in your rehabilitation from information overload,” writes Pitchfork’s Stuart Berman.
