“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.”
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.
We are delighted to welcome our friend Brother Nathan Bowles–he of Pelt, The Black Twig Pickers, Steve Gunn’s band, Hiss Golden Messenger, etc.–to the PoB fold. Stay tuned for more details about his forthcoming album Nansemond, which is, in our estimation, one of the best sounding and most sonically immersive albums thus far in the PoB catalog.
The follow-up to Steve Gunn’s critically acclaimed Time Off arrives on October 7. Pre-order the album now & stream first single “Milly’s Garden,” courtesy of NPR’s All Songs Considered. Confirmed tour dates include shows with The War on Drugs, Michael Chapman, & Mike Cooper. Plus, Time Off is now on sale!
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.
