alt-country

The Essential albums of 2009 are starting to appear, and one of the first (together with the Mulatu & Heliocentrics) that get the undomondo seal is American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan’s sophomore on Drag City. And it’s coming from a blog that is highly skeptical of the thriving indie/hipster scene which produces hundreds of unoriginal bands everyday both in the US and the UK.

+UK based avant jazz/rock/skronkers Led Bib release their 4th album on Cuneiform Records.
+ Bearded Philadelphia duo Pattern is Movement announce new tour.
+ Reigns release their first video for their The House on the Causeway album.
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