01 - SAM MARINE - I'll Soon Be Gone 02 - JAMES BLUNDELL & JAMES REYNE - Way Out West 03 - DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY MEN - Out In California (Live) 04 - HÈTTEN DÈS - Big River 05 - RUDI PROTRUDI - Funnel Of Love 06 - HONKY TONK HUSTLAS - Pray I Won't Wake Up 07 - THE RIBEYE BROTHERS - Swagger Turns To Stagger 08 - FLATHEAD - Now 09 - SKID ROPER AND THE WHIRLIN' SPURS - Under The Double Eagle 10 - JELLO BIAFRA & MOJO NIXON - Convoy In The Sky 11 - THE HILLBILLY HELLCATS - Big Orange Guitar 12 - CASE GARRETT - Call Me The Breeze 13 - J. TEX & THE VOLUNTEERS - Clear Sky 14 - THE LONG RYDERS - I Don't Care What's Right, I Don't Care What's Wrong 15 - EVAN JOHNS AND THE H-BOMBS - Taking Care Of My Home 16 - BRAD PAISLEY - Sharp Dressed Man 17 - SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS - Chitlin Strut 18 - THE HELLECASTERS - Danger Man 19 - DEXTER ROMWEBER - Unharmonious 20 - PHANTOM OF THE BLACK HILLS - Pain & Misery
Rock And Roll With Just The Right Amount Of Country And Folk
From New York City by the way of Gainesville, Florida, and now fairly new to Los Angeles, Sam Marine has already made himself an integral part of the LA roots-rock music scene. Playing alongside up and comers Rod Melancon, Jaime Wyatt and Sam Morrow, it makes sense that he tapped former Dwight Yoakam sideman and producer of Melancon’s Southern Gothic, Brian Whelan, to produce his new EP, Big Dark City.
Big Dark City is Marine’s 3rd CD. His first two, Lacktown and New Home were both mixed by heavyweight producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile, Drive By Truckers) and mastered by Greg Calbi (Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty). His raspy, urgent vocals often earn him favorable comparisons to Springsteen, Tom Petty and Paul Westerberg. A Thousand Guitars music blog has described his songwriting imagery as “…recalling a dust-choked, windblown existence that somehow still manages to look up from the gutter.”
With Big Dark City, Whelan and Marine took a few weeks carefully arranging the music on acoustic guitars and singing without microphones as they sat on Whelan’s front porch. “Everything was worked out and arranged front-to-back,” said Marine. “It was as bare bones as it could be before we took it into the studio to record.”
With Marine on lead vocals, and guitar, Whelan not only produced, but added his own guitar and played organ. He also brought in Dwight Yoakam drummer, Mitch Marine and completed the rhythm section with Aaron Stern on bass. The result is a tight collection of catchy guitar-driven Americana songs with an edge that some would deem ‘Heartland Rock’. “Two guitars, bass, drums and organ,” Marine speculates. “Just about as meat and potatoes as it gets.”
The title track is a song about a man who was once a hell raiser and after trying ‘domestication’ finds out it’s not for him so he rebels. “Parts of the song are specifically about my own experiences while living in Brooklyn,” Marine said. “Musically I wanted there to be a vulnerability felt, an unstable ground of loud and quiet taking turns moving back and forth. I also knew I wanted it to be a rocker, to show the regression of this man.”
“Dawn Come and Gone” is a boogie that is the Saturday morning prior to “Big Dark City’s” Sunday night. “I’m a bartender and a musician,” he said. “Sometimes when you have a late-night lifestyle, the sunrise can sneak up on you before you realize what time it is.” “Freeze ‘Em Out uses Marine’s very personal lyrics set to a surf track which he arranged with friend and former band mate, Aaron Goodrich.
“I’ll Soon Be Gone” was a song that was recorded on his first record Lacktown, but was made new again by Mitch Marine adding a different drumbeat. “He really changed the song for the better,” he noted. “Having heard the song played a certain way for a number of years, it was a little jarring for me to sing where the new beat was, but once I wrapped my head around it, it was obvious that the song should be recorded this way.”
Marine wrote the song “Mike Lee” as a tribute to a friend who had passed away. “He died of an overdose, but it’s not about that. This song is about what a good guy he was and how he always had your back, “ Marine points out. He gives lyrics as an example, “If you get along with him, you’ll get along with me, and if you got time for one, we got time for three…now to the other side of town, with the solitude you found, and all the way back again, Mike Lee.”
Marine’s brother, Chris Marine is also a musician who plays drums with the band Phosphorescent. The two brothers were in a band together in Florida (Apollo Quartet) before Marine decided to try his luck in New York. He credits their choice of music careers to their parents. “My parents and all of their friends were very young and always had the television turned to MTV or VH1,” he remembers. “They always had loud music playing, they always danced, they always seemed to be rockin’ and having a good time. I saw what music did to people and had a feeling that if I played music I could make them behave that way too.”
Big Dark City is simple, classic, personal and honest. It’s sure to establish Sam Marine’s footing in the roots-rock genre while finding it's own place in any listener's heart.
01 - Big Dark City 02 - Dawn Come And Gone 03 - Freeze 'Em Out 04 - I'll Soon Be Gone 05 - Mike Lee
“Quantity is sometimes not necessary to convince you of someone's qualities. A good example of this could be "Big Dark City" by Sam Marine. Only five songs on the disc, but we still recognized the talent... As far as we're concerned, a very welcome introduction to a roots rocker of which we undoubtedly will hear a lot more” - Ctrl.alt.country
"Big Dark City" is already the third ep of Sam Marine after "Lacktown" and "New Home", and maybe it's time to work on a full-length CD for this rocking rock star.” — Rootstime Belgium
This is one great EP folks and a worthy addition to your music collection, you can purchase as CD (with download) for $7.99 USD / Digital Download for $4.99 USD from here or Digital Download for $4 USD or more from here, you will not be disappointed.
01 - THE 222s - First To Third Round 02 - 39 STEPS - Rubber Prick 03 - BLOODCLOT - You'll Be The Death Of Me 04 - BULLETHEAD - Promise Made 05 - DEVIL TO PAY - Your Inner Lemmy 06 - DIE HAUT - Aischa (Live) 07 - THE GUN CLUB - Moonlight Motel 08 - GUNSMOKE - On And On 09 - THE HAZYTONES - Kill To Survive 10 - HIS MASTERS VOICE - What Do I Look Like 11 - JENNIE & THE SLINGERS - Better Off Dead 12 - JIM JONES AND THE RIGHTEOUS MIND - Walk It Out 13 - KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS - Hills Of Pills 14 - THE KILLCREEPS - Hey Christine 15 - MOS GENERATOR - For Your Blood 16 - PILLBOX - Devil In My Bed 17 - RICKSHAW - I'm Ready! 18 - STONE AXE - Rhinoceros 19 - THE THROBBING PURPLE - Black Out 20 - THE TRIFFIDS - Lonely Stretch
"His new 8-track release features Garrett's brand of alt-country music with his warming, down-home vocals... includes a countrified version of J.J. Cale's "Call Me The Breeze" and the exciting country sway of "Fill'er Up." - Jim Pasinski of The Record Journal Newspaper.
Timing can be everything. With the groundswell of outlaw, independent and alt-country making huge gains the past couple of years, Case Garrett’s album Aurora lands at an opportune moment of history, fitting right alongside the outlaw and independent country sounds that are garnering larger audiences seemingly every few months.
While firmly rooted in country music’s hallowed traditions, the independently produced album plays out as sublimely alive and contemporary. Garrett has a keen knack for songwriting and arrangement, which he confirms throughout this debut release. Saddled up with a truly superlative band of sidemen, including Michael Douchette on pedal steel guitar and the always-amazing Jenee Fleenor on fiddle, Garrett runs through a gamut of emotions and story telling throughout the album. “The first real song I wrote with any words attached was in high school, a weak attempt at a kind of old-school Jackson Browne love song,” he notes. “I played it on piano one night at this party and the girls teared up and cried and I thought to myself, ‘Damn, this songwriting stuff is a powerful thing. I should do more of this.’”
Playing multiple instruments today, Garrett writes in a voice that is immediately accessible, blending in the hauntingly sad and personal in “Long Way Down,” to the tongue-in-cheek, slightly irreverent “The Thought Of You.” As a narrator, Garrett allows the characters wide berths in songs such a “Going Down To Mobile” and “Fill ‘er Up,” as they come vividly alive while they go about their trial and tribulations.
Born in Missouri, with an itinerant upbringing, Garrett is now settled just outside of New York City. He credits time in his younger years spent in Tennessee and Louisiana for much of his musical outlook, highlighting the integral roles of both his grandfathers.
Noodling songs on the piano at the age of 5, by the age of 10 he formed his first band, playing bass. The summer after his senior year in high school Garrett landed his first paying club gig with almost all original songs. There was only one problem: “I got a little lit-up,” remembers Garrett. “I figured that’s what you were supposed to do when you performed. My guitar heroes were doing it I reckoned and, well, I got paid but didn't get asked back. Just a dumb kid no one had heard of. It’d be nice to say I learned my lesson then and there but…”
Alcohol plus other “recreational activities,” says Garrett, were already ingrained in his life. From a frighteningly young age, music and alcohol intertwined. Later, life brought Garrett a marriage and a child but then tragedy. In very short order, a divorce and the death of family members (his mother, sister, father, and brother) only led to more of the escapism. One day he found himself in the hospital with nurses and doctors hovered over him. They told him he should probably quit drinking if he wanted to live. Amidst the chaos, and the next few years, his young son and his music stayed the core of his life. And miraculously he found his footing. Aurora is the result of that bedrock.
Garrett wrote, produced, and arranged the music on Aurora. He played all the keyboards on the album (piano, B-3, Fender, Rhodes), acoustic guitar and some electric, and layered in some percussion. His original drummer (Shawn Fichtner) and bass player (Eric Swiontkowski) are on the recording along with some ultra-talented Nashville players — Fiddle, Mandolin: Jenee Fleenor // Pedal Steel: Michael Douchette// Dobro: Kevin Post // Banjo: Aaron McDaris. In New York, stalwart session man Jimi K. Bones did the heavy lifting on electric guitars and Clara Lofaro dazzles with her amazing backing vocals on two songs. Sammi Moore, from Nashville, adds her smooth twang to a number as well.
The spirited song, “What Can I Say,” kicks off the album with an impressive fiddle and pedal steel intro that sets the stage for the rest of adventure. “Long Way Down” was an “antenna” moment for the artist. He felt the lyrics and melody were “just in the air,” ready to grab when the time was right. “Years ago, I’m alone with my son on this baseball field, just the two of us, when I told him my brother/his uncle, had died the day before. Now, it was right after my sister had passed. Both from drinking and such. So he takes a beat to think it out and then turns to ask if he was gonna end up like them - drinking like that. Dying. He was eight years old and it just about tore me in two. I was sort of hovering between sinner and saint at that time myself. But it was the catalyst to move on. One day a few years later this song just appeared to me out of the blue. Actually the album was basically done when I wrote it, we were well into mixing, but I got it in there. Glad I did.”
“I mean, whatever you’re writing or singing, it came from something you know but maybe you can't describe it without music. It’s not conscious all the time, like the universe kind of just spinning around and sometimes says, ‘Here’s a song, write this down.’ It’s coming from some other place. Which, you know, ain’t a bad place to be.”
“...disarmingly wry observations and swaggering roadhouse country music. By all accounts, the songs on Aurora are somewhat autobiographical and none more so than ‘Long Way Down,’ one of the slower, sadder country songs you will ever hear. This is an excellent album.” Americana Music Show
Case Garrett: Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Piano, Fender Rhodes, B3, Backing Vocals, Percussion // Eric Swiontkowsk: Bass // Shawn Fichtner: Drums // Jimi K Bones: Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Mandolin // Michael Douchette:Pedal Steel Guitar // Jenee Fleenor:Fiddle // Kevin Post:Dobro // Aaron McDaris: Banjo // Ty Tuschen: Electric Guitar (Long Way Down) // Sean-David Cunningham: Fiddle And BV // Clara Lofaro: BV (Call Me The Breeze and Fill ER’ Up) // Sammi Moore: Backing Vocals (The Thought Of You)
This is one great alternate country album folks, all killa no filla, and would be a welcome addition to your music collection. You can puchase this great slab of music in digital format or CD format from here!
Having recently released 'Too Much Sleep, Not Enough Dreams' through Under The Bridge Records, a four track E.P produced by ex Bad Idea's Sam Cook, Arms & Hearts has toured extensively and relentlessly over the past three years, gaining support slots with the likes of Jared Hart, Skinny lister, Northcote, Listener, Pinegrove, Rob Lynch, This Wild Life, Tim Kasher, Ben Marwood, Beans On Toast, Apologies I have None and Ducking Punches. 'Best described as the aptly named heart felt venture of Steve Millar. While influences of The Gaslight Anthem and Chuck Ragan are apparent, it's his passion for his songs that really come out strong, committing to a full 'heart on your sleeve' musical exploration.
You can grab this quite good EP from Real Ghost Records for pay what you want/can!
NB: Digital Download not available until release day (20.11.2017)!
You can purchase 'Too Much Sleep, Not Enough Dreams' as either digital download for £4 GBP or more or cd for £5 GBP or more from here! You can purchase the first three EPs for name your price download from here!
His Masters Voice from Auckland, New Zealand call their style of music “The Devils Blues”. Listen to any of their releases, 2014's 'Possession' 'Save My Soul' from 2016 or their latest EP, 'Woman' released in October of 2017, and you will hear influences from the greats of classic HEAVY rock but with a contemporary energy and relevance.
Musically and visually the band possess an inventive and original signature style that showcases the strength of their collective song writing, yet allows their individual talents to show through. His Masters Voice put everything into their live performance. To them, their audience comes first and that audience grows in number and dedication with every show.
Take the blues and revive them with dosage of danger. Add filthy southern rock riffs. Swirl in a generous serving of Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Drop in a few drugs. And then, amidst the swirling haze, you will find you have produced His Master's Voice. (willnotfade)
01. Possession 02. Don't Trust Myself 03. Mourning 04. Save My Soul 05. I Don't Mind 06. Lonely Road
Available as CD & limited vinyl.
Released 10 November 2017.
- 200x red/white/black marbled vinyl (111 of which are handnumbered as MAILORDER edition, the rest will be sold by the band and a few selected distributors) - 100x black - Plated & pressed on high performance vinyl by Pallas Group in Germany - Deluxe 300gsm gatefold cover - Special vinyl mastering - CD available from 17 November 2017 and be pre-ordered here
You can purchase the first 3 great digital EPs for name your price download from Bandcamp
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1. 1st Anniversary Ripple Music Sampler
This sampler is a collection of tracks from the Ripple Music roster of Artists through 2011 and is meant as a celebration of the great music that has helped fuel the labels energies and creative juices.
01 - Stone Axe - Riders Of The Night 02 - Grifter - Good Day For Bad News 03 - JPT Scare Band - It's A Jungle 04 - Poobah - Rock n' Roll 05 - Modern Day Moonshine - Home On The Road 06 - Iron Claw - What Love Left 07 - Mos Generator - Stone County Line 08 - Fen - Queen Of The Mountain 09 - Mighty High - Don't Panic, It's Organic 10 - Ripple Music - Drink Beer, Destroy
This sampler is a collection of tracks from the Ripple Music roster of Artists they've worked with over the five years of their existence and is meant as a celebration of the great music that has helped fuel the labels energies and creative juices.
01 - Devil To Pay - Ten Lizardmen & One Pocketknife 02 - Doctor Doom - Relax, You're Dead 03 - Mos Generator - Lonely One Kenobi 04 - Ape Machine - Angry Man 05 - Grifter - Princess Leia 06 - Mothership - City Nights 07 - Earthen Grave - Death Is Another Word . . . 08 - Trucker Diablo - Red Light On 09 - C.F.A. - Built Up, Knocked Down 10 - Stubb - Under A Spell 11 - Volume IV - In The Land Of The Blind The One-Eyed Man Is King 12 - Geezer - Ancient Song 13 - Switchblade Jesus - Bastard Son 14 - Space Probe Taurus - Scorpio Queen 15 - JPT Scare Band - Death Letter 2001 16 - Poobah - Bowleen (Radio Edit) 17 - Mighty High - Chemical Warpigs 18 - Iron Claw - What Love Left 19 - Stone Axe - Old Soul 20 - Fen - Miracle 21 - Leaf Hound - Work My Body 22 - Weed Is Weed - Weed Is Weed 23 - Modern Day Moonshine - Expiration Date 24 - White Dynomite - White Dynomite
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