July brings a release I know Krystle and I have been waiting for nearly a year now. The Knife’s “Silent Shout” was my number 4 best album of 2006. Of releases last year, that and Scott Walker’s “The Drift” are still routinely on my playlists and in an uncanny, terrifying place in my […]
Staten Island Afro Soul on Daptone from the same funky melting pot of cool, hyperskilled professionals that brought us Antibalas and the Sugarman Three. Need I say more? New record comes out in July, check out the mp3 for “Chicago Falcon”.
The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon | mp3 |
External Links
The Budos Band
The Budos Band Myspace
Daptone […]
Tomorrow Night (Wednesday), we have one of those shows happening where in two years we’ll all be standing around amazed that when we landed it it wasn’t that big of a deal. Chris Garneau plays airy nighttime piano songs that catch you breathing slowly and soaking in the beautiful silent Earth, with a falsetto […]
A month ago Frog Eyes dropped a new record called Tears of the Valedictorian, and I’m not sure how anybody else at Relative feels about it but it’s found it’s way back to my cd player like a bad habit almost everyday since its release. Carey Mercer leads the group (which includes his wife […]
This will be the second show for Richmond’s Fight the Big Bull at the Boot. They played two amazing sets (mp3 below) for us back on May 11th. For those of you who missed the show or are unaware of who FtBB are their bio is hilarious and spot on. “An amalgamation of saxophones, trombones, […]
Random, mp3’s of the records that came out today. All titles are available in our online store.
Enjoy yourself, downloaders.
The Get Quick - Blossom Rock | mp3 |
Lichens - Vevor of Agassou | mp3 |
Piano Magic - The Last Engineer | mp3 |
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Helpless Corpses Enactment | mp3 |
Probably going to be my favorite metal album of the year. Given to the Rising, out June 5th.
Neurosis - Water Is Not Enough | mp3 |
Neurosis - Fear and Sickness | mp3 |
links
Neurosis website
Neurosis myspace
Neurot
Yaala Yaala Records, A new world music label under the Drag City umbrella has just featured it’s first three releases this past Tuesday. A non-profit label who’s has, so far, released albums by West African’s Wasulu duo Pekos & Yoro Diallo, Malian griot Daouda Dembele, was the brain child of label head, Jack Carneal.
These […]
Random, mp3’s of the records that came out today.
Enjoy yourself, downloaders.
Ben + Vesper - An Honest Bluff | mp3 |
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips | mp3 |
Betty Davis - Anti Love Song | mp3 |
Dog Day - Lydia | mp3 |
Handsome Furs - What We Had | mp3 |
Ladyhawk - War | mp3 […]
A friend of mine reminded me about La Blogothèque, I hadn’t been to their site since the Grizzly Bear’s The Knife video. I was digging around looking at all their updates and I found an amazing set of videos of Chris Garneau. He just released Music For Tourists back in January on Absolutely Kosher Records […]
Lavender Diamond - Open Your Heart | mp3 |
Lavender Diamond - You Broke My Heart | mp3 |
External Links
Lavender Diamond’s Website
Lavender Diamond’s Myspace
Matador
How can somebody be a key pioneer in hard ass funk fusion, psychedelic fashion and empowered female sexuality, marry Miles Davis, inspire his landmark “Bitch’s Brew”, and hang with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Marc Bolan only to become somewhat obscure and difficult to find? I don’t know, but Betty Davis did it. […]
Chromeo’s “She’s In Control” was a pleasure when it came out a few years ago, a slice of relectropop that evoked fond memories of classics such as Zapp and “Dirty Mind” era Prince. The only lingering discomfort was uncertainty as to whether they were genuinely having fun, like, say, Hot Chip, or snarkily making […]
We have a lot of really great events within the Relative family this week. You already know about this evening’s cooking class at the Boot, Friday night’s art opening with Elizabeth Henry at the record store and now we must remind you of Thursday night’s show with The Six Parts Seven. They are out on […]
Soul Jazz Records will soon release the new collection “Rumble in the Jungle” (not to be confused with the fantastic Muhammed Ali documentary). This is a compilation featuring Shut Up and Dance, Ragga Twins, General Levy, Cutty Ranks and more covering the late ’80s digital ragga period in the UK that led into the […]
Random, mp3’s of the records that came out today.
Enjoy them, you little downloaders.
Alex Delivery - Komad | mp3 |
The Detroit Cobras - As Long As I Have You | mp3 |
Dntel - Dumb Luck | mp3 |
Electric Soft Parade - If That’s the Case | mp3 |
The Fucking Champs - Spring Break | mp3 |
Golden […]
Numero Group is a Chicago reissue label that specializes in excavating forgotten treasures. One of their most enriching series has been Eccentric Soul. Each collection focuses on one of many small, forgotten soul labels and reveals a unique inspiration, character, and flavor for where and when it came from. The most recent […]
The RTR team has not properly blogged or reviewed Jarvis Cocker’s new album yet. I guess we all assumed we didn’t have to, and I guess we are all asses for that, and I am puzzled as to why we still have this album in stock. Suffice it to say that I have […]
“Soundtracks from a dark movie about trains and rivers.”
That quote was taken from the “Sounds Like” catergory on Tulsa Drone’s myspace and frankly, I couldn’t agree more. Tulsa Drone, from Richmond, VA., pull the dark, Absinthe soaked memories from your mind and make you face them, no matter how unpleasent or unsettling they may be. […]
These guys will blow you away! Easily traversing the gray area between raw blues rock and atmospheric pysch-pop. They have a wide range of influnces, such as Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Weird War, to Black Mountain, and Green Milk From the Planet Orange, to Yacht Rock. Be the first kid on your […]
