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Family Band - Night Song posted 5/14/2012
On July 24th we'll release the amazing second album by Family Band. More info on that soon. For now we wanted to share the opening track, which has been making it's way around the world wide web:
Night Song
Doug Paisley in Chicago posted 5/9/2012
It's been awhile since Doug Paisley has performed in Chicago but he'll play a special show at The Hideout on Wednesday June 6th. It's an early show (Doors at 7:30pm) with no openers, but it will only cost you $7. Bargain! Facebook users can RSVP here.
Doug has two others shows around this time, both opening for Kathleen Edwards:
June 7th - Kent Stage - Kent, OH
June 8th - The Magic Stick - Detroit, MI
Pick up his new EP Golden Embers at our webshop.
Nathan Salsburg: NPR Tiny Desk session posted 5/3/2012
Order Affirmed on CD or LP in the No Quarter webshop!
The Psychic Paramount / upcoming live shows posted 4/30/2012
The Psychic Paramount have added a few upcoming live shows, including stops at Le Poisson Rouge in New York and Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. More dates are in the works for this summer so stay tuned!
May 14th - Cafe L'Agitee - Quebec City, Quebec
May 15th - DIY Space - Providence, RI
May 16th - Great Scott - Allston, MA
May 18th - Higher Ground - Burlington, VT
May 19th - Le Poisson Rouge - New York, NY tix
May 26th - Villette Sonique - Paris, France
July 14th - Pitchfork Festival - Chicago, IL
July 21st - Capitol Hill Block Party - Seattle, WA
Doug Paisley - Golden Embers posted 4/12/2012
New 5 song EP in stores Tuesday April 17th and available now on CD and vinyl in our webshop. Doug Paisley has been working on his new full-length, but cut these five tracks right before the new year in Toronto. Backed by Bazil Donovan (bass), John Showman (fiddle), Robbie Grunwald (piano), Dana Snell (Drums), Joey Wright (mandolin) and Leslie Feist (harmonies). It sounds great. Listen to a song below:
mp3 - Bats
Jennifer Castle in Quebec posted 3/7/2012
Castlemusic in stores today! posted 3/6/2012
Spring is coming, and what better time to head down to your local record shop to pick up Castlemusic by Jennifer Castle, in stores today on CD & LP. If you don't have a record shop nearby (a sad truth for some these days), head on over to our webshop and we'll take care of you. You can also purchase the record from Itunes (and if you're a Canadian resident, the record is available from Flemish Eye)
Spin Magazine loved the album so much they asked permission to stream it for a few days on their website, which they're doing now.
Next week Jennifer will be perform a few times at SXSW. If you happen to be in Austin, make some room on your schedule:
March 16th - Hotel Vegas - 9:30pm (Pop Montreal showcase)
March 16th - End of an Ear - 3pm
March 16th - Hotel Vegan - 12:15pm (Brooklyn Vegan day party)
mp3 - Jennifer Castle - Neverride
To And Fro posted 2/18/2012
Doug Paisley will be releasing new music at some point in 2012 but for now he took some time to record an unreleased tune for the great website Southern Souls. Artist Heather Goodchild created Doug's 'audience' . Heather does amazing work and was also behind the cover image for Constant Companion.
DOUG PAISLEY - To & Fro from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.
Nathan Salsburg tour dates posted 1/26/2012
In support of his critically acclaimed album Affirmed, Nathan Salsburg will head out for a week of shows in homes, record shops & studios. If your town is lucky enough to be on his route, we highly recommended not missing what's sure to be a memorable and intimate performance (even if one of these dates happens to conflict with a major, overhyped sporting event).
Popmatters recently said this about Salsburg: The guitarist and his compositions shine from the moment the proverbial needle drops on the lyrical jaunt 'Sought & Hidden' until it winds down with the jaw-dropping goodness of 'Affirmed'. Comparisons to legendary guitar figure John Fahey fit and come easily but Salsburg is never less than his own man, even a dash of the Reverend Gary Davis creeps in here and a dose of Ry Cooder shows up there... Perfection is hard to quantify but this record is one that others like it will soon be measured against. :
Feb 3rd - Harvest Records - Asheville, NC w/ Rayna Gellert
Feb 4th - Horizon Records - Greenville, SC
Feb 5th - House show - Durham, NC (write for details)
Feb 7th - Cfoot Studio - Charlottesville, VA w/ Ned Oldham & Alex Caton
Feb 20th - Used Kid Records - Columbus, OH
Endless Boogie / Union Pool Residency posted 12/30/2011
Happy New Year.
Bundle up and see Endless Boogie every Thursday night in January at Union Pool (484 Union Ave, Brooklyn). This will be your last chance to get their new 12" (20 Minute Jam Getting Out of the City, ltd to 400 copies) at a decent price. The Boogie plan to start work on studio album #3 shortly after these shows.
The dates:
January 5th
January 12th
January 19th
January 26th
Back in stock: Doug Paisley s/t LP posted 12/13/2011
In stock on vinyl for the first time in awhile: Doug Paisley's critically-acclaimed debut album. Back in January 2009 Mojo Magazine described it as such: 'along comes a young songwriter who's tapped into the red clay dirt of a new depression America. The biggest surprise is that he's done it gently with songs of poetry, harmony and sweetness and the honeyed, craggy voice of the classic American country singer...'
Hear: What About Us
It's been remastered and we added a download coupon. NOTE: We are turning around mail-order pretty quick these days but if you'd like to order this or any other title as a holiday gift just send a note to: mike@noquarter.net to assure it arrives on time.
The Psychic Paramount on NPRs best Outer Sounds of 2011 and The New Yorkers best music of the year list posted 12/1/2011
#2 on album NPR's list! View here and pick up II if you've slept on it like a fool.
They also made Sasha Frere-Jones best music of 2011 list in The New Yorker. View that here.
Nathan Salsburg - Affirmed posted 11/10/2011
We're thrilled to be releasing the debut solo album by Louisville-based guitar player Nathan Salsburg. This CD/LP will hit stores on November 15th and is available now in our webshop.
Salsburg is a skilled player, who has no doubt been inspired and informed by his years spent working for the Alan Lomax Archive, but surely in addition to that, experiences that go much deeper. The songs contain a level of emotion and originality which cannot replicated or reproduced. As the Raven Sings The Blues blog says: His playing bears much of the soul of Suni McGrath and the studied pacing of Leo Kottke. Any fan of the style would be well advised to pick it up.
Hear the title track below:
Affirmed
He'll play a few scattered live dates in November (check the tour page) with more comprehensive touring coming in 2012. You can hear him on local Louisville station WFPK November 15th and on the WNYC program Soundcheck November 21st.
Laddio Bolocko / back in stock! posted 6/1/2011
Finally back in stock in our webstore. Laddio Bolocko were the band that preceded The Psychic Paramount. Drummer Blake Fleming also played with Dazzling Killmen, Zeni Geva and was a founding member of The Mars Volta. Here are some reviews from when the album was originally released:
Imagine Brian Eno wandering into a studio with Can and Don Caballero, the lot of them crafting drones and textures, sounds that swirl in circles, stop in one place and then flit the opposite way. Horns that arc like whale calls and guitar bleats like sirens, beats that are too complex to be human and too graceful to be a machine. Picture all these things knotted into a sonic tapestry that’s jarring and mesmerizing at the same time, beautiful and confusing, comforting but somehow unsettling. You’d be approaching what Laddio Bolocko created during their short lifespan, but not quite doing it justice. The New York quartet formed in the late 90’s and split in 2001, releasing three discs you’d likely have come across only if you saw the band live. Which, anyone who did will attest, was akin to walking in on the Aurora Borealis captured within the walls of a dive bar – beautiful, captivating and wonderfully overwhelming…. Altered states suit it best, but Laddio’s music essentially provides it’s own headtrip. - CMJ New Music Monthly
[Laddio Bolocko] effortlessly converged at the service of drive and trance, occasionally jutting out unpredictably into harsher realms. Live, they were a powerhouse, and though their recorded history is brief, it demonstrates a remarkable range of expression, precision and raw power. I've read comparisons to This Heat, Can and Albert Ayler, and while dropping names is usually a quick, cheap way to avoid describing music, in this case I think it really does pay tribute to the quality of their stuff. In short, Laddio Bolocko were fucking awesome. - Pitchfork
Critical praise all around for The Psychic Paramount II posted 3/18/2011
And just in case you've missed it. We've collected some here:
It's been almost six years since the Psychic Paramount's last album, Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural. Normally a hiatus that long indicates a need to reform, retool, or in some way restart. But apparently this New York trio just gestated, growing their music into something wider, thicker, and harder to define. In huge jams that soar, crash, and smolder-- often at the same time-- the band pumps extra blood and muscle into their sound, as if stretching a balloon into a blimp.-Pitchfork
Easily the best NYC release of this young year -Village Voice
A cannonball of a record shot off a cliff in high-def... its quick-cut twists and turns like a Bourne Supremacy for the senses.-NPR
These guys really are pretty much the only real successors to the legacy of This Heat, but they've boiled that sound into something more focused and singular, a blown out, heady psychedelia, a modern krautrock that manages to forge its own super unique, idiosyncratic path through a world of same sounds.
-Aquarius Records
Pick up II in our web shop