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From Locust’s brilliant “Wooden Guitar” series comes another terrific release tailor-made for aficionados of the acoustic guitar. Steffen Basho-Junghans discovered the steel-strin...read more
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More great acoustic-guitar music from Tompkins Square, which is quickly establishing itself as the Takoma label of our time. Berkeley Guitar features new recordings by three of the Bay Area’s...read more
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For the first time on CD comes this classic album of Americana. First released in 1969, Robbie Basho’s Venus in Cancer has been remastered from the original tapes and includes original album...read more
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Modal guitarist Walker was the musical director for noted Harvard hippie Timothy Leary’s psychedelic “Celebrations” and made a pair of acoustic guitar raga LPs for Vanguard Record...read more
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Cynics may wonder how many albums we need by an instrumental indie-rock band. If the band is Explosions in the Sky, the answer is “all of them and more,” since they just keep getting be...read more
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There are so many levels on which to appreciate the music of James Blackshaw. For guitarists, there’s the sheer how-does-he-do-it of his dazzling technique, used to produce three simultaneous...read more
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This two-disc set (for the price of one) reissues rare material: two splits, a subscription, a previously unreleased track, and a limited edition, ranging from 1998 to 2003. This is Ben Chasny at h...read more
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They might not be talking about their religious upbringing. You’d be hard-pressed to turn up two guitarists more widely versed in their instrument’s language, or two improvisers more in...read more
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Sonic Youth’s return to the indie ranks resulted in no major changes from their previous song album, 2006’s Rather Ripped. The Eternal still features lots of moody mid-tempo grooves; the te...read more
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After garnering a reputation for combining the best elements of John Fahey and Sandy Bull in his beautiful, intricate 12-string-guitar playing, English virtuoso James Blackshaw started branching ou...read more
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Sun City Girls, yada yada, whatever. I enjoy every one of Richard Bishop’s solo albums a lot more than anything he did with SCG. Though still quite eclectic, his discs are more focused and cohere...read more
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Texas always has kicked out this country’s best psychedelic stuff. The duo Headdress (who might live here in NYC now, hard to say with dudes like this) adds a hazy, shimmering new chapter to ...read more
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Richard Skelton‘s second album for Tompkins Square under his A Broken Consort guise (and he does have several) is a masterwork of psychogeography. Skelton, who lives in County Lancashire, dre...read more
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This is our last earthly transmission from Jack Rose, a master of the guitar who’d been granted access to the instrument’s ancient book of secrets, only to be taken from us — all ...read more
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