City Slang

Panthers prowling through a desert. Cowgirls swaggering into a saloon and kicking up dust. Riding shotgun with a Tarantino heroine. Having the fiesta of your lives under a giant piñata with all your friends. Los Bitchos’ hallucinatory surf-exotica is as evocative as... 

Sophia Kennedy’s music sometimes sounds like a soundtrack to a world disintegrating, hanging on by a thread of memories, it combines the glamour and the morbid charm of tin pan alley show tunes from the 1960s or 70s and yet it fully embraces the deconstructed modernism of... 

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- 90-luvulla läpimurtonsa tehnyt, Nashvilleläinen yhtye Lambchop sekoittelee countryä, jazzia ja soulia omaperäisellä ja joskus jopa hämmentävällä otteella.
Laulaja-säveltäjä Kurt Wagnerin tunnistettava ja minimalistinen laulutyyli yhdistettynä lämpimään... 

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Vuonna 1992 perustettu New Yorkista kotoisin oleva rock kvartetti Nada Surf julkaisi edellisen "you know who you are" alle vuosi sitten. Nyt luvassa on jatkoa! Viennassa ja Potsdamissa taltioitu "Peaceful ghosts (Live with Deutsches Filmorchester... 

Jättihitillään "Popular" tunnetuksi tullut yhdysvaltalainen vaihtoehtorockyhtye Nada Surf julkaisee uuden albuminsa maaliskuun 4. päivä. "You Know Who You Are" on yhtyeen kahdeksas pitkäsoitto ja ensimmäinen virallinen julkaisu nelihenkisenä Doug Gillardin liityttyä osaksi... 

- Newyorkilaisbändi Nada Surf muutti studiotyöskentelyn kaavaa kuudennella tuotoksellaan ja taltioi levylle raa'an live-vimman.
Nopeammin ja enemmän säröä. "The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy":lta löydät... 

The eighth studio album from Sinkane, a band led by multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab. Like much of Sinkane's previous releases, it resists genre. It's pop. It's funk. It's electronic. It blends the gritty punk newness of a 70s and 80s New York with the steady, foundational soul of... 

Canadian/American poet, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Vera Sola makes timeless, mind-bending sound, evoking comparisons to Nick Cave, Nancy Sinatra, Leonard Cohen and PJ Harvey. The album follows debut album 'Shades' (2018), written, performed and produced entirely alone. 

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Sinkane is unique in that he is one of a very few artists that has a real, tangible, physical stake in our current cultural and political climate, and it shows in the music. For the new album Dépaysé (a French word meaning “to be removed from one’s habitual surroundings.”) Ahmed... 

The new record by Derwin Dicker AKA Gold Panda and Jas Shaw, one half of Simian Mobile Disco, the venture, under the moniker Selling is rooted in a long-standing friendship and prior creative history. 

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Stuart A. Staples about the album: 2017 felt like a lost year. On Christmas day 2016 I was drawn to the studio to record the beginnings of what was to become "A New Real". The following Christmas day I was trying to finish it and the rest of this album it had unknowingly begun. A... 

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Stuart Staples was already nurturing seeds for a different kind of Tindersticks album before lockdown halted their tour in early 2020. If 2019’s “No Treasure but Hope” saw the band rediscovering themselves as a unit, the follow-up reconfigures that unit so that everything familiar... 

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Timber Timbre’s music has always traced a shadowed path, using cues of the past to fuse the sound of a distant, haunted now. On its fourth record, Timber Timbre coats the stark, sensual sound of 2014’s album „Hot Dreams“ in an oil-black rainbow of municipal grime. It... 

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On her fourth album, west coast artist Jessica Pratt expands the scope of her artistry, placing her sharpest songs to date within an ever-broadening pool of influences including spectral '60s pop, Hollywood psychedelia and bossa nova. Whereas Pratt's 2019 record, Quiet... 

Calexico first released their beloved ‚Feast of Wire‘ album 20 years ago and today, to celebrate the anniversary, the band have announced a special deluxe reissue of the record due May 26th via City Slang. ‚Feast of Wire‘ will be available on CD/LP and... 

Kurt Wagner has announced a new Lambchop record called The Bible, out September 30th! The Bible’s first single, the gospel-soaked 'Police Dog Blues', arrives today. Kurt Wagner on the song:
"During the... 

Convening at longtime bandmate Sergio Mendoza's home studio in Tucson, Arizona, El Mirador was recorded throughout the summer of 2021, crafting one of their most riveting and whimsical productions to date. Convertino, who now resides in El Paso, and Burns, who relocated to Boise in... 

José Gonzáles julkaisee neljännen täyspitkänsä 17. syyskuuta 2021 City Slangin kautta. Uusi albumi kantaa nimeä Local Valley, ja kyseessä on artistin ensimmäinen studioalbumi yli kuuteen vuoteen. Artisti julkaisi myös uuden singlen Visions, jota hän kommentoi seuraavasti: "We... 

With Showtunes, as he has done so many times throughout his varied and fascinating career, in late 2019 Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner was experimenting with something new. He took simple guitar tracks and converted them into midi piano tracks. It was a revelation that from those conversions he... 

Calexico’s ’Seasonal Shift’ is less of a Christmas album and more of a cross cultural seasonal celebration. The themes are based around that familiar end of year feeling, of reflection, of ceremony and of recognition of the year gone by and changes it brought for better and... 

In the fall of 2019, Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner had a unique idea: In lieu of going on what would become an economically disastrous tour, he would invite the band to Nashville to make a record as a way to provide them with similar financial support and realize something tangible in the process. Each... 

With ’This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)’ Lambchop continue to establish themselves as forerunners and innovators of what was once called Alt Country. Their sound has morphed to encompass multiple genres, blending folk songwriting with the tones of urban... 

The third album from Jessica Pratt on CD. The album was written in Los Angeles and recorded at Gary's Electric in Brooklyn, NY over 2017/2018. 

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Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell’s present KORT Born of a common love for their city and its traditions, this long-awaited collaboration from City Slang mainstays Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Cortney Tidwell seeks to portray their vision of Nashville through the music for which it... 

Julkaisupäivä: 29.2.2012... 

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- Arizonalainen, rokkia amerikkalaisin säväyksin soittava Calexico palaa uudella
studioalbumillaan "Algiers".
Bändi haki edelliselle albumilleen eurooppalaista... 

Laulaja-lauluntekijä Laura Gibson muutti edellisen, vuonna 2012 ilmestyneen albuminsa "La Grande" jälkeen Portlandista New Yorkiin. Matkan ensimmäisen osan Chicagoon hän teki junalla, jota kutsutaan nimellä "Empire Builder". Siitä nimi levylle. 

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On the leafy cover for their third album, All The Unknown, Grandbrothers invite the spectator to peer through the thick foliage of a hawthorn bush, seemingly powered by a similar sense of curiosity that informed their exploratory new record. Ditching the restrictions of... 

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Rooseveltina tunnettu Marius Lauber julkaisee debyyttialbuminsa elokuussa. Kiekkoa on hehkutettu etukäteen jo mm. Pitchforkissa ja The Guardianissa. 

Junior Boys palaa viiden vuoden jälkeen uudella albumillaan “Big Black Coat". Uusi albumi on energinen ja innovatiivinen albumi, joka kokoaa Jeremy Greenspanin ja Matt Didemuksen kokemuksia viimeisiltä viideltä vuodelta. Discon ja soulin yhdistäminen industriaaliin poppiin... 

KAINA creates generational music that surpasses borders, a unified expression of her native Chicago, and her Venezuelan and Guatemalan heritage. This cultural fusion is best illustrated on her 2019 debut full-length album Next To The Sun—a project that established her as a leader in... 

For 20 years the Tuareg culture and music has fascinated the world. Their quasi-sacred poetic songs inspire western songwriters like KURT VILE or JOSÉ GONZALEZ, while the virtuosity of their guitar playing fascinates guitar heroes like JIMMY PAGE, and finally the spirituality and meditative... 

Istanbul synthpop vanguards Jakuzi turned heads in 2017 with the release of their unique and exciting debut album 'Fantezi Müzik’ which showcased modern Turkish underground music...