VINYL FORMAT. West End Motel is the late-night collaboration of guitarist Brent Hinds (Mastodon) and vocalist Tom Cheshire (All Night Drug Prowling Wolves). Together they craft sparse and love-damaged country songs that take on the low and lonesome tides of Gram Parsons, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Buck Owens. Their songs are sad, elegant and infinitely compelling; earnest and driven by desire, regret, loathing, catharsis, self-destruction and repair. Tom Cheshire's gravel-coated voice is a gruff companion t...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The early influences of Garnet (guitar, vocals) and Snow Keim (bass, vocals) were Hank Williams and Brian Wilson. The brothers busked all around North America, writing songs in hostels and motel bathrooms, finally ending up in Seattle. There they met animalistic, mesmerizing drummer Bob Husak and asked him to join the band. The trio hit the road and has been touring ever since. The Blakes have released an album full of chaotic and sensuous rock and roll.

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VINYL FORMAT. With Hearts, The Court & Spark have created their meisterwerk, a rarified record that seamlessly stitches together their shimmering river hymns, fuzzy sci-fi sky songs, acoustic drone in the key of OM, dusky West Coast C&W (that's country and western), spectral discreet music, and serpentine motel blues into an album as rich, nuanced, and irreverent as it is ambitious. Hearts is about love, sanity, spirituality, and death on the borderlands of the 21st century, and it's the band's finest work.

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