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BORN and brought up in somewhere he notes as being Nowhere, Florida – trouble is indeed, a lonesome town – and currently using the musculature god blessed him with as a construction worker in New Orleans, Thomas Dollbaum has brought his sights to bear upon the world of music with an absolute heart-wrencher of a …

FRESH from a whole buncha dates criss-crossing the States in the company of Modest Mouse, Philadelphia’s cutely noisy foursome Empath have got all the feels extended for a new album. That album is entitled simply Visitor, and will be out just short of Valentine’s day next year on Fat Possum. Need more precision with your …

LATE in August 2019 – more innocent days, hey? – Lightning bug singer Audrey Kang could be found hiking along the windy coastline of Washington state. The trip marked a bit of an escape, a reset, following a cyclical conclusion: the end of an affair, and of a job. Time to get away and resdiscover. …

Canadian Tamara Lindeman has shared the new single/video from her project The Weather Station. The track ‘Atlantic’ is taken from her forthcoming album, ‘Ignorance’ due out February 5th via Fat Possum. “Trying to capture something of the slipping feeling I think we all feel, the feeling of dread, even in beautiful moments, even when you’re …

Cassowary, aka 25 year old multi-instrumentalist Mike Shannon, releases his self titled debut album on the Fat Possum label on April 24th. He’s just released the third single ahead of the release, in the shape of Moth. Moth is this sort of fusion-jazz, taking in these repeated patterns from the synth/rhythm section that gives it …

Royal Trux (Neil Hagerty/Jennifer Herrema) are making their entire cumulative catalog (40 lps including Royal Trux, NMH, RTX, Howling Hex, and Black Bananas) available via their new home at Fat Possum. The releases will be made available to the public via streaming for the first time and the scheduled roll out has the first 3 …

American rock & roll band Royal Trux (Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty) have signed with Mississippi label Fat Possum Records who will re-release the entire digital catalog from the duo’s 1988 self-titled debut up to 2000’s pre-hiatus gem Pound for Pound (not including their two major label releases). Herrema and Hagerty have also confirmed plans …

So….. A “supergroup” featuring members of Slowdive, Mogwai, Editors and one of the most promising young video producers around? Yep, we’ll have a bit of that…. So Monday (22nd February) was a busy day for Minor Victories: Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Justin Lockey of Editors and his brother James of Hand …

By Ryan Jameson Weaver Our music industry moves so fast that a band can come out with something so unique and amazing that it is relevant for a week and then bounces into waves anonymity right after.  Take for example, the last My Bloody Valentine album, MBV, an album 20 years in the making, from …

Trevor Powers has the kind of fragility in his voice that when you hear it you feel at any time during a song he may just disappear into thin air. A pin hole leak in a balloon that slowly releases air into the world. Any kind of pressure or pushing will cause a bevy of …