Friday From 1 July 2016

Conor Oberst will release a new album, Salutations, on Nonesuch Records, on March 17, 2017. The album is a companion piece to 2016's lauded Ruminations. When Oberst wrote and recorded the songs on Ruminations, entirely solo—with just voice, piano, guitar and harmonica—he intended to ultimately record them with a full band. In the midst of putting together that band—upstate New York's The Felice Brothers plus the legendary drummer Jim Keltner (Neil Young, Jackson Browne, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and many more)—the passionate responses Oberst was getting to those first solo recordings, from friends and colleagues, encouraged him to release the songs as-is, in their original sparse form, as his seventh solo album: Ruminations, which was released in October 2016. The Sunday Times of London called it "the rawest album yet from the forever troubled one-time voice of a generation" and "political and very, very personal," saying Oberst is "one of the best songwriters around."

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie (/ˈboʊi/), was an English singer, songwriter and actor who is often considered to be one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was a leading figure in popular music and was acclaimed by critics and fellow musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s…

One of America’s premier Progressive Rock bands over the past two plus decades without question is Spock’s Beard. Forming in 1992, out in Los Angeles, CA, by brothers Neal and Alan Morse, Spock’s Beard has released 12 studio albums while building a reputation for their live performances. Speaking of which, they are no stranger to live albums, releasing a slew of them over the years, and now return with their latest, Snow Live…

One of America’s premier Progressive Rock bands over the past two plus decades without question is Spock’s Beard. Forming in 1992, out in Los Angeles, CA, by brothers Neal and Alan Morse, Spock’s Beard has released 12 studio albums while building a reputation for their live performances. Speaking of which, they are no stranger to live albums, releasing a slew of them over the years, and now return with their latest, Snow Live…