Josh Long Bottleneck Breakthrough,

Long awaited second ambient album from Martin Kennedy's All India Radio and pianist Josh Roydhouse. R E A L M exists somewhere in between the melodic minimalism of Brian Eno and Harold Budd and the grainy electronics of Boards Of Canada.

Smoking Popes - It's Been A Long Day (2010) {Asian Man Records AM-192}
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Rock / Pop Punk / Alternative Rock / Indie

The Smoking Popes have been banging out their peculiar brand of poppy punk (distinct from the official, claustrophobically codified pop-punk designation) since the start of the ‘90s, with some time off in the first half of the 2000s. They've become something of a punk institution over the years, and It's Been a Long Day offers a look back at their beginnings, with a track list consisting mostly of songs from their early-‘90s EPs, which were cranked out before their first full-length took them one step closer to cult hero status. Admittedly, it shares many tunes in common with the earlier Popes anthology, 1991-1998, but where that collection spent much of its time on tracks from the debut album, this one concentrates on pre-album material.

Josh White had a long and varied career, beginning as a session guitarist in the 1920s, then had his own run of stellar blues 78s for Paramount and Columbia in the 1930s, becoming a cabaret bluesman in New York in the 1940s, only to be blacklisted as the McCarthy era dawned, which led to his association with Jac Holzman's fledgling Elektra label in 1955. White recorded seven well-conceived LPs for Holzman between 1955 and 1962, and they restarted his career once again….