Poliça

United Crushers is the name of a new album from the Minneapolis-based band Poliça. The group's third full-length release, it's a love letter to their hometown that recalls the city's troubled history. United Crushers is POLIÇA's first new music since 2013's Shulamith. It's due out March 4, 2016. The album was recorded with producer Ryan Olson at Sonic Ranch Studios in El Paso, TX.

New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records release composer-performer Daniel Wohl’s album État. The album features electro-acoustic pieces written by Wohl, and includes guest performances by Poliça’s Channy Leaneagh with co-production by Son Lux’s Ryan Lott and mmph. État, recorded with members of yMusic and the Calder Quartet is the third release in a new partnership between the two record labels, established with the goal of enabling contemporary American composers to realize creative ambitions that might not otherwise be achievable. État is at once cinematic, grandiose and variable in texture and color, a highly entertaining listen that’s obviously created with a ton of care.

It’s been over two years since electronic music artist Lane 8 released an album. Today, his highly-anticipated album Little By Little premieres under his record label This Never Happened. “The title Little By Little, for me, is about the process of putting an album together and achieving one small task at a time with the goal of a bigger picture in mind,” he says. “For me, that's kind of the inspiration and the concept behind the album.” This will be the first album under This Never Happened. His last album, Rise, was released in 2015 under record label Anjunadeep, and Lane 8 says Little By Little shows how he has grown since.

“Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music, but it came from Black people. The banjo, the washtub, all that stuff started with African Americans. We were playing it before it even had a name.” - Swamp Dogg

Jerry Williams’—aka Swamp Dogg—first love was country music, listening to it as a Navy family kid growing up in Portsmouth, Virginia. “My granddaddy, he just bought country records out the asshole,” Swamp remembers. “Every Friday when he came home from the Navy yard he’d stop off and get his records, like ‘Mule Train’ by Frankie Laine, or ‘Riders in the Sky’ by Vaughn Monroe.” His first time performing on stage, in fact, was a country song at a talent show when he was six years old: “I did Red Foley’s version of ‘Peace in the Valley.’”