Impose Magazine — Americans In France, Crawling (Odessa) The press release for this album cites Dick Dale, The Doors and Black Flag as jumping off points for the band's sound, and while I can't argue with a sales pitch like that, I will say there's also a bit of The... more info

DrownedInSound — While nowhere near as nourishing as an album like Feast Of Wire, Howe Gelb has delved a little deeper into himself with Alegrias. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Altsounds — *MARCH RELEASES* 14th DANIELSON album, Best of Gloucester County (Fire Records) 14th GIANT SAND album re-issue, Center Of The Universe (Fire Records) 14th GIANT SAND album re-issue, Purge & Slouch (Fire Records) 14th GIANT SAND album re-issue, Ramp (... more info

Altsounds — 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of Valley Of Rain - the debut album by Giant Sand and Fire Records is proud to announce the start of a Giant Sand/ Howe Gelb series of rolling reissues from September 2010, which will see the re-release of roughly 30 ... more info

Altsounds — In 2006, Howe Gelb embarked on a journey with a gospel choir with the result the astounding, critically acclaimed album 'Sno' Angel Like You'. This new chapter sees Howe embellish a troop of flamenco playing gypsies, including the virtuoso guita... more info

Altsounds — Howe Gelb will play a special solo show ahead of the GIant Sand European tour which starts in London before heading to Spain, across Germany and on to Holland throughout November. Joining Howe at Cafe OTO will be Snowblink and Duke Garwood. Howe ... more info

Altsounds — Inaccurately yet affectionately dubbed the Godfather of Alt. Country by the British press, Tucson, Arizona-based musician Howe Gelb has remained the sole epicenter and creative force behind the ever-fluid configurations of Giant Sand for over a q... more info

Altsounds — Inaccurately yet affectionately dubbed the Godfather of Alt. Country by the British press, Tucson, Arizona-based musician Howe Gelb has remained the sole epicenter and creative force behind the ever-fluid configurations of Giant Sand for over a qu... more info

Songs:Illinois — Howe Gelb of Giant Sand fame doing Flamenco inspired music makes as much sense as his gospel project Sno Angel. But to some extent Howe Gelb is one of the artists tyhat can simply do no wrong. In the past Howe’s music has been inspired by the Ariz... more info

Songs:Illinois — Do you like Jim White, Tom Waits, Howe Gelb and Chuck Prophet? Yeah…me too. What is it about their collective sound that is so cool? Probably has a bit to do with the level of musical sloppiness they all share, the amount of reverb added to both t... more info