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In Stores Now 4/18

3340 days ago

KEXP Seattle — Award-winning artist PJ Harvey returns with her ninth full-length this week, her first since 2011’s Mercury Prize-winning album Let England Shake. The songs were inspired by trips to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington D.C. with photographer/filmma... more info

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Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth review – heartfelt and homesick

3342 days ago

Guardian Music — (Atlantic)Since the days of the wayfaring bards, the touring life has largely been coded male. But not all itinerants enjoy artificial irresponsibility. Breakout country star Sturgill Simpson’s third album is not all about the conflicts of a male l... more info

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Popcast: Popcast: Country Music Agitators

3343 days ago

New York Times — New York Times music critics discuss Sturgill Simpson and Merle Haggard’s creative energy. more info

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This Week's Interesting Music Releases - April 15, 2016

3343 days ago

LargeHeartedBoy — PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project I can also recommend Cate Le Bon's Crab Day, The Coathangers' Nosebleed Weekend, and Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide To Earth Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop's Love Letter For Fire is also... more info

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Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth review – hard-hitting country soul

3344 days ago

Guardian Music — (Loose/Atlantic) Related: Sturgill Simpson: country music's young outlaw shifts shape again Sturgill Simpson has found a novel way to rebut all the claims that he is the future of Nashville. His third album takes a sharp turn away from the questing, ... more info

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'A Sailor's Guide to Earth' review: Sturgill Simpson mixes country, soul for a song cycle of advice for baby son

3344 days ago

Newsday — Sturgill Simpson's breakthrough 2014 album "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music" was impressively eclectic in its attempt to redefine country. more info

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Sturgill Simpson streaming new LP, playing it live at Rough Trade Brooklyn!

3345 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — Sturgill Simpson's new album, A Sailor's Guide to Earth, is out this week. It furthers his expansive view on country music, lyrically centered around the birth of his son, and features a cover of Nirvana's "In Bloom... Continue reading... more info

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A Sailor's Guide to Earth

3345 days ago

Rolling Stone — "I hope you don't grow up believing that you have to be a puppet to be a man." That's Sturgill Simpson, former Navy man, singing to his young son on "Call to Arms," an indictment of America's warmongering, media-stupefied culture that ends his specta... more info

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Sturgill Simpson announces 'A Sailor's Guide to Earth,' shares first single

3386 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — Listen to "Brace For Impact (Live A Little)" from his upcoming third LP, and check out his upcoming tour schedule, too. Continue reading… more info

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