The debut album of psychedelic rock “Demon Blues” by Australian outfit DATURA4 (Datura is a toxic flower and there are 4 guys in the band) will be released worldwide in July on Alive Naturalsound.
The band includes veteran rockers Dom Mariani (Stems, DM3), Greg Hitchcock (New Christs), Warren Hall (The Drones), and Stu Loasby. The cool cover art is by Joshua Marc Levy/Asheville Art Family.
Fans of Radio Moscow, Handsome Jack, and Dirty Streets should dig this record!
JOE EVANS (Left Lane Cruiser) & VAN CAMPBELL (Black Diamond Heavies) have been in Los Angeles doing a session for Alive Naturalsound. The album of gritty punk-ass blues is due early 2016. In the meantime dig LEFT LANE CRUISER’s new record “Dirty Spliff Blues” to be released in June!
Left Lane Cruiser – Tres Borrachos
Scuzzy bluesy rock’n’roll, straight from the Mississippi swamp, via a punk club. Now on their fifth album, Left Lane Cruiser have mastered the art of “hillbilly punk-blues” that “roars like a modal, tweaking chainsaw”. No actual chainsaws were involved in the making of this, as far as we know, but it’s a gratifyingly raw, yet soulfully-minded ‘choon.
Sun Records will compile deep cuts from artists like Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Charlie Rich into the Curated by Record Store Day Vol. 2 double-album. Meanwhile, the newer L.A. label Alive Naturalsound will be celebrating their 20th anniversary with four sides of their own, compiling unreleased or hard-to-find tracks by artists like Lee Bains III and the Black Keys.
In the mid-‘70s, along the shores of Lake Michigan in the small town of Zion, Ill., brothers John and Jeff Murphy and Gary Klebe joined forces to create the iconic power-pop outfit, Shoes.
Over the past four decades, Shoes have amassed a massive, fabled catalog of rock tunes and for this year’s edition of Record Store Day, they’ve collected some of their favorites — along with previously unreleased demos and a 2013 live version of “I Don’t Wanna Hear It” – for the very special Primal Vinyl. DIFFUSER.FM HERE
Alive Naturalsounds Records are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year and releasing Rock & Roll Is A Beautiful Thing on Record Store Day to commemorate the milestone. The limited edition double vinyl includes rarities from blues and roots icons like the Black Keys and T-Model Ford, and today we’re excited to premiere Seattle-based blues rockers Lonesome Shack’s contribution, a previously unreleased version of “Sexual Release.” MORE ON THE PURE VOLUME SITE.
When listening to the Bloodhounds, my whole collection of oldies went through my mind in a few minutes, not that it is a bad thing, on the contrary, the quartet is a true-to-the-core 60’s R&B revival and they play it with a real conviction.
The Bloodhounds were playing an in-store at Origami Vinyl on Saturday night, and they rocked the place, attracting more and more people in the store with their upbeat and familiar rhythms. It’s always funny to see young guys who were not even a project in their parents’ minds in the 60’s or 70’s, but nevertheless embracing the retro wave, and mixing blues, old style R&B and good old rock & roll, with such ease and delightfulness… add to this a subtle Latino flavor, which makes total sense when you know they all come from East LA.
Alive Naturalsound Records is celebrating their 20th anniversary as a label with a special vinyl release called Rock & Roll Is a Beautiful Thing on Record Store Day. The compilation will feature rarities from the label’s roster of blues artists like the Black Keys, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires and local trio John the Conqueror. While the record won’t be released until April 18th, you listen to the premiere of John the Conqueror’s contribution, “Gimme Gold,” below.
The song is a fun one, propelled by a bright guitar riff and frontman Pierre Moore’s colorful lyrics.
