We are happy to announce that we are releasing the new album "WOLF OF SAINT ELMO" by our good friends and musical comrades SLOW MOTION COWBOYS. To celebrate, here's a video of the band performing what will be the first single off the new album "INVISIBLE STARS". Pre-orders and tour announcements coming soon. In the meantime enjoy this killer song and stay tuned for 2025 IS the year of the Wolf!"
JULY
5th- Las Cruces, NM at the Elephant Ranch
6th-Portal, AZ at the Portal Inn
7th-Bisbee, AZ at the Courtyard
8th-Jerome, AZ at the Puscifer Store
9th-Las Vegas, NV at the Fat Cat
10th-Long Beach, CA at the Bamboo Lounge
11th-San Pedro, CA at the Sardine
12th-SF, CA at the Knockout
13th-Eureka, CA at the Shanty
14th-Portland, OR at Misdemeanor Meadows
15th-tba
16th-Olympia
17th-Missoula, MO at the Board of Missoula
18th-Sundance, WY at the Dime Horseshoe
19th-Laramie, WY at the Ruffed Up Duck
20th-Centennial, WY at the Trading Post
21st-Cheyenne, WY at Bingers
Out now on Arkam Records
From the dismal cold fog of Liverpool come the Coughin Vicars, capturing the cold tones of shattered glass echoing through the brick of stone of this seaport town...Sharp music, rabid; a reflection of the pour-your-own-concrete-and-skate-it attitude of juvenile criminally perfectly rendered to a hard drive and pressed to vinyl....
In a priestly manner this band seems to have prophesied the coming new era in the shadow of Covid and somehow gained power.
Coughin Vicars are a 5-piece band from Liverpool U.K with over 20 years' worth of blood, sweat and tinnitus in the local DIY punk and hardcore scene. Playing homage to the first wave of Northern post punk whilst rattling the chains of the L.A's Dangerhouse and Death rock scene. The bands pedigree can be traced back through noise makers such as SSS, Narcosis, Withdrawn, Cold Ones, Salem Rages, Corrupt Moral Alter, and Twin Galaxy to name few. The band have three now out of production self-released cassettes which are to be released on 12'' vinyl later in the year via the ARKAM records imprint.
Get it now here!
On the Pine Hill Haints' latest long-player, The Song Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy, they go there and to other colorful places on the Americana and Appalachian trail. The fifteen song sequence kicks off with “Fall Asleep” and “Back to Alabama,” a fiery pair of rockabilly-meets-Irish-jig rave-ups, then winds through standout tracks like the Bo Diddley-grooved “Pretty Thing,” a pounding tom-tom and fiddle take on the traditional “John Henry” and the catchy, cajun-flavored squeeze box pop of “Lone Star Kid.” There are excursions into Sun Records-style country (“Midnight Mayor” and “Louise”) and swampy blues (the saw-singing “Wade in the Water” and “Downtown Blues,” which features guest J.D. Wilkes on harmonica).
Throughout, Barrier's strong tenor voice rings familiar and friendly, with deep echoes of everything from John Lee Hooker to Buddy Holly to Johnny Cash. And the band plays with a sense of abandon that comes from thousands of gigs behind them. It all sounds deceptively simple, but anyone who plays music knows better.
The Haints do something very few roots bands can, which is to transcend influences and sculpt age-old sounds into soul music for our time.
Grab it now from Single Lock Records
The Waxccine was filmed over lockdown in the north (and a tiny amount of the south), Germany, Alabama and California by phones on floors and ropy follow cams...
The Waxccine was filmed over lockdown in the north (and a tiny amount of the south), Germany, Alabama and California by phones on floors and ropy follow cams. Music comes from the 80s. Caution, the manoeuvres you’re about to witness are intense and shouldn’t be tried at home…
Believed to be the 13th album by the Alabama Ghost Country Music disciples, the Pine Hill Haints....delving into early indigenous music (“Wolves O Howlin”) of the lower Appalachians and also early music of the Caribbean Coast by way of Acadia (“The Pistol Knows the Reason”) and a host of songs self penned (“Way Down in Mobile Town”, “Black Bird Song”, and others) by the haints, written and bathed in the light of moon across the highways and dance halls of the road, delivered here....this a release for the label Snuffy Smiles out of Tokyo, distributed through Arkam in the USA. Beautiful painted cover art by Katie Kat
Animation by Eduardo del Rio
“So Easy” written by Pete Fields
Off the record “Sun Burnt Feather” by Slow Motion Cowboys copywrite Bernal Buzzard Music
Out now on Arkam Records.
Get your own for just $7.
Here’s comes America’s lone singing Cowboy, and catch him as he rides....this is the first batch of tour dates, a smooth western run with a nice band assembled in foggy San Francisco.
There will be another set of dates to be announced soon, where the deep Souths ghostly crooners the Pine Hill Haints will be joining him...keep posted
Southwest Turnaround
2020
Feb. 22nd. Hatch, NM
Feb. 22nd. Las Cruces, NM
Feb. 23rd. Truth or Consequences, NM
Feb. 24th. Silver City, NM
Feb. 25th. Bisbee, AZ
Feb. 26th. Tucson, AZ
Feb. 29th. San Francisco, CA
Hot off the print wheel, the new Serious Sam Barrett and James the Fang release, “Dime Horseshoe” Arkam is releasing a limited run of the cd here and taking some for the England tour coming up. Art by @katiekat_artattack and screenprinted at the Black Owl Trading Company. Get some! 🦇🔥🐔
Arkam records was started in Auburn, Alabama, in the winter of 1996 by Jamie and Katie Barrier. They also run The Black owl Trading Co.
