Loose Music - UK Independent Americana & Alternative Music Label

Online... feeling fine

After a LONG old month, we are delighted to put the website back online. We had to take it down whilst we ironed out every corner, but we've given the whole site (and shop) a lick of paint and it should be up and active.

To celebrate the re-launch we have made a play-list online of some recent Loose releases and made them available as FREE DOWLOADS on our myspace page.

www.myspace.com/looserecords

Loose Shop

Feature: The Felice Brothers in the U.K.

They came, they saw, they conquered! The Brothers Felice played a raucous week of shows that made many a new friend across seven sold out shows. They did find the time to drop in on a few radio stations as well for all of those who couldn’t get out and about. Coverage and sounds below.

Allan Jones's Uncut Diary:
They look, famously, on the cover of last year’s Tonight At The Arizona album, like the wayward off-spring of The Band, with whose songs and music their own colourful excursions into the hinterlands of ‘the old, weird America’, as essayed by Bob and The Band on The Basement Tapes, are frequently compared... Continued

Neil McCormick in The Telegraph:
The Felice Brothers are probably the most enthralling band currently to be seen anywhere in the world right now. Their show last night at the 100 Club in London left this veteran gig goer (and everyone else in the audience) exhilarated, moved and beaming from ear to ear. Think about The Band with Bob Dylan as resident lyricist, The Clash with an emphasis on joy rather than rage, The Pogues with more musical finesse and better singing. They have the gear changes of the E Street Band, the sense of audience communion of The Libertines. They really are that good. And they are on fire... Continued

BBC Radio Two - 'Bob Harris Country'
On Thursday 5th June Bob features a session from The Felice Brothers. An authentic outlaw country band from the Catskill Mountains of New York Ian, James and Simone Felice are three brothers (of seven children) who formed the band in 2006 with their friend Christmas Fraley, previously a traveling dice player.

Spin Magazine
Taking cues from their larger-than-life Americana predecessors, namely Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, the Felice Brothers specialize in boozy, rambling tales of backwoods nostalgia told in rootsy piano, guitar, and drum renderings.... Continued

Felice Brothers at the Loose Shop
Felice Brothers official Myspace

Handsome Family on the road

The Handsome Family are about to hit the UK for an extensive tour during which we hope we'll get an airing of new material from their forthcoming album of love songs. YES, LOVE SONGS!

But don't worry, everyone will no doubt die at the end...

Time Out preview for London 100 Club Show (Tuesday 17th June)
It’s confirmation of the unshifting cultishness of Albuquerque’s The Handsome Family that no one has yet nabbed them for a TV show....Continue

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Handsome family at the loose shop
www.handsomefamily.com

Willard Grant Conspiracy live and radio

The Willard Grant Conspiracy Pilgrim Orchestra played an exclusive show at The Bloomsbury Theatre on Sunday 18th May with very special guest Howe Gelb.

Willard record an exclusive session for the BBC world Service program, 'The Ticket' - You can listen to the show again here.

Pennyblackmusic.co.uk
If a band announces that they are taking a huge orchestra on tour, we expect something grand and bombastic. Frankly, in doing so, most bands are overreaching, and we should expect to be let down. But this format seems uniquely suited to the Willard Grant Conspiracy.... Continued

Willard Grant website
Willard Grant Conspiracy "Pilgrim Road"