Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan

Experimental folk artist and harpist Mary Lattimore has a new collaborative album heading our way in March with Superchunk's Mac McCaughan.  "New Rain Duets" looks to be a kind of psychedelic, neo-classical, ambient kind of thing, and going by "III," it's going to be a strange and hypnotic record.  Check out the track below and pre-order here from Three Lobed Recordings.

Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore

Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore are certainly neo-folk artists to be reckoned with on their own, but now the two longtime friends are collaborating on a new album (their first together) called "Ghost Forests."  Aptly titled, the record looks to be a collection of haunted and mysterious Americana.  Listen to the entrancing "Painter of Tygers" below and pre-order the record here from Three Lobed Recordings.

Horseback

Chapel Hill experimental-psych-folk-ambient-drone-Americana-metal band Horseback have a new album up for grabs from Three Lobed Recordings.  "Piedmont Apocrypha" finds the band in calmer waters, albeit dark waters nonetheless, as if something monstrous and sinister is lurking just beyond eyesight...waiting.  Horseback have always managed to wear ALL of their influences on their sleeves, yet somehow still come out sounding like no one but themselves.  Get the new record here and listen to the vast and sprawling album closer "Chanting Out the Low Shadow" below.

Danny Paul Grody

San Francisco artist Danny Paul Grody crafts beautiful pieces of music, combining elements of ambience and Americana that creates a simple, yet hypnotic soundscape.  This is nature music at its finest.  Listen to "Grass Nap" below from new album "Between Two Worlds," available in late August from Three Lobed Records.