Duquette Johnston - Rabbit Runs a Destiny - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For more than twenty years, Duquette Johnston has been amongst the vanguard of Alabama music. From the founding of the seminal indie-rock band Verbena, his work in Cutgrass and the Gum Creek Killers, to his acclaimed solo releases InchEtowahInch and InchRabbit Runs a DestinyInch, Johnston has consistently pushed the boundaries of what Southern American music can sound- and feel- like. On his latest, InchThe Social AnimalsInch, Johnston partnered with producer John Agnello and an all-star cast of players including Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley to create his boldest and most powerful music to date.In a career that's taken him from stages with Pavement, Foo Fighters and The Strokes, to the Etowah County Correctional Facility, and then into the world of fashion with his Birmingham-based company Club Duquette, Duquette Johnston has gone to the edge and survived. Throughout that, he's won acclaim from NPR's World Cafe, Paste Magazine and Rolling Stone. On InchThe Social AnimalsInch, he opens the door into that experience with eleven songs that shake off the typical Southern Americana sound and present a rich, loud, and eloquent meditation on the human experience.

Gryphon Trio - Piano Trios [COMPACT DISCS] Canada - Import date 10/22/2002

Although The Rabbits briskly sold all 500 copies of the InchWinter SongsInch tape, live audiences at the time seemed dumbfounded by the group, and would stare at them in silence. After two years together, The Rabbits called it quits. Considered one of the great punk bands of the early '80s, their leader had no interest in the scene and always thought he was making InchnormalInch music. They rubbed shoulders with a slew of notable groups of the era, and their singer was best friends with arguably the most famous Japanese punk of all time, but Miyazawa shunned fraternization and purposefully distanced himself from his peers. Could this be why so few underground music fans are familiar with the group, even in Japan? Why they seem to have been written out of the official history of Japanese punk? One can never know for sure, but Mesh-Key hopes to remedy this travesty by offering this compilation, the first-ever official LP by The Rabbits, to a new generation of punk and psychedelic music connoisseurs.