NEWS
photo by Sarah Kramer
This Fall, Nine Mile is teaming up with Clover Music Group to release our first record in over a year.
It's an incredibly special record that will benefit The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund in honor of session drummer and songwriter Don Heffington. Don was a member of seminal alt-country pioneers Lone Justice in the 80s, and went on to a prolific session career in L.A. right up to his untimely death in 2021 from cancer. His credits include work with Bob Dylan, Dwight Yoakam, The Jayhawks, The Wallflowers, Dave Alvin, and hundreds more. Tonight I'll Go Down Swingin': A Tribute To Don Heffington collects interpretations of Don's quirky, beautiful songs by artists such as Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, Buddy Miller, Peter Case, and others. It comes out October 18 on LP, CD and all digital platforms, but you can check out Browne's rendition of the previously unreleased track "Everywhere I Look," and read his thoughts on Don via Variety right now: https://variety.com/2024/music/news/don-heffington-tribute-album-jackson-browne-fiona-apple-1236111199/ You can also pre-order the record on LP, CD or digital from our Bandcamp page here.
Nine Mile Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Seattle indie pop rockers Smokey Brights. We've been fans of this band for a long time, and have helped put together tour dates for their brilliant live show for a couple years.
This Spring, we're releasing their newest full-length LP Levitator. Singer/guitarist and co-leader Ryan Devlin calls Levitator a "motivational mixed-tape for our collective crisis of confidence" coming out of the COVID pandemic. Recorded and produced by famed Seattle producer Andy Park, it's a massive-sounding, 90s-inspired rock record which the Seattle Stranger calls "fun & refreshing" and "the soundtrack to your Summer." Check out the Office Space-inspired video for the single "Resolutions" above and order a copy from us directly here. We are thrilled and honored to be releasing Matthew Logan Vasquez's new solo record As All Get Out on April 7, 2023. MLV has been a frequent collaborator with Nine Mile for many years, including numerous concerts and events, and, of course, the brilliant project Glorietta.
On As All Get Out, Vasquez delivers a potent mix of many types of songs: confessional ballads, all out rockers, meditative reflections. As he puts it, "I don't like linear albums; I have enough from each genre that I could probably organize more cohesively, but I’m more interested in collections of stories than sound-alike songs. Disorder is intentional. Life can be disorderly.” However sonically disparate these songs are, one thread is clearly running through this collection lyrically: reflection. Songs about his family, life as a middle-aged rocker, and even the sometimes surly dynamics in his main band Delta Spirit surface in various songs. The release of As All Get Out coincides with several months of touring for Vasquez ans his band. Catch them on the road here: 4/6 Costa Mesa - The Wayfarer 4/7 San Diego - Booze Bros 4/8 Los Angeles - Morrocan lounge 4/10 Ojai - (House show) 4/11 Visalia - Cellar Door 4/12 San Francisco - Bottom of The Hill 4/13 Sonoma - Little Saint 4/15 Seattle - Sunset Tavern 4/16 Vashon - (House Show) 4/18 Boise - Neurolux 4/19 SLC - Urban Lounge 4/20 Denver - Globe Hall 5/10 Davenport - Raccoon Motel 5/11 Minneapolis - 7th St Entry 5/12 Madison - High Noon Saloon 5/13 Chicago - Schubas 5/14 Indianapolis - HIFi 5/15 Pittsburgh - Club Cafe 5/17 Brooklyn - Baby’s Alright 5/18 Boston - Middle East Upstairs 5/19 Providence - Askew 5/20 Philadelphia - Johnny Brenda’s 5/21 DC - DC9 5/22 Carrboro - Cats Cradle 5/24 Savanna - (House Show) 5/25 Charleston - Pour House 5/26 Atlanta - Eddie’s Attic 5/27 Nashville - The Basement We are excited to introduce the latest member of the Nine Mile family: Buffalo Hunt. Actress/musician Stephanie Hunt has crafted a diverse, moody, sonically rich tapestry of indie pop gems for her debut record Ambitions Of Ambiguity, which drops April 29.
The first single - "Life Not On My Terms" - is out now (brilliant video above), and Buffalo Hunt have been named the KUTX Artist Of The Month for April here in Austin, TX. 
Happy 2021 Everyone! This year is Nine Mile Records' 15th Anniversary! We've got a lot in store, including a couple new releases from Tex-Mex supergroup Nuevo and Austin rockers Go Fever, Star Parks plus some cool (long overdue) deluxe vinyl reissues from Patrick Sweany.
All year we'll be offering 15% off anything and everything in our Bandcamp store if you use the checkout code 'NMR15" so shop away! 
We're also throwing an epic weekend of shows down here in Austin at Empire Garage & Control Room on December 10, 11, and 12. We've got ATX Nine Mile artists past and present including Shinyribs, Sweet Spirit, Glorietta, Sir Woman, Nuevo, Go Fever, Greyhounds, Buffalo Hunt, and The Deer, as well as DJ sets from Night Glitter.
Tickets are on sale now. STAR PARKS
Star Parks is hard to pin down. Since the release of their 2016 debut Don’t Dwell the band has grown into a 7 piece mini-orchestra, a far throw from its beginnings as a solo act of the group’s principal songwriter, Andy Bianculli. Touring France and Ireland as a solo artist in early 2016, Bianculli caught the attention of Dublin based label, Paper Trail Records when a mutual friend heard the then unreleased album and passed it along to Jack Rainey and Dan Finnegan at Paper Trail. In April of 2016, the band released their first single Theoretical Girls. A somber ballad of unrequited love and disrupted fates. It was featured prominently on playlists as one of the best indie and undiscovered singles of the year.
In May, the LP Don’t Dwell was released. Bandcamp described the album as “erudite chamber pop that hearkens back to the elegant and experimental production of the 1960s, swinging from melancholia to playfulness”. Star Parks, now a four piece with Keith Lough on drums, Ben Burdick on bass and Nathaniel Klugman on keyboards, embarked on a tour of France, Ireland and the United Kingdom in support. The group would later add trumpet player, Derek Phelps and trombonist Wayne Myers later that year. In July 2017 the group released a new song, this time with producer and engineer Danny Reisch (Shearwater, Other Lives). They released The Past is Like a Foreign Country and started work on what would become their follow up LP. Their sophomore album The New Sounds of Late Capitalism was completed in June of 2019. Recorded again with Reisch, now located in Lockhart, Texas, it is a record about alienation, dissatisfaction and postmodernism. “I found an old Concord reel to reel in my parent’s attic in New York and when I played the tape it was my father as a 12 year old boy recording the The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show off the television” explains Bianculli. “There are so many layers to that discovery that affected me and made me contemplate my place in time, my family, America, culture and music.” “To me it was like discovering the spark that gave man fire, in that it is a first hand account of a moment that propelled me and the whole world in a different direction.” “I knew I wanted to write about moments like that, that had promise but inevitably lead to disappointment.” Reisch played a pivotal role in helping the band shape the sound of the new album, which at its heart was an attempt to reproduce a time where studios could employ dozens of musicians and keep orchestras on hand. Without such resources, the band developed what they called “Burt Bacharach on a budget”. The band cites exotica legends Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman as major influences as well as Ethiopian organist Hailu Mergia, Van Dyke Parks, Kevin Ayers and Alice Coltrane. The New Sounds Of Late Capitalism came out in the USA February 14th, 2020 on Modern Outsider Records. It will be released May 7th, 2021 for the rest of the world on Nine Mile Records. NUEVO
Dante Schwebel has always been prolific. First gaining national attention with the San Antonio band Hacienda, and later Spanish Gold, Schwebel moved to Nashville from Texas in the 2000’s to play guitar for Dan Auerbach, and City & Colour, all the while continuing to write and record his own songs.
In the past couple years those songs have incorporated more and more of the sounds of Schwebel’s youth in Laredo, TX: Conjunto, Norteño, and Romantica Music blended with grooves that come from R&B, Soul and Rock and Roll. When Dante began kicking around the idea of bringing those sounds into a new project with longtime friend Andrew Trube from the Austin band Greyhounds, he suggested finding another artist who understood the sound. They’d been seeing and hearing a player named David Jimenez around town. Jimenez, like Schwebel, grew up in the Rio Grande Valley in Harlingen, TX. He was known around Austin for his deft Blues guitar playing and soulful voice. The minute Jimenez heard what Schwebel was doing, he was hooked. “I’d been on a similar journey,” he says. “I’d begun playing with Carrie Rodriguez in her Laboritorio project (which explores Latinx music influences in American music), and been collaborating with some of the guys in (GRAMMY-winning ensemble) Grupo Fantasma.” The two began rehearsing together and immediately had a bond. “We had this shared vocabulary,” says Schwebel. “We’d both been playing Rock n Roll in clubs, but underneath our background was rooted in the sounds of the border. " Growing up on the border it was common for your CD collection to have Guns N Roses and Mana. You could listen to artists like Intocable, Luis Miguel and Los Bukis all in the same mixtape with Michael Jackson and Madonna.” The new project was dubbed NUEVO. That chemistry extended into their music. “From the top, it sounded like we’d been singing together for 10 years,” says Schwebel. The two began arranging the songs to incorporate this new idea: updated Border Music, or as they like to call it: ‘Tejano Soul.’ Nuevo's debut self-titled record comes out March 19 SNOWGLOBE
Snowglobe's debut album 'Our Land Brains' originally came out to critical acclaim on Bardot Records in 2002.
Pitchfork called it "near perfect pop" and gave it an 8.0; All Music called 'Our Land Brains' a "warm and inviting record filled with comfortable sounds and friendly melodies", and Pop Matters said "Snowglobe produces sonic landscapes that defy convention for the sake of pure creativity". Now 18 years later, Nine Mile Records is releasing a Re-Mastered Limited Edition Double Vinyl with new artwork by Andrew Kosten on Nov 6th. This is how the album was always meant to be heard. Available at the NMR Bandcamp. SIR WOMAN
Wild Child and Glorietta singer Kelsey Wilson strikes out on her own as Sir Woman on her debut EP Bitch (Oct 16). The 5 song EP features Wilson's love of R&B, Pop, Soul and Gospel on a collection Hype Magazine calls "Spellbinding."
Bitch is available on all digital platforms, and on 180g Gold Vinyl direct from Nine Mile. You can also order limited edition "Bitch" chains to help benefit the Marsha P. Johnson Institute supporting Black Trans people. WILLIAM LUKE WHITE
Memphis music stalwart William Luke White’s 20 year career has taken him from Memphis to Nashville, from Boston to New York, crisscrossing the United States and Europe in support of countless albums and in the company of countless revered musicians.
The proud alum of dozens of bands (Spiral Stairs, Colour Revolt, Snowglobe, The Coach And Four, James and the Ultrasounds, Clay Otis, Sons of Mudboy), White offers his latest album in response to a personal tragedy that has left him unable to tour. While spending a summer home in Memphis after an exhausting Spiral Stairs tour, White endured a massive seizure, the result of an astrocytoma brain tumor. Following surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, White continues his musical journey with this eponymous solo debut EP in the face of recovery, loss, and a global pandemic. William Luke White's debut solo EP is out NOW! Listen and Follow on Spotify HERE GREYHOUNDS
Austin duo Greyhounds release Primates, their 5th full-length record (and first for Nine Mile Records), on July 10. American Songwriter is streaming the record IN FULL this week before the release, and asked singer/keyboardist Anthony Farrell about the duo's 20th anniversary, each track on the album, and how it was working with producer Steve Berlin (Los Lobos).
Check it out here. NEW SHIRTS!!
Local Austin printshop Fine Southern Gentlemen has rolled out a new program to help keep their doors open while also supporting Austin businesses. They are printing on demand custom shirts!
The shirts are available for purchase for a couple weeks for $24/ea. They are all on soft Unisex cotton Bella Union t-shirts in the colors above. CLICK HERE TO SHOP AND ORDER NIGHT GLITTER
Music for the socially isolated:
Both of our Spring releases have been pushed back due to the Coronavirus pandemic. But we've decided to keep releasing singles through the Spring to wet everyone's appetites for their Summer drop dates. Night Glitter's self-titled debut will be out in June. Check out the lead single "Higher" which matches LouLou Ghelichkani's honey vocals on top of a slinky tropicalia beat: STREAM NOW: Spotify / Apple / Bandcamp |
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