Gustavo Antonio “Tav” Falco is a persevering giant of American Music. More specifically, along with his band Panther Burns, he’s been mastering and merging numerous root forms from the USA (and beyond) for decades. In digging so deeply into the past, Falco is one of the underground’s true originals; once acquainted with his work, it’s impossible to mistake him for anyone else. He’s cut many live records over the years, but his latest, released digitally in March, arrives on LP June 23 via ORG Music. Nashville Sessions: Live At Bridgestone Arena Studios is another gem in the crown of a king.
Tav Falco’s emergence on the scene at the dawn of the 1980s roughly coincided with a neo-rockabilly impulse that was adjacent to the new wave, but it didn’t take long to comprehend that the man stood far apart from any standard nostalgia trip. Formed with fellow Memphis legend Alex Chilton immediately following the dissolution of Big Star, Panther Burns was an excursion into wild rule breaking, blending original compositions and choice covers not just sourced from rockabilly but soul, R&B, blues, C&W, teen R&R, and even pop of a classique, sophisticated stripe.
Falco could even knock out a James Bond theme with panache, doing just that with “Goldfinger” on an earlier live disc, the New Rose Records 2LP Midnight In Memphis. That album came out in celebration of Panther Burns’ 10th anniversary in 1989 and was a stone gas, as is Nashville Sessions, in large part because his latest, while still brimming with Falco’s distinctive personality, documents the guy’s personal and artistic growth over the course of nearly 35 years.
Midnight In Memphis captures Falco as a gloriously eccentric but tack sharp champion of music from the record’s titular locale, but Nashville Sessions, while retaining core aspects of the man’s origins, primary amongst them a sweet version of Memphis Minnie’s “Me and My Chauffeur Blues,” additionally presents Falco as an eternally suave citizen of the world.
Nottingham, UK | Exclusive new editions of 40 iconic albums launched for vinyl week: Artists include Sam Fender, Bob Dylan, Gary Numan, Avril Lavingne and The Jam. Sam Fender, Bob Dylan, Gary Numan, Avril Lavingne and The Jam are among the artists taking part in hmv’s Vinyl Week 2023, with exclusive new editions of classic albums available for collectors. The entertainment retailer’s Vinyl Week has seen 
Adelaide, AU | There’s A Huge Music Collector’s Market Spinning Into Wayville This July: The palooza will be abuzz with over 100,000 titles, including new releases, out-of-print gems, rare, and pre-loved treasures. If you like music, you’ll like this market. Dubbed as ‘Australia’s most iconic music collector’s market’, the groovy Music Palooza is heading our way. Come Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July between 10am and 5pm, The Latvian Hall in Wayville will be abuzz with music lovers sifting through over 100,000 titles, including new releases, out-of-print gems, rare, and pre-loved treasures. The musical extravaganza will well and truly be delivering the goods, with vinyl records, CDs, DVDs, memorabilia, and much plenty more up for grabs. Trust, you’re going to need the full two days to rummage through all of it! Whether you’re a purveyor of country, folk, dance, rock, disco, reggae, jazz, drum’n’base, rap, metal, classical, soundtracks, or something in between, the Music Palooza is your wonderland – and a mixture of interstate and local sellers will be 
Eric Dolphy died tragically young in Berlin on July 29, 1964. A quarter century later, he was still routinely described, casually in conversation but also in newspaper/ magazine articles and even reference books, as a free jazz musician. The fact that he contributed to Ornette Coleman’s epochal and still radical Free Jazz session aside, in the copious notes to this set, flautist and release coproducer James Newton mentions (which is to say, it’s not a major statement) that during the time-period covered by this set, Dolphy wasn’t playing “free.”
Charleston, WV | West Side record store moving to new location: Elk City Records is on the move. At least it will be soon. The 311 West Washington St. used record store, which draws visitors from far and wide, will be relocating over the next few months to a new home at 601 Maryland Ave. That building currently houses C&B Blueprint, which has repaired and sold surveying equipment from that location since 2007. It has maintained other locations in Charleston for years, but decided to consolidate its Charleston location with its Huntington headquarters, says one of the store’s owners, Ron Copley. Elk City Records is so named for its location in what has become known as the Elk City area of Charleston’s West Side. Record store owner Phil Melick spent $225,000 on the C&B building for the space. The blueprint building is divided into halves, which will afford Melick a performance space for artists and 
Auckland, NZ | ‘Overwhelming’ demand from artists for new vinyl record press: A record pressing machine described as the “best in the business” is about to start manufacturing vinyl records for some of the biggest names in New Zealand music. Auckland’s Stebbing Recording Studios is installing a Swedish-made Pheenix Alpha AD12 – a fully automatic vinyl record press – which will begin operation this month, about four months later than planned due to the Auckland floods. Artists such as The Feelers, Devilskin and Solo Mio’s Moses Mackay will be some of the first to have vinyl manufactured when the press is up and running. “I’m having to dampen down the enthusiasm because 
Annapolis, MD | ‘Love and Vinyl’ to mix it up at KA-CHUNK!! Records in Annapolis: A music buff previews Bob Bartlett’s new rom-com about browsing for records and romance, performed in a local neighborhood record store. …What better way could a play engage you here and now while also strumming the strings of memory than by literally surrounding the experience with music, or at least its physical embodiment: albums. Music, after all, is something we feel both in the moment (often enough to physically move us) and as a link to the past — hear a song that you once blasted while driving with windows rolled down and singing at the top of your lungs, and you might feel the wind in your hair, picture the scenery blurring past, and hear the voices of everyone who was with you for that once-upon-a-drive. And if each song has that power to transport us, a space filled with not only songs but albums, many of them constructed as journeys themselves, must be reverberating with the potential for 
Physical product manufacturing accounts for three quarters of record labels’ carbon emissions: IMPALA – the pan-European organisation for the independent music community – has published a new report tracking efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the sector, informed by labels using the Carbon Calculator the trade group launched last year. That tool is designed to help individual independent music companies – as well as the sector at large – track their carbon footprints and identify actions that can be taken to reduce the negative impact their operations have on climate and the environment. Crunching data submitted by labels already using the tool, the new report confirms that “manufacturing of physical products contributes the greatest proportion of emissions for reporting labels, representing 76% of emissions on average. Over three quarters of this figure is 
