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19/11/2023

Flyer for the very first For Against show: August 22, 1984 at The Drumstick in Lincoln, Nebraska (opening for The Gun Club). The quartet would became a trio that autumn with Jeff Runnings taking over as the full-time vocalist.

07/09/2023

Find Yourself Along The Way, the debut album and shoegaze classic by Los Angeles’ The Meeting Places was released 20 years ago this week by Words On Music.

18/05/2023

Great playlist includes Coastal and Should.

Playing Shoegaze. Emerging in the wake of the decline of UK shoegaze, where trends were drifting to brit pop, bands in the US continued to wave the flag for fuzzy guitars and floppy fringes well into the late '90s. NTS selects an hour of US shoegaze bands.

30/03/2023

08/03/2023

LOW TRIBUTE SHOW... Saturday March 25th! (Proceeds to Benefit the Parker/Sparhawk Family)
As we mentioned in our post in November, Velour and the international music community were devastated by the news of the passing of Mimi Parker, drummer and co-vocalist of the legendary and influential band Low... I've been lucky enough to host the majority of Low's Utah shows since 1998 and was very much looking forward to their concert that was scheduled for March 25th at Velour... Since the canceling of their tour I have felt a reverence for that date and have had a hard time booking anything else... Finally about a month ago I decided that the only proper thing to do with that date was to celebrate Mimi and Low with a tribute concert! Of course the second thing I did was to call tribute concert guru (And massive Low fan) Paul Jacobsen, who has taken the majority of the reins on this...🙏
When a band is revered enough that artists like Wilco and Robert Plant cover your songs, the bar is set pretty high. We will do our best though with an all-star lineup of Utah bands from past and present lovingly covering their favorite Low songs!
Due to inevitable medical bills and loss of crucial tour revenue, we will be donating proceeds to the Parker/ Sparhawk family. Please come support this night of amazing music and a great cause... --Corey Fox

Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning (Wed 3/8) at 10:00am at:
https://www.24tix.com/venues/velour-live-music-gallery
Please spread the word to all fellow Low fans!

08/03/2023

🗽Ein New Yorker und ein Berliner kreieren zusammen transatlantische Musik? Klingt sehr kurios, ist aber so: Mit Almost Charlie haben der Texter Charlie Mason und der Sänger Dirk Homuth eine völlig neue Verbindung zwischen den beiden Metropolen geschaffen.

🤩Die Indie-Pop-Musik mit menschlichen Texten verzaubert seit vielen Jahren seine Zuhörer. Sie auch? Finden Sie es am Freitag, 17.03.2023, im Kaiserlichen Postamt heraus.

Weitere Infos finden Sie hier: Almost Charlie

🚪Einlass: 18:00 Uhr

🎬Beginn: 19:00 Uhr

🎟️Tickets können unter 03562 69 23 539 reserviert und/oder im Pavillon Genuss & Kunst abgeholt werden. Außerdem können Sie die Tickets auch online erwerben: http://tinyurl.com/almostcharlieforst

20/02/2023

ALMOST CHARLIE "Go a little easy" from the album "A Whisper In A World Too Loud" (Words On Music 2022)Video by Dirk Homuth

24/01/2023

New Almost Charlie video!

ALMOST CHARLIE "Go a little easy" from the album "A Whisper In A World Too Loud" (Words On Music 2022)Video by Dirk Homuth

10/01/2023

Should's "A Folding Sieve" is on the list.

From underheard gems from the classic era to new classics from the modern underground, this is the only shoegaze guide you need.

01/01/2023

New Almost Charlie video!

"The Carousel Never Stops" from the album "A Whisper In A World Too Loud" (Words On Music 2022)

Video by Kamila Ogrodowska & Dirk Homuth

ALMOST CHARLIE "The Carousel Never Stops" from the album "A Whisper In A World Too Loud" (Words On Music 2022)Video by Kamila Ogrodowska & Dirk Homuth

03/12/2022

Lorna continue their wonderful string of Christmas singles.

track by Lorna

29/10/2022

"A myriad of understated masterpieces...No one is as consistently brilliant as Almost Charlie."
-Jon Worley (Aiding & Abetting)

Charlie Mason writes the lyrics and sends them over to Dirk Homuth in Berlin. Homuth then writes the music and puts the songs to tape. This is the sort of system that generally results in disjointed (if intriguing) efforts that end up running out of steam. Not so here. This is the fifth album of thi...

27/10/2022

A video has been released to “Hear the Leaves,” – track four on Almost Charlie’s new, fifth album, A Whisper In A World Too Loud. Directed by Kamila Ogrodowska.

ALMOST CHARLIE "Hear The Leaves" from the album "A Whisper In A World Too Loud" (Words On Music 2022)Video by Kamila Ogrodowska

09/10/2022

First review of Almost Charlies' new album by Lee Henderson at BIG Beautiful NOISE. "Fully realized beauty...their fifth and best yet."

06/10/2022

Almost Charlie's new album A Whisper In A World Too Loud is just one week old. Take advantage of Bandcamp Friday to pick up this gem.

12 track album

30/09/2022

Read our September Newsletter to learn about today's release of Almost Charlie's new album, the forthcoming debut release by the 1980s postpunk trio Remnant Three, and rare The Lucy Show photos on our new Instagram page.

September 2022 newsletter Fifth Almost Charlie Album Shipping Now! Words On Music is now shipping orders of A Whisper In A World Too Loud — Almost Charlie's fifth album of captivating waltzes, brisk indie pop gems, and ornate ballads delivered by Berlin singer/multi-instrumentalist Dirk Homuth and ...

28/09/2022

The Lucy Show (London, circa 1985).

19/04/2022

First concert in Berlin in over two years.

Buy tickets to see Almost Charlie live in Berlin. Track your favorite artists on Songkick and never miss another concert.

13/02/2022

The Lucy Show was in good company on this 1986 tour…

29/10/2021

We somehow missed this well-written, in-depth review by John Collins at Ruinous Passages last December of For Against’s Coalesced album which we released in 2002.

https://www.ruinouspassages.com/blog-archive/a-big-enough-place-to-hide-for-against-coalesced-2002

“I’ve had Coalesced on repeat for weeks, and at a certain point I realized that I had no choice but to write a love letter to it…This album is their masterpiece. Its gift is to create sonic spaces that are undeniably cinematic, yet designed to function as containers for the most insular expressions of self-doubt, regret, and victory (however fleeting). Once you are inside, there is no escaping. It may have been released in 2002, but for me, it waited 18 years to become the indispensable quarantine album of 2020.”

Coalesced is currently in print at Words On Music on its 5th pressing. http://www.words-on-music.com/WM11.html

This album is For Against's masterpiece. Its gift is to create sonic spaces that are undeniably cinematic, yet designed to function as containers for the most insular expressions of self-doubt, regret, and victory (however fleeting). Once you are inside, there is no escaping. It may have been releas

26/08/2021

Words On Music announces the launch of its 13th annual popular summer sale. Earlier this year Words On Music launched our label's Bandcamp page, and until September 12th our entire label's digital and CD catalog is 50% off using the discount code "summersale" at Bandcamp.

https://wordsonmusic.bandcamp.com

Get our complete three-CD Lucy Show catalog for just $14, all four Almost Charlie CDs for $18, five Lorna CDs (including the recent Constellations record) for $23, or seven For Against CDs for $27!

Stock up now - the 50% off sale ends September 12th. Savings only available on our Bandcamp page:

https://wordsonmusic.bandcamp.com