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American roots band Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three will be featured on the annual BBC program Hootenanny with Jools Holland, the New Year’s Eve show hosted by the legendary U.K. musician, bandleader and regular host of “Later… with Jools Holland” on BBC. LaFarge and his crew will help Holland to ring in 2012, performing alongside an eclectic array of musical forces, including Cyndi Lauper, James Morrison, Aloe Blaac, Ruby Turner, Sandie Shaw, Betty Wright, The Vaccines and more. The program will air from 11 p.m. on December 31, 2011 until 1 a.m. on January 1, 2012 on BBC Two in the U.K.
This year marks the 19th New Year’s Eve Hootennany, an event that will wrap up the most successful year yet for Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three since the band formed in 2009. In March 2011, the group released a vinyl single on Jack White’s Third Man Records label, then in July released the critically acclaimed, radio chart-topping album Middle of Everywhere. LaFarge and the South City Three were also featured on the “Tiny Desk Concert” series on NPR, and performed nearly 200 live shows and festivals throughout Europe and North America, including a return to the renowned Newport Folk Festival in Newport, RI and a first-time appearance at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville, TN.
Free Dirt Records is so incredibly happy to bring into the fold the hot jazz, rhythm & blues, tin-pan alley, and western swing sounds of the Two Man Gentlemen Band! I mean, we can’t be any happier to be working with them. They’re such great guys. And wow, are they attractive or what! But notice that only one of them is wearing a mustache at any given time… that’s a bit odd. Ok anyway, so their 
Trade Root Music Group Loves The Shrouded Strangers
It’s our pleasure to announce the latest release from Izniz Recordings, a really cool label based in Washington DC, and a Trade Root Music Group partner. That’s right, it’s “Lost Forever” from The Shrouded Strangers! This wickedly awesome band was formed some time ago in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Persistently sidetracked by other projects after they re-located to Washington DC (first as sociopathic proto-punks and Arena Rock recording artists the Carlsonics, and then as incan- descent psych-folkies Nethers), their new album was recorded in a cabin in the meth-y woods of Guerneville, California, and finds the boys doing what they do best: sweating around an 8-track machine and dropping white noise atop sputtering Camaro/Casio freak-outs, sea shanties about botched mutinies, discomforting childhood hallucinations, and fuzzed-out hillbilly stomps. It’s a strange, consistently damaged, and very-occasionally beautiful collection of disembodied pop tunes and psych-sing-a-longs in which all the characters involved all seem a bit bewildered. Check out their 2012 tour schedule, and be sure to pick up their all new album, “Lost Forever”.