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This week in NYC live music brings another interesting and eclectic mix of shows, including a week-long run by Richard Thompson, an all-star cast at the Tibet House Benefit Concert, lots of New Orleans-style funk/soul/jazz, plus shows by Big Gigantic, Mates of State, Yellowbirds, and Zola Jesus, among others. Read on for the weekly highlight reel and show listings...

Salt is the new album from Hoots & Hellmouth and will see a release in April. Taster single Why Would You Not Want To Go There? has a slow-burn intensity that builds in tandem with some expertly judged flourishes of piano and electric guitar. The band have drawn favourable comparisons with the Avett Brothers and Delta Spirit and you can add Dr. Dog and Blitzen Trapper to the list too as they expertly mine that rich seam of country and rock from vulnerable introspection to vibrant sing-alongs. [...]

• Hoots & Hellmouth - Why Would You Not Want To Go There?

There are very few albums that are good enough to allow me to sit through them in their entirety. Typically, there's an off song here or there, a jam to which I cannot relate, a tune that rubs me the wrong way. And this from bands I adore and trust as much as most do their mood-altering medications. For some perspective for you dear readers (as if you'd asked for it), consider that Nathaniel Rateliff makes those kind of albums for me. So does Shakey Graves, Trampled by Turtles, and the Avetts. These are bands I know like [...]

• Why Would You Not Want To Go There? » 2q50.mp3

As we reported yesterday, Hoots And Hellmouth is releasing a new album called Salt . The album will be available this Saturday, September 24th, at the band's record-release show at the TLA. (Tickets to the show are available here .) Salt is being digitally released on Tuesday, September 27th, and the physical CD will be in stores Tuesday, October 4th. You can pre-order the 11-song album here . Below, download the new song "Apple Like A Wrecking Ball" compliments of the band. Apple [...]

• Hoots & Hellmouth - Apple Like a Wrecking Ball

A new soundman every night. The members of Hoots and Hellmouth are drinking away the stress of the van ride from Philadelphia, preparing to take the stage at any moment as snow continues to pile up outside when Sean Hoots, one fourth of Hoots and Hellmouth and one third of its vocal harmony, tells me about the interesting sensation of baring one's sound (and soul) every night, not just once but twice. Once being to an audience obviously, but before that, before the audience even arrives, you have to do it for an audience of one, an [...]

• Sway-The Heartless Bastards » 11 Sway.mp3