howe gelb

GECKØS, the new super-trio of M. Ward, Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), and Mark McCausland (McKowski), will release their debut self-titled album on September 26th. Born from an impromptu jam at a Tucson wedding; you can hear the band’s distinctive sound on their new single “El Techno.” The hypnotic track features a career-first for M. Ward, who takes the vocal lead entirely in Spanish.

The Paris-based collective Valparaiso releases the new single and video ‘Rising Tides’ June 2nd featuring a duet between guests-singers Phoebe Killdeer of Nouvelle Vague and Howe Gelb.

With Howe Gelb’s new album, Future Standards, due for release tomorrow on Fire Records, we get a glimpse of his journey into the piano standard world of Monk, Cohen, Bacharach, Porter and Carmichael with ‘Impossible Thing.’

Howe Gelb delves into the piano standard world of Monk, Cohen, Bacharach, Porter and Carmichael on his latest album…an attempt to write a batch of tunes that could last through the ages. Play it again Howe!

Howe Gelb kicks off his UK tour at with Guy Garvey’s Meltdown including dates in Glasgow, Gateshead and Bristol. Plus ‘Sno Angel Like You’ will see its 10th Anniversary Reissue in September via Fire Records.

This is music with an edge: tough and palpably volatile…Terse in approach, but richly contoured musically and with a scale that feels cinematic – Bloodline goes after an atmosphere and realizes it vividly.

Celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary, for their 28th album Howe Gelb has put together a sort of retrospective, revisiting not old songs, but rather the styles the band has embraced over the years. Its tripartite musical nature makes it an eclectic listen, a reminder of what a diverse, influential and inspired Howe Gelb really is.

Unconventional and conventional was the order of the night with Howe Gelb and Grant Lee Phillips at The Portland Arms. Paul shares the experience with some great photos from Di Holmes.

Howe Gelb releases a new album called The Coincidentalist on 4th November, his first album for his new label, New West Records. Watch the album trailer video and get a taster.

Whilst some of the world panic about the Mayan Apocalypse and end of the world on Friday 21 December Giant Giant Sand offer a seasonal counterbalance with a free track “Not the End of the World”

Howe Gelb‘s expanded group Giant Giant Sand will be playing their only UK show as a full band at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire on Sunday 12 August. An opportunity to see ‘Tucson‘ performed as a the rock opera it was intended to be.