Pacific Dust is the title of the new release from California's The Mother Hips. The San Francisco-based Hips, a band that you've most likely never heard of, have actually been playing together and building up a constantly growing audience for almost 20 years now. They've been through the major-label machine, having been signed to Rick Rubin's American Recordings for a time in the mid-1990's, then spit back out to the indies by the end of the decade. After a short hiatus in the early 2000's, they reconvened and got back to the work at hand in 2004. Their music is an earthy kind of Americana, with catchy songs a la Augustana, the alt-country spirit of the Drive-By Truckers, and the jammy musicianship of Wilco. Here's "White Falcon Fuzz," the opening track from the new album.
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