BDCF will be coming out on 180 gram vinyl on August 29th, but pre-order it HERE today!.

Listen to Four Winds from the upcoming live album, recorded at Meneer Frits during the April 2011 tour and pre-order it HERE.

On May 22, 2011, a tornado destroyed 1/3 of Joplin, MO and killed more than 100 people. The survivors need assistance to rebuild. In an effort to help and as a Missouri native, Israel is announcing today the release of Missouri, a collection of material featuring two brand new, never before heard tracks written and inspired by the tragedy. You can get all three songs for only $5 HERE. All proceeds go to The United Way’s “United For Joplin” relief fund.

Take these songs and share em.

“A swaggering country rock album that recalls The Rolling Stones’ greatest flirtations with the South’s soul and blues.”

We are in London now and will be off to pick the rest of the band up tomorrow in Belgium. Listen to the BBC session with Robert Elms in the meantime HERE! Hope to see everyone out at the shows, it will be boss.

Head on over to the Store to get your copy of Barn Doors and Concrete Floors! We even have Limited Edition, Deluxe Packaged versions!

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You can listen to the entire album today and don’t forget, it comes out tomorrow! Get your copy now, by visiting the store. We hope you enjoy!

The record release show for Barn Doors and Concrete Floors will be on Friday, April 1st at 8pm at The Gutter in Brooklyn! We have some very special guests including Hollis Brown, Alana Amram and The Rough Gems, and the glass eating, illustrated man, Eak the Geek!

To receive $2 off admission and 3 FREE songs from all the artists playing, type your code in below or solve this Anagram!

The new album is a real story about music and friends that went through transformations and trials throughout. It was October 2009 and I had just gotten back from a European tour for New York Town. The engineer on Barn Doors, Mr. Ted Young, came over to my house for a couple of drinks and to listen to some vinyl records I had just bought. It was then that I verbalized the idea I had about recording in some old barn in the middle of the Catskills. I don’t know if it was the beer or the vision itself, but either way, Ted agreed that it was indeed a good idea. Oh, and we also knew that we wanted Steve on the project. I really liked his work on some other records and thought he would be a great addition. Ted and I were going to split the last beer of the evening, but when I tried to open it the tab broke off, preventing it from touching our lips. We decided that was some auspicious sign so I placed the unopened Budweiser in a cabinet and told Ted we would save it as a celebratory drink when we finished tracking the record.

The next day, I realized that there was no backing out on this and that we had made a commitment to do this thing. We got into contact with Steve and he agreed to be a part of the record. We also tracked down the barn from an ad on Craigslist. It really was the first and only property we were interested in. We spent months drawing diagrams and trying to call in any favors to get appropriate gear to transform this barn into a working studio. We had some definite road blocks along the way, but got to Harvard Farm in the Catskill Mountains on June 23rd, 2010. Everything worked. We recorded with the barn doors wide open every day. We recorded tracks outside. We went swimming in the river. We built bonfires. And we made a record.

On the last day of tracking, Ted and I attempted to drink that old Budweiser that had been sitting in my cabinet for 8 months. The flavor wasn’t great and it was very warm, but it tasted like we had done something right….for once.

-Israel

The new album, Barn Doors and Concrete Floors, will be available on March 29th. The record was recorded in an old hay barn in the Catskill Mountains. The record features Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Joey McClellan (Midlake/The Fieros), Eric Swanson, Aaron McClellan (The Fieros), Brendon Anthony, Jason Crosby, and Rich Hinman. The album was humbly engineered by the one and only Ted Young (Gaslight Anthem/Kurt Vile).

You will be able to Pre-Order the album on February 18th.