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LISTEN: Amusement Machines

Out today is GFBOOT57, lovingly titled Amusement Machines. Recorded by Zeke Sayer during Winter of 23/24, Amusement Machines is a collage of sound intended for your background listening pleasure as it does not demand nor require your attention. The composition uses homemade tape loops with salvaged parts of various length & degradation. A collection of studio keyboards, including the Casio…

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LISTEN: Haunted Head returns with a Poison Kiss

We’re overjoyed to see the most recent release of GF band Haunted Head, a concept of South Carolina songwriter, Brant Duncan.  Today, the group releases their first single since 2021, titled Poison Kiss.  Stream & share the song below. Duncan performs a unique style of music with Haunted Head, dating all the way back to 1998, when he would borrow a roommate’s 4-track tape recorder. Brant…

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LISTEN: "Riding Out To Texas" By The Humms

We’re pleased to announce here before your very ears, a world premiere of the latest offering from Gypsy Farm veteran band, The Humms.  “Riding Out To Texas” by The Humms (video courtesy Gypsy Farm Records) Riding Out To Texas is short & sweet, if not a tad bitter stomp, wrapped up in a less-than 2 minute listen, typical of the Humms’ get in & get out approach to songsmithing. This single…

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Strangling at Oakland Cemetery

The Shoal Creek Stranglers marked their first public performance in over two years during three nights of Illumine 2023, a special after-dark event hosted annually at the historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Ga. Special thanks to the Master Gardener, Historic Oakland Foundation & J Cobb for the photograph.

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GF NEWS & TOP Playlist

GF NEWS & TOP Playlist

Once again, here we are. If you’re laying eyes upon this, congratulations on making it through yet another rotation around the sun. Gypsy Farm events of note this year were the release of Pelzer F**k Club (catalog number: GF013) by experimental group, The Humms. Issued on vinyl & cassette, it is the band’s third full-length album since forming in 2008. Following GF013, we were ecstatic to…

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Video: Sometimes I Feel (Nothing At All) by The Humms

Video: Sometimes I Feel (Nothing At All) by The Humms

Out today via Gypsy Farm is a brand new music video for The Humms’ song “Sometimes I Feel (Nothing At All)” taken from their most recent album, Pelzer Fuck Club. With camera work by long-time GF vet Sir Stephen, the footage was edited by our own Willie Shears, & produced by Skud Harris. Watch & share The Humms “Sometimes I Feel (Nothing At All)” via Youtube In other GF news, Volume 2 of Tape…

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Release: Tape Feed, Volume 2

Release: Tape Feed, Volume 2

Following last year’s volume one, we are pleased to announce the sequel, Tape Feed, Vol 2 will release October 3rd, on Gypsy Farm. Tape Feed is a compilation cassette + digital release, curated by Gypsy Farm & made possible by the Athens Area Arts Council with a goal of raising donations for the food bank (Feeding America), helping to fight hunger & food waste. Volume 1, released in 2021,…

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Release: The Humms, "Pelzer Fuck Club"

Release: The Humms, “Pelzer Fuck Club”

Athens group, The Humms, release their third album today, titled “Pelzer Fuck Club” on Gypsy Farm Records. It includes 12 brand-new songs dealing with a range of subjects not unheard of from anyone that has previously perused the band’s catalog, dating back to 2008. “Maurice” by The Humms Early stand out tracks include the trip-soaked story of a song called Maurice & the numbing, Sometimes I…

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Upcoming: The Humms "Pelzer Fuck Club"

Upcoming: The Humms “Pelzer Fuck Club”

Long-time lovers of experimental group, The Humms, will soon be able to preorder the band’s forthcoming album on digital, vinyl or cassette, from Gypsy Farm Records (catalog #GF013). Titled, Pelzer Fuck Club, the album is due out August 30th, & offers 12-spanking new selections, courtesy of the ole gang that only recently returned from their decade-long slumber with Vampire Hours back in…

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Song: "Burn One Off" The Humms

Song: “Burn One Off” The Humms

The band’s upcoming album, Pelzer Fuck Club, opens with the suggestive “Burn One Off”, hexing the energy of a high desert drag-strip before spilling into their previous offering, the junglelike “Golden Bears“. The PFC album is slated for release August 30th. “And that doesn’t stand for Private First Class” mumbles Skud Harris (producer), narrowly missing his coffee cup. As Harris takes a slow…

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Review: Mr. Husband: Cookie Pie

Review: Mr. Husband: Cookie Pie

For fans of The Shins, Brian Wilson, or any ole Bedroom Pop. Sometimes, a song comes along that is about damn near perfect. Of course ‘perfect’ is subjective to the listener. That being said, Mr. Husband’s song Cookie Pie may certainly challenge your own definition of such things. The song comes off a sort of “greatest hits” record that was sent to GF early last year, titled Songs of…

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SONG: "Golden Bears" by The Humms

SONG: “Golden Bears” by The Humms

Little more than a year since the release of Vampire Hours, The Humms have returned with new music, the lone Golden Bears seemingly plucked from what appears to be their third album, Pelzer Fuck Club, still under production. “Out of the gate, Golden Bears thrills as a taster, infectious, weird and groovy. It throws down excitement and wonder at the thought of what lays within The Pelzer Fuck…

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Listen: "If Only Lovers" by Jacqueline Elsner

Listen: “If Only Lovers” by Jacqueline Elsner

Singing the words of Georgia-born poet, Byron Herbert Reece, Jacqueline Elsner recites: “But a step before them and a step behind are people possessed of a very small mind” during this chilling rendition of If Only Lovers, recorded acapella to the traditional tune of Fair & Tender Ladies. Proceeds of the recording will benefit the Byron Herbert Reece Farm in Union county, Georgia. Byron Herbert…

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End Thoughts & 13 Songs To Offend An Xmas Party

End Thoughts & 13 Songs To Offend An Xmas Party

Exciting news is dead ahead for several GF artists, including Uncle Goo, who recently began tracking new music for his yet to be titled record. “Uncle Goo” is the stage name of Garrett Carpenter, who signed with Gypsy Farm in 2012. We caught up with Mr. Goo as he was passing through the lobby & asked for a quick comment on the new material: “[It’s] funky enough to make a freight train take a…

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Tape Feed generates over 1146 meals to Food Bank

Tape Feed generates over 1146 meals to Food Bank

Proceeds of Gypsy Farm’s latest release, GF012 – Tape Feed, Vol 1, have secured over 1,146 meals through donations to Feeding America, a nonprofit organization networking with around 200 Food Banks throughout the United States. This of course, was made possible, not only by Feeding America’s excellent farmer-food bank relationship, but by you, the listener. Thank you for your support! Tape…

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WATCH: The Humms "Forward Cue" video

WATCH: The Humms “Forward Cue” video

Taken from their most recent album Vampire Hours, the Humms submit a change of weather with a strikingly somber tune, Forward Cue. GF manager and confidant, W.JAY undertook the task of compiling over a decades worth of footage, packed into the song’s 3:23 window. Of the notable clips included, viewers may recognize several blasts from the past including the band’s infamous practice trailer,…

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LISTEN: Helen Scott releases 'Ted Bundy' single

LISTEN: Helen Scott releases ‘Ted Bundy’ single

Whilst digging through the media vault, located some 660 feet below the GF archives, we stumbled upon an old, but not forgotten, family favorite. Tracked in the summer of 2014, ‘Ted Bundy’ drifts in and around Helen Scott’s signature tapestry of harmony, carried on a cloud of haze, & powered by the backing of organs. Also hitting the digital shelfs as of last month, possibly a most unsettling…