This week, singer/songwriter Richard Buckner releases Our Blood (Merge), his first new music since 2006’s Meadow. The nine-track LP was recorded by Buckner at his upstate New York home studio with pedal-steel guitarist Buddy Cage (New Riders Of The Purple Sage) and drummer Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth). Buckner kicks off a co-headlining tour with labelmate David Kilgour (the Clean) on August 16 in Los Angeles. In the meantime, Buckner will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Buckner: Tour merchandise can be a great way to express yourself or a financial/artistic bummer. My greatest failure in this regard was for an album I made years ago called Impasse. While planning a tour strategy over beers in Austin, Texas, a friend and I came up with what we thought would be a great merch idea: women’s underwear with the word “Impasse” on it. The beers made it seem funny. It wasn’t. I still have 12 pairs of XL in a crate somewhere.
