If you’ve been at Tubby’s you’ve probably heard us playing I WAS REAL. The #1 2019 Album of the year in The Wire magazine. I’ve been emailing this band since before we opened… Let’s just say I’m very very excited about this one.

Here is what Forced Exposure has to say…
75 Dollar Bill is one of the essential groups at the heart of NYC's underground. Driven by the telepathic union of Che Chen's microtonal electric guitar and Rick Brown's odd metered percussion their long-form sound is unmistakable and compelling. On their third album I Was Real, the group expands in bold new directions, embracing brilliant fuller orchestrations, joyous rockers and entrancing new textures.

75 Dollar Bill have spent the last few years bringing their music to new places and people, delivering what NYC locals have known for years, with their dedication to performance in venues of all shapes and sizes. The fruits of this work can be heard here on their expansive new double-LP I Was Real. The album, its title's origin a jumbled misremembering of the lesser-known Motown song "He Was Really Saying Something", is 75 Dollar Bill's third, featuring new directions accompanying the band's previously established interest in sprawling, unusual grooves and microtonal melodies.

As Steve Gunn said about the previous record: "Strings come in underneath Che Chen's supreme guitar tone. Rick Brown's trance percussion offers a guiding support with bass, strings, and horns supporting the melody. They have gathered all the moving parts perfectly."

POWERS/ROLIN DUO
POWERS/ROLIN DUO are an improvisational folk drone group based in Columbus, OH. In this project, Jen plays a lightly effected hammered dulcimer and Matthew plays an acoustic 12-string guitar. Together, they create hypnotic tapestries of sound that are both meditative and emotionally dynamic. They have been compared to Popol Vuh, Laraaji, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and others.

They’ve self-released two cassettes, one in the summer of 2018 and one in the summer of 2019. A third cassette release, which is a collaboration with percussionist Jayson Gerycz, is to be released by the label Garden Portal on Friday, March 13th (along with a solo cassette by Matthew.) Their debut LP is to be released by the label Feeding Tube Records (already home to a solo LP by Matthew) sometime in late spring.”