Shabazz Palaces to record live album at Third Man Records

Between releasing the various projects of Jack White and pals and attempting to find new things to do with the humble vinyl record (and often, both of those at once), Third Man Records invite bands to their Blue Room studio to perform. It is, as the label say, “as much as we can tell, the only current venue in the world where a band can record a live set direct-to-tape in front of a paying audience”.

They’ve already hosted and released records by artists from Reggie Watts, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ted Leo to White Denim, King Tuff and, er Conan O’Brien (yes, that one).

Shabazz Palaces are the latest to be announced as performing at the Nashville venue, as a statement posted on the Third Man website yesterday explained.

“Very few records from last year got us as excited about the current state and hopeful for the future state of music as Shabazz Palaces’ Lese Majesty,” they say about the Seattle-based band’s second record. “Easily the most oft-spun record on the Third Man office turntable in the second half of 2014, it was imperative that we bless the beginning of 2015 with a live direct-to-acetate recording from these psychedelic warriors from the Pacific Northwest. Shabazz Palaces’ obstinately original oeuvre emanates from a fully formed higher conscious, they plant their flag in the outermost realms of the hip hop global soundscape where vibrations throb into beat-heavy explorations, chrome covered constellations of higher reveries each offering its own sonic boom. We couldn’t be more excited to host Shabazz Palaces in our Blue Room transcribing their astral suites direct-to-acetate for a live audience, on Saturday January 17th we all blast off together.”

Tickets are announced as $12 in advance, $15 on the door.

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