STRATEGIC ARTIST ADVOCACY SINCE 1997
There’s an incredibly in-depth interview with AZALiA SNAiL at It's Psychedelic Baby, including career-spanning questions with photos to match. Such a fun one!
New album 𝘗𝘖𝘞𝘌𝘙𝘓𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘙 is out now via the mighty Cloud Recordings. Cassettes are limited! Get three now right here.
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"The record leans into dark corners of the psyche... Some of the uplift comes from the artist's singular delivery—a distillation of a sober Jim Morrison and less surreal Screamin' Jay Hawkins."
J Hacha De Zola chats with Jedd Beaudoin of Strange Currency on KMUW about 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘈 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦, J's latest album out now.
Follow the link and read while you listen here.
"Her most recent recording, 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘺𝘳𝘳𝘩, is a genre-swinging delight," says Lonesome Highway in conversation with Milly Raccoon.
"A free spirit whose fiddle playing and vocals have journeyed from classical violin... to her current musical position as a somewhat left-of-centre country artist."
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Thanks to The Brooklyn Eagle for posting about "Bergen Street" by The Chapin Sisters. But also, how about the photo at the top of the feature of Uncle Harry Chapin with one of my all-time heroes Gilda Radner?!
Wow! 😍😍😍
Check out The Chapin Sisters, with an acoustic preview of their next single "All Through The Night" on The Great American Folk Show via Prairie Public Radio!
Click for your life… and see the video for the duo’s most recent single, “Bergen Street,” below!
"Leaving Brooklyn, coming back as visitors and discovering both familiarity and estrangement inspired The Chapin Sisters' new song."
Abigail and Lily chat with BK Reader today about "Bergen Street," their first new music in five years.
"Growing up, art and music permeated Lily and Abigail’s lives. With GRAMMY-winning singer Tom Chapin as a father and folk-rock musician Harry Chapin — of ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’ fame — as an uncle, it’s no surprise that music accompanied the sisters’ artistic lives."
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Good morning!
The conversation about this feature story for Charleston Home + Design Magazine started two years ago as Mark Bryan was still in construction on his studio.
I absolutely love how the final piece turned out! On stands locally now, or you can check it out right here.
Many thanks to Micaela Arnett and Paige Taylor for seeing this through. The beautiful photography is by Callie Cranford.
Favorite local band? SUSTO!
More with MOTORCADE over at Last Day Deaf!
Drummer Jeff Ryan reveals his preference for using a single bit or double bit axe when chopping wood in response to their "9+1 Q&A" column. Also mentioned: Echo and the Bunnymen, A Clockwork Orange, Roxy Music, Wire, and Sleepaway Camp.
New album 𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘐𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 out now on Idol Records. The band plays a Record Store Day set at Good Records in Dallas on Saturday, April 23 at 5PM CT.
Loving what writer Lee Zimmerman says today at Goldmine Magazine in his intro to Mark Bryan’s "10 Albums That Changed My Life,” for which he actually wanted to name 20 (including Tom Waits, XTC, The Ramones, and The Replacements, along with other usual and essential suspects).
"It seems inevitable that Bryan will forever be associated with the band he helped found, Hootie and the Blowfish. Regardless of any popular perception, Bryan boasts a stellar solo career... the ever-emphatic 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 establishes a new high bar as far as his individual achievement."
Jenny Parrott visited the Austin Artists Collective show on KOOP Radio yesterday to chat about her new album 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘚𝘢𝘸 with host PJ Pullus. Now, through the magic of the interwebs, you can hear what happened yesterday today. Folks, that's what I call progress. Listen!
Much appreciation to Glide Magazine for the continued support of Gregory Ackerman, this time by sharing 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 track “All This Thinking.” Gregory tells us that he wrote the song during “a period of extreme anxiety” and that it helped him find “a way out.” As with all the songs on the new album, “All This Thinking” is a great listen for unburdening the mind.
Gregory Ackerman’s much-anticipated new LP Still Waiting Still is out today (listen here), and he’s also received the podcast treatment from Alex Green of Stereo Embers.
Some great intro words from Alex, as usual: “The album is as breezy as it is riveting–it’s a brilliant meditation on the quotidian life and its daily comforts and disruptions. Ackerman’s work is intimate and confiding and played with the kind of commanding interior strength that gives it an instantly timeless quality. It's a rich and seamless collection of woebegone West Coast loneliness that perfectly contrasts the sunrises and sunsets of Southern California with the corresponding highs and lows of the human heart.”
"I was angry when I wrote it," says J Hacha De Zola. The video for "Which Way," the song of which he speaks, is playing today over at New Noise Magazine. Check out the Subharmonic City-produced clip now!
J explains, "A dear friend, just someone who I really loved and thought the world of, was taken from us by COVID. When that happened, it made the pandemic real to me. That’s where the song came from."
"Which Way," from J's stellar new album 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘥𝘦𝘯, is streaming everywhere and anywhere here.
This week's Texas Homegrown Music podcast (originally broadcast on 93.5 FM The Range) has host Maylee Thomas in conversation with Chris j. Norwood! So glad Chris has had so many opportunities to speak about the songs on his new album 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭.
There’s such an amazing confluence of humor and poignancy on this record, which is just out as of last Friday on State Fair Records. Get it here.
I was teasing Mark Bryan, calling him psychic, for suggesting The Who’s Who’s Next as the subject of an episode of the fab Records Revisited Podcast. Mark picked it months ago; then, about a month after taping, an avalanche of press hit about the album's 50th anniversary. Good thing too, as Mark's knowledge of this album supersedes much of the journalism about the record and he’s able to discuss it as both a fan and technician.
Mark's solo album Midlife Priceless is out now on Stone Point Records, distributed by Slow Start Records.