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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Jedd Beaudoin speaks with pianist Larry Goldings today on the latest edition of the NPR/KMUW podcast Into Music.
Larry, along with trumpeter John Sneider (his friend of thirty plus years) has recently released the duo's first collaborative jazz album 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘨, available now!
V13 on AZALiA SNAiL's all-instrumental new album 𝘗𝘖𝘞𝘌𝘙𝘓𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘙, arriving this Friday via Cloud Recordings: "It would only be an artist as unique and original as Azalia Snail to come up with an album that says so much, without saying anything at all."
See the video for "Don't Get Too Close To Me" now. Order a copy of the limited-edition cassette here.
Thirty years of friendship has resulted in the first duo album from Grammy®-nominated pianist Larry Goldings and trumpeter John Sneider.
𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘨 explores the classic American repertoire (Eubie Blake, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thelonious Monk) via free improvisation and spontaneous composition.
More info and music at this link. Click for your life!
It is quite an honor to work with a legend!
I first encountered AZALiA SNAiL half a lifetime ago when Sub Pop released her "Staying Inside/Supposing Song" 7-inch in 1994.
On April 5, AZALiA will release her 15th album, the all-instrumental concept record 𝘗𝘖𝘞𝘌𝘙𝘓𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘙, via Cloud Recordings (Circulatory System, Tall Dwarfs).
Hear the first single "Zap You of That Hate" (feat. Alan Sparhawk of Low) now.
The title track from the debut solo album by Gina Volpe (founding member of NYC's Lunachicks) is here now. Hear "Delete The World" over at New Noise! The mag says the track “fuses a nostalgic-sounding late 90s/early 2000s hard rock sound brushing along the pop spectrum in part to Volpe’s trademark crunching riffs over her melodic vocals.”
Click for your life, and pre-save the album here before its release this Friday, February 23.
Gina Volpe — founding member of NYC punk rock legends Lunachicks — will release her debut solo album 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 on February 23!
DOC NYC premiered the documentary “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks” featuring members of Blondie, The Offspring, and L7 late last year.
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This percussive piano playing by Dave Boone (he's on drums, too) is what first got me hooked on his band Alberta & The Dead Eyes. Not tagged, because not on socials. Don't you wish you chose that path?!
Thanks to The Spill Magazine for this premiere of "Bundled Up Blues" from the 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘒𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘺 EP, out this Friday. You will dig this jam. Click for your life… and pre-save here!
"Like meeting an old friend again after many years," says Lonesome Highway about the upcoming remastered reissue of Dan Bern's 2001 masterpiece 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦.
The remastered version of Dan's controversial classic "God Said No" will be available on all streamers this Friday, December 22. Pre-save that here.
Pre-order album bundles are available now, via Grand Phony, here.
A second remastered track from the upcoming first-time-ever-on-vinyl reissue of songwriter Dan Bern's 2001 masterpiece 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 (January 12, Grand Phony) is streaming now over at Americana Highways.
Listen now or pre-save at the link below to listen when "Albuquerque Lullaby" hits all streamers tomorrow.
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes is the giant-sounding band that in reality is the majority work of one real-life carpenter, David Boone (or D. Boone as he often signs off, evoking another literal and figurative giant of musical history, D. Boon of The Minutemen.)
In fact, Boone’s songs contain that same ramshakle joy and conversational, inclusive tone that Boon’s do. It’s the sound of a natural talent letting it fly.
“I’m a carpenter by day and sometimes even by night,” Boone says. “A fine carpenter at that, but a better musician.”
You may want to leave the page now to find out more about Boone, but don’t bother. He made the right choice. The choice that none of us made and many wish we had. Boone is nowhere to be found on social media.
He lets the songs do the sharing.
Alberta & The Dead Eyes will release its new 11-song album Give or Take on March 15, 2024. The album will be preceded by “Ghost Kitty,” a four-song EP of additional songs on Dec. 22, 2023.
Jan. 12, 2024, will see the reissue, in a newly remastered edition, of New American Language, the 2001 album by acclaimed American songwriter, Dan Bern. Surprisingly, the occasion marks the first appearance of a Bern album on vinyl, during a career spanning more than 30 releases.
“Dan’s epic ‘Thanksgiving Day Parade,’ literally took two years to record,” says the song’s producer, Wil Masisak in the liner notes of the upcoming reissue. “The sense that we’d made something worth hearing coupled with the knowledge that we couldn’t have done this alone or without difficulty was immensely rewarding.
“Unfortunately, the release date was set for Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, and so it is that this incredible collection of American songwriting seemingly meant for those who did their best to carry on after 9/11 finds itself a little lost to time.”
Sibling duo Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds have been the band Charlie Belle for most of their lives. Talented, outspoken, Black, and queer, the sister and brother are perhaps most of all, more experienced at music making than their peers.
International acclaim arrived when Jendayi and Gyasi were just sixteen and fourteen-years-old. NPR, Nylon, MTV, Vice, and Wired profiled the pair, and Jendayi and Gyasi appeared together on the cover of the Austin Chronicle, their hometown paper at the time.
Two new singles and videos in 2020 continued the forward motion.
“We’ve been a band for over a decade and we’ve been Black our whole lives. Now more than ever there’s a spotlight on what Black artists bring to the table in all genres,” Jendayi explained at the time.
Now, in a 2023 world, as adults living in Brooklyn, Jendayi and Gyasi are products of a time that continually challenges them to be exactly who they are. The maturity that comes with life experience sounds great alongside their musical history on the upcoming Charlie Belle single and video “What Is This,” scheduled for release on September 15.
Sam at For The Rabbits totally getting it about the new Loose Wing single "Capital Alphabet," saying:
"Loose Wing seem to be asking questions that really cut close to the bone. Claire Tucker’s own take on 'contemporary humanity' isn’t a scathing takedown, it’s an arm around the shoulder, a question asked, can we change things? Can we be better to one another? And when she sings it with such beauty and gusto, it’s hard not to believe for the duration of a three-minute pop song that anything is possible."
I mean, YES!
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"The shimmering guitars and catchy hooks will be sure to draw you in to check out the rest of their 22-track debut album 𝘕𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳/𝘕𝘰𝘳."
More with the memorably named Fuckleberry Hinn, this time from our friends at Glide Magazine. Click for your life, and be sure to stream “Nobody” on your favorite platform.