"Cedar Road" is latest single from “10 Country Songs” by Isaac Martinez. Album co-produced by Grammy®-winner Jerry Ordonez (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee).

SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT

“I wrote ‘Cedar Road’ when I was 15, explains Isaac Martinez of the latest single from 10 Country Songs, out today. “My therapist asked me to write about the pain of missing family. The chorus gives away the age I was at the time. It captures a specific moment of youth, which I kept when I wrote it, but still hasn’t ever made any sense to me. I’ve always liked these puzzle box lines that nowadays AI could never figure out.”

After years of operating under aliases, Denver-based musician Isaac Martinez has finally released the work he is most proud of. 10 Country Songs is the first record that Martinez feels worthy of being dropped everywhere under what he refers to as his “government” name.

10 Country Songs was produced by Martinez alongside the A-list assistance of engineers Andy Flebbe (Green Day) and Grammy®-winner Jerry Ordonez (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee).

Isaac Martinez evokes Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens on touching "Time Passes" from Denver-based artist's latest "Ten Country Songs," out now.

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT

After years of operating under aliases, Denver-based musician Isaac Martinez has finally released the work he is most proud of. 10 Country Songs is the first record that Martinez feels worthy of being dropped everywhere under what he refers to as his “government” name.

Start with the warm atmosphere of the album’s “Time Passes” single. Its heavenly piano touches, combined with Martinez’s close-miked vocal, underpinned by an insistent snare propelling his overdubbed harmonies, is absolutely haunting. 

10 Country Songs was produced by Martinez alongside the A-list assistance of engineers Andy Flebbe (Green Day) and Grammy®-winner Jerry Ordonez (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee).

V13 premieres the new video from the "unique, original" Azalia Snail, whose new album is out this week

VIDEO PREMIERE

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.

Larry Goldings and John Sneider present Chinwag

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT

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!

Azalia Snail will release POWERLOVER in April

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT

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.

New Noise shares the "firebrand punk rock fury" of Gina Volpe's new single

TRACK PREMIERE

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 to release debut solo album

NEWS

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.

Get the details — click for your life!

The Spill previews the new EP from Alberta & The Dead Eyes, out Friday 12/22, with the premiere of "Bundled Up Blues"

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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!

Lonesome Highway reviews Dan Bern's remastered New American Language, part of a long career that "has stood the test of time"

ALBUM REVIEW

"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.

Americana Highways shares "Albuquerque Lullaby," the "inspirational" second remastered track from the upcoming Dan Bern reissue

PREMIERE

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.

Pre-Save | Pre-Order

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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.

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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.

“It was to be the jewel of his life’s work.” Originally issued on 9/11, Dan Bern’s “New American Language” gets new life via remastered vinyl edition.

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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. New single "What Is This" arrives Sept. 15.

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.