Eyebrow-raising wordplay of band’s name extends to title of Fuckleberry Hinn’s long-awaited album “Neither/Nor,” out Sept. 1.

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The colorful washes of My Bloody Valentine, the unflinching sensitivity of Elliott Smith, and the unimpeachable idealism of Fugazi mix with innocent wonder on the sprawling 22-track double-album debut by Norway’s Fuckleberry Hinn.

The DIY ethos of the Elephant 6 Collective is a production influence that underpins the commanding urgency heard on the more than half-dozen singles that the group has released to date.  

Now, the eyebrow-raising wordplay of the band’s name extends to the title of Fuckleberry Hinn’s long-awaited album Neither/Nor (Sept. 1, Wonderful & Strange Records), a punny tribute to Smith’s modern classic Either/Or, a touchstone album for Fuckleberry Hinn’s founding core pair of Øysteins: Øystein Ulvund and Øystein Megård.

Listen to “Stone Cold” below.

Glide premieres "Do You?," yet another example of J Hacha De Zola's "completely original sound"

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"Showcasing his completely original approach to crafting American music" is what J Hacha De Zola is doing on the new single "Do You?," premiering today over at Glide Magazine!

The song is "a full serving J Hacha De Zola’s smooth crooning and playfully mysterious approach to a love song (or anti-love song?)" and finds him "leaning into a brooding, Motown-influenced sound."

The new album 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘈 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦 (J's sixth) is out June 9 via his Caballo Negro label distributed by Slow Start / Burnside / The Orchard.

Milly Raccoon evokes Patsy Cline on “The Fine Art of Takin’ It Slow” from upcoming Frankincense and Myrrh, out July 7

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Milly Raccoons’s take on Nashville is all over the upcoming Frankincense and Myrrh, arriving July 7. The album exists in the Nashville of now where messages of spirituality and liberation are more vital than ever.

Milly delivers her songs with a gauzy, dream-like, and poignant touch that is so easy on the ears (think Nora Jones or Iris DeMent) that it is easy to forget that Milly is telling us something we need to hear.

Listen to “The Fine Art of Takin’ It Slow” below.

J Hacha De Zola shares the creepy trailer for Without A Tribe, coming on June 9

ALBUM TRAILER

"Dirty Jerzee" is what J Hacha De Zola calls the New Jersey of his youth, which still inhabits his mind and music to this day.

It's not Bruce Springsteen's Jersey, that's for sure!

Hear it on the new single "A Day In Secaucus, New Jersey," out now from the upcoming album 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘈 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦, arriving June 9 on Caballo Negro Records (distributed by Slow Start Records via The Orchard). Find the whole song via the link, and check out the album trailer below.

The exquisite sibling harmonies of The Chapin Sisters describe life on Brooklyn's Bergen Street

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The Chapin Sisters make you long to return to a place you may have never been before.

“Bergen Street” is the new single (March 31, Lake Bottom Records) from Abigail and Lily Chapin, the sibling members of what looks like a folk music dynasty, but in reality, is a proud family that has been making music for decades in the most humble of traditions.

Father Tom Chapin is a Grammy®-winning singer-songwriter, late uncle Harry Chapin is a legendary artist and social justice activist (his #1 hit “Cat’s In The Cradle” is a timeless classic), and grandfather Jim Chapin was an esteemed jazz drummer.

The sisters’ first new music since 2017’s Ferry Boat full-length, “Bergen Street,” which describes a stretch of Brooklyn road with its everyday “soot in the window ruts” and “air that smells of the tire dust” is an example of this humble and expertly crafted music-making.

It is voiced with stirring sisterly “blood harmony” in a way that only a family band – especially one with such a long history – can do.

Lexington-based Movie Jail to release its kinetic, jittery, groovy debut EP mixed by John McEntire of Tortoise

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“Movie Jail” is a phrase refering to unspoken sanctions imposed on a director after a career failure or refusal to join a lucrative project. One might assume a band bearing this name has rejected entertainment for its own sake, but the truth is a bit more complicated. Despite a noisy veneer, Movie Jail finds its center in an unabashed love of hooks, melodies, and solid grooves.

From the weird musical hinterlands that gave the world Slint, Hair Police, and Cage The Elephant, the Lexington, Kentucky-based Movie Jail offers further proof that college towns can provide fertile creative ground.

The five-piece group will release its self-titled debut EP on March 3, 2023 via Desperate Spirits Records.