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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.”