Shane Parish’s Liverpool, a collection of reimagined sea shanties, is out March 4th on Dear Life Records. Today he shares the video for single “Haul Away Joe.” Shane’s interpretations turn trad into transcendent. I first heard this song on the album “Foc’sle Songs and Shanties”, which I learned about when I was reading Bob Dylan’s memoire “Chronicles Volume I”. This was around the time my career unexpectedly veered into folk music from free jazz, experimental, and prog, and John Zorn signed me to do a folk record. Dylan’s book references so much amazing music and I made a playlist on Spotify…

Today, Ross Jenkins shares the first single from his cosmic Canadian album Free All Day, out March 4th. The first single, “Small House” features Barry Walker’s pedal steel adding an element of the unheimlich to the cozy, delicate melody, intricate guitar picking, and Ross’s sensitive, pensive voice. Listen here: Free All Day by Ross Jenkins Free All Day is the name of the forthcoming album by singer-songwriter Ross Jenkins.It’s first single, “Small House”, is a fast-paced reflection on a quickly-changing world, apitter-patter of rhythms and cosmic-ambience that draws influence from records like JoniMitchell’s mystical Night Ride Home and the homebound…

OMG. I love Tess Parks so much and was literally just thinking that I wish she’d put out something new (her last full-length solo album was released in 2013) and bam! And Those Who Were Seen Dancing is out May 20th on Fuzz Club and we’re so pleased to share the first single today and Hand Drawn Dracula in Canada. Tess’s smoldering, bewitching voice and her brilliant musical intuition promise listeners that the new album was absolutely worth the wait. “Happy Birthday Forever” was the song that encouraged Tess to seal the deal and finish the record. “In my mind, this album…

Mexico City’s newest indie darlings are set to release their upcoming debut To Repel Ghosts on February 18th. Finally, some fresh industrial-sounding noise rock from these youths who have clearly done their homework. “Rain and Ice” is the second single, a heavy low notation synth lead-in creates an atmospheric & moody staging for a recurring apocalyptic dream-theme. The track is sonically dark & also pushes in a heavier direction without losing melody or hookiness. Blistering guitar is brought to the front entwined with the languid duo vocals and elusive lyrics of Dominique Sanchez and Mauricio Tinejro. Beguiling yet distant, sustaining…

Last year, we loved Ruby Landen’s timeless-sounding album Martyr, well, a lingering, neo-folk journey with pensive, sensitive lyrics and lovely guitar work. Ruby’s back today with a new song out via Ruination Records. “Front Teeth” was written soon after the recording of Martyr, well, and “focuses on fragments of memory, woven together in a fabric of stream-of-consciousness.” Front Teeth by Ruby Landen “While I was writing Martyr, well I was really affected by how a present-day emotional response can be recalled in fragments of memory that resurface here and there. This song is an attempt at linking those fragments together with feelings…

Today, Lunar Noon (the moniker of SF-based Michelle Zheng) released the second single from upcoming debut album Symbolic Creature is out February 18th The album is “inspired by a souvenir she got from her trip to Mt. Mitake in Japan, with the title a nod to the meaning found in objects and omens comes and the associations assigned to them in arbitrary ways.” Beginning as an amateurish bedroom project, Lunar Noon has blossomed into a full-fledged project out of San Francisco with an 8-piece live band with multi-instrument arrangements.  Pre-order Symbolic Creature on Bandcamp.

Kareeta by Kareeta In the spring of 2020, Chuck Harris and Jon Siembieda holed up in Costa Mesa to quarantine together after a last hurrah rocking out at a friend’s show the night before the world shut down. The two music heads began playing along with Howlin Rain’s The Alligator Bride; soon enough, prolific writer and artist Chuck was writing lyrics while Jon came up with guitar parts. Not long after, they had an album’s worth of material (and then some). Cut to safer times, joined by Brian Lara on drums, and Aaron Barnes on guitar & bass, the newly-formed…

Today, the ethereal-voiced folk singer Erin Rae shares the latest single from her upcoming album, Lighten Up. The album features Kevin Morby, Hand Habits, and is produced by Jonathan Wilson (hence the hazy, multi-faceted effect that you can hear particularly well on this track; Wilson is credited as performing ‘machines’ in addition to drums & percussion on “Candy & Curry”). Tinged with cosmic country, the track could easily be a folkified b-side from Broadcast’s Haha Sound. “Candy & Curry is essentially a meditation, capturing those early spring days of slowing down in the pandemic. I was living in my friend…