Charley Crockett s been running nearly his entire life, but with the title track to his sixth album, the Texas songwriter looks back at where he came from. The Valley chronicles his hard upbringing on the south Texas border, but it also distills the essence of Crockett s fierce and restless independence. Recorded just a…
Welcome to Hard Times is perhaps even more potent proof of his literal heartbreak than the scar on his chest. After undergoing open heart surgery that saved his life, Charley says he considered calming down for just a minute but once he recovered he did just the opposite. He states boldly with one eyebrow raised,…
Crash is the fifth studio album by singer and songwriter Charli XCX. Visuals for the album include femme fatale powers and a multitude of dark spells and curses as well as signature nods to both cars and car crashes.
This 1957 release, the third in a series of albums expanding on Bird’s 10” Clef releases from the early 1950’s, Now’s The Time boasts some of Parker’s purest recordings and strongest playing, featuring two different quartets. His lyrical and fluid improvisations on cuts like “The Song Is You” and “Laird Baird” are on full display, prime examples…
Over the last couple of decades, Charlie Parr has crisscrossed the world on tour more times than one can count. He also has released over a dozen albums of his songs, acclaimed for their poetic simplicity. Little Sun, his most ambitious album to date, was recorded with Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, My Morning…
In their decade-plus together, the four-piece-Julia Shapiro (guitar, vocals), Lydia Lund (guitar, vocals), Gretchen Grimm (drums, vocals), and Annie Truscott (bass, vocals)-have created a resonant body of work. Live Laugh Love is a natural continuation. Against the bizarre backdrop of the past few years, Chastity Belt remained a supportive space for the members to grow…
There s a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to it s absolute zenith, then God s Country, the first full…
Chelsea Grin Eternal Nightmare (MILKY CLEAR with BLACK SPLATTER) Chelsea Grin have become a staple in the deathcore community. They ve had over 250,000 albums consumed to date in the US alone, and have traveled the world over with the likes of Motionless In White, The Amity Affliction, Suicide Silence and more. With four full-length…
There is a core element to Chelsea Wolfe’s music—a kind of urgent spin on America’s desolation blues—that’s existed throughout the entirety of her career. Wolfe has always been a conduit for a powerful energy, and while she has demonstrated a capacity to channel that somber beauty into a variety of forms, her gift as a…
While past albums operated on the intimacy of stripped-down folk music (The Grime and the Glow, Unknown Rooms), or the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics (Pain Is Beauty, Abyss), Chelsea Wolfe’s sixth official album Hiss Spun wrings its exquisiteness out of a palette of groaning bass, pounding drums, and crunching distortion. Recorded by Kurt Ballou…
Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She Chelsea Wolfe s latest album, She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, is a rebirth in process. It is a powerfully cathartic statement about cutting ties, as well as an important reminder that everything we do is ultimately connected. Indie Exclusive…
Few musicians have embodied the romantic, and ultimately tragic, jazz figure as totally as Chesney Chet Baker. Unschooled yet eloquent in his music, the Baker mystique has only reinforced one of the most haunting trumpet styles and ingenuous singing approaches. Chet Baker Sings: It Could Happen To You is his classic 1958 vocal album. With…
My Funny Valentine was created for Babes in Arms , a Broadway musical of the 1930s. This song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart is a classic, and Chet Baker s interpretations will forever be part of musical history. This album features two unique vocal and instrumental interpretations of the same song, magnified by Chet…
Recorded in London in September 1979 with Jean Paul Florens on guitar, Henri Florens on piano, Jim Richardson on bass and Tony Mann on drums, this album features the only studio version of Round Midnight by Chet Baker. It also includes 2 alternative versions of My Funny Valentine, entirely instrumental and very intimate. The version…
All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Chet Baker Sings Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music Matters Joe Harley There are several Chet Baker albums with the title Chet Baker Sings, but this one recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1954 and 1956 is the…
Limited vinyl LP pressing of this 2004 album. This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) is the third studio album and second major label release by American alternative metal band Chevelle. Peaking at #8, it charted higher on the Billboard 200 than it s predecessor, Wonder What s Next. This Type of Thinking follows…