Lydia Loveless's Song "Verlaine Shot Rimbaud" Included in NPR's Valentine's Day Love Song Playlist
Oh, NPR, how you love Lydia. Let us count the ways...
THE BOTTLE ROCKETS' 'BOTTLE ROCKETS/THE BROOKLYN SIDE' REISSUE (OUT 11/19) STREAMING ON THE AV CLUB
The upcoming, highly anticipated reissue of The Bottle Rockets' first two albums, 'Bottle Rockets' and 'The Brooklyn Side,' is streaming in its entirety via The AV Club, a week before the 11/19 release date!
Take a listen to all 46 tracks, including 19 bonus tracks, here.
LYDIA LOVELESS 'BOY CRAZY' EP STREAMING VIA AMERICAN SONGWRITER
Lydia Loveless's new EP, 'Boy Crazy,' is out tomorrow (PRE-ORDER here for chance to win signed Lydia CDs), and American Songwriter is exclusively streaming it in its entirety throughout the week.
LISTEN HERE
LYDIA LOVELESS 'BOY CRAZY' EP ANNOUNCED VIA POPMATTERS WITH TITLE TRACK PREMIERE
Lydia Loveless is BACK! PopMatters has the scoop on her brand new five-song EP 'Boy Crazy' coming out November 5th on Bloodshot! The article also features a premiere of the title track. The EP is a collection of sun-washed, rebel-powered pop songs presenting a conversation about judgment and loss of innocence, as one transitions from good old American naivete to you-should-know-better "wisdom."
Pre-order here (with chance to win signed Lydia CDs).
As Lydia put it: "It's my rock and roll tribute to baseball pants and youth."
An all-new Lydia full length LP will be released in 2014.
SPIN ANNOUNCES 'BOTTLE ROCKETS/THE BROOKLYN SIDE' REISSUE AND STREAMS DEMO FEATURING UNCLE TUPELO
As SPIN reports, we're reissuing The Bottle Rockets' long out-of-print first two albums Bottle Rockets and The Brooklyn Side (in remastered form with 19 bonus tracks and a 40-page booklet) on November 19th! Click the link below to hear a previously unreleased demo of "Indianapolis" featuring Brian Henneman backed by Uncle Tupelo members Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) and Jay Farrar (Son Volt). (That trio of alt-country pioneers appear a handful of times on the reissue.)
Read the announcement and stream the track here.
PRE-ORDER IT HERE
ROBBIE FULKS DAYTROTTER SESSION
Robbie Fulks recorded a live acoustic sessions at Daytrotter, including two songs from his new Bloodshot album Gone Away Backward, a Fulks classic, and a standard. Stream it here.
HA HA TONKA'S NEW ALBUM 'LESSONS' STREAMING AT WNYC
The wonderful folks at WNYC Radio are streaming the absolutely stunning new Ha Ha Tonka album, 'Lessons,' one week ahead of the release date!
Stream it HERE.
As WNYC puts it, "the tuneful and buoyant new album from the indie-Americanaband...owe[s] as much to Paul Simon as Big Star."
Listen and then inevitably fall in love with the album and pre-order it on CD, MP3, or limited edition double vinyl HERE.
TITLE TRACK FROM HA HA TONKA'S UPCOMING 'LESSONS' STREAMING ON ELLE
Another Ha Ha Tonka track from their upcoming album Lessons (out 9/24) is streaming at Elle. Check out the anthemic, hypnotic title track in preparation for what frontman Brian Roberts calls "the biggest sounding record [we've] ever made."
WNYC STREAMING BARRENCE WHITFIELD & THE SAVAGES' NEW ALBUM
"We're pretty much still the same band that rips the brain cells and throats of human beings every time we play." - Barrence himself
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages' Bloodshot debut Dig Thy Savage Soul is streaming in its entirety at NPR's WNYC! The album is out next Tuesday (8/13) but you can get a sneak peak into the total madness that soul screamer Barrence and his garage army have crafted.