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Just in time for Halloween, Farce the Music debuts Bill Filipiak’s zombie-laden new video for “When the Blues Come Calling”

Just in time for Halloween, Farce the Music has debuted “When the Blues Come Calling, the new zombie-laden video from Nashville Americana artist Bill Filipiak.

From his just-released album, Medicine I Need, the song is a gritty roadhouse-country stomp that finds the singer-songwriter wrestling with the blues. The video follows suit, as Bill shows off his director/producer chops, using public-domain footage from classic horror film Night of the Living Dead to create a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the relentlessness of depression, as it pursues its victims like zombies.

“Filipiak’s warm and worn vocals and the creeping resonator guitar add to the haunting atmosphere,” writes Farce the Music. “Recommended if you like Ray Wylie Hubbard, Tim Easton & Robert Cray.”

The Lantern sits down with Angela Perley to discuss her solo career, and the nurturing environment for artists in Columbus’ Own

Columbus native and indie artist Angela Perley said the city has welcomed her unique music style with open arms. Perley released her new song, “Here For You,” Sept. 30, which is available on all music streaming platforms. After spending the past decade pursuing a career in music, Perley said she wants to keep growing artistically and that Columbus is a great place for her to do so.

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by Baby Robot Media

See what No Depression has to say about the forthcoming effort from Matthew Check, The November Album (out 11/5)…

Matthew Check, the self-described “jewgrass” artist, has turned in an excellent run of albums in the past few years, both solo and as a part of Joanie and Matt. The album is an “old becomes new” experience for Check. Recorded in 2013 in the midst of a bad breakup and a worse addiction problem, Check shelved the songs until 2021 when, sober and happier, he revisited them while on pandemic pause and decided they deserved to be released.

by Baby Robot Media

KiKi Holli explores grief, loss & healing with her new cover of Roxy Music’s “More Than This”

The opening synth waves of KiKi Holli’s new take on Roxy Music’s “More Than This” wash over listeners eardrums like baptismal seafoam at an oceanfront christening, purifying the sonic palate, washing souls clean—all to make way for her voice. Soon, it enters, in its rich fullness, beckoning to all the grieving souls who’ve lost a loved one, wrapping their broken hearts in its gauzy strength. If her delivery seems genuine—empathetic even—that’s because it is. She’s been there.

“I had a couple really important people pass in my life recently,” Holli says, “and one was pretty devastating. It leaves you baffled, in a way. Especially when it’s the first really big death in your life. When somebody’s soul passes like that, I think there’s a shamanic aspect to it that leaves you half in this world and half in the other. If you’re open to it, I think you can connect to that other side, whatever that is for you.”

At the height of her grief, Holli—the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, musician, actress and playwright—was soothing her soul listening to a whole lot of Roxy Music, Avalon in particular. She decided that she really connected with and wanted to record her own version of the album’s hit single, Bryan Ferry’s “More Than This.”

“Other people have covered it—10,000 Maniacs, Blondie—but it hasn’t been in the zeitgeist for a while,” Holli says. “I like the idea of a song having a life of its own beyond the original—that it keeps living and being reborn. With my own take, I wanted to remind people that there’s always a place to turn when you’re in pain. And that’s what ‘More Than This’ was for me. It was healing.

In Roxy Music’s video for the song, Holli points out, there is white light shining through a cross, but also fire—Heaven and Hell, yin and yang. “That really resonated with me,” she says. “When you’re grieving for someone, there’s also this really poignant love present. The more grief you experience, the more you loved that person, the deeper your connection to them. You feel so much pain, but you also realize that life goes on, that death is a transition, that there really is more than this—more than this tangible physical world, more that comes after it. The spiritual content of the song was very enticing to me.”

Holli recorded “More Than This” with producer Ethan Allen (Throwing Muses, Tricky, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) at his studio in L.A.’s Silver Lake neighborhood. The involvement of Allen—who was mentored by legends Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno—provides a direct link in the chain back to Roxy Music. “Ethan and I get along like a house on fire,” Holli says. “He lives around the corner from me, just a five-minute walk, which is amazing. When I met him a few years ago, he was also going through a challenging time in his life, so we connected in that way. He’s super cool, very humble, kind—the type of person you dream of working with. When I have ideas, Ethan always listens carefully, and he really takes the time to explain the recording process, so while you’re in the studio you also get an education. Plus, he’s got a ton of vintage gear, and he knows what he’s doing with it!”

In addition to being a trained vocalist with a powerful, emotive presence and warm, resonant voice, Holli is a songwriter and guitarist with a slew of new singles in the works. She also grew up playing saxophone and viola, has appeared on stage in the plays Of Mice and Men, Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, and also landed the lead role in the Rocky Horror-channeling indie film Isle of Lesbos, celebrated by Swampflix as “a politically angry, deliberately offensive, post-John Waters, queer-as-f*ck movie musical with deep roots in drag & cabaret traditions.”

Most notably, Holli also co-wrote and starred in Forever Dusty, a stage musical based on the life of British pop star Dusty Springfield. The production started in Los Angeles and opened off-Broadway in 2012 at New World Stages in New York, garnering coverage from The Village Voice, Reuters, The New York Times and Out Magazine. From there, the play went on to run in London, regionally and will open this fall in Toronto.

“After the first performance in Los Angeles, the 300 people in the audience all stood on their feet after the musical ended, and the applause lasted for 7 minutes until I came out for an encore. At that point, I knew I had something—that it moved people. The whole experience I had playing Dusty—studying her music, and performing eight shows a week singing 20 songs a show—made me a much better musician and singer. By the time it was over, it inspired me to get more serious about pursuing my own music.”

And that’s where Holli’s focus is these days—on all of the new songs she’s been creating with Allen. “You know, Amor fati—love your fate, love whatever is in front of you and embrace the moment,” she says. “Right now, I just want to put all of my energy into getting these new singles out there, so I can have an album ready by the end of next year.

Listen to KiKi Holli’s “More Than This” on Spotify.

by Baby Robot Media

Americana UK debuts William Russell Wallace’s new single, “Fire Season,” calling it “raw and dirty … some fine saviour of rock and roll stylings.”

William Russell Wallace is a rock and roll story teller in the tradition of Tom Waits or Tom Petty. His latest release is ‘Confidence Man‘ which is something of a concept album dealing as it does with the lives of those living on society’s edges – painting word images of their deeds and delving into their inner motivations. And all that’s attached to some fine saviour of rock and roll stylings – raw and dirty when it’s needed. On ‘Fire Season’ we have a protagonist who is always looking for the way out “there’s something beautiful about making an escape – and making it look easy every time.”

For Folk’s Sake debut’s song, “Sometimes a Woman,” describing how “Check’s soulful vocals yearn on the ballad as piano, as well as acoustic guitar, percussion, and harmonica, make for a cool, folksy backdrop.”

Mathew Check is as much an everyman as he is a chameleon. Throughout his long-standing career, the singer-songwriter has slipped into bluegrass clothes and Americana duds; he’s written Jewish music, children’s music, and music for just about anyone. You might know him from his recently lauded duo project, Joanie & Matt too. What makes Check’s portfolio so impressive isn’t quite so much its diversity, nor its quantity, but how he tackles each project with the same heart on his sleeve. Case in point: ‘Sometimes a Woman’, the latest tune released from his upcoming solo work, The November Album.