Alexandra Riorden’s debut LP Angel City Radio is an abstract chronicle of the tumultuous healing process one endures after experiencing trauma, wrapped in a smoke-scented velvet curtain of shimmering indie-rock. Over the course of the album, Riorden explores the complexities of healing through independent but loosely connected vignettes. READ MORE…
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
K Michelle Dubois – Southern Gothic Dream (Baby Robot Records)
Sharon Van Etten, Fiona Apple – Love More
The Wirelight – Everything’s Cool
girl in red – You Stupid Bitch
Ditchbird – In It Together
Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Arlo Parks – Track07
Stretch Panic – Burn the Witch & Intro
Jenny Lewis, Serengeti – GLTR
Carissa Johnson, The Cure-Alls -You Lost You – accoustic version
Tigers Jaw – Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Deemer Band – Real Deal
Mannequin Pussy – Control
Juana Everett – Silver Planes
black midi – John L
Guitarmy of One – Keeping up with the Barnaby Joneses
Simona Smirnova – Interrogation – Original soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 French silent film directed by Carl Dreyer)
You, Me and This Fuckin’ Guy – Bike
Homeboy Sandman – Monument (prod. Quelle Chris)
Kath Myers – According to the Law
Mara Connor – Blues Run the Game
Anna Ash – Less Regret
T. Hardy Morris – The Digital Age of Rome
La Luz – Tale of My Lost Love
Stalag 13 – Conditioned
Deca – Clay Pigeons
Roc Marciano – Flash Gordon
Chore Boy & Brad Kemp – Vague Idea
GILA – Energy Demonstration
clipping., Cam & China – ’96 Neve Campbell
Kacey Johansing – Make Love
Partner – Hello and Welcome
PVA – Talks
Shygirl – SLIME
June Star – “I Don’t Wanna Know”
“Human beings are messy emotional creatures,” says June Star’s Andrew Grimm. “Sometimes when we struggle to communicate in relationships it’s because there’s the voice we speak with and that voice in our head. ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’ bounces between a professed love to another person and a confessed loneliness on the inside.”
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Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
Coma Girls – Wedding Roses (Baby Robot Records)
Jade Bird – Open up the Heavens
Katie Jo – I Don’t Know Where Your Heart’s Been
The Wallflowers – Roots and Wings (New West Records)
June Star – How We See it Now
Shakey Graves – Georgia Moon
Ditchbird – In It Together
Damien Jurado – Tom
Wayne Graham – 1% Juice (K&F Records)
Valerie June – Fallin’
Matthew Check – Came into the Room
Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino – Been Worryin’
Martin Ruby – Stone Blind Rain (Whistlepig Records)
The Paper Kites, Lydia Cole – Dearest
James Houlahan – The Jailer
Stuffy Shmitt – Something Big
The Armadillo Paradox – Drive All Day
Parker Smith – Holy Water
Simona Smirnova – Interrogation – Original soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 French silent film directed by Carl Dreyer)
Spencer Burton – Further (Dine Alone Records)
Farees – Border Patrol
Mara Connor – Blues Run the Game
Anna Ash – Less Regret
Reilly Downes – Water’s Fine
Francesca Brown – Dirty Dust Bowls
Arlo McKinley – The Hurtin’s Done (OurVinyl Sessions)
Maggie Rose – What Are We Fighting For
Anders Osborne – Jacksonville to Wichita
Pine Hill Haints – Lone Star Kid
Roan Yellowthorn – Acid Trip (Blue Elan Records)
Sunny War – Losing Hand
Bridget Rian – Trailer Park Cemetery
Portland, Maine-based GoldenOak is the creative partnership between siblings Zak and Lena Kendall. The hush folk duo is preparing to release their sophomore LP, Room To Grow, on June 25th. Engineered by Ryan Ordway and Dan Capaldi, mixed by Ordway and Sam McArthur, and mastered by Adam Ayan, GoldenOak’s second studio album is a kinetic tribute to the untamed nature of climate change. READ MORE…
“How We See It Now” is the first record where we pooled our collective skills to collaborate. Usually I’m in the driver’s seat for most of our records, but because of all our pandemic isolation we really craved interaction. This was the easiest record to make in our catalog. Fortunately, there was no Real Housewives of June Star tension. These are songs about love, forgetfulness, enlightenment, regret, hope, and forgiveness– all the things we’ve been thinking about in the past year.” – Andrew Grimm, June Star