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Listen to live recordings of "C" and "Encrypted Bounce" now Published Jun 02, 2021 John Dwyers Osees have announced a new double LP of live recordings culled from a 2019 show. Their latest live album, Live at the Chapel, SF, will see physical release through Silver Current and arrive digitally via Castle Face on June 12. A press release describes the 53-minute performance as a "hi-fidelity live explosion of orc puke and kraut-gone-punk rock dominance." The physical editions of the record will ...

New Music Reviews (5/3) KEXP Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXPs rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from Dawn Richard, Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge) This New Orleans singer/songwriter/musician/producer’s sixth solo album is an adventurous blend of R&B, house, footwork, New Orleans bounce and m...

Listen 2 hr, 3 min MORE Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. Last night, I listened to The Fall - Live At St. Helens Technical College 81 LP + 7” that Castle Face has just released. This is such a great find. The sound quality is superb and the band is just incredible. It’s amazing that this show went unreleased for so long. If you’re a Fall fan, you really want to check this out. I went to the label’s Bandcamp page looking for a download vers...

Christian Eede , February 17th, 2021 01:37 Live At St. Helens Technical College 81 is described by then The Fall member as "one of the better sound-board recordings Id ever heard" A recording of a show played by The Fall in 1981 is to be released on vinyl by John Dwyers Castle Face Records. Speaking about Live At St. Helens Technical College 81, Marc Riley, who was part of The Fall from 1978 until 1983, says: "I stumbled upon the link to the recording of the St. Helens Technical College gig o...

New EP from rising country star Carly Pearce tops this week’s new releases Updated Feb 19, 2021; Posted Feb 16, 2021 Carly Pearce follows last year’s self-titled album with “29, a seven-track EP featuring the hit single, “Next Girl." (Photo: Big Machine) Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio - A country up-and-comer and some highly regarded veterans have new albums this week, but an “Essential” new edition of K-pop sensation BTS’ latest may just drown ‘em all out... Album of the Week...

In treading through the annals of rock music, it’s hard to argue that any approach to the genre has been more persistent than psychedelic-rock. From the jangling opening riff of 13th Floor Elevators’ “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” to the outpouring of groups that flocked to Haight-Ashbury in the late-60s (therein forging a widespread counterculture), to the shoegaze sounds that swept the U.K. throughout the 90s, rock artists have continuously found new ways to interpret the ever-malleable, ...

2 months ago M. Caye Castagnetto Leap Second LP Peruvian artist Caye Castagnetto (they/them) has released the official music video for “Slippery Snakes.” Influenced by a life split between Lima, London, and Twentynine Palms, Peru-born Caye Castagnetto’s Leap Second is an intriguingly personal and hard to classify debut album. Castagnetto’s debut LP Leap Second is out January 22nd on Castle Face Records. The album is a thick collage of samples Caye recorded with different artists and m...

The Fall (pic by Bruce Crawford) THE Fall has announced a new live album which will raise money for a homeless charity. The Fall – Live at St. Helens Technical College, ’81 will be released on vinyl on February 19, almost to the day of the gigs 40th anniversary. Half of all proceeds from the release will be donated to Centrepoint - a charity which provides accommodation and support to homeless people aged 16–25. The recording features one of the bands classic line ups featuring br...

Hi folks! Since I have now completed my two countdown radio shows for the Top 50 albums of 2020—see the big takeover “radio” button above to hear one song from each!—here is my complete list of the 180 best albums, 100 best archive/retrospective/reissue releases, and 100 best stand-alone singles and EPs of this previous year—my best bets on another great year for music, old and new. And in one of the worst years of our lifetimes, here’s a small tip of my well-worn ballcap in profoun...

The Fall performing live in 1981. Credit: Steve Rapport/Getty Images The Fall are set to release a new live album next month – get all the details on ‘The Fall: Live at St. Helens Technical College, ’81’ below. The new album was unearthed by BBC Radio 6 Music presenter and former Fall bassist Marc Riley, who presented it to John Dwyer, singer of Osees and head of the Castle Face label, who will release the album on February 19. Speaking of the album, which will come out exclusively on v...