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ALBUM PREMIERE: “COLLECTING TRIP” BY R. FINN

With haunting yet hopeful arrangements and heart-wrenchingly poignant lyrics, R. Finn has put his kickstand down in the midst of the vast Americana landscape to create a bar-raising deep dive into the best attributes of the genre on his forthcoming album, Collecting Trip, set for release on January 19th.

Following a two-year stint working with The Band’s Levon Helm at his studio in Woodstock, New York, Finn returned to Los Angeles and started his own recording studio and creative space, The Heritage Recording Co., in a converted factory. It was in that studio that Finn recorded Collecting Trip—a ten-track collection of timeless Americana co-produced by legendary drummer Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon) which features contributions from Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), Sean and Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), and many others.

The LP’s title not only references the “collecting trips” taken by folk musicologists John and Alan Lomax, but also what the album represents to Finn: all the years of accumulating songs, players, styles and gear that have resulted in his affecting, long-evolving sound. And then there’s his deep devotion as a student of songwriting and music history. “I’m just trying to do what I love and what I listen to,” Finn says. “I’m always trying to evoke Ray Charles or Woody Guthrie.”

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Kellen of Troy – “Selfish Kind of Love”

Kellen of Troy, aka Kellen Wenrich, has played alongside a long list of notables (Jenny Lewis, Mumford and Sons, The Wild Feathers, RayLand Baxter) but is likely best known to Nashville residents as the fiddle player in The Apache Relay. He released his Sad Bastard EP in 2017 and is now following up with a proper full-length.

The debut LP, Posthumous Release, is due Feb 16th and is preceded by a few singles: “Selfish Kind of Love” and “So You Found Yourself a Rockstar“. Both give a good indication of the sort of diversity you’ll find on the forthcoming record. The former being an indie-folk tale with confessional self-deprecation firmly in tow and the later being more of a Dr. Dog-esque pop/rock ditty fully vetted for summertime vibes.

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Indie-folk/dreampop artist Misty Boyce shares new single at Nylon

Misty Boyce is a goddamn rockstar. A piano player by trade, Boyce (and all her pent-up emotions) comes alive when the guitar’s in her hand. “Nothing gives me more satisfaction than putting on an electric guitar, turning the amp as loud as it goes, and just rocking out,” she tells us. So she did just that on the brink of a breakup. “I Don’t Wanna Be Yer Gurl” is the result. READ MORE…

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Nashville jangle-punks Datenight share new single “No Lines” at Riot Fest Magazine

Datenight consists of three Nashville kids who like to play music together and try to stay away from Instagram. They live with their parents and work at pizza joints. Their singer wears the same thing every day. They like to ride around the neighborhood on bikes and skateboards, and run away from the cops when they’re caught sneaking beers into the park late at night. Bass player Isaac Talbot is late to band practice, drummer Thomas Borelli hangs out with his family’s dogs, and singer/guitarist Grayton Green forgets to clean his room. Their press release calls them “the real deal” — and by that, they claim to mean that the band writes really good songs, play very wild live shows, and they have fun doing it. READ MORE…

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mxdwn premiere Cheap Tissue’s self-titled track off their debut self-titled LP, out March 2nd on Lolipop Records

Los Angeles quartet Cheap Tissue play punk the way it was meant to be: fast, no-frills and with a hard-hitting attitude. They fit perfectly into the lineage of classic punk bands, a few of which (The Vibrators, The Zeros) they’ve even opened for. mxdwn has the premiere of the title track from the band’s self-titled LP, which will be released on March 2. The group consists of members Andrew Taylor (Guitar), Jesse Youngblood (Guitar), John Tyree (Bass) and Matthew Spizer (drums).

Taylor and Youngblood lead the way vocally, delivering caustic yelps atop the blistering instrumentals. The four musicians move all over the punk spectrum, varying tempos and chord progressions to make the song feel a lot longer than its sub-two-minute runtime. Cheap Tissue is promised to be “12 tracks of unapologetic, blitzkrieg rock.” Speaking to the punk rock attitude of the band, their album was produced by Ignacio Gonzalez of Lolipop Records over the course of one session. That’s jammin’ econo.

While the band name may sound like its a reference to inexpensive bathroom paper, that is not the case at all. “Contrary to many hilarious Instagram hashtags (Seriously, check it out… There’s some funny shit). It’s not about fucking toilet paper.” said Taylor. “It’s about cheap human meat-bag body tissue and the fact that you, your life and your physical body are not as important as you might think.”

That sentiment may sound a little bit of a downer from a band playing aggressive but fairly upbeat-sounding music. But Taylor promises they’re not just a bunch of negative, harsh guys. “We’re not,” he said. “Ask around… We smile, we laugh. The name is just as much about us as anybody else. So are the songs for that matter. But we went with the theme for many of the songs we were writing at the time.”

Though the song and band name are the same, they are about two different things. “The song is about a fictional, dark romance with an indication of mental illness in the relationship,” Taylor explains. “It alludes to a woman killing her partner in a case of jealousy and possession. She then proceeds to think of her love, along with her hate and contempt that caused the loss of her love, due to her own actions. The last line (‘She said to me that love is never free and always costly / She said to me that tissue is so god damn cheap / Does it end or last forever? She called out from the street.’) shows the manifestation of her grief, and how love, regret and the strife that comes along with life, overall, may or may not last forever.”

Cheap Thrills will be playing a couple of free shows at The Echo in Los Angeles, CA this month on January 17 and 24.