With a double helix DNA of jagged guitar lines and strident vocal melodies, Philadelphia-based indie-rockers Church Girls are hitting all the sweet spots. Today, AltPress is premiering “Nothing,” the first track on The Haunt, their second album, slated for release on Chatterbot Records Feb. 7
Earlier this year Philadelphia punk band Church Girls released an EP called Cycles, which was a short but sweet showcase of their well-balanced blend of post-punk and indie rock. Now they’re releasing a new full-length in 2020 called The Haunt. Today we’re excited to premiere its dynamic first single, “Could’ve Been.” The track picks up right where the quartet left off with their EP, with open strummed guitar chords, emotive singing from Mariel Beaumont and plenty of moments for live fists-to-the-sky singalong moments.
Glide is proud to premiere the official video for “Mama’s Got Brand New Shoes” (below) a sublime ray of celestial folk, earthy joy and graceful melodies that blossom with a purism reminiscent of Yola and Brandi Carlile. The track sparkles with a joyous boogie that takes listeners down the way of 60’s stalwarts Canned Heat, with an expressive candor that radiates of self-expression.
Three albums and an EP into their career, Mail the Horse are grabbing the present by channelling times past on a new album of county-tinged blues rock. So used are we to viewing time as a linear, that we are conditioned to thinking that the passing of time is inextricably linked to progress. READ MORE…
“I found out what was right only by getting it wrong,” writes Rachel Joyce in her gut-pummeling book, “The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.” Through the eyes of the kind-hearted, perhaps far too naive, and sensitive Queenie Hennessy, you begin to unfurl truths about living, loving and dying from which the reader comes to greater understanding of their own journey. Indie-folk singer-songwriter Shane Palko finds himself and a version of such enriching knowledge through his musical adventures across the Tanzania earth – collecting insight and human encounters in his path. READ MORE…
New York-based Americana artist Mosa (aka Melissa Frabotta) released single “Mama’s Got Brand New Shoes” with another — “Hard Times” — set to follow. Both of the tunes and their tonality are classic, working class folk.
Premiering on American Songwriter, “Mama’s Got Brand New Shoes” offers a rockabilly anthem that sets ‘Mama’ on a course to fun and freedom while moving away from the mundane.