With a long holiday weekend approaching, spend some quality time with a newly released album. Americana lifer Lucinda Williams couples her memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, with her similarly reflective fifteenth album, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart. On I’ve Got Me, Free at Noon guest Joanna Sternberg confronts depression and imposter syndrome with a disarming amount of charm. Grian Chatten steps away from Fontaines D.C. to make his acoustic-focused solo debut, Chaos for the Fly.
Scott McCaughey and Steve Wynn reconvene The Baseball Project for Grand Salami Time!; over a dozen extra innings exploring forgotten tales of our national pastime. Recorded during his multi-night homestand this past fall, Alex G‘s Live from Union Transfer is a vinyl-only victory lap from the Philly mainstay.
PRESS PLAY on these new releases below. Listen for spotlights on new records like these (and more) every Friday on the XPN Morning Show and Indie Rock Hit Parade.
Lucinda Williams – Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart
CHECK OUT: “New York Comeback” “Stolen Moments”
Joanna Sternberg – I’ve Got Me
CHECK OUT: “I’ve Got Me” “Mountains High”
Grian Chatten – Chaos for the Fly
CHECK OUT: “Fairlies” “The Score”
The Baseball Project – Grand Salami Time!
CHECK OUT: “Grand Salami Time” “Journeyman”
Alex G – Live from Union Transfer
CHECK OUT: “Runner” “Cross the Sea”
FURTHER LISTENING
A Place to Bury Strangers – Live at Levitation, Angelo De Augustine – Toil and Trouble, bdrmm – I Don’t Know, Blossom Dearie – Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years London 1966-1970, Body of Light – Bitter Reflection, Brigid Mae Power – Dream from the Deep Well, Charlie Watts – Anthology, The Durutti Column – Time Was Gigantic… When We Were Kids (25th Anniversary Deluxe), Frank Zappa – Funky Nothingness, Grateful Dead – Here Comes Sunshine 1973, Hayden Pedigo – The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored, The Japanese House – In the End it Always Does, John Caroll Kirby – Blowout, Matisyahu – Live in Brooklyn, Pierre Kwenders – Jose Louis and the Paradox of Love (Deluxe Edition), Sweeping Promises – Good Living is Coming For You, Wallice – Mr. Big Shot EP
