From Royal Trux to RTX to Black Bananas, Jennifer Herrema’s work has never divided into separate phases so much as continued in motion. As HERO Magazine observed, she has been “surfing the Rad Times Xpress for three decades” a trajectory defined less by reinvention than by sustained evolution.
Listen to the latest single and title track, a masterclass in classic songwriting that could easily have slipped into Sinatra’s repertoire. A ballad about hope, faith, yearning, and the promise of a brighter tomorrow, it’s a song Fagan wrote as a 24-year-old that feels all the more poignant and affecting sung by him now, in the autumn of his years.
Here, separated from the album, the music has space to ebb and flow, lingering in shimmering ambience. Three of the songs on the EP are atmospheric instrumentals, a slight departure from Donaldson's classic songwriting, yet retaining the emotional depth that makes the music so captivating.
For the first time since 1981, the release restores the original front cover from San Francisco’s 415 Records edition. The 15-track 2xLP is cut at 45 rpm, for maximum sonic depth and clarity.
Recorded over three nights during a sold-out residency at NYC venue TV Eye, Inflatable Graveyard Vol. 2 finds the band at the height of their incendiary powers. It is the sound of the band in their natural habitat, turning already combustible songs into something even more ferocious and unpredictable.
Here, separated from the album, the music has space to ebb and flow, lingering in shimmering ambience. Three of the songs on the EP are atmospheric instrumentals, a slight departure from Donaldson's classic songwriting, yet retaining the emotional depth that makes the music so captivating.
Following on from 2023’s Clear Pond Road, Kristin Hersh returns with new solo set Sugar On Blackstone out 18th September on Fire Records along with an extensive tour this Autumn across the UK, Europe and Australia.
'Season Of The Peach (Deluxe Edition)' which brings together their latest album, 'Season of the Peach' and 'Bebop Armageddon' available in streaming for the first time. The release coincided with the band’s forthcoming West Coast North American dates
Like fruit ripened through patience, ‘Sugar Stone’ holds sweetness and density in equal measure. A melting Precision Bass and distant piano stabs carry the music upward, suspended between gravity and grace. Cathy Lucas adds, “Sugar Stone is about how time feels to me right now at this moment in my life. It can be counted now at the breakneck rate of an infant’s changing eyes.”