A darker yet delicately rendered work from Kristin Hersh, Sugar On Blackstone explores life and death, enrichment and poverty, and the small but defining moments of childhood that continue to echo through adult life. Deeply personal and emotionally expansive, the album reflects on the lasting bonds between musicians, family and friends, and the way certain sounds, places and memories can suddenly bring someone vividly back into focus.
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.
Following the original album’s release in May 2026, the Expansion Pack ventures deeper into a medieval world of knights and merchants, almoners and thieves. Percussive medieval textures, fretted guitars, brass fanfares, atmospheric strings and piano reshape dungeon synth into something vividly Reynolds’ own: an imagined soundtrack steeped in folklore, fantasy and adventure
Out 9th September, new single ‘Rake’, is the haunting first single from their forthcoming release Townesville that coincides with their upcoming UK and European ‘Love Chant’ tour. A tribute to the immortal songwriting of Townes Van Zandt, the project serves as a natural extension of Evan Dando’s lifelong trajectory as a song collector, wanderer, and authentic American troubadour
Closing track from the new album, ‘Oral Tradition’ showcases the band’s singular approach to collective music-making on the new release. It sees the trio blending electronic textures, shifting rhythms and surreal imagery with their signature soundscapes.
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.