News and Notes 
News and Notes: Welcoming Welcome Wagon
I’ve seen Welcome Wagon play exactly two times and own only one of their recordings on an old compilation, but I consider myself a big fan because I’m pretty sure I’ve been exposed to a large percentage of the material the Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife Monique have ever played live or recorded. […]
News and Notes: Apocalyptic Noah film in the works?
What does the story of a giant ark, animals two-by-two and a dude named Noah have to do with environmental degradation and the apocalypse? Both are in the description of a Daren Aronofsky project he has apparently envisioned since he was a teenager when he wrote a poem about the end of the world as […]
Ray Boltz comes out
Ray Boltz, a Christian artist whose music was more or less the soundtrack of my Christian camp experience growing up, came out of the closet Friday in advance of concerts he is expected to give at gay affirming churches in Indianapolis and Washington D.C. Boltz, who sold 4.5 million records before retiring from Christian music, […]
News and Notes: Chesnutt and Elf Power collaborate
A tuneful collision of Athens, Georgia’s Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power has birthed The Amorphous Strums and a nine-song recording due out on Orange Twin Records Oct. 28, according to a press release. Counting his two collaborations with Widespread Panic under the moniker brute, Dark Developments is Chesnutt’s 15th album. Elf Power, of the renown […]
News and Notes: Crooked Fingers to release fifth LP
Crooked Fingers will be releasing their fifth LP, titled Forfeit/Fortune October 7 on Red Pig/Constant Artists, Inc, according to the band’s Web site. Produced by Mark Nevers (Andrew Bird, Lambchop, Silver Jews), Alex McManus (The Bruces, Bright Eyes) and Eric Bachmann in Nashville, Denver and Tucson last spring, Forfeit/Fortune is the band’s first release […]
News: Vote ‘Do you realize?’ Oklahoma’s rock song
While I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out why “Jesus Shooting Heroin” or “Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles” didn’t make it to the finals, it’s pretty exciting to think that The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize?” has a shot at becoming the state of Oklahoma’s official rock song, even if the […]
News: LAKE to release K debut in October
LAKE, the super cool indie-pop band that toured with Half-Handed Cloud earlier this year, is set to release their K Records debut next month (Oct. 21 to be precise). From the press release: On their first K release, (Oh, the places we’ll go) LAKE crafts up-beat, dance-able, psychedelic, uniquely sincere and unaffected pop songs, ranging […]
News: Danielson to release anthology
A 28-song anthology of pre-Ships Danielson material is set to be released in November, according to a report by Pitchfork. The collection is going to be entitled Trying Hartz and is scheduled for release by Secretly Canadian on November 4, according to Pitchfork. Secretly Canadian, which has released and re-released all seven Danielson full-length recordings since they enlisted […]