After over 20 years of record making, Major Stars have arrived at "roots" and "seeds" of their inspiration. Riding a creative hot streak including 2016's Motion Set, the creative current is presently in a mega-waxing state, with momentum that won't quit! In times like these, it's easy to feel connected to sources like roots and seeds - and when you lay the needle onto this platter, you too will feel this inspiration.
 

Laughing Matter is one of the deepest head trips of an album of this (or any) year, and its creator, Wand, simply won't quit! Fresh off a triumphant tour of the USA, this summer is about to become certifiably endless as Wand set their sites on Europe (for the 2nd time this year!) in August! Taking it to festivals across the mainland before practically immigrating to the UK, where Wand's  no-clubs-pubs-or-halls-left-behind approach indicates a deep affection for olde Blighty, it's a satisfyingly dense tour... (read more)

Ow! Summer 2019 won't be the summer that wuz without a blast from Dead Rider! Once the smoke clears, you'll be burning HOT down the avenue with the deal of a lifetime: a new single straight off the lot, "The Sale"! Dead Rider's  industrial-strength deviant blues-funk is boiled down to a single-dose transmission: tolerable toxicity, with variable-speed beats and raps pushing golden age automaton U-S-A-isms (with a swirl of acrid bitterness for taste, of course) - a... (read more)

More than 50 years since he wrote his first country hit, Chris Gantry lives and sings today like the raw outlaw he was back then, just with a wiser world view that only comes with great - and sometimes not-so-great - life experience. While many of his contemporaries have been lost to the years, Chris continues to write and perform with grizzled purpose and ferver, as the song-stories found on his forthcoming Nashlantis album testify! Nashlantis is a country-folk séance of the human spirit; at... (read more)