WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Kate Fagan, Cover It Up, from the album, I Don’t Want to Be Cool. Kate Fagan took the Chicago punk rock scene by storm in the early 80’s with her self-released single “I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool, ” which became the best-selling single ever by a local artist at the legendary Wax Trax! Records. Today, Captured Tracks is thrilled to present an expanded, re-mastered edition of I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool as a full-length vinyl album, featuring four unreleased, ahead-of-their-time tracks.

Lisa O’Neill. Old Note from the album, All of This is Chance. Raw and unvarnished folk for austere times. Uncomprimising, stunning, soul-shaking stuff - The Guardian. Releases February 10, 2023

Screaming Females, track: Brass Bell, for the album Desire Pathway out Feb. 17. The trio recorded Desire Pathway at Pachyderm Studios, the same Minnesota space where Nirvana recorded 1993’s In Utero. Bandleader Marissa Paternoster shared a brief statement about “Brass Bell,” calling it “a song about surrendering your autonomy to something so overwhelmingly powerful you willingly relinquish your ambitions and self-worth.” 

Purling Hiss, track: Yer All in My Dreams, for the pre-release, Drag On Girard. Release 3/24/2023

Superchunk, prerelease Everything Hurts. Single. McCaughan told Stereogum about the 7 inch: Perhaps because they are more traditionally “Superchunk”-sounding than the rest of the LP (“Everything Hurts” could be from Come Pick Me Up, and “Making a Break” has What a Time to Be Alive energy)? Who knows! So here are these misfits from the Wild Loneliness sessions, recorded at home in Chapel Hill and mixed by Wally Gagel in LA.

From SF! First full-length in 15 years coming out. Here's a sneak peak. Go Lori S.!

The Men was formed by Nick Chiericozzi, Chris Hansell, and Mark Perro in 2008 in Brooklyn.

"Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. It is told from the point of view of a man falsely accused of murder and executed. He refuses to provide an alibi, since on the night of the murder he was having an extramarital affair with his best friend's wife, and would rather die and take their secret to his grave than admit the truth. The chorus describes the woman's mourning visits to his gravesite, wearing a long black veil and enduring a wailing wind.

Durham, North Carolina singer, guitarist, and folksong interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell (yes, that’s his real middle name, after Georgia potter D.X. Gordy) has distinguished himself as one of his generation’s preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) “folk” songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia and preciousness.

Stepping Out from the album, Structure Demos. Water From Your Eyes, the New York duo composed of Nate Amos (he/him) and Rachel Brown (they/them). Both known independently for their solo work under the names This Is Lorelei and Thanks For Coming respectively, the pair have been together since 2016, Now on Wharf Cat Records, the beloved Brooklyn label.

Wand is an American psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States, formed in 2013. The band consists of Cory Hanson, Sofia Arreguin, Robert Cody, Lee Landey and Evan Burrows.

Lots of Dungeons and Dragons references in the lyrics here. Check it out!

Gina Birch is an English musician and filmmaker, best known as a founding member of post-punk rock band, the Raincoats.

a non-sequitir for ya, one-off not in 2022.

The Golden Willow Tree Library of Congress AFS 3714 B. Collected by Alan Lomax and Helen Hartness Flanders. Informant/Performer Elmer George, North Montpelier, VT, 1939. Used by Aaron Copland. From the Library of Congress: Two years after the success of his first set of Old American Songs, Copland arranged a second set of American folk tunes for voice and piano. As he had done with the American debut of the first set of songs, Copland once again accompanied baritone William Warfield in the premiere performance of the sequel set on 24 July 1953. Copland later transcribed both sets of Old American Songs for performance by vocal soloist and orchestra, which were later arranged for chorus and piano and chorus and orchestra by Irving Fine and many others.

R.I.P. Yukihiro Takahashi.