The Fat Angel Sings

Warren Zevon’s final concert, recorded August 9th, 2002 at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, double LP available for the first time at your local indie store for Record Store Day/Black Friday. Luckily, 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Warren Zevon left us with a treasure trove of nearly four decades of incredible songs and performances. Neither Warren, nor his long-time band member, accompanist, and friend Matt Cartsonis, nor the 14,000 people in attendance at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival knew this would be Warren’s final concert—it was just another great performance from an exceptional songwriter and artist. “Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival” offers you the chance to experience it for the first time, or relive it if you were there.

Featuring Warren on guitar, harmonica, and piano, with Cartsonis adding guitar, dulcimer, fiddle, harmonies and more, the pair run through classics like “Werewolves Of London,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me,” Lawyers, Guns And Money,” and “Play It All Night Long.” The set also features a performance of the song “Dirty Life And Times,” only ever played twice! The pair found room in the set to pay tribute to Canada with a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” and the traditional, “Canadee-i-o.”

Available on double black Vinyl (with etched fourth side) for Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival has been mastered and restored by multiple Grammy-winning engineer Michael Graves and Jordan McLeod of Osiris Studio with Matt Cartsonis. Cartsonis also adds poignant liner notes about the performance, and insight into his musical relationship and friendship with Zevon.

Luckily, 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Warren Zevon left us with a treasure trove of nearly four decades of incredible songs and performances. Neither Warren, nor his long-time band member, accompanist, and friend Matt Cartsonis, nor the 14,000 people in attendance at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival knew this would be Warren’s final concert—it was just another great performance from an exceptional songwriter and artist. “Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival” offers you the chance to experience it for the first time, or relive it if you were there.

“Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival” is a gift from a truly legendary singer and songwriter. Play it all night long, indeed.

“Once in a lifetime the power is ours, but we’d rather stare at our phones,” Grammy-Award winner Aoife O’Donovan sings on the first verse of her new single “Over The Finish Line.” Written by O’Donovan shortly after the murder of George Floyd, “Over The Finish Line” reflects on the state of the country and reminds listeners of our civic duty to vote and fight for positive change. The poignant, wistful track features Luke Reynolds on pedal steel and Tony and Grammy-Award winning musician Anaïs Mitchell, marking one of Mitchell’s first releases since the well-received opening of Hadestown in London’s West End. 

Aoife O’Donovan’s new solo album “All My Friends” is inspired by the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. O’Donovan infuses the experiences of the Suffragettes, who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment and paved the way for their daughters, with her own experiences as a modern woman who wants to build a future for her own daughter. The project – O’Donovan’s first self-produced album – features a number of special guests including Anaïs Mitchell, Sierra Hull, Noam Pikelny, Alan Hampton, Griffin Goldsmith and more.

Most of the songs on the album grew out of two commissions O’Donovan took on – from the Orlando Philharmonic where she now lives, and the FreshGrass Festival in her native Massachusetts. Following performances with both institutions, O’Donovan continued to explore the themes that would become “All My Friends” in full.

The legendary Young Fresh Fellows took one day off their hectic touring schedule to head to Wilco‘s Loft studio in Chicago. The band got Grammy winner Tom Schick behind the boards and some legendary guests across the album, including Neko Case, John Stirratt of Wilco, Morgan Fisher of Mott The Hoople, Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven, Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists (accordion, harmony vocals), Mark Greenberg of Eleventh Dream Day (vibraphone), Peter Buck of R.E.M. (12-string guitar), and Dave “Max” Crawford of Poi Dog Pondering (trumpet). This finished record, “Loft”, has never been released before and is finally seeing the light of day for the Young Fresh Fellows‘ 40th anniversary.”

Seattle Legends the Young Fresh Fellows released new album “Loft” as a 2025 Record Store Black Friday exclusive but it’s not getting a proper release on March 27th via Yep Roc. It features appearances from Neko Case, Peter Buck, and more and here’s “Three Gasconading Saints” which frontman Scott McCaughey says was his suggestion to Jeff Tweedy when asked to give a potential album title.

Kurt Bloch – guitars Scott McCaughey – vocals Jim Sangster – bass John Perrin – drums Joe Adragna – saxophone

Rock and Roll legend Robert Plant, the former frontman for Led Zepplin, is covering traditional folk in his latest album, “Saving Grace,” and touring the U.S. with his band to support the album. Here’s Robert Plant with “Higher Rock.”

Robert Plant performed on CBS Saturday Morning to talk with Robert Costa and his touring band performed a Saturday Session set with Saving Grace—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown the set came from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.

They performed three songs from their new album, “Saving Grace”—”Higher Rock,” “It’s a Beautiful Day,” and “Everybody’s Song.”

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“Secret Love” is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning. Here, frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard take their place in rock’s avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence’s delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates’ soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins. Producer Cate Le Bon likens the impression of listening to walking through a city; these 11 songs might also arrive like distinct images in a gallery.

Dry Cleaning have announced the new album, “Secret Love”, which will be out January 9th via 4AD. The album was produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at Wilco’s Loft studio in Chicago. “Being in a room with them and hearing that vitality and life force that exists between them all, it’s such a unique expression,” Le Bon says.

The first single is the album’s opening track, “Hit My Head All Day,” a slow strut with dubby post-punk bones. “The song is about manipulation of the body and mind,” singer Florence Shaw says. “The lyrics were initially inspired by the use of misinformation on social media by the far right. There are powerful people that seek to influence our behaviour for their own gain; to buy certain things, to vote a certain way. I find it hard to read people’s intentions and decide who to trust, even in everyday life. It’s easy to fall under the influence of a sinister stranger who seems like a friend. We took a playful approach to the song. At one point it had harmonica on it instead of a vocal. At the demo stage we were inspired by There’s a Riot Goin’ On by Sly and the Family Stone.”

‘Cruise Ship Designer’, the second single to be taken from ‘Secret Love’ (released January 9th) is out now. The video for the track features Lewis Maynard at The Ivy House in Nunhead. 

To celebrate the single announcement, an outstore tour during the release week of ‘Secret Love’ will take place at the following venues in the UK. Ticket bundles will be onsale from 10am UK on Wednesday 12th November.

9 January – BRIGHTON, UK, Chalk (Resident) 
10 January – LONDON, UK, Rough Trade East 
13 January – BRISTOL, UK, Strange Brew (Rough Trade) 
14 January – LEEDS, UK, Brudenell (Crash) 
15 January – NOTTINGHAM, UK, Metronome (Rough Trade)

“Secret Love” is a singular, career-defining statement, coming after debut “New Long Leg” (2021) and “Stumpwork” (2022) and will be released on 9th January 2026 via 4AD Records.

Snocaps performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (November 18th), marking their late-night debut and first show ever. Katie and Allison Crutchfield christened their new indie-rock project with a live rendition of “Coast,” from their self-titled debut album. 

Just a few weeks ago, the twin sisters and past bandmates Katie and Allison Crutchfield unveiled Snocaps, their new band with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook, and they surprise-released their deeply satisfying self-titled album. Snocaps have a very limited number of live shows coming up, and then Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman will head out on a bigger co-headlining tour next year.

Musical guest Snocaps performs “Coast” for The Tonight Show.

Last month, Snocaps with a surprise-album released in full. Their recording line-up on that LP includes Allison and Katie Crutchfield sharing singing duties and playing guitar, Lenderman handling drums, Cook—Waxahatchee’s longtime producer—on bass, and a handful of others contributing backing vocals or small parts. It’s the latest side-project by the twin sisters, who played together in P.S. Eliot and Bad Banana before starting their bands Waxahatchee and Swearin’.But Snocaps’ first-ever live performance wasn’t in front of the people who fought to get tickets to those few live shows. Instead, it was a one-song set on Tuesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show.

Geese are the first act to play Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement series in almost three years. In a new episode of the iconic live-in-studio music series, the New York band, led by Cameron Winter, ran through a nearly 35-minute set of songs from the new album “Getting Killed”.

Following its original run from 2006 to 2009, Godrich relaunched From the Basement in 2022. The series has since featured performances by Idles, Caribou, and Squid. Prior to Geese, Godrich’s last From the Basement guest was Nilüfer Yanya.

“Getting Killed” came out in September. Geese recently shared a music video for the album track “Au Pays du Cocaine” and stopped by the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, where they covered New Radicals’ 1990s classic “You Get What You Give.”

This set includes recordings of tracks from Geese’s album “Getting Killed”

Setlist: 0:00 Trinidad 5:14 Husbands 10:03 Islands of Men 17:35 Half Real 22:07 100 Horses 25:44 Au Pays du Cocaine 29:55

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Singer-songwriters Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover make good on the promise of their 2018 EP, Among Horses III, with the spry, conversational folk of follow-up What of Our Nature. Written on opposite coasts and recorded, straight-through and direct to tape, in Vermont, the album is imbued with the spirit of Woody Guthrie, whose writings the pair studied as they dreamt up the inquiries into colonialism, generational identity, and commercialism that comprise the album.

Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs this time inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie.

released November 21st 2025

All songs written and performed by Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover.

Kai Slater is obsessed with the past. For those of us who share his interests, that’s working out splendidly. Slater, a 21-year-old Chicago singer-songwriter, first gained renown as a member of Lifeguard, a trio whose noisy, melodic post-punk songs turn ’70s and ’80s classics into rocket fuel. He dresses like a mod dandy and publishes a handmade zine titled for NEU!’s krautrock classic “Hallogallo.” It’s not just that he devours the stylistic palette of the 20th century underground; he’s also keeping the flame for its DIY ethos, gritty and grounded in community. 

Kai Slater’s Sharp Pins have served up another single from their forthcoming LP “Balloon Balloon Balloon”. Following up ‘I Wanna Be Your Girl’ is the lonesome yet bouncy ‘I Don’t Have the Heart’.

Submission. That’s the word that comes to mind when tasked with spending time on the overwhelming pop planet that belongs to Kai Slater’s Sharp Pins. The universe only works when you submit: submit to love, submit to rock music. Submission to the power that comes from a kid wielding his guitar to craft impeccable guitar pop that stands in a pantheon of idols he joins with this record.  

Of course it makes sense to be mad at first. Everyone was mad at Big Star for getting too close to the Beatles. And everyone will be mad at Sharp Pins for doing the same and then adding Guided by Voices into the mix. How dare he? The hubris. What 20 year old thinks they can out Robert Pollard the man himself? “Queen of Globes and Mirrors?” Criminal. With a worse crime of crafting songs so puzzlingly timeless, a listener may well believe they were poached from a lost Beatles tape. “I Don’t Have the Heart” and “(I Want to) Be Your Girl” genuinely confuse from when or where they were made.  

But if “Balloon Balloon Balloon” reminds us of anything, it’s that only Kai can do this. With his 12-string and indefatigable obsession with pop music, Slater is uniquely equipped to carry the mantle of not only Pollard and Chilton, but the Byrds too, or the Temptations, the Four Tops, and every other artist trying to nail true love to tape. He employs the “asking for forgiveness not permission” tactic when tasked with borrowing from these greats, our only option is to forgive Slater for giving us these gems of rock n roll- propelling it from the past into a future so melodiously flawless, yet jagged and sincere, we can’t help but thank him too for rescuing the genre from irrelevance.  

Because what Slater adds is entirely his own. An ineffable songwriting sensibility, that despite the heavy borrowing, can only be his. By the end of the album, you swallow whatever anger or incredulity you may have had and accept that yes, the Sharp Pins really are that good. Throughout the spanning but never indulgent LP, crafts a world peppered with small pop gems, so simply and stupidly good, they remind us another world is possible. Because it’s not just that the songs are impossible to get out of your head, which they are. It’s that Slater’s own devotion to this pursuit of the perfect pop song makes us believe it is not only possible, but enough to give life shape and colour again. Fall in Love Again is not a suggestion, it’s a requirement. Not just with a beautiful girl, of whom there are many on the album, but with the world itself. Perhaps only then will it be possible to push toward the future that 20 year old Slater himself dreams of, but in the meantime, we have his love letters to rock n’ roll and the world around it to keep us company.

“Sharp Pins tingle and jingle and spangle – acupuncture for the soul, threading a much-needed shot of 1965 into the tired hide of today. Or you could just say they’re a crack in the sky where the sun shines through. Or you could just say they’re fab!” – Robyn Hitchcock

“Youth-full popkids of the world, unite!

Fall in Love again with “Balloon Balloon Balloon”  

When Robert Plant first stepped behind the Tiny Desk on a blustery Halloween afternoon, he took stock of the relatively stripped-down setup. “This is just like Live Aid,” he said with a smile. “I couldn’t hear myself there either.” He was referring to the fact we don’t amplify voices or use monitors so artists can hear themselves. But if ever there was someone up to the challenge, it’s Robert Plant. With a voice that’s only gotten better with age, Plant has deftly moved from the full-throated rock and swagger of Led Zeppelin to the more restrained and profoundly beautiful folk, blues and roots music found on more recent recordings.

His latest solo album, “Saving Grace”, is a collection of covers that range from the traditional spiritual “Gospel Plough” to “It’s A Beautiful Day Today” by Moby Grape, a psychedelic rock band that, Plant says, still makes him “weepy.” Plant and his band perform both songs for this set, along with a version of “Higher Rock” by the singer-songwriter Martha Scanlan and Low’s “Everybody’s Song.”

They close with a new arrangement of “Gallows Pole,” another traditional Plant first reinterpreted for the “Led Zeppelin III” album in 1969.

SET LIST: “Gospel Plough” “Higher Rock” “Everybody’s Song” “It’s a Beautiful Day Today” “Gallows Pole” MUSICIANS: Robert Plant: vocals, harmonica Suzi Dian: vocals, accordion Matt Worley: guitar, banjo, cuatro, background vocals Tony Kelsey: guitar Barney Morse-Brown: cello Oli Jefferson: drums