The Fat Angel Sings

A new concert film and soundtrack surrounding Neil Young’s 2023 solo tour will arrive in the spring. “Coastal” will screen in theatre for one night only on April 17th, and the 11-song soundtrack album will arrive the next day.

The movie was directed by actress Daryl Hannah, Young’s wife, from footage shot during the singer-songwriter’s 2023 solo “Coastal” tour of the U.S., where he performed songs throughout his long career accompanied by guitar, piano and harmonica. “Coastal: The Soundtrack” is a live recording and companion piece to the Daryl Hannah-directed tour documentary .  

The solo album features 11-songs selected from Young’s 60-year career, recorded live on his 2023 tour, ranging from “I Am a Child” to “Vampire Blues,” and featuring Young on guitars, piano and harmonica.   It is as intimate a live album as Neil Young has ever recorded, created at a time when the world was coming out of hibernation from the Covid pandemic. Recorded in several cities, it is an album for the ages as the singer-songwriter finds new emotional power in 11 of his songs.

The album is available for preorder on Young’s site. The movie includes performances and backstage shots. Behind-the-scenes footage shows Young as he prepares for his first post-COVID tour. He performs several classic songs in the film, including early cuts such as “Expecting to Fly” and “I Am a Child” from his Buffalo Springfield days.

Rodeo Boys’ new album “Junior” captures the quiet rebellion of a the blue-collar heart. The Lansing, MI-based band––fronted by guitarist/vocalist Tiff Hannay (they/them), guitarist Caleb Shook (he/him), bassist Taylor “Doty”(he/him) and drummer Christian Urabazzo (he/him)––blends a dirt-under-the-nails grit with campy, sardonic humour in a way that only a group of small-town misfits could pull off. 

Produced by Tom May (The Menzingers), half of the tracks on “Junior” are no-nonsense anthems of revenge, and the other half are tales of desperate gay love and identity. 

First single “All American Man” falls under the latter, and draws its inspiration from the Laura Gilpin poem, Two-Headed Calf. Elsewhere, “Junior” chisels through tales of heartbreak and revenge from a unique perspective, with a ferocity akin to The Pixies, The Breeders, Mannequin Pussy, and Destroy Boys.

Album standouts like “Cowgirl in the Dark” reflect Tiff’s admiration for the often misunderstood Pam Anderson, and “Sam’s Song” captures the emotional weight of witnessing a friend endure predatory abuse––and even references journal entries with permission from the victim. The fired-up onslaught of “Speedway” and “Pump Six” pay homage to The Clash’s “Straight To Hell,” throwing shade at former friends that threw away their potential by being an abusive person.

Across its 14 tracks, “Junior” is a collision of fiery punk rage, salt-of-the-earth passion, and melodic emo; a cathartic soundtrack for anyone still trying to find their place in it all.

Celebrate a decade of Turnover’s iconic sophomore album “Peripheral Vision” with this 10 Year Anniversary Edition. Retaining the album’s iconic cover art, the packaging has been completely overhauled to include a new lyric poster & printed photo inner sleeve.

Released on May 4th, 2015 via Run For Cover Records, Turnover’s second album “Peripheral Vision” is widely regarded as an essential body of the work in the band’s discography, maturing its sound into a shoegaze-inflected post-punk direction following the band’s 2013 debut record “Magnolia”. Described as “a tour de force” by Kerrang!, the album set the stage for an extensive and prolific touring history over the past decade and three subsequent albums, including their most recent LP, 2022’s “Myself in the Way“.

Pressed on color vinyl, this special limited edition also includes two bonus tracks from the era – “Humblest Pleasures” and “Change Irreversible.”

releases May 2nd, 2025

Destroyer has just wrapped up his run opening for Father John Misty, and now Dan Bejar has announced a Destroyer headlining tour happening this fall in support of his upcoming album “Dan’s Boogie”.

“Dan’s Boogie” is out March 28th through Merge Records and it includes the new single from it is the sumptuous “Cataract Time,” a swaying, autumnal number that’s full of lightly plucked harp strings, atmospheric E-Bow’d guitars, and sultry sax. “The song is a reckoning, a dressing down, a walk in the park where you carefully record your steps and describe the park and somehow the recording and the description undoes you,” Dan says. “Which is why it’s important that the song be as groovy as it is. That part I didn’t see coming.

There is a lightness that points to a future, even if I think it’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever written. John outdid himself in the mix. His filigree harps changed everything. I think it is his favourite song on the record.”

Edwyn Collins, the Scottish indie great who fronted Orange Juice in the ’80s, scored a solo hit in the ’90s with “A Girl Like You,” and survived a massive, debilitating stroke in the ’00s, has announced ‘The Testimonial Tour – A Last Lap Around The U.K.,’ which he says will be his last-ever tour. It happens this fall with stops in Glasgow, Buxton, Bath, Southhampton, Brighton, London, Norwich, Manchester and Newcastle. .

The tour will be in support of upcoming 10th solo album, “Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation“, which is out March 14th via his own AED Records. He’s just shared a new single from it, “The Heart is a Foolish Little Thing,” which Edwyn says, “I suppose I’m thinking about heartbreak when you’re young and how daft it all seems now. At the time though, it’s intense. I remember.”

“The Heart is a Foolish Little Thing” is the second track from Edwyn’s 2025 album ‘Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation.’ The video is once again directed by Delbert Anthonio Wright and features the beautiful mountains and coastline of Caithness, Scotland. Edwyn’s cap is covering a very sore forehead after an unfortunate man-meets-asphalt incident! Out on his own AED Records on Friday 14th March 2025, the 11-track album was recorded at his Clashnarrow Studio in Helmsdale, North East Scotland and was co-produced by Edwyn with Sean Read & Jake Hutton.

Car Seat Headrest have announced “The Scholars”, their first studio album in five years, which will be out May 2nd via Matador Records. It’s an ambitious double-LP rock opera : “Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the songs on “The Scholars” are populated with students and staff whose travails illuminate a loose narrative of life, death, and rebirth,” is the album’s official log line.

The band have shared “Gethsemane” from it, an 11-minute song suite. The band say: “Rosa studies at the medical school of Parnassus University. After an experience bringing a medically deceased patient back to life, she begins to regain powers suppressed since childhood, of healing others by absorbing their pain. Each night, instead of dreams, she encounters the raw pain and stories of the souls she touches throughout the day. Reality blurs, and she finds herself taken deep into secret facilities buried beneath the medical school, where ancient beings that covertly reign over the college bring forth their dark plans.”

You can absorb all that via the song’s equally epic music video, which was directed by Andrew Wonder and you can check out below.

Car Seat Headrest’s 2025 schedule includes headline dates and festival appearances, 

Belly are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their second album, “King”, with a Record Store Day reissue of the album and a tour where they’ll play it in full. Featuring the line-up that made the album (Tanya Donelly, Gail Greenwood, Chris Gorman and Thomas Gorman), the shows will be “An Evening with Belly,” featuring the “King” set followed by a second set of songs from debut album “Star” and the rest of their catalogue. “King” was the second studio album by American alternative rock band Belly, released on February 13th, 1995.

The “King” 30th anniversary edition that’s being released for Record Store Day has been remastered by Kevin Vanbergen and features faithful reproductions of designer Chris Bigg’s original sleeve art and has been pressed on green vinyl. Watch videos for singles “Seal My Fate,” “Super-Connected” and “Now They’ll Sleep,”  “King” and its singles did not meet label expectations in the grunge-friendly atmosphere of 1995, and the band broke up shortly after it was released. 

The Rhode Island-based dream pop band, fronted by Tanya Donelly, who had spent time in both the Breeders and Throwing Muses, broke through in a big way. Belly‘s dreamy alternative rock connected with audiences in the United States and the United Kingdom, driven by the success of the single “Feed the Tree” 

“King” was listed at number seven  “15 Overlooked and Underrated Albums of the 1990s”