Cowboy and the Stranger celebrates the occasion of Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West on display at L.A. Louver this summer. Featuring previously unreleased Allen demos and songwriting work tapes spanning half a century (1968/2018), this cassette-only release is limited to an edition of 500 copies total.
Today, Mega Bog shares “Truth In The Wild,” the latest single off her forthcoming new album Dolphine. “I value this song more than maybe any other piece of music I’ve completed,” Bog’s Erin Birgy says. Thanks to Gorilla vs. Bear for premiering the Ursula Le Guin-inspired video, which “blurs the lines between the surreal and the profound in a way that she seems able to do like none other.”
Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Out of Sight, lauded as “one of the most life-affirming and transcendent Americana albums in an age” by MOJO and celebrated with a NY Times profile and a five-star review in The Guardian, is now available in stores and streaming worldwide. Please consider a visit to Jake’s world this weekend; we guarantee you’ll leave refreshed.
Jubilate, y’all! Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Out of Sight is out in one week, on June 7, and preorders are now shipping. Hear new single “Jubilee” (premiered by Uncut Magazine on their July covermount CD) and all five songs on Side A.
Jake shares two new songs, and their stories, from Out of Sight via Folk Radio UK. Check out North American tour dates with Daniel Norgren and profiles in Uncut and MOJO magazines.
The striking and surreal video, directed by Laura Conway and premiered by Stereogum, features Erin Birgy roaming the American West in chainmail and was inspired by the work of classic filmmakers Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Parajanov, David Lynch, and Michael Powell. Birgy writes that she and her collaborators “tried to visually inspire the jumps from the old and new worlds that are a part of a dreaming human’s bubble of thought.”
Today, Jake Xerxes Fussell shares new single, “Michael Was Hearty,” from his forthcoming album, Out of Sight, out June 7th. Following the lead single, “The River St. Johns,” “Michael Was Hearty” is a gorgeous rendition of a tragicomedy by Irish traveler and ballad singer Thomas McCarthy. Check out his impeccable Spotify playlist of spring jams as well.
Please join us in welcoming the magical Mega Bog to Paradise of Bachelors! Mega Bog is the fluid musical moniker of songwriter Erin Elizabeth Birgy, who has spent the last ten years channeling, capturing, and releasing her unique bouquet of fragrant, sci-fi pop experiments with a handful of bicoastal collaborators. Preorder Dolphine and hear “Diary of a Rose,” which NPR describes as “prismatic avant-pop.”
On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles and others. NPR Music’s All Songs Considered has premiered “The River St. John’s.” Pre-order with confidence and read an essay by Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
Gun Outfit have shared their first new track since acclaimed 2017 release Out of Range. Check out the dreamy, lavender-steeped 16mm film of their live performance in LA at the Getty, directed by Mike Stoltz with sound by Chris Cohen. Catch their US tour, running April 10th through May 13th, including dates with Steve Gunn and Lavender Country.
