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Michael Chapman Announces True North + Shares “It’s Too Late” via Billboard.

The masterful follow-up to his universally celebrated 2017 album 50, True North finds the elder statesman of British songwriting and guitar plumbing an even deeper deep and honing an ever keener edge to his iconic writing. Once again Steve Gunn produces and plays guitar, and Bridget St John sings, with cellist Sarah Smout and legendary pedal steel player BJ Cole. Hear “It’s Too Late” via Billboard, check out the limited red-wine vinyl, and pre-order.

Nap Eyes "Too Bad" Digital Album Cover

Hear Nap Eyes’ New Two-Song Single “Too Bad” & Catch Them on Tour with Cloud Nothings.

Haligonian heroes Nap Eyes have shared two new tracks, honest and deeply resonant, available worldwide today to stream or purchase as a digital single. In these first recordings released since the critically acclaimed long-player I’m Bad Now, the group sails an autumnal wind of regret and longing, Nigel Chapman’s signature existential lyrics guiding each track as the leaves fall.

The Weather Station & Jennifer Castle’s Collaborative Split Single Is Out Now.

Two of the greatest working songwriters and poetic voices in Canada have recorded a miraculous, magical pair of songs together. The Weather Station’s “I Tried to Wear the World (feat. Jennifer Castle)” and Jennifer Castle’s “Midas Touch (feat. The Weather Station),” two sides of the same tarnished gold coin of sorrowfully sweet sentiments, represent their first-ever studio collaboration and the third edition of the Polaris Collaboration Sessions.

Jennifer Castle Tours the EU.

This fall Jennifer Castle will be playing a string of solo dates across the EU and in the UK, including shows with Eleanor Friedberger, Andy Shauf, and Hater. This is her first tour overseas since the release of Angels of Death—don’t miss it. 

Hear the Nathan Bowles Trio Get “Fresh & Fairly So.”

Nathan Bowles has shared another track from his heady forthcoming album Plainly Mistaken (Out Oct. 5). The indelibly careening melody of “Fresh & Fairly So”—a staple of recent live sets—could be an old-time standard of the type Bowles might explore with the Black Twig Pickers, but here it’s given the kinetic trio treatment. Join the trio at their release show at Nightlight in Chapel Hill, NC on Sept. 29.

Nathan Bowles Shares “Now If You Remember” via Stereogum.

After announcing his album Plainly Mistaken and premiering “The Road Reversed” through NPR Music, Nathan is now sharing his cover of the Julie Tippetts song “Now If You Remember” via Stereogum. Bowles’s ethereal rendering represents a departure from his previous recordings; his placidly plaintive singing has been stripped of its otherwise genial, ursine gruffness, and the brief song floats by on the sedative ebb tide of banjo and pianos.