Now in his third decade as a performer, Rhett Miller’s The Messenger officially marks his career as prolific. Following 2015’s The Traveller and a 2017 album, Graveyard Whistling, with his main gig, The Old 97’s, and preceding the release of an Old 97’s Christmas record, Love the Holidays, and a book of children’s poetry, the album is his seventh solo studio disc. The Messenger was recorded at The Isokon in Woodstock, New York and produced by former Apollo Sunshine frontman Sam Cohen.
Stepping out from the punk band, Against Me!, that she has fronted for more than two decades, Laura Jane Grace joined forces with drummer Atom Willard and bassist Marc Jacob Hudson for their debut as Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers. The album, Brought To Rot, was recorded at Ranchero Recordo in Michigan and was preceded by singles “Apocalypse Now (& Later)” and “The Airplane Song.”
Four years removed from his last solo album, Tied To A Star, and two from his last album with Dinosaur Jr, Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not, J Mascis returns with today’s Elastic Days.
World Cafe Live will be hosting the indie rock legend in December.
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