Category: premiere
TRACK RELEASE: Darci Phenix – Wishbone

a wondrous return
-Secret Meeting
Thanks so much to Secret Meeting for choosing the new song by Darci Phenix as Single of the Week.
“Wishbone” introduces Darci Phenix’s new album, which will be released January 8, 2021 on tape and digital. The artwork is by Kosuke Ajiro.
Pre-order on Bandcamp here.

New Single: Step Away by Joanna Sternberg

Joanna Sternberg releases a new single from their upcoming album
Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan for the track premiere. Stereogum and Paste have shared the new song, too; and For The Rabbits has included it in their weekly “Five Things We Liked This Week.”
…listen and be thankful that Joanna is willing to share this with the world.
For The Rabbits
“Then I Try Some More” is out July 12. Pre-order a vinyl, cd, and digital from Bandcamp, ask your local record shop to order it, or pick up a copy from Joanna at a show or on tour this summer with Conor Oberst.
Joanna plays Sunny’s in Brooklyn on June 25 with their father, the artist Michael Sternberg, and a full list of dates is below.
Joanna Sternberg Tour Dates:
07/12 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ The Glove (Album Release Show)
07/17 – Portsmouth, N.H. @ Prescott Park Free Concert Series*
07/18 – Providence, R.I. @ Columbus Theater*
07/19 – Norwalk, Ct. @ Wall St Theater*
07/20 – Bearsville, N.Y. @ Bearsville Theater*
07/21 – Jersey City, N.J. @ White Eagle Hall*
07/23 – Kalamazoo, Mich. @ Bells Brewery *
07/24 – Chicago, Ill. @ Thalia Hall*
07/25 – Cincinatti, Ohio @ Taft Theatre*
07/26 – Bloomington, Ill. @ Castle Theater*
07/27 – Maquoketa, Iowa @ Codfish Hollow*
07/28 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Weesner Amphitheater*
(* = with Conor Oberst)
August
08/18 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Alphaville
with Miwi La Lupa, Utsav Lal, Allegra Krieger
September
09/06 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ The Knitting Factory
with Emma Frank and Lau Noah
Happy Summer! XOTL
TOUR NEWS: Joanna Sternberg supporting Conor Oberst in July

We are pleased to announce that Joanna Sternberg will be the special guest for all dates on Conor Oberst’s tour of the northeast and midwest in July. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, April 19, at 10am ET.
Poster + art by Joanna Sternberg. All dates and ticket links are below:
17-Jul Portsmouth NH – Prescott Park Free Concert Series
18-Jul Providence RI – Columbus Theater
19-Jul Norwalk CT – Wall Street Theater
20-Jul Woodstock NY – Bearsville Theater
21-Jul Jersey City NJ – White Eagle Hall
23-Jul Kalamazoo MI – Bells Brewery
24-Jul Chicago IL – Thalia Hall
25-Jul Cincinatti OH – Taft Theatre
26-Jul Bloomington IL – Castle Theater
27-Jul Maquoketa IA – Codfish Hollow
28-Jul Minneapolis MN – Weesner Amphitheater, Minneapolis Zoo
Conor Oberst has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will go to the Florence Project and their work providing direct legal and social services for detained adults and children under threat of deportation.
Track premiere: Joanna Sternberg – This Is Not Who I Want To Be, from the upcoming album Then I Try Some More
simple but affecting
— Sternberg confronts oblivion with only a piano in tow
-James Rettig for Stereogum
Many thanks to Stereogum for premiering the first single off Joanna Sternberg’s “Then I Try Some More,” out July 12. The album will be released on vinyl, cd, and as a digital album. It includes full-color artwork and lyrics sheet hand-drawn by Joanna Sternberg, along with the first pages of a comic by the same name. Listen to “This Is Not How I Want to Be,” streaming everywhere now.
Pre-save the album to your Spotify or stream This Is Not Who I Want to Be now.

Video premiere: Upon the Hammer by Lorkin O’Reilly

“…opting to drone a calm croon…”
The Music Mermaid on Lorkin O’Reilly
Many thanks to The Music Mermaid for the premiere, and for the eloquent take on the new video from Lorkin O’Reilly, “Upon the Hammer,” directed by Griffin Hart Davis.
Add it to your playlist, and find Heaven Depends everywhere you can.
VIDEO: Palmer T. Lee – So Between Eyes
“One half of the excellent duo The Lowest Pair, Palmer T. Lee branches out with his first solo album Winebringer…”
Americana UK
Thanks to Americana UK for premiering the video for “So Between Eyes.” Directed by Brett Hansen.
Interviews
Read Palmer T. Lee’s 5 + 5 session at The Bluegrass Situation.
The Live Feed on KQAL-FM, 89.5MHz, at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. KQAL’s Willard Huyck sat down with Palmer to discuss the album, his future plans and to hear some tunes. Aired: 02.06.2019
Video Premiere: Lorkin O’Reilly – I Reside
Video premiere at Vents
Thanks to Vents magazine for kicking off their premiere week with the new video for “I Reside” by Lorkin O’Reilly, from Heaven Depends. It was filmed in 4K by Griffin Hart Davis in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains.
to write it from the perspective of God if he hated himself.
Lorkin talks about the original concept behind the song, and how Griffin translated it into a story of rebirth and redemption. Read the article here.
SONG PREMIERE: Girl Gaze – Suddenly at The Grey Estates

Introducing Girl Gaze
New Release News
Thanks to The Grey Estates, who premiered the first single, “Suddenly,”
from Girl Gaze’s debut album Fade Out, out October 26 on Team Love.
…a celebration of an impending departure, with hushed vocals making grand plans to be “anywhere, anyone at all.” – The Grey Estates
preorder > cassette and digital < here
TRACK PREMIERE: Kendl Winter – Solitude

Pleased to announce the upcoming release of
Stumbler’s Business
the new solo album from
Kendl Winter
(TL-109) | July 20, 2018
with a super solid track premiere at Paste Magazine for the first single:
… a humble slice of rolling thunder called “Solitude”
stream “Solitude” at Paste Magazine
preorder
(Some of you may know Kendl as one half of The Lowest Pair,
— stay tuned, because there is more to come from those two, too) xotl