Loose Wing, fronted by vet of Seattle scene, Claire Tucker, featured in Rolling Stone’s “Real Life Rock Top Ten;” Debut out March 22nd.

Like a Neko Case or PJ Harvey-fronted R.E.M., hear the upbeat fuzzy jangle pop of latest single “Moving Blankets” via The Big Takeover now.

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Loose Wing (L-R): Bill Patton, Jack Peters, Claire Tucker, Rusty Willoughby. Photo credit: Doug Arney.

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Loose Wing is featured in this month’s “Real Life Rock Top Ten” in Rolling Stone! Scroll to entry #10 here.

“There’s a thinking-it-all-over feeling that calls up “Angel of the Morning” by Merilee Rush and the Turnabouts — another Seattle band, from 50 years ago. They walked the same streets, and maybe some of the same dirt rubbed off. ” — Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone

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“Nine songs that fearlessly explore themes of anxiety, isolation, intimacy, and teen angst that has yet to be outgrown,” says The Big Takeover. Check out the premiere of the latest Loose Wing single “Moving Blankets” here or at the link below.

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LooseWing-MovingBlankets

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Loose Wing – Live

03/22/2019: Vashon, WA @ Red Bicycle Bistro (w/ Society of The Silver Cross)

03/23/2019: Seattle, WA @ Blue Moon Tavern (w/ Black Nite Crash)

04/05/2019: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Hideaway (w/ Hollow Sidewalks, nine:forty:pm)

04/13/2019: Bend, OR @ LOGE

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About – Loose Wing

Loose Wing is a new Seattle-based band fronted by songwriter Claire Tucker, who is also a member of local favorites, Black Nite Crash. The four-piece group will issue its self-titled debut album on March 22^nd. Along with Tucker (Guitars, Vocals, Keys), Loose Wing features Jack Peters (Bass), Rusty Willoughby (Drums, Percussion), and Bill Patton (Guitar, Pedal Steel.)

Despite weighty subject matter, Tucker’s tunes maintain an easy confidence throughout the album, with melodies that often remind of a Neko Case or PJ Harvey-fronted R.E.M., which despite that band’s origins in the furthest continental corner (Athens, GA) from the home of grunge, has always maintained a spiritual tie to Seattle. Other contemporary influences on Loose Wing include Kate Bush and Guided by Voices.

Throughout the album, Loose Wing’s elegant incorporation of string accompaniment pops up at just the right moments to deepen the drama of Tucker’s lyrics, while also providing counterpoint to the band’s Peter Buck-ish guitar sound. Speaking of, R.E.M. and Nirvana used similar surprising string techniques that helped elevate both bands as examples of rock groups that ultimately prioritized the service of their songs over everything else.

Guitars, or more accurately, an obsessive relationship with guitars, feature prominently on Loose Wing.

“It’s a mix of guitar styles,” Tucker says of the album. “All my playing before Loose Wing was very fussy, intricate fingerpicking. I had never really done much with effects pedals, but I forced myself to learn new techniques, and focus on playing guitar and branching out stylistically.” Tucker has since amassed two pedal boards full of effects. “I also started listening to a lot of music that I had forgotten about: Slowdive, The Church, and Echo and The Bunnymen.”

Loose Wing’s self-titled debut album is out March 22^nd, preceded by the singles “Beverly,” “Moving Blankets,” and “Heather Army.” Claire Tucker of Loose Wing is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Loose Wing

S/T

March 22^nd, 2019

(S/R)

  

Track Listing:

01. Heather Army

02. Beverly (STREAM | MP3)
03. Moving Blankets (STREAM | MP3)
04. Blanket Skin

05. Rainclouds

06. Wear Me Out

07. Clover

08. Learn Your Lines

09. Sails

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Loose Wing – Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : INSTAGRAM

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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The Rad Trads announces spring tour, SXSW performances, dates with Bailen including hometown April 23rd show at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Mixing punk rock energy, horn drenched soul, jazz precision, WFUV calls band’s “On Tap,” “catchy, old school, and very New York at its heart.”

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The Rad Trads (L-R): Michael Fatum, Mike Harlen, Patrick Sargent, John Fatum, Alden Harris-McCoy. Photo by Kelly Teacher.

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“‘Thumbtack’ is a song about love lost, in which the character is offering up various forms of self-flagellation or humiliation to win his lover back” - Mike Harlen, The Rad Trads

Check out the premiere of the “Thumbtack” music video by The Rad Trads via PopMatters. Spoiler Alert: Despite the depiction of the band biking through exotic locales, they were actually just chillin’ at a Citibike station in Brooklyn.

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V4ltI2j9iI

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The Rad Trads | “Spring, Sprang, Sprung Tour” | SXSW 2019

03/09/2019: Nashville, TN @ The Basement

03/13/2019: Austin, TX @ Carousel Lounge (SXSW, 12PM) (INFO)

03/14/2019: Austin, TX @ KUTX 98.9 Pop-Up Session (SXSW, 5PM)

03/15/2019: Austin, TX @ Radio, Coffee, and Beer (SXSW, 7PM) (INFO)

03/15/2019: Austin, TX @ 18th Over Austin (SXSW Official Showcase, 12AM) (INFO)

03/16/2019: Austin, TX @ Brooklyn Country Cantina (SXSW, 9PM) (INFO)

03/17/2019: Austin, TX @ Jam In The Van Session (SXSW, 6PM)

03/20/2019: Columbus, OH @ The Basement (w/ Bailen)

03/21/2019: Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe (w/ Bailen)

03/22/2019: Indianapolis, IN @ Pioneer

03/23/2019: Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch

03/24/2019: New Cumberland, WV @ Oak Glen (Music and Art Festival)

04/23/2019: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (w/ Bailen)

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The Rad Trads – In The Press

“Genre-defying, entertaining-for-everyone live performances.” — MAGNET

“Their second album, On Tap, is catchy, old school, and very New York at its heart. They will draw you in — unless you’re looking for more droll post-irony dreck, black-hole density production, or sour/dour/sky-is-falling-on JUST-ME angst. Guess these guys never got those memos. They must have been too busy just playing music and having fun.” — Paul Cavalconte, WFUV 90.7FM

“The Rad Trads perform music that’s a confluence of excellent musicianship, deft writing and one wicked sense of humor. This is music for the unlucky in love and recalls the legendary NRBQ at its most comically romantic and Lake Street Dive at its most self-effacing.” — PopMatters

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More about The Rad Trads

The gentlemen comprising the Brooklyn-based five-piece The Rad Trads distinguish themselves in ways few bands can. Already drawing lines around the block at home, the globe-trotting group’s singular take on rock n roll mixes punk rock energy, horn drenched soul, and jazz precision, all with a lighthearted but sincere delivery. It’s a sound and show that is gaining steam world over as The Rad Trads continue to tour in support of On Tap, out now from Hornblow Recordings. Listen to On Tap here.

Challenging but humorous, at times The Rad Trads bring to mind Springsteen and his “Big Man” Clarence Clemons, Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks-era vocal style, and Wilco’s epic guitar breakdowns. All of this sonic goodness is only upstaged by the fact that the guys in The Rad Trads manage to exist as five distinct songwriters and singers in a band that still sounds powerfully egoless, familial, and cohesive. And none of them even planned on being vocalists!

On Tap by The Rad Trads is out now from Hornblow Recordings. Members of The Rad Trads are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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The Rad Trads

On Tap

Out Now

(Hornblow Recordings)

Streaming Link:

STREAM FULL LP

  

Track Listing:

01. Good Luck Unto Ya (VIDEO)

02. Manhattan Bridge Serenade

03. Key Club

04. My Place

05. Thumbtack (VIDEO)

06. Sarge’s Boogaloo

07. Vada Via

08. Little Pie Blues

09. Wishing Well (VIDEO)

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The Rad Trads - Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM : HORNBLOW RECORDINGS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : SOUNDCLOUD : SPOTIFY : BLOG : E-MAIL

“Debauched harlequin” J Hacha De Zola creeps you out with his “diabolical ‘brella” in “Anarchy” music video; “Icaro Nouveau” out March 29th.

Jersey City artist’s John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr) produced album full of “villains, spells, desires, romance, danger, redemption, revelations.”

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J Hacha De Zola as photographed by Robin Souma

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“Should brighten or darken your mood depending on your state of mind,” says Northern Transmissions about the music video for “Anarchy,” from J Hacha De Zola’s upcoming Icaro Nouveau (Caballo Negro, March 29^th.) Watch it here or watch / listen at the links below!

“There's a bit of a Stephen King’s ‘It’ vibe to it,” says J Hacha De Zola of the music video for “Anarchy,” taken from his upcoming new album Icaro Nouveau, out March 29^th. “The weather was terrible, and we kinda rode it by the seat of our pants. I thought I'd try to recreate the ‘debauched harlequin’ look that we did for the album cover, along with my ‘diabolical ‘brella.’ I kinda wished my umbrella prop actually worked though because I got drenched!”

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9xesHStnRs

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/JHachaDeZola-Anarchy

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J Hacha De Zola – Live

03/09/2019: Jersey City, NJ @ Smush Gallery (630-10PM, 340 Summit Ave.) (INFO)

J Hacha De Zola presents: ‘Icaro Nouveau and Friends: An Evening of Song, Story Telling and Art’

Special performances by: J Hacha De Zola, guitarist Debra Devi, Alex Pergament (After School Activities), poet Rashad Wright, rock duo Drum and a Tantrum, singer-songwriter Geyby Aguilar, and paintings by Athena Toledo.

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J Hacha De Zola – In The Press

“The kind of alluring character found in old children’s books.” — UTNE

“A wild man in the vein of such fire breathing artists like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Captain Beefheart.” — Paste

“A large, spinning rock ‘n’ roll affair as enticing as it is distant and strange.” — MAGNET

“Bound to light the way forward and inspire a legion of imitators.” — PopMatters

“Dangerously delightful, whirling, and rhythmic.” — The Big Takeover

“Beckoning listeners somewhere exciting and unfamiliar where menace looms heavy in the air. ” — BTRtoday

“A garage-rockin’ Latin bluesman in the style of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. ” — Jersey Beat

“Possibly the wildest record I’ve heard all year.” — BLURT

“A dark tango, a gothic circus, a dirty, melodic cacophony you just have to love.” — Soundblab

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More about J Hacha De Zola and Icaro Nouveau

“This is an Urban Junkyard record.”

It’s a descriptor that J Hacha De Zola has been casually using over the course of three album releases. With the upcoming full–length Icaro Nouveau (out March 29^th), the Jersey City–based musician defines the genre in detail.

Produced by iconic engineer John Agnello, a career–long cohort of another “J” – J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, and most recently the man behind albums by Waxahatchee, the new Hacha De Zola songs are described by the artist as full of “villains, spells, desires, romance, danger, redemption, and revelations.”

He adds, “and a eulogy,” referring to “Ode To Ralph Carney,” about the late, legendary saxophone sideman of Tom Waits (and many others), who served not only as a player, but more importantly, as a spiritual guide for Hacha De Zola over the course of the latter’s young career.

Indeed, Carney was Hacha De Zola’s compatriot in developing the “Urban Junkyard” sound that now has a life of its own on Icaro Nouveau.

“He was an integral part of this sound. He was my secret weapon,” Hacha De Zola says. “His horns were ever–present, as was his input. Not having him around for Icaro Nouveau was unsettling for me.”

“I’ve been developing my own new language, through the elements that are most familiar to me,” Hacha De Zola explains. “My neighborhood – ‘mi barrio’ – where I’m from, and the diversity of cultures and vibes there.”

“Environment is everything,” he continues, “There’s power in the intent behind words and in their delivery. You might not even understand a certain language, but can get a sense of the intent when it’s spoken.”

You can feel it in the Urban Junkyard.

J Hacha De Zola’s fourth full-length album Icaro Nouveau is scheduled for release on March 29^th, 2019. The artist’s current EP ‘Syn Illusión,’ a four-song, 80s-era synth-driven, all-Spanish language release, is out now. Hacha de Zola is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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J Hacha De Zola

Icaro Nouveau

(Caballo Negro)

March 29^th, 2019

  

Track Listing:

01. Anarchy (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. El Chucho (Hooko)

03. On A Saturday (STREAM | MP3)

04. Juan Salchipapas

05. A Song For Her

06. Hollow Trees

07. A Fool's Moon

08. Ode To Ralph Carney (STREAM)

09. Super Squeaky

10. Hacha's Lament

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J Hacha De Zola

‘Syn Illusión’ EP

(Caballo Negro)

Out Now

  

Track Listing:

01. Syn Illusión (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. Otro Lado

03. Lejos De Mi

04. El Mago Negro

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J Hacha De Zola – Links

ASSETS (LP) : ASSETS (EP) : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM : BANDCAMP : TUMBLR

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : SOUNDCLOUD : SPOTIFY : BLOG : E-MAIL