Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers bring Texas soul influenced by James Brown, Roy Orbison, Alex Chilton on upcoming new release.

“A unique place of soul, shimmy, and shake,” says Elmore Magazine. Hear band’s fiery music industry commentary “Borrowed Repertoire” now.

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers (L-R): Clint Sawyer, Holly Manning, Dave Huff, Patrick Newkirk, Chris Welch, Kelly Evans. Photo by Aubrey Mortensen.

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Hear “Borrowed Repertoire” by Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers at Elmore Magazine or at the links below!

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers – Live

02/23/2019: Denton, TX @ Dan’s Silver Leaf (Record Release Show)

03/22/2019: Tulsa, OK @ Mercury Lounge

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 “Welch straddles the line between country and soul in a similar vein to how Mr. Orbison did it.” – Ghost of Blind Lemon

Denton, Texas is the home of Chris Welch & The Cicada Killers, introduced as the “fabulous Cicada Killers” on “Cicada Sweat,” the James Brown-inspired opening track of Shook, the north Texas band’s upcoming sophomore album, which follows-up its 2017 debut Faded & Frayed.

The pronouncement is the only vocal on the song, an improvisational moment that the band loved and kept, but it’s all that’s needed: The Cicada Killers’ unique brand of soul, shimmy, and shake speaks for itself.

Welch’s influences aren’t rooted only in Otis Redding, he also brings plenty of Alex Chilton, and even The Replacements song’ “Alex Chilton” to the party, fronting an indie-rock rave-up sound with the lived-in voice of a guy who went to one-too-many parties. Additional influences on the band include the Stax and Hitsville label rosters, along with Kris Kristofferson, Lou Reed, and Afghan Whigs.

The current single by Chris Welch & The Cicada Killers is “Borrowed Repertoire,” premiered this week by Elmore Magazine.

 “‘Borrowed Repertoire’ is our tongue-in-cheek, fiery commentary on the industry tending to promote image over artistry, and how it’s always a struggle to remain authentic,” Welch and bandmate Kelly Evans explain of the tune. “We talk a lot about the music industry’s changes in recent years and how it has even affected our community, since we've all lived in a music town for a long time, and have seen things like venues closing and great groups never getting any traction.”

Unlike the band’s debut album, The Cicada Killers approached the songwriting on Shook as a fully collaborative effort, recording in a marathon five-day session in early 2018 at Cool Devices Studio with Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan of legendary pop-punk band The Marked Men.

Shook by Chris Welch & The Cicada Killers arrives on Feb. 22, 2019. Chris Welch is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers

Shook

Goliad Media Group

(Feb. 22^nd, 2019)

  

Track Listing:

01. Cicada Sweat

02. Want You Back

03. Ill-Dealt Hand

04. Shoenapper (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

05. Knockin’

06. Black Dress

07. Borrowed Repertoire (STREAM | MP3)

08. Lie To Me

09. Stumbled

10. Objectify My Love

11. Shake ‘Em Down

12. Leaving Today

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers – Links

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Seattle-based Loose Wing features vet of local scene, Claire Tucker, armed with meticulous, mature lyricism, two pedal boards of guitar effects.

Like a Neko Case or PJ Harvey-fronted R.E.M., “Beverly” single builds over six minutes to a swelling string section reminding of Teenage Fanclub.

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

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“Captures emotional distress with poignant grace,” proclaims Atwood Magazine in its coverage of “Beverly,” the luminous new single from Loose Wing. Listen here or at the link below!

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

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Loose Wing – Live

02/22/2019: Seattle, WA @ LoFi Performance Gallery (w/ Guest Directors)

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, consisting of nine songs that fearlessly explore themes of anxiety, isolation, intimacy, and teen angst that has yet to be outgrown. Along with Tucker (Guitars, Vocals, Keys), Loose Wing features Tucker’s husband Jack Peters (Bass), Rusty Willoughby (Drums, Percussion), and Bill Patton (Guitar, Pedal Steel.)

Despite the 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.

“Beverly,” the first single from Loose Wing, (hear it now via Atwood Magazine) shows this off best, adding touches that also remind of Teenage Fanclub when the string section swells. 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.”

Tucker is just as meticulous with her lyrics, and if they seem dark, that fact can’t be solely attributed to the lingering teen angst mentioned previously. Tucker and her bandmates are all in their 40’s and 50’s, which means that Loose Wing only sounds like the freedom of youth. In actuality, Tucker’s songs and the band’s playing comes off effortlessly because so much difficult living has already been put into perspective and dealt with.

“I was feeling a lot of anxiety about what I think I should have accomplished by this age as an artist,” Tucker explains. “Feeling like a late bloomer,” she admits. Speaking directly to the album’s themes, Tucker elaborates about “Beverly,” saying “This song depicts a fictional 1950’s-era marriage, told as a dialogue between a controlling husband and a stifled, self-medicating wife. She continues, “But it's also a reflection of my internal dialogue, between the side of me that needs to make art to stay sane and the side that tries to push that aside to be a responsible adult.”

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

04. Blanket Skin

05. Rainclouds

06. Wear Me Out

07. Clover

08. Learn Your Lines

09. Sails

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Loose Wing Links

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Phil and the Osophers – even Teen Vogue was struck by this pun – is the longtime songwriting project of Brooklyn-based, Phil Radiotes.

Appealing to nerds, thinkers, readers, fans of Dead, Dylan, Heads, Kinks, Cohen, They Might Be Giants, new “Bee Liner” single out now.

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Phil Radiotes of Phil and the Osophers as photographed by Kenneth Anderson.

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Phil and the Osophers

“Bee Liner” Single

Out Now

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Streaming Link:

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Phil and the Osophers… Philosophers.

Such a fun pun (as recognized by Teen Vogue), one can only help but root for Philip Radiotes to have the same amount of success with his songs, and hey, he pulls it off!

Currently finishing up a new album From The Rise of Fall (another smart turn of phrase), Radiotes and his band (there is no band) will release a series of singles and music videos (also sharp as tacks) throughout early 2019.

First single “Bee Liner” is out now with a green screen extravaganza on the way.

The sound is very much that of a Brooklyn-transplanted San Franciscan, combining sunshine-y surf-rock with NYC swagger, blending folk rock with Dub influenced African style guitars, heavily rhythmic drumming and psychedelic world music elements.

As one might expect from a punny philosopher, Radiotes writes songs that will appeal to nerds, thinkers, readers, fans of the Dead, Dylan, Heads, Kinks, Cohen, and They Might Be Giants (and, likely, also to John and John of They Might Be Giants themselves.) Seriously, though, philosophical ideas are the lyrical focus here, encompassing revelatory, visionary, and transformative themes.

“The songs explore complex issues from wiretapping to suicide bombings, technological isolation and overstimulation, immigration and working class issues like commuting, and banking,” Radiotes explains. “Relationship issues are weaved in throughout to speak to broader issues in a personal way.”

Radiotes realizes that he may come across as merely humorous, but he wants to make sure that his deeper intentions connect.

“I’ve felt how strongly a song can affect a person and I try to dig as deeply as I can to create songs that have that sort of impact,” he says, and he has been doing that for a long time, creating a catalog of songs that have landed Radiotes sync licensing deals with CNN (“This Is Life with Lisa Ling”), Fox Sports, IFC, BET, VH1, TLC (“Say Yes To The Dress”), and Viceland.

Radiotes takes on his next great role in the music video for the From The Rise of Fall single “Bee Liner,” which makes use of the Fairlight CVI, “an amazing, long lost video synthesizer from the 80s,” according to Radiotes.

Listen to the latest single “Bee Liner” by Phil and the Osophers, out now. The “Bee Liner” music video is coming soon. Look out for the latest Phil and the Osophers full-length From The Rise of Fall this summer.

Phil Radiotes is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Phil and the Osophers Links

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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