Left Lane Cruiser - Beck In Black - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Headed by singer/guitarist Joe Evans IV, Left Lane Cruiser is a bona fide blues rock band from the American mid-west. Far from pretending to be rambling hobos for the sake of a manufactured image (wink to Seasick Steve), Left Lane Cruiser has been genuinely living the blues for over a decade, bringing it's freestyle jams to crowds all over the world. Shake and Bake, the bands new album, was cooked up in a van rolling heavy on the highway, headed by two baked and juiced musicians, veering across the lines, desperately steering towards rest and redemption at the nearest parking lot. It is a record about the juice that keeps the crowd dancing, the smoke that keeps the minds lifted. This is as real it gets. Recorded old school analog by Jason Davis in his Fort Waynes studio, and with a cover by legendary artist William Stout (Ramones, Fred McDowell, Iggy Pop), Shake and Bake has a heavy sound and a big heart. For Left Lane Cruiser the blues is enduring and easy to feel.

By early 2020, Kayleigh Goldsworthy had finally figured out who she was. The long-time hired-gun musician from Syracuse and based in south Philadelphia, who had spent a decade backing up the likes of Dave Hause, Bayside, Frank Iero, and others, was ready to commit fully to a solo career of her own work. The day after New Year's Day 2020, Goldsworthy started recording her second solo LP, seven years after her debut Burrower, with Will Yip at Studio 4 outside Philly.Then everything changed. The job and life Goldsworthy had pursued since her teen years was ripped away tours, shows, studio time, even band practices and writing sessions, all gone. Along with those went away a hard-won sense of self. All those things that had given Goldsworthy the confidence and push to believe in herself and her work disappeared.InchI had figured out who I was,Inch says Goldsworthy, Inchthen this whole thing happened, and I had to figure out who I was again.InchThese are the conditions that created Learning To Be Happy, a story of undoing and becoming that begins at what Goldsworthy thought was the end that assuredness and strength of January 2020. This story unspools over a thrilling, winding saga of scrappy, arena-ready pop rock, charged pop punk, and acoustics-and-piano balladry. The LP's 10 tracks are often heavy and sometimes dark, but always relentlessly confident and hopeful, threaded through with the sort of bruised optimism that rewards all those who do the difficult work of wrestling with what it means to be happy.

Vinyl LP pressing. Since Bad Religion's formative years the acclaimed Los Angeles, CA punk rock band has steadfastly advocated for humanism, reason, and individualism. Now, when these values are in decline and nationalism and bigotry are on the rise, the group's message has never been more essential. Their seventeenth slab, Age of Unreason delivers a powerful and inspired response - a political and deeply personal treatise on all they believe in. InchThe band has always stood for enlightenment values,Inch co-songwriter and guitarist Brett Gurewitz explains. InchToday, these values of truth, freedom, equality, tolerance, and science, are in real danger. This record is our response.Inch