Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy - VINYL LP

Born in the town of Scunthorpe in 1981, English singer/songwriter Stephen Fretwell was introduced to the music of Bob Dylan at a young age. Using a borrowed guitar from his grandparents, the young artist began writing his own songs and made tapes for his family and friends. After an aborted attempt at university life - he lasted two days - Fretwell relocated to Manchester, where his clear northern voice, poetic lyrics, and melodic guitar work soon won him an audience. After landing a much sought-after opening gig with local heroes Elbow, the now 21 year old began releasing his music on a friend's Northern Ambition tag. 8 Songs, the Something's Gotta Give EP, and The Lines, all released between 2001 and 2003, became collector's items and brought Fretwell to the attention of the press. He signed to Fiction Records in 2003 and released his first full-length, Magpie, in 2004, recorded at Abbey Road studios in London. Fretwell recorded the follow-up to his debut album, Man on the Roof, in New York City; it was released in 2007. Busy Guy is the first new music in 13 years.

Los Angeles rockers Dead Sara will their new album AIN't IT TRAGIC, on Sep 17th via Warner Records. The long-awaited, highly anticipated full-length marks their first new music since 2018's Temporary Things Taking Up Space EP, and contains the 2020 comeback track Inch Hands Up,Inch and the latest single InchHeroes.Inch As their most ambitious body of work to date, AIN't IT TRAGIC was co-produced by Dead Sara's drummer/programmer Sean Friday along with Noah Shain, who previously produced, mixed, and engineered the band's previous full-length albums, Dead Sara (2012) and Pleasure To Meet You (2015). The 11-song strong album spotlights the group's signature dual guitar attack cuts deep as firebrand front women Emily Armstrong (vocals/guitar/songwriter) and Siouxsie Medley (guitars/backing vocals) trailblaze intense yet melodic verses/choruses throughout. Percussive force-of-nature Friday anchors each track with punishing rhythmic beats. Largely written and recorded during lockdown in Los Angeles, AIN't IT TRAGIC reveals a band at the apex of their songwriting prowess with a penchant for earworm melodies, hard-hitting twin-guitar assault, masterful drumming with generous doses of energy and attitude that have made the band live legends for the past decade.

Jenny Lin - Night Stories-Nocturnes [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/27/2014