Flowers In The Spring is where the Molochs worked harder, thought harder and fought harder to be the kind of band that the times demand: “I like to think the world just needs some good solid songs out there,” founder Lucas Fitzsimons says. “It’s simple. It’s not easy … but it’s simple.”
America’s Velvet Glory had sparked their first-ever U.S and European tours, first-ever festival sets, first-ever international press and more. (Top music mag Mojo even said they’d made one of the year’s best albums—“Any year!”) Follow-up Flowers bloomed almost exactly a year later at Long Beach’s Jazzcats studio between December of 2017 and January of 2018, where Fitzsimons and longtime band member Ryan Foster had recorded Glory. By the time they’d returned, they had a slate of songs that had come to Fitzsimons in flash moments, written on nerve-wracking transcontinental flights or on isolated nights in an L.A. apartment, captured at once in bursts of insight or rescued from almost-abandonment in discarded notebooks.
As on Glory, inspiration from Syd Barrett, Dylan, Nikki Sudden and kindred spirit Peter Perrett of the Only Ones was at work, but the Molochsare endlessly (appropriately?) ravenous when it comes to things to read and listen to and learn from. On Flowers they’d refine and recombine their sound, working in that long tradition of poets who cover (or discover) themselves in pop songs. “To Kick In A Lover’s Door” blows Flowers open with the wit and precision of the Go-Betweens, and “I Wanna Say To You” draws more from some of Creation Records’ dreamiest dreamers than it does from any esoteric 60s howlers. “Flowers In The Spring” and “Pages Of Your Journal” could be two lost Kinks singles from two different Kinks eras—that Ray Davies-ian venom stays the same, of course—and the charming/disarming “Too Lost In Love” makes feeling down sound like cheering up, just like the Clean did.

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Magpie Salute was pulled together by guitarist Rich Robinson and continues a story-line he began in the Black Crowes with guitarist Marc Ford and bassist Sven Pipien. Completing the group is vocalist John Hogg, who shared Hookah Brown with Robinson, along with keyboardist Matt Slocum and drummer Joe Magistro, both veterans of Robinson’s solo records and tours over the years.
Produced by Rich Robinson and recorded at Dark Horse Studios in Nashville TN, the 12-song HIGH WATER I represents a musical union of swaggering rock ‘n’ roll, psychedelic blues, and campfire-worthy storytelling that first took flight in 2016 when Robinson assembled the band for a now seminal Woodstock gig.

The Magpie Salute will be at Sony Hall in NYC on Friday September 7.  Click here for info

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Yahoo! Music’s “Top Ten Best New Artist” Hamish Anderson’s new single “No Good” picks up where his critically acclaimed debut album, Trouble, left off – featuring heavier rock sounds & produced by 7x Grammy winner Jim Scott (Tom Petty) with Johnny Radelat (Gary Clark Jr), Chris Bruce (Doyle Bramhall II) and Jerry Borge (Jonathan Wilson).
In 2017, Hamish performed 11 sets at SXSW & appeared at Firefly, Mountain Jam, Summerfest, Echo Park Rising, Telluride Blues & Bluesfest Ottawa. His previous single, U, was featured on NPR Music’s Heavy Rotation & NPR’s DJ Sessions. He’s a Taco Bell Feed the Beat artist, and has won Best Blues song by the Independent Music Awards in 2015 for his single, Burn.
In 2018, he toured Europe, performed at Bottlerock Napa Festival and released “No Good” his first single from his sophomore album.

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“Big City Cat – My Life in Folk-Rock” is singer/songwriter Steve Forbert’s exceptional new memoir, co-written with Therese Boyd in which he most candidly reflects on those specific circumstances that first brought him to the public eye. Originally conceived as a stage play and screen treatment, it finds him documenting the early adventures of a small town Mississippi boy in the Big City, pursuing his quest to make music. Sharing reflections and journals he kept at the time, he weaves an absorbing narrative that fully addresses the trials, travails and triumphs that would eventually play out over the course of his prolific 40+ year career including encounters with the Ramones, Sam Phillips, Keith Richards, Doc Pomus, Levon Helm and others notables along the way.

The book is accompanied by its own soundtrack as well, an evocative new album entitled The Magic Tree that offers a series of songs gleaned from previously recorded acoustic demos, augmented with new backing tracks and fleshed out as a series of songs that ring with the verve and vitality that Forbert’s fans have always come to expect. Consistently upbeat and optimistic, they convey a firm sense that age ought not diminish a lust for living. Then again, that’s been Forbert’s mantra ever since the beginning: honoring his past while plowing his way towards the future. The Magic Tree serves as sound track to Steve’s new memoir, Big City Cat a chronicle of his forty years making music. The album rings with the verve and vitality that Forbert’s fans have always come to expect. It takes on special meaning in light of the recent health scare that sidelined him for several months while he recovered from kidney surgery and chemotherapy. Consistently upbeat and optimistic, the album’s songs convey a firm sense that age ought not diminish a lust for living. The Magic Tree underscores what revered critic the late Paul Nelson wrote about Forbert in Rolling Stone almost 40 years ago: “… Nothing, nothing in this world, is going to stop Steve Forbert, and on that I’ll bet anything you’d care to wager.”

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