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Today, Blitzen Trapper announces its 2022 tour, which kicks off in their hometown of Portland, OR, on April 22 at Revolution Hall. The 25-date tour is in support of Holy Smokes Future Jokes, their 2020 label debut for Yep Roc Records, and 10th studio album. Check out the full list of tour dates now!

Blitzen Trapper’s highly anticipated new album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, is out today on Yep Roc Records.

Portland, OR-based Blitzen Trapper today shares ”Requiem,” the fourth track unveiled from Holy Smokes Future Jokes out September 25 on Yep Roc Records. FLOOD premiered the track noting, “the group uses country music as a vessel for persistence through difficult times.”

Portland, OR-based Blitzen Trapper today released “Masonic Temple Microdose #1,” the second single from their Yep Roc Records debut, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, out September 11.

Richmond based, experimental folk duo Lean Year, have confirmed a short run of performances that kick off October 28 with Angel Olsen in North Carolina and routes them through Brooklyn, Bloomington, Chicago and more. This time around, Lean Year's Emilie Rex and filmmaker Rick Alverson will be joined by Matt O'Connell of Elephant Micah and Erik Hall of In Tall Buildings and Wild Belle. Alverson, who just finished promoting his new film 'The Mountain' (starring Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan) will be performing for the first time since 2007. Check below for a full list of dates. 

Anthony LaMarca of The Building shares wonderful track, 'All Things New,' available now on all DSPs and streaming services; an equally potent companion video is streaming now via The Building's official YouTube channel. 'All Things New' heralds The Building's remarkable latest album, PETRA, due Friday, October 11 via Concord Records.

In Tall Buildings, aka Chicago songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall, has released his new album, Akinetic on Western Vinyl. Produced alongside Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Califone) at Hall's Chicago home studio, Akinetic yields ten new tracks of spacious and textured handmade pop, plunging headlong into allegories of communication, loss, impulse, vice, and mass-denialism.