

No matter your mood today, make sure you adopt a heartbreak album. Look no further. Courtney Marie Andrews can’t write a bad song. And the ones on her new collection of 10 not bad songs, “Old Flowers”, are so good that we just noticed we’ve featured one of them twice. Plus: new tracks by Fenne Lily, Native Harrow, Lori McKenna, H.C. McEntire, Skullcrusher, Taylor Swift, Lydia Loveless, Aubrie Sellers, Daniel Donato, The Nude Party, Hoops, Old 97’s, Dawes, Jarvis Cocker, Sylvan Esso, Walter Martin, Lala Lala, trayer tryon, Andy Shauf, Durand Jones & The Indications, Grace Sings Sludge, Ora Cogan, Isobel Campbell, Tom Brosseau, Colter Wall, Brent Cobb, and the Tweedy family.
Bolachas Now Playing, a new music Spotify playlist updated every Tuesday.
He has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms. Richard Swift’s posthumously released final album, The Hex, was released last week and is our record of the week. Plus: new songs by Alejandro Escovedo, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Goshen Electric Co. (Strand of Oaks + Magnolia Electric Co. – JMo), The Hold Steady, Hiss Golden Messenger, The Black Lillies, Dawn Landes, Nathan Bowles, Scott H. Biram, J Mascis, Okkervil River, Buxton (the New West Records signed artist, not the British brewery), St. Paul and The Broken Bones, Arve Henriksen + Eivind Aarset + Jan Bang, Niagara (Príncipe Discos), HEALTH +Soccer Mommy, Sylvan Esso + Collections of Colonies of Bees, Mutual Benefit, Sandro Perri + Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, Lonnie Holley, and Marissa Nadler.
Bolachas Now Playing, 32/2018 (#159):
Richard Swift – The Hex
Richard Swift – Broken Finger Blues
Alejandro Escovedo – Teenage Luggage
Jeff Tweedy – Some Birds
Goshen Electric Co. – The Gray Tower
The Hold Steady – Confusion In The Marketplace
Hiss Golden Messenger – Rock Holy
The Black Lillies – Snakes and Telephones
Dawn Landes – Traveling
Nathan Bowles – Now If You Remember
Scott H. Biram – Chickens
J Mascis – Everything She Said
Okkervil River – New Blood
Buxton – Jan
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Concave
Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang – Nymphs and Eurasian Horses
Niagara – França
HEALTH, Soccer Mommy – MASS GRAVE
Sylvan Esso, Collections Of Colonies Of Bees – Funeral Singers
Mutual Benefit – Waves, Breaking
Sandro Perri, Dan Bejar – Everybody’s Paris, Pt. III
Lonnie Holley – How Far Is Spaced-Out?
Marissa Nadler – I Can’t Listen to Gene Clark Anymore
Bolachas Now Playing, 01/2018 (#128)
The Streets – Sometimes I Hate My Friends More Than My Enemies
David Byrne – Everybody’s Coming To My House
Tune-Yards – ABC 123
The Go! Team – All the Way Live
Jeff Rosenstock – Yr Throat
Marie/Lepanto – Inverness
Titus Andronicus – Number One (In New York)
The Decemberists – Ben Franklin’s Song
Anna Burch – Tea-Soaked Letter
Lucy Dacus – Night Shift
Brandi Carlile – The Mother
Laura Marling – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Kim Richey, Chuck Prophet – Whistle On Occasion
Jim James – I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Jim James – Funny How Time Slips Away
Sufjan Stevens – Tanya Harding (In Eb major)
Glen Hansard – Wreckless Heart
Workman Song – No It’s Not
Sylvan Esso – There Are Many Ways To Say I Love You