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THE GLASS HOURS / 11https://www.facebook.com/theglasshours
SOMETHING IN THE STATIC / 10
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BRIAN KRUMM & HIS BARFLY FRIENDS / 9
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https://briankrumm.com/home
Brian is a PRAVDA RECORDS recording artist. https://www.facebook.com/PravdaRecordsUSA
CHRISTIAN COLLIN / 8
https://christiancollin.com/
https://www.instagram.com/christiancollin.music
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The Glass Hours
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Are American songwriters Brad Armstrong and Megan Barbera.
Their music blurs between Sunday afternoon country-folk and the Golden Age of the 1970s. Their self-titled nine-song debut album is out now on Cornelius Chapel Records.
Something in the Static
Something in the Static is a collective of some of Chicago's busiest musicians, born from a shared love of indie-rock supergroup boygenius. Like Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, Something in the Static aims to break hearts and melt faces in equal measure. You'll cry at their show with the teenagers, guaranteed.
Brian Krumm and His Barfly Friends
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Praise for "Just Fade Away"
This is a gorgeous record, where the songs that hit hardest, that insinuate themselves as open questions, change by the day, but each one seems to send down deeper roots, and come up with more history—personal, social, mythical—every time you play it.
—Greil Marcus (Rolling Stone, Creem, Village Voice)
The 11-song collection produced by Christian Moder and Brian Krumm is a delight with tunes like “Never Do as I’m Told,” excellently performed.�—John Apice (Americana Highways)
Krumm, who cites influences ranging from the Jayhawks and Warren Zevon to Bob Dylan, has a gravelly voice that at times recalls artists like David Johansen, Tom Waits and Garland Jeffreys. Among the well-hooked numbers are “Barfly Friends,” a ballad that looks back affectionately on a past relationship and the rocking, organ-spiced “Back in My Old Neighborhood,” in which Krumm revisits assorted haunts and concludes that “nothing much has changed except for me.”�—Jeff Burger, theaquarian.com
�Brian Krumm and His Barfly Friends is the first solo project from Brian Krumm, front man for Chicago’s Americana-noir group The Great Crusades. His debut album, Just Fade Away was recorded with members of his regular band as well as a who’s who of Chicago music scene notables with Crusader Christian Moder and Brian producing. Just Fade Away was released by Pravda Records as a digital download, 12” vinyl LP, CD and via streaming platforms June 2, 2023. The band completed a sold-out tour of Germany in June 2023, and a tour in the United States.
Krumm wrote the songs on Just Fade Away in 2020. In an effort to stay sane during the first days of the lockdown, Brian would drink a shot of whiskey each evening at 5PM and try to write a song. Twenty-five days later, he had 25 songs, 11 of which he’d take into his and Moder’s home studios. Along with long time band mates Brian Hunt (bass, vocals), Brian Leach (keyboards, vocals, guitars), and Christian Moder (drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals, production), he recruited Dana Anderson (vocals), Tony Artimisi (drums), Erik Attkisson (bass), Jake Brookman (cello), Laura Coy (vocals), Pete Galanis (guitars), Jessie Hotaling (vocals, co-lead vocals on “Just Fade Away,” “Stuck in the Van” and “Wasn’t Born Yesterday”), Hazel Krumm (vocals), Vivian Krumm (vocals), Dirk McElravey (bouzouki, mandolin), Kristina Priceman (violin), Nelson Strange (guitars), Brian Wilkie (pedal steel, guitars) and the Montrose Horns: Jon Boley (trumpet), Rich Lapka (trombone, horn arrangements) and Justin Past (saxophone).
Many of these musicians had performed as special guests at his monthly residency at Chicago’s Montrose Saloon that started in 2021 and continued into 2023. Additional vocals, guitars and horns were tracked at Chicago’s JoyRide Studios.
Influences like Robyn Hitchcock, the Jayhawks, Warren Zevon and Dylan shine through all the material on Just Fade Away with his storytelling at the forefront. The album gives listeners a sonic snapshot of remembrances from Krumm and a life lived observing a perplexing yet utterly inspirational world.
Vocalist/guitarist Brian Krumm formed The Great Crusades more than 20 years ago, following his tenure with The Suede Chain. The Great Crusades’ debut, The First Spilled Drink of the Evening was released in 1997 earning the praise of Rolling Stone’s David Fricke: “The Great Crusades look at life through a shot-glass lens, mixing anger, muscle and minor-key remorse like a roughneck Tindersticks with the bonus of a singer who’s got the tubercular pipes of Tom Waits and Axl Rose’s love child.”
In 2000, Damaged Goods was released by Glitterhouse Records in Europe and Checkered Past Records in North America. Next, the Never Go Home tour was presented by Musikexpress Magazine and the band appeared on the legendary TV program Rockpalast. (The band also played Rockpalast in 2015—one of only a few bands to play the show twice.)
Welcome to the Hiawatha Inn, Four Thirty, Keep Them Entertained, Fiction to Shame, Thieves of Chicago and Until the Night Turned to Day followed, each providing a new focus for Krumm’s ever-evolving songwriting and storytelling. Two songs from Keep Them Entertained appeared in the season 4 finale of the HBO vampire series True Blood.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic put music venues on hold worldwide, Krumm focused on solo work and began writing the materials that’d wind up on Just Fade Away.
Christian Collin
Christian Collin is a singer, songwriter and guitarist devoted to blues and American roots music. Based in Chicago, Collin was born in the Detroit area to a musical family. At an early age, Christian was immersed in the sounds of Motown, classic rock n’ roll and the many variants of American roots music. His parents took him to see Little Feat shortly before the passing of Lowell George in 1979 and that concert profoundly influenced Christian. Christian’s final singular moment of musical inspiration occurred when he first heard Stevie Ray Vaughan on the radio in the early 80’s. He began playing guitar at age 13 and has never looked back. Having honed his musical chops playing bars and roadhouses across the Midwest for the last fifteen years, he is a seasoned bandleader whose dynamic performances leave audiences consistently impressed.
Christian’s strong songwriting, soulful vocals and exceptional musicianship create a musical stew that excites and inspires. Collin’s voice has been described by David Caddell, a music reviewer for The Local, as “city-grit soulful and as honest as the lyrics he sings.” As Robert Noll, exclaimed, “heartfelt lyrics and a guitar that can testify!” During adolescence Robert was Christian’s guitar teacher who previously played with Albert Collins and Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows. Favoring Fender Strats, Telecasters, and a Gibson Les Paul Junior, Collin’s guitar playing is powerful and passionate, yet melodic and refined. Collin’s primary influences include Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Lowell George of Little Feat, along with classic blues and rock n’ roll icons Albert King, Albert Collins, Magic Sam, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. And while these influences may be evident in his music, Christian is obviously his own man and has created a sound infused with originality.
Christian’s new album “Spirit of the Blues” was released on July 10, 2015, and has been getting rave reviews. “Spirit of the Blues” is now available on iTunes, Amazon and CDBaby.com.
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