Watch a documentary on the Liverpool Olympia feat. Elvis Costello

Here's a 17 minute film about Liverpool's legendary Olympia Theatre with a cameo from Elvis Costello who plays there next week. 

Elvis Costello hits the Liverpool Olympia with Steve Nieve on September 11. Get tickets right here. 

Echo & The Bunnymen's Will Sergeant is fond of his Rickenbacker 12-string

Will Sergeant will be relying on his trusty Rickenbacker for Echo & The Bunnymen's show at History on Thursday (May 23).

Will Sergeant discusses his Echoes memoir with Sandra Treviño at Gman Tavern on Monday (May 27). RSVP right here.

Will Sergeant discusses the first four Echo & The Bunnymen albums

Here's an hour-long chat with Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant at his home in Lancashire. 

Will Sergeant also just released a collaborative recording with his old Liverpool pal Paul Simpson of the Wild Swans. 

Kelley Stoltz releases new album Ah! (etc)

Kelley is joined by Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant, Allyson Baker and Karina Deniké formerly of Dance Hall Crashers. 

Here's the scoop...

'I was guzzling wine at my favorite bar in San Francisco, the Rite Spot, and the entertainment that night was some local opera singers singing along with a big video screen showing a collage of various operatic moments with subtitles. One particular subtitle, 'Ah! (etc)' made me laugh, I thought it was a perfect description of life -- the joy of existence against the etcetera of it all, the struggle. With a heavy head of rosé it seemed like ecstatic poetry! I scribbled it on a napkin and thought it might make a good title for something" And so the mystery behind the title of Kelley Stoltz's new record is solved. Less of a mystery is the quality contained therein: after twelve releases and a several more under pseudonyms, Stoltz is the word for "one-man-band-home-recording-pop-songs of idiosyncratic character.' A quick follow up to his more power pop and pub rock LP only Hard Feelings offering in the summer, Ah! (etc) finds Stoltz returning to his sweet spot, writing songs that never were, but should have been in the '60s and '80s. As with other releases, Stoltz makes virtually every noise on the album which was written and recorded in 2019 at his Electric Duck Studio in San Francisco. A few friends popped in to play along: Stoltz former bandmate, Echo & the Bunnymen's Will Sergeant adds electric guitar to 'The Quiet Ones' a sort of Scott Walker lyrical take on strangers and neighbors. Karina Deniké formerly of Dance Hall Crashers adds gorgeous vocals on the bossanova groover 'Moon Shy', where Sergeant pops up again in a spoken word role on the outro. Allyson Baker of SF's Dirty Ghosts sings on 'She Likes Noise', a song Stoltz wrote for her in celebration of her love of seeing live bands." 

Get the new Kelley Stoltz album Ah! (etc) via Bandcamp right here. Listen to "She Likes Noise," "Moon Shy" and "The Quiet Ones" below.