BACK TO THE FUTURE: New Music From Old Friends

As spring approaches, Brookyn Roads takes a look at new music that is about to bloom (or has already blossomed) from several artists we’ve featured in recent years. Here is a sampling.

Nomads at the Front Gate / photo by Richard Humann

On the heels of their cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and new video, “Women and Whiskey,” roots rockers American Nomads have just dropped a brand new single, “Ain’t No Kind of Livin’.”

Charming Disaster says their current single,  “Stockholm Syndrome,” is “inspired by Gang of Four, Bloc Party. and Bonnie and Clyde.”

Charming Disaster /photo by Krys Fox

Emily Frembgen describes her latest single, “Fentanyl,” as being about “alienation that can sometimes render a person motionless and self-medicated.”

Bandits on the Run, who impressed us with their eclectic performance at Dumbo Archway last summer, is preparing a new  EP that the trio says explores “a world that has been broken open but is putting itself back together.”

Meghan Pulles-courtesy of the artist

Aoife O’Donovan’s All My Friends album, the follow-up to 2022’s Age of Apathy, is due on March 22. One track, “Over the Finish Line,” featuring one-time Brooklynite Anaïs Mitchell (Hadestown), is currently available for download.

Brooklyn ex-pat Meghan Pulles says her March 2024 release, “Can’t Go Back,” is about “forgiving yourself for past mistakes … and having a better mindset and outlook going forward.”

The Annie Keating Band LIVE is set to drop on May 1. One of the 11 tracks, “On the Road by Ten,” is already available as a digital download.

On May 3, New York Blues Hall of Famer Bette Smith will release the “fab-funky” Goodthing, on both 12” vinyl and CD. One track from the album, “Beautiful Mess,” is currently available for download.

Sabrina Song’s debut full-length album, You Could Stay in One Spot and I’d Love You the Same, is set for a June 7 release.

Looking further ahead, glam-punk rockers Mother Feather has a fall 2024 release planned for their new album, KICK3R. The band, fronted by Ann Courtney and Elizabeth Caren, have already issued two tracks digitally: “Believers” and “L.A.”