Chris’s 20th album, The Tide Stripped Bare, is available today from Armalyte Industries. The limited edition CD is sold out, but you can still get the digital download from any of the following:
Also be sure to read Chris’s interview about the album and watch Gabriel Edvy’s video for the title track, then share your thoughts below!
If you haven’t seen the links to buy Art & Gender on social media — here they are!
CD and/or digital download:
CD Baby Bandcamp Amazon
Stream online:
Spotify
(iTunes and others coming soon!)
“I never was a painter, but I could always draw my blood”
-Chris Connelly, 2017
Chris’s sixteenth solo album, Art & Gender, will be released on Friday, October 6, 2017. The album was written, performed, and produced by Chris himself.
Track listing:
The album, released by Shipwrecked Industries, will be available on CD and in digital formats from your favorite music outlets.
Thanks goes out to all those who supported the making of this album through the purchase of the JACKIETOWN demos on Bandcamp.
Cover illustration by Nicole Caggiano, marker on paper. www.nicolecaggiano.com
Today, Chris releases two demo tracks off his forthcoming album, JACKIETOWN — available online at Bandcamp — to give his fans an opportunity to both preview and support the new album.
The two tracks, entitled “Jackietown” and “The Last Renoir (A Fiction)”, total over 25 minute of music and demonstrate how Chris works out his songs prior to recording.
Those who wish to download the tracks and support the making of “Jackietown” will be charged $5.00 by Bandcamp. Chris thanks you in advance for your support!
Just in time for the holidays, Chris shares a Christmas single with us! Recorded in his basement just last night, it is a cover of the song “Persons Unknown” by The Poison Girls from 1980. They were an anarchist/feminist band that I followed, along with Crass.
Chris shares this free, downloadable single with you as a way of sharing his own feelings and fears about the current political climate.
March 1, 2016 sees the release of Chris’s first full-length collaboration with the amazing Michael Begg.
Chris writes, “New Town Nocturnes is neither song nor poem, rather six studies of the Edinburgh I grew up in, the people I knew and encountered there and the places I frequented, my words given amazing vistas by the sounds and music Michael created for them.”
Available on Jnana Records.
Cocksure‘s second album, Corporate_Sting, is set for an August 21st release on Metropolis Records!
You can get a taste of what’s to come right now by checking out their first video from the album, for the track “Razor Invader”:
Corporate_Sting is available for pre-order on CD and limited edition vinyl. It’s already getting great reviews, so you won’t want to miss it.
Also, don’t miss Chris and Jason as they hit a few festivals this year, including Cold Waves in September (with Severed Heads!). You can find their tour dates on Facebook.
After COCKSURE offered 3 separate releases on 3 different labels in 2014, this year the boys bring out another full-length LP on Metropolis one year to the date of their debut full-length. “Corporate_Sting” delivers 10 punches to the face, innovative industrial cum punk cum mega-mixx old school Doc Marten stompers, including a cover of a classic 30-year old Severed Heads tune.
Written and produced by Connelly and Novak at Cracknation Studios, “Corporate_Sting” lives low on the log of the seedy underbelly of society, taking aim at the exploiters, the thieves, the dealers and the corruptors, cranking up the heavy drums and the dirty bass while raising the ghost of classic Wax Trax!-era sounds, bathed in future horrors and catastrophe.
Album includes a guest “memo” written by Duane Swierczynski, published author of “Severance Package”, “The Blonde” and a writer for the monthly Marvel Comics series Cable, plus photography by Black Pearl Photo.
Cocksure is Christopher J. Connelly (MINISTRY, REVOLTING COCKS, SONS OF THE SILENT AGE) and Jason C. Novak (ACUMEN NATION, DJ? ACUCRACK, CZAR).
There’s a lovely interview with Chris over at Chaos Control Digizine, in which Chris talks about Decibels From Heart, the new Cocksure album, and more… check it out!
ReGen Magazine reviewed Decibels From Heart and gave it four stars — thank you very much!
Speaking of reviews, please add yours over at Amazon or iTunes!
Hope you’re enjoying Decibels From Heart!
Decibels From Heart features a stellar line-up of guest vocalists including Meshell Ndegeocello, actress/singer Rebecca Pidgeon, former Pigface alum Ruby, and more! Chris has put together a magnificent band including Scott Bennett who has played with Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Mike Farrell of Morrissey, and Matt Walker ex-Filter, Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage!
Tuesday, May 12 is the release date for Chris’s 15th solo album, Decibels from Heart.
Two years in the making, the album was produced by Matt Walker and features contributions from Ruby, Rebecca Pidgeon, Meshell Ndegeocello, Claire Massey, My Brightest Diamond, and Roxy Swain.
A track listing, samples, and order information will be coming soon, so stay tuned!