Louisville-based artist Andrew Rinehart has just released a gorgeous new video for his new single, “They Say!” Check out the World Premiere via Fader Magazine, and download a copy of #TheySay this Wednesday, March 20th, 2019.
WATCH: Shake Anderson's New Video for "The Stain"
Check out this emotive new video from sonaBLAST!'s very own, Shake Anderson! Shake lends his signature vocals to this slow-burn jam, which seamlessly blends Blues, R&B, and sweet Soul music.
Listen to, and download Shake Anderson's latest sonaBLAST! Records' release: https://onerpm.com/al/5213617970
Cat Casual, aka William Benton from Lucky Pineapple, signs to sonaBLAST! Records!
We’re ecstatic to announce that our good friend, William Benton, has just signed on with sonaBLAST! Records to release The Secret Self, Benton’s new full-length album.
William Benton, aka Cat Casual, is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who has supplied guitar and bass for artists like Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Shilpa Ray (Nick Cave’s Bad Seed Ltd. label), The Phantom Family Halo (Knitting Factory Records), Ivan Julian (Richard Hell and the Voidoids)- and has collaborated with legendary musicians such as Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Steve Shelley(Sonic Youth), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple)...among others.
He has also supplied music for television (including Jersey Shore), short films, and off-off Broadway productions.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, Benton divides his time and work between Louisville, Kentucky, and the New York area.
The first Cat Casual release (Cat Casual and the Holy Midnight), smashed open the rusty gates, releasing Benton's psyche-inspired, cinematic, troubadour-ish persona upon the world. (The record opens with Sending- “...a collaboration with Bonnie "Prince" Billy that sounds like Suicide, Grinderman, and a chain gang produced something unholy in a musical laboratory...”)
The Final Word- the most recent backing band that he has assembled- is fearlessly executing reinterpretations of previous Cat Casual songs as well as delivering the latest material: some of the most interesting, heady, unpredictable-yet-accessible music that Louisville and Benton himself have ever produced.
Cat Casual and the Final Word recently recorded, mixed, and mastered the full-length The Secret Self with Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana at the end of 2018, looking to release the album in the summer of 2019.
Local and regional live dates/touring beginning in the spring.
https://soundcloud.com/william-benton-1/sets/cat-casual-and-the-final-word-the-secret-self/s-an7d5
https://soundcloud.com/william-benton-1/sets/cat-casual-and-the-final-word-the-secret-self/s-an7d5 (instrumental version)
Mastered for digital, compact disc, and vinyl.
Photo taken by Matthew Roos