The local record-release season is starting to heat up along with the weather. First up is Heroes of the Kingdom, which recently unleashed its debut album, HOTK, online. You can purchase it here -- and like the album released by vocalist Chris Powell's other band, Ring, Cicada, HOTK is available in a bunch of different formats and varying bitrates.MP3: Heroes of the Kingdom, "Wild Eyed Creatures"
One-man experimental band Emperor X -- which is now based in Edwardsville -- also just released a
In this week's paper, Shae Moseley interviews Chad Matheny of Emperor X. Although Matheny has been hanging out in Edwardsville recently, he'll be heading to LA after this current tour, which sees him at the Firebird tonight with the Dead Science, I Need Sleep and Giants in the Sky.
Emily YoshidaGo west, young man!
Read Moseley's interview with him here, check out some outtakes below -- which refers to Matheny's penchant for producing only one physical copy of each album he makes -- and snag an
