30 years of Secretly—then, now, and what comes next.
This August, we return to Bloomington for What Comes After the Blues: Secretly 30 — a three-night celebration in the place it all began. From basements to stages, honoring the artists and sounds that shaped our past, present, and future.
Aug 27–29
Bloomington, IN ☀️
Featuring: Sharon Van Etten, Kevin Morby, Durand Jones & The Indications, Jensen McRae + more
3-day passes on sale April 24 at 10am ET
Limited Individual tickets available May 29
Come back to where it started.
Today, Avalon Emerson & the Charm releases the new album Written into Changes, alongside Tim Barber-directed and Ryan Nethery-shot and edited music video filmed in upstate New York for track “Happy Birthday” “Making ‘Written into Changes’ felt like unlocking a fence and running into a big green field. I wanted to be more direct and vulnerable with my lyrics and voice, and for the instrumentation I wanted to be bolder. This album is a collection of songs about change, shards of life, and relationships whose echoes I still feel every day. I collaborated with old friends, like Bullion, Hunter and Keivon, and also new producers and musicians such as Rostam, Jay Flew, and other brilliant musicians. We made this record in the English countryside, London, and LA. I love making this kind of music and I’m so happy people can hear this album now.
The song ‘Happy Birthday’ was one of the last songs to really come together on the album. It underwent many different skins and styles before landing in the place it finally knew it needed to be, and it’s one of my favorites on the album. We shot the music video last week upstate at my friend Tim Barber’s home (who also directed it along with DP Ryan Nethery).” - @avalon9000
Today, @kevinmorby releases his eighth studio album, Little Wide Open alongside a new music video for track “100,000” 🌻
In her astonishing essay about the album, award-winning novelist Rachel Kushner writes; “ for him, the LWO is the big sky, the small lives—it’s his origins in the Midwest and every duty and modesty and familiarity and isolation: the land, the people, and the parts of that inside him”
‘Little Wide Open’ is available now at the secretly store 🌻
Little Wide Open is out Friday!! Pre-order your copy now! Here’s where to get each color:
🌻 EcoMix Vinyl - local record stores + my webstore
🌻 Peach Vinyl - my webstore + Dead Oceans’ webstore
🌻 Green Vinyl - Dead Oceans’ webstore
it is with great excitement and gratitude that i announce ‘B-Grade University (Reunion Edition)’ coming to you on July 17th
to celebrate 10 years of my debut EP, i am releasing a very special edition of ‘B-Grade University’ that includes a re-recording of ‘You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me’ featuring Tegan and Sara (OUT NOW) and ‘Let’s Go Out’ featuring Slowly Slowly. i have also made a super limited amount of 500 vinyl that are available for pre-order now.
AND i’ll be smashing out some solo shows in the US this July w some v special friends. tickets on sale May 15th (Australia will be getting some news of this nature soon…).
i am not exaggerating when i say this EP completely changed my life. these songs found their place in the world in a way i could have never fathomed and have forged a life of their own over the last decade.
whether you’ve been here from orientation day or you’re showing up in time for the reunion, thank you so much for supporting this record in all its forms. B-Grade University admissions are always open 🎓
You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me (feat. Tegan and Sara)
OUT 12 MAY
asked my heroes to sing on a reimagining of YDTYLPLM with me and they said yes :’) can’t wait for it to be yours. there’s much more to come
“It’s a Shame” 🟡🔴🔵 the newest single from @aaron_frazer is out now and soon to be released as a 7” with the 2024 Into The Blue’s “The Fool” as a b-side, out on June 12 via @coleminerecords
@kevinmorby performs “Texas When You Go” by John Callahan live for Best Fit in partnership with @crouchendstudios .
Callahan, primarily a cartoonist, released only one CD in his lifetime, Purple Winos in the Rain, in 2006. A quadriplegic and a fixture of the Portland, Oregon community, his work often dealt with the juxtaposition of humor and darkness, leaning into black satire and angst to deliver messages both inventive and shocking at the same time.
“Texas When You Go” was released posthumously in 2018, eight years after his death in 2010. It was included in the film on Callahan’s life, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, which was directed by Gus Van Sant and featured Joaquin Phoenix.
Morby’s take on Callahan’s melancholic, quaint original sees him lean deeper into its darker undertones, putting together a version that’s so striking it’s almost haunting.
The session was recorded at Lanzarote Works Studios (@lanzaroteworks ). You can find the full performance now over on thelineofbestfit.com and on YouTube.
Morby’s eight studio album, Little Wide Open, will be out 15 May via @deadoceans .
🇫🇷 Kevin Morby listening sessions in France for “Little Wide Open” on 13th May.
Listen to Kevin Morby’s new album a few days early in your favourite French record store!
