With their new album Wher's One? announced and on the way in August, and a headlining gig at the world-renowned Tiki Oasis Festival serving as a blockbuster release party, '60s rock heroes and psychedelic music pioneers Strawberry Alarm Clock present one more double-sided single to preview the record. "I'm Not The One," an instant modern sunshine pop classic, is joined by an exclusive shorter version of the album track "Tahitian Gardens" (in tribute to the release show festival booking) for a pairing that's out
Strawberry Alarm Clock's forthcoming album Where's One? would be remarkable enough as the first collection of all-new music from the psych-rock legends since their '60s heyday, but there's much more to it than nostalgia. The band's current lineup is almost certainly uniquely bonafide among their '60s peers, featuring five members from their original run of four albums from 1967-1969: Mark Stephen Weitz (keyboards), Randy Seol (drums/percussion), George Bunnell (bass), Gene Gunnels (drums/percussion), and Steve Bartek (guitar, flute, sitar and production, also well-known as a founding member of Oingo Boingo) plus guitarist Howie Anderson who's been a full member since their 1986 reunion.
The decades of musical chemistry are a key part of what keeps the band so compelling to fans of all ages, onstage (as evidenced by the multigenerational crowds attending the band's live shows, often at the Whisky on LA's Sunset Strip where it all began) and on this record. But what makes Where's One? so much more than just a trip down memory lane is a sense of adventure, experimentation and ambition that few from their generation can conjure with such thrilling results.
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Clark Paterson’s Are You Lonely Like Me? is a record shaped by hard years, dark humor, and the stubborn decision to keep moving forward anyway. Written through heartbreak, illness, fatherhood, loss, recovery, and reinvention, the album feels deeply lived-in, the sound of someone taking inventory of a life while still standing in the middle of it. There’s loneliness here, but also resilience, warmth, and the crooked grin of somebody who’s survived enough to stop romanticizing anything.
Produced by Eric McConnell and Shawn Byrne, the record leans into a sound that feels timeless without becoming overly polished or nostalgic. The production is cinematic and atmospheric. Lush yet restrained, loose in all the right places, with the kind of texture and imperfection that makes a record feel human. Old-school country soul collides with folk storytelling, and flashes of punk spirit, creating a sound that feels equally at home in a dive bar, an empty highway, or a half-lit movie scene at closing time.
Written alongside longtime collaborator Mark Cline Bates, the songs explore memory, mortality, love, isolation, aging, and the uneasy comedy of being alive long enough to watch life humble you a few times. Paterson has a rare ability to deliver hard truths without turning sentimental, balancing grit with tenderness and self-awareness with sharp wit. The humor never undercuts the emotion. It deepens it.
At the heart of the record is the title track, “Are You Lonely Like Me?” an aching, beautiful song that quietly asks the question hanging over the entire album: not just whether we’re lonely, but whether we’re still capable of reaching each other through all the noise, damage, history, and hope we carry around.
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A profound connection to nature runs throughout the record—not as a passing metaphor, but as an elemental and transformative force shaping both her voice as a songwriter and her orientation as an artist. At its heart, the album reflects on the ways human beings choose to care for one another in myriad forms and on the generative healing and wisdom that emerge from our relationships—with each other and with the natural world.
Originally from the green rolling hills of Lancaster, PA, de Vitry is a Nashville-based artist whose music blurs the lines of folk, indie rock, and Americana. With a voice that glides effortlessly between tenderness and strength, her performances radiate with presence, spontaneity, and soul.
All My Faith’s 10 original songs were all written by Maya over the last year. Forgoing the technology often used to “perfect” studio recordings, de Vitry chose instead to fully trust the moment-to-moment musical conversations and choices of the players and singers gathered around her. “When the band realized that I was planning to do no edits whatsoever on these tracks, the level of commitment from everyone just soared. It was a really exciting atmosphere in the studio,” de Vitry recalls.
Maya sings and plays acoustic guitar on the entire album, and she enlisted Spencer Cullum and Ethan Ballinger (both members of Miranda Lambert’s touring band) for pedal steel and guitar, alongside Jo Schornikow (of alt-country/indie band Phosphorescent) on keys. They are joined by frequent members of de Vitry’s live band: Ethan Jodziewicz on bass, Dominic Billett on drums, and Shelby Means and Joel Timmons on harmony vocals. The band’s playing is responsive, uninhibited, and emotionally spot on. True to de Vitry’s vision, everything that you hear on this record was captured in real time and recorded over three days at The Tractor Shed in Goodlettsville, TN, from November 23 to 25, 2025.
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