Alberta Cross

Fire To The Ocean

Broken Side Of Time

Song 3Three Blues

"Get Up High" off our upcoming third studio album due in 2015. 

Get up High

Isolation

From the album 'Alberta Cross' available October 16, 2015.

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Alberta Cross - Ghost Of Santa Fe

“Hellfire Queen” – Fractured Kin

She doesn’t walk in — she erupts. “Hellfire Queen” is a molten storm of dominance and desire, the sound of power taking its throne. The song opens with a slow, ominous riff that drips tension before the drums detonate into a thunderous march. Then the voice hits — commanding, sultry, and untouchable — the sound of a woman who’s seen every betrayal and turned each one into fuel.

This is Fractured Kin at their most cinematic and feral — guitars blaze like infernos, the bass growls beneath molten vocals, and every chorus feels like a battlefield lit by fire and vengeance. The lyrics speak of ascension through chaos, of a queen forged not in gold but in pain, rebellion, and flame.

The message is clear: bow if you must — burn if you don’t.
“Hellfire Queen” is not just a song; it’s a coronation in firelight, a declaration of sovereignty for every woman who’s clawed her way out of the ashes and claimed her crown.

Fractured Kin turn fury into royalty — and this is their anthem of rule.

“Hellfire Queen”

From the album 'Alberta Cross' available October 16, 2015. Pre-order and get this track free!

"The record brings to mind elements of Neil Young and My Morning Jacket, merging rock with tinges of country, folk and blues. A giant melting pot of different influences, genres and arrangements, Stakee still keeps it personal and honest." - Paste Magazine

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Alberta Cross - Western State

The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

Suddenly Everything Has Changed

Young Machetes

Giant Swan

Of Wasted Youth

Better Nature (Revisited)

Nightlight (MNDR Remix)

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 2013 (LP/CD/digital.) 

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In the city we’re all angling for Quittin’ Time, laboring along and among the hours, searching and scheming for the sweet sound of those two easy words: Time Off. It’s something you take—or sometimes steal, like a thief or a baserunner—but seems you can never get enough of it. It’s regulated, rationed, and billed by volume, like water or electricity or ice cream. Sometimes you have to beg the boss for more, or even for a trifling taste. So let’s make time! Let’s roll the dice and get these old bones out on the road again. 

Steve Gunn’s new album imagines the fugitive moments afforded us during time off, out, and away as occasions for dilatory investigations into our immediate environments and interiors. Time Off (PoB-08) showcases the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter’s oblique character sketches and story-songs, some of which, like “Lurker” and “Street Keeper,” portray specific denizens of his Brooklyn neighborhood. “Old Strange” celebrates Jack Rose, a dear and departed friend and muse. 
Those contemplative studies frame Gunn’s most affecting, accessible and articulate work of pure songcraft to date. His definitive statement as a songwriter, Time Off represents the culmination of nearly fifteen years of stylistic experimentation as a solo artist, a member of GHQ and the Gunn-Truscinski Duo, and more recently, as a guitarist in fellow Philadelphia-bred troubadour Kurt Vile’s touring band the Violators. 
Gunn’s first eponymous album with a full band, Time Off harnesses a core trio format to launch his compositions into new, luminous strata; the songs have evolved through disciplined trio interplay with longtime collaborator John Truscinski on drums and Justin Tripp (formerly of Aspera and Favourite Sons) on bass and guitar. Helena Espvall (Espers) also guests on cello. Steve’s keen baritone voice features more prominently than ever before on these tunes, each of which feels both more rigorous and expansive than previous efforts. 

Here, Gunn the guitarist masterfully deploys the discursive, deconstructed blues style, at once transcendent and methodical, that has become his signature. Close listening reveals the influence of Delta and Piedmont country blues, ecstatic free jazz, and psych, as well as Gnawa and Carnatic music, on the continually unfolding compositions. The fresh emphasis on narrative, characters in counterpoint, and those heavy-duty vocals likewise recall the finest work of Steve’s friend and sometime touring partner, Michael Chapman.
Building on his established penchant for charting musical travelogues that ramble through city and wilderness alike, these dispatches about home are not merely descriptive but corporeal. Gunn’s evocative writing and ductile instrumental phrasing, buttressed by the band’s intuitive playing, carries the listener along bodily for the “Trailways Ramble.” It’s a real collection of foot-tappers and head-nodders, perfect for summer sessions. 

The album opens with the sublime, meditative “Water Wheel”—a paean to “the water wheel’s constant turn/open views and days to burn”—and indeed Time Off sounds as if Steve has swum full circle to reach the headwaters of his musical practice. This is Gunn at the top of his game, utterly unique but steeped in traditions both vernacular and avant-garde. Jump in. 

•	Steve Gunn’s first album with a band, featuring John Truscinski and Justin Tripp
•	His most affecting, accessible, and articulate work of pure songcraft to date, with a new emphasis on vocals
•	Available on virgin vinyl, in a deluxe, limited edition, as well as on CD and digital formats
•	Vinyl edition features matte, tip-on jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and digital download coupon
•	CD housed in heavy 20 pt matte gatefold wallet
•	Package features artwork by Anthony Campuzano, Constance Mensh, and Justin Tripp

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