Few can turn tales from the outer limits into catchy songs quite like Prophet does in "The Left Hand and the Right Hand." He's as original as the oddball characters he brings to life.

Californian alt-rock hero *Chuck Prophet *(formerly of Green on Red) made a welcome return to the* UK *earlier this year with the release of his new LP *Temple Beautiful* (Yep Roc) on *March 5th.* *Chuck *will release a new single, *The Left Hand and The Right Hand* on June 11, 2012. Himself a...

Yep Roc Reocrds has announced that it will be celebrating its 15th anniversary with Yep Roc 15, a three-night concert in North Carolina, where the artist-driven label has called home since it was founded in 1997. The event will take place October 11-13 at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, N.C., and will feature performances by Yep Roc artists such as Nick Lowe, Chuck Prophet, Robyn Hitchcock, Fountains of Wayne and others....

Les reconoceremos que hacer esta crónica es un poco osado por nuestra parte. Este que ven arriba, Chuck Prophet, empezó a dar guerra por los escenarios de California antes de que un servidor fuese siquiera proyecto de cigoto. Un poco de historia: Prophet se metió en Green on Red en 1985 y publicó con ellos [...]

Chuck Prophet - The Left Hand and the Right Hand

In his video for "The Left and the Right Hand" singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet tells the story of a fraternal love gone wrong with hand movements "The song is about two brothers who are close then have a falling out and then get back together but then one brother kills the...

The Californian singer-songwriter and ex-Green on Red man met us within the brutalist confines of London's Barbican Centre for our latest Best Fit Session.

Originally Jane was a punk-rocking, all girl band drummer. She was able to open for The Clash in a band called Pulsallama. In the 90s she started an alternative country band Jean Caffeine’s All Nite Truckstop. Now living in Ontario, Canada, originally from Austin, Texas, she started writing more. The recording started with Chuck Prophet [...]

Back in 1995 The New York Times described R.E.M.'s album Monster as a Big, dumb, rock record. Excep

Generations of homegrown legendry teamed up at the GAMH Friday night to show young and old (and quite old) alike how roots rock is served. Alt-country hero Chuck Prophet, who emerged in the 80′s with Green on Red and has never let up, and Roy Loney, former front man for 70′s power pop progenitors The [...]

Can this be right? A gig by Jandek in Manchester this month? Indeed it is. An ultra-rare appearance by the ultra-elusive outsider folk-blues musician put on by a partnership of enterprising promoters Buried Bones and MIE Music . For all his shadowy elusiveness and absence of biographical information, Jandek has an extensive discography – 50 albums and counting . For this live show, ' The Representative of Corwood Industries' will be joined by drummer Alex Nielson (of Trembling Bells and numerous collaborations) and experimental guitarist Richard Youngs. Tickets here . In a cruel clash on the same Saturday is the 11th Carefully Planned All Dayer ...

Texas singer, songwriter and blues rocker Alejandro Escovedo announced his 11th solo album today, which is titled Big Station . The album is set for a June 5 release on Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group. On the follow-up to 2010’s _Street Songs of Love_, which debuted at the top of Billboard’s Heatseekers chart, Escovedo worked with frequent co-writer Chuck Prophet and producer Tony Visconti.

Chuck Prophet – “Let Freedom Ring” Now is the moment to catch up with Chuck Prophet, who graduated from lead guitar in 80s garage country band Green on Red (check out their album Gas Food Lodging – coulda been recorded today!) to roam, over a dozen-fold albums and more, through roots, swamp rock, alt-hop and [...]

To many it would be unthinkable, if not impossible: In an age of informational ubiquity, when seemingly any fact in the world lies about three clicks away, Chuck Prophet made an album about San Francisco without looking up anything. "We wrote what we consider a 'Google-pure' or a 'Wikiped...

Do you like Lou Reed?  Tom Petty?  Bob Dylan?  Joe Strummer?  (The right answer to all these questions has to be “Yes.”) Then why aren’t you listening to Chuck Prophet‘s latest album, “Temple Beautiful?” It’s tremendous. Stream it on Soundcloud.