Category: Albums, EPs, and Singles

  • The release party, and what else we got up to in 2024

    Hey everybody! It’s Jesse “Cannonball” Statman making a guest post on the blog. I hope you’re all doing well out there. Things are OK here! Kind of exhausted, but fine overall. We just had the release party for my new album at Centro Cultural Liliana Loth, the cultural center my parents and I started a…

  • Cannonball Statman

    …and here we go! Today, the 17th of October, 2024, is the long-awaited release day of Cannonball Statman’s self-titled 32nd album, available now on streaming services and on BandCamp. Take a listen (or several if you prefer), buy the album (and the benefit compilation for the Freedom Theatre if you haven’t already!), and tell all…

  • New song to debut on Different Noises!

    Following September’s radio debut of “East River Park” on FPP in Paris, this Wednesday the 9th of October at 6pm UK time, we’ll be treated to another new Cannonball Statman recording on Bob Osborne’s Different Noises show, featuring Amazalia of the Mexico City based experimental jazz duo Toque de Azafrán on saxophone. More information on…

  • New song to debut on Radio FPP!

    Tonight, Monday the 16th of September, a song from Cannonball’s upcoming self-titled 32nd album will debut as part of France de Griessen’s playlist on FPP! This track features France de Griessen on vocals, and Jojo Rita of Duo Toque de Azafrán on melodica. You can tune in online at rfpp.net, or if you’re in Paris…

  • The Morgue

    Today marks the release of “The Morgue”, which is the 3rd and final single from Cannonball Statman’s upcoming self-titled 32nd album – this single is now available both on streaming services and as part of the BandCamp pre-order of the album, which will be released in its entirety on the 17th of October. “The Morgue”…

  • Theme from Cannonball Statman

    Following last month’s release of the single “Tom Turkey” and June’s release of Killing The Flowers Will Not Delay Spring, which features a new version of Cannonball’s song “Henry Hudson” from his upcoming self-titled 32nd album, today marks the release of another single from the album and the launch of the BandCamp pre-order of the…

  • Tom Turkey

    After much buzzing around the UK, Europe, and North America talking about it over the past 6 months, the first official single from Cannonball Statman’s upcoming self-titled 32nd album has been released on streaming services! (Here it is on Spotify!) The release of this song, “Tom Turkey”, follows last month’s release of Killing The Flowers…

  • A Benefit Compilation for the Freedom Theatre

    As I’ve posted about before on this blog, Cannonball and I have both been increasingly disturbed by what seems to be a near total inability of so many people in our own industry to find the courage in ourselves to stand up and use our talents, our labour, and our voices to support Palestinian rights…

  • Valentine’s Day 2024 Hard to Break CDs!

    Now that Cannonball has returned to a relatively domestic existence for the next month or so after recording his self-titled 32nd album at Axe & Trap Studios in Wells shortly following the end of his 7-week Hard to Break Tour, he finally has the means to ship out physical CDs of the album to those…

  • Shriekofafreak! (2015) reissue and more on the way

    Seeing as one of Cannonball’s major plans for 2024 is to put out digital reissues of some previously unavailable “classic albums” of his from the 2010s, we figured what better way to start than with 2015’s Shriekofafreak!, which Chris Urban aka Christoph Jesus, frontman of legendary NJ antifolk/punk band Crazy & the Brains, listed as…