The Wrens

Both Charles Bissell and Rachel and Zoë from Field Mouse are on the Empty Country album, so hopefully we can expect some on-stage collaboration.

”If you wanna hear some of this now-done 10-year Odyssey of a recording (a not-pun that’ll be more clear when the record comes out), I’m gonna be doing a solo set of some of the songs (accompanied by my usual hide-me veil of loop pedal shenanigans),” Charles Bissell says.

Record Store Day Black Friday is November 29 and artists releasing exclusive titles include Arcade Fire, Jonathan Fire*Eater, Lou Reed, LIzzo, Nick Lowe & Wilco, The Wrens, Devo, Cardi B, Lizzo, The New Pornographers, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and more.

Joe D'Agostino's debut album album as Empty Country will be out on Tiny Engines in 2020. You can hear two songs now...

The "Flip These Houses" protest benefit also features Nicole Atkins, Lenny Kaye, Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Shilpa Ray, Mac McCaughan (Superchunk), Hamilton Leithauser and lots more.

The event is called "Flip These Houses" that celebrates "Protest Songs, Political Music, and Unity through Song" and the lineup also includes Hamilton Leithauser, The Wrens' Charles Bissell, Nicole Atkins, Ted Leo, Syd Straw, and many more.

Exhorder, Ava Luna plays Serge Gainsbourg, King Missile/Charles Bissel, Mal Devisa, Eugene Chadbourne and more Saturday show options.

They named the band Wrenses Alien, and Charles called it ”the closest I’ve come to a tour in 8 or 9 years.”

Members of The Wrens, The Dismemberment Plan, Hole, Chrome Cranks, and more came out for a very special evening.

Charles Bissell also has other shows, including one in Brooklyn this Friday (10/27).