THE OUTLAW VINNIE STIGMA w/ VOLORES and very special guest: ANDREW JAMES (ex-Ski King) The Top Hand of The Lower East Side and Agnostic Front is riding into Europe for a string of shows in November to promote his latest Generation Records/Casa Gogol Americana release: THE OUTLAW VINNIE STIGMA with his pardners Chip Hanna (US Bombs) on drums, Nathen Maxwell (Flogging Molly) on bass, Jesse Wagner (Aggrolites) on guitar, Tex Morton (Mad Sin) as the boogie master and Michelle Bell (Forgotten Highway) on fiddle. more: STIGMA VOLORES “It’s simple, but in a stylish and very beautiful way,” mulled Flogging Molly bassist Nathen Maxwell of his new band VOLORES, with his singer-songwriter wife Shelby. The duo’s debut album, AGES, explores universal themes of life, love, and death through dark, indie rock motifs and disarmingly frank lyricism. The Colorado-based couple jokingly dub their sound “mountain goth.” Organic, haunting, and relentlessly authentic, VOLORES’ broad appeal lies in its raw channeling of the mortal condition, including mental health struggles, that the couple have not only experienced, but experienced together. “I feel like the honesty and vulnerability is a large part of what makes us accessible and human,” offered Shelby. “I’m screaming my fears and insecurities out into the world.” Shelby spent several years crafting the songs that would become AGES, often while Nathen was on tour with Celtic-punk icons Molly. She sent her home demos to Nathen out on the road for structuring and arranging. Counterintuitively, it was COVID that cemented what was brewing. “The silver lining of the pandemic was that it really gave us time to realize that this body of work could become this collaboration, this songwriting partnership,” Nathen recalled. The twelve tracks they settled on were captured, mostly live, in just five days at Texas’ storied Sonic Ranch studios. The album’s understated self-production strictly serves its sentiments and s
