Chelsea Wolfe

We are happy to announce that Sargent House is releasing the Chelsea Wolfe / King Dude Split 7” as our special Record Store Day release on April 20, 2013. Support your local shop! 

Check out CW & KD singing together from their tour this past January below.

L.A.-based singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe has just premiered a new video for “Flatlands,” a popular track from her critically acclaimed acoustic album Unknown Rooms on (Sargent House). Released as a part of the Converse X Decibel Magazine collaboration and directed by Charlene Bagcal, the video is unapologetically melodramatic, in perfect keeping with Wolfe’s goth-tinged, high-priestess-of-bleakville aesthetic. Above, you’ll find some exclusive behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot, which took place on a farm in Northern California—and don’t forget to watch the video, below! (All still Photos by Charlene Bagcal as well) - GO HERE To see more pictures.

Chelsea Wolfe will head across the country this winter on a headlining tour in support of her newest release Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs.  The tour will bring an intimate acoustic show, featuring Ben Chisholm on analog synths, piano & bass, with violinist Andrea Calderon accompanying as well. Wolfe will be playing reworked versions of older songs and a few covers in addition to the songs on the Acoustic album in her sets each night.  Support on most of the shows will be neo-folk artist King Dude, who will also be performing an acoustic set. Below watch Chelsea Wolfe’s cover or Sibylle Baier’s track “The End” filmed recently as part of a new Sargent House Glassroom Session.

CHELSEA WOLFE ACOUSTIC TOUR 2013
1/11 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall !
1/13 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge ! & w/ Case Studies
1/14 Seattle, WA - The Triple Door ! & w/ Case Studies
1/15 Vancouver, BC - The Media Club ! & w/ Case Studies
1/18 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club !
1/19 Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern !
1/20 Pontiac, MI - The Pike Room at Crofoot Ballroom !
1/21 Toronto, ON - The Drake Hotel !
1/22 Montreal, QC - Il Motore !
11/23 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair !
1/25 Philadelphia, PA - Side Chapel First Unitarian Church ! SOLD OUT
1/25 Philadelphia, PA - Side Chapel First Unitarian Church ! Second Show added
1/26 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg ! & w/ Starred
1/28 Washington, DC - The Rock & Roll Hotel w/ Starred
1/29 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
1/30 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
1/31 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
2/01 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s w/ Sarah Jaffe
2/02 Austin, TX - Central Presbytrian Church
2/03 Dallas, TX - House of Blues - Cambridge Room
2/05 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom w/ Sarah Jaffe
2/06 San Diego, CA - The Loft At UCSD w/ Sarah Jaffe
2/08 - Los Angeles, CA - First Unitarian Church w/ Deradoorian & Sarah Jaffe

! = w/ King Dude

Northern California’s Chelsea Wolfe made her Toronto debut opening for instrumental post-metal trio (and Sargent House label mates) Russian Circles back in August. Exclaim! TV caught up with Wolfe before her set at Sky Blue Sky Sandwiches where she performed solo acoustic, a very different experience from her live show later that night.

Watch Chelsea Wolfe perform “Flatlands,” track one off her new album Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs.

Chelsea Wolfe will play a few shows in California with Best Coast and then will head out to Japan and a headline tour in Australia. You can find dates here.

The haunting sway and vocal trill of Chelsea Wolfe’s “Appalachia” has a folksy swagger that feels as much indebted balladeering and old mountain bards as it is to music right now. Her new album, Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs, is out October 16th on Sargent House and is available for physical preorder or on iTunes (all digital downloads come with two bonus tracks). Wolfe will also do an in-store appearance at Amoeba in LA on Oct 21st, at 5PM. Check here for further tour dates.

Chelsea Wolfe “The Way We Used To” off her forthcoming record Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs due out on October 16th via Sargent House.

Shot in Philadelphia, PA on August 17th 2012 at Underground Arts in an abandonded back stairwell.
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Produced by Out Of Town Films
Cameras: Colin Kerrigan, Michael James Murray and Rocco Avallone
Edit: Michael James Murray

Chelsea Wolfe’s Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs is now available to pre-order at her online store on Vinyl, CD or Digitally. Also being offered are limited time only CD or Vinyl Bundles that come with a choice of T-Shirt, 11x17 Poster, a 3x3 Fridge Magnet and a Lyric note pad and the option to add any other cd release to it.  Below is a live rendition of the song “Flatlands” filmed at the Sargent House glassroom and a player to stream the track “The Way We Used To”.




CLICK TO PRE-ORDER - Pre-orders will ship a week before the albums official release date of October 16, 2012. We ship all over the world as well.

Photo by Kristin Cofer / Words by Lars Gotrich

Chelsea Wolfe 
I’m usually a fan of “between” albums — the ones that break away from an artist’s established sound, either tentatively or extravagantly, exploring the extremes of inspiration. These records are often misunderstood upon immediate release, but offer clues to an artist’s discography over time. Tim Buckley had a couple of these (Blue Afternoon, Happy Sad) before entirely leaving pretty-boy folk for out-there jazz-rock, while Current 93’s Thunder Perfect Mind was only the tip of the industrial-turned-apocalyptic-folk iceberg. Without the benefit of hindsight, Chelsea Wolfe’s forthcoming Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs feels like it will provide the unexpected link between last year’s excellent Apocalypsis and 2013’s reportedly more electronic record.

Since 2009, Wolfe has mixed electric blues and folk with an eye on the dark side. Stripping her sound down to acoustic guitar and strings, her third album contains “once-orphaned” songs with only the essential elements. But to say that Unknown Rooms is simply Wolfe’s “acoustic record” is misleading; it’s every bit as ethereal and haunting as past work that mines the darkness of artists like Burzum and Leonard Cohen in one breath. It’s just that now we’re in the same room, sharing her desolation and desire.

Moaned like a warped Southern gospel hymn, “The Way We Used To” opens with Chelsea Wolfe’s voice — and she’s got soul like she’s just lost a part of it. Operating at a funereal pace, the gently swinging brushed drums trail behind Wolfe’s mourning, sounding as if they were recorded in a lost hallway. The same goes for the lilting electric guitar somewhere in the background, barely heard over the hurt. It’s a simple song, but it gets at the more “songwriterly” approach of an album which spans the acoustic spectrum, from sweet love songs to the stately neo-folk of Sol Invictus to OK Computer’s eerie calm.

Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs comes out Oct. 16 on Sargent House. Chelsea Wolfe is currently on tour with Russian Circles.

CHELSEA WOLFE TOUR DATES
06/29 - Los Angeles, CA - The El-Rey %

08/06 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club !
08/07  - St. Louis, MO  -  Firebird !
08/08  -  Louisville, KY - The Veron Club !
08/09 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree !
08/10 -  Tallahassee, FL - Retrofit !
08/11  - Orlando, FL - Will’s Pub !
08/12 - Tampa, FL - State !
08/13 - Jacksonville, FL - Jackrabbits !
08/14 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl !
08/15 - Carraboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle !
08/16 - Washington, DC - Rock n Roll Hotel !
08/17 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer !
08/18 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom !
08/19 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East !
08/20 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore !
08/21 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace !
08/22 - Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme !
08/23 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall !
08/24 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock !
9/5 - Sacramento at Harlow’s
9/7 - Portland at Ted’s - Musicfest NW
9/8 - Vancouver - Biltmore $
9/9 - Seattle - Barboza $
9/12 - San Francisco - Rickshaw Stop $
9/14 - Los Angeles - The Echo $

% = w/ Russian Circles, And So I Watch From Afar & Deafheaven
! = w/ Russian Circles & Marriages
$ = w/ Crypts