We are beaming with pride that 89.3 The Current has chosen The Hang Ups (fronted by Korda’s own Brian Tighe) as their Artist of the Month. Tighe is on the verge of releasing the debut LP of his new band The Starfolk, right here on Korda Records! Fingers crossed we’ll see some new material from the Hang Ups too– someday someway?
Deep thanks to Steve Seel for writing the wonderful retrospective on The Hang Ups, which you can read in full here.
The Hang Ups were elegant, if that’s a word we can still use to describe something actually desirable. It was a kind of music purveyed by few in the wake of the grunge era—music with a kind of grace, lightness of touch, and economy—practically the antithesis of the qualities that the major labels were seeking out during that dark age that gave us the likes of Korn and Limp Bizkit…
