© 2025

For assistance accessing the Online Public File for KAXE or KBXE, please contact: Steve Neu, IT Engineer, at 800-662-5799.
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Music

Album of the Week - Sing to the Walls by Chastity Brown

KAXE | By Kari Hedlund
Published June 24, 2022 at 5:30 AM CDT

At a time when we're hearing albums about societal division, isolation, mental health and all of the things we're all feeling at the moment, Chastity Brown has released a new album, Sing to the Walls, that unexpectedly, is a love album. Even the song 'Golden', written after George Floyd's murder in Chastity's home of Minneapolis, while it touches on the anger and rage, exudes a joy that is hard to place.

While Sing to the Walls is a love album of sorts, it's not filled with positivity and excitement. It feels realistic and measured, with some self-love added in.

See Chastity Brown perform at the 2nd Grand Rapids Riverfest, Saturday, September 10th with Shovels & Rope, Wild Horses and Wilco! Presented by KAXE & The City of Grand Rapids, this festival will look out over the Mississippi River at a new venue alongside the Grand Rapids Area Library. Get tickets here!
Tags
Music Album Of the Weekfolk rockCenterstage MinnesotasoulAmericanaMade Possible by the Minnesota Arts & Culture Heritage Fund
Kari Hedlund
The Music Director since 2014, Kari (pronounced Car-ee) Hedlund oversees the music programming and content you hear each day on KAXE. She hosts Headwaters every Wednesday (9 a.m. and 10 p.m.) and is co-host to Heidi Holtan on the Thursday Morning Show.
See stories by Kari Hedlund
Creative Commons License
Our stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. We ask that you edit only for style or to shorten, provide proper attribution and link to our site. Please see our republishing guidelines for use of any other photos and graphics.