From the desk of Big Stir Records

Available October 6 2023

Big Stir Records is extraordinarily proud to bring you the all-new album MUG by rising Chicagoland indie-pop troubadour DOLPH CHANEY. The thirteen-song collection – the followup to the 2021 indie-radio favorite THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY and his third for BSR – sees release on CD and all streaming platforms October 6 (https://orcd.co/dolphchaney-mug). Featuring this year's hit single “Mr. Eli” and its beguiling followup “Cool In The…

Formed summer 2022, Dolph Chaney and the Phins have spent the past year storming stages across Chicagoland.  More Phins gigs coming in 2024!

Psst hey - I have a #BandcampFriday goodie for you... A spiffy new remaster of INFINITY DOGS, my 1994 acoustic album!  

https://dolphchaney.bandcamp.com/album/infinity-dogs-1994-2021-remaster 

INFINITY DOGS was recorded in one session - no overdubs on May 9, 1994. Justin Crane hosted us after hours at (the much missed) KTRU FM Studio at Rice University and recorded the session. The divine Judi Brown was my duet partner on 3 songs, and we had guest cellist Eric Mellenbruch grace the track "Balm In Gilead."…

BIG STIR RECORDS SINGLES SERIES is proud to announce single no. 113, “Now I Am A Man” by Dolph Chaney, for January 22nd release via the Big Stir Records Bandcamp --

https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/now-i-am-a-man-2021-big-stir-single-no-113

This was the first song tackled in recording sessions for the upcoming album “This Is Dolph Chaney” (out February 20th on Big Stir Records) - and wears a smirkingly self-deprecating statement of uncertain purpose, liberated from its rudimentary original version…

The first half of March saw a great deal of pre-release radio play for tracks from REBUILDING PERMIT and its attendant singles!  Here's a rundown -- please do yourself a favor and avail yourself of these excellent shows regularly!

• Jim Prell, The Music Authority (fastcast4u.com / transistor.fm), Mondays 7-10am Eastern

  • 3/2/20 - "If I Write It Down" / "The Handling" / "Automatic Caution Door" (all world premieres)

• Mike…

Big Stir Records press release:

Time to start rebuilding! BIG STIR RECORDS is proud to announce the April 3 release of REBUILDING PERMIT, the new album from DOLPH CHANEY, up for pre-order now at https://www.bigstirrecords.com/store and everywhere music is sold. Seven years since the Chicagoland singer-songwriter's last album - and two solid years in the making - the wait is over. Rebuilding Permit is in hand for spring 2020, and Dolph is here to break new ground with his full-length debut on Big Stir. 

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Big Stir Records press release:

This Friday, March 6, 2020, “The Handling” by Dolph Chaney becomes the 63rd BIG STIR DIGITAL SINGLE OF THE WEEK!! It’s 3 ½ minutes of jangly, pure pop ear candy. As always,  it's available to order at www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles now. 

This is the second BIG STIR DIGITAL SINGLE from Illinois-based, low-fi champion Dolph Chaney’s upcoming “Rebuilding Permit” album which will be released on Big Stir Records this…

Have you heard?  Exclusive tracks from REBUILDING PERMIT are spreading around online and FM radio stations in advance of the April 2020 album release!  Here are the shows who have played tracks thus far (and where you can hear each show on-demand -- these are all terrific playlists with expert musical hosts!):

• Fran Fried, FRANORAMA 2.0 on Cygnus Radio (Connecticut / cygnusradio.com), Thursdays 1-4pm Eastern

  • Franorama 2.0 2/6/20 - "The President Of The United States Is…

From the Big Stir Records Facebook page:

It is time for Big Stir Records to begin rolling out our Cast of Characters for our 2020 album release slate! And what a cast it is, having started with Anton Barbeau and soon to cross oceans from the UK to the California coast and back to Germany with points Midwestern looming large in between. So let us first introduce you to: DOLPH CHANEY, whose Artist page can be found at www.bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney ... so let's meet the man, shall we? 

In June of…

I'm thrilled to announce that a slight return of my song "Christmas" (written in 2000, re-recorded for LOUDNESS 2 11), which has now been rigged up with a new rhythm section and guitars, is included on the BIG STIR HOLIDAY MAXI-SINGLE for 2019! 

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What else is there, you ask? Well, for your $4, you get 8 songs total, on which I'm honored to be joined by Anton Barbeau, the Bobbleheads, Kai Danzberg & Scott McPherson, the Decibels, the Forty Nineteens, Alison Faith Levy + Karla Kane, and the…