Chain Smoking Records

10/15/2025

Hey friends, a dear friend of ours, .agen of was injured on his farm recently and has been left immobilized since. He has suffered multiple fractures to his face and is in the need of surgery.

Morrison is not only a good friend but also a pillar of our community.
His friendship means a great deal and it hurts us to see him in pain and unable to be as active as he normally is.
If you are in any position to donate please consider donating to the go fund me we have attached in our post and stories.

10/09/2025

If anyone is looking for horror movie recommendations for this coming Halloween, these are the films that inspired the album Horrorful by Harley Poe.

08/06/2025

Nick Allison & The Players Lounge - Trouble In My High Beams - 180 Gram Black Vinyl

We are very excited to announce the re-release of this excellent album from Nick Allison & The Players Lounge.

With sincere tales of unrequited love, loss, and finding new beginnings, Trouble in my High Beams is Nick Allison’s songwriting at his most mature and ambitious.

Offering pensive and poetic lyrics paired with memorable hooks and an angelic organ, “Trouble…” plays like a late night car ride through the American Southwest with the ghost of Tom Petty by your side.

The album is available now on our website and is also available for preorder via our distributors Amplified and releasing there on September 15th.

“Fantastic follow up LP to ‘Make Room’, which was released in 2019. Expertly tuneful country rocker tracks that delicately tap into the richest parts of our experience…without sounding the least bit belabored or trite. Violin, organ, pedal steel… the things that make heartfelt country the tearjerkin’ and two steppin’ beast of a genre it can be.” ~ Goner Records

Nick Allison - vocals and guitar
The Players
Joe Cornetti - Keys
Nick Fong - Bass
Felipe Granados - Drums
Keith Cooper - Guitar
Gregg Levy - Guitar
Craig Brown - Guitar
Jenny Carson - Vocals
Lindsey Peavler - Fiddle

Recorded at Paint By Numbers in Austin. Engineered by Andrew McCalla. Mixed by Nick Allison and Andrew McCalla. Mastered by Wesley Wolfe at Tangible Formats

Album design by Billy Buck Posters

07/16/2025

We shared this back in 2012 and I feel it is still relevant today

Recently Emily White, an intern at NPR All Songs Considered and GM of what appears to be her college radio station, wrote a post on the NPR blog in which she acknowledged that while she had 11,000 ...

06/11/2025

We just got a box of hot wax in from our friends at

This record is alight with authenticity and we are very excited to be working with these guys.

Fronted by Caspian Hollywell (Chardonnay, CPNPC, Blackbird Raum), paired this time with Razor Ramon Santos on steel guitar, the Twisted Teens are a perfect blend of everything we love here at CSR. Evoking feelings for times long past with thoughtful, engaging lyrics and hooks for days, this is one of those records that one finds themselves falling in love with more and more with every spin.

We’re only going to have a handful of these on our website but if you run a record store and you would like to stock this record and their next album, please contact us.

“New Orleans-based punk band Twisted Teens shirk genre conventions on their chaotic, energetic, and wildly creative new record, diving into surprising thematic territory and securing them as one of the most original bands in the contemporary DIY punk scene.” - Dana Yewbank

05/14/2025

It's always a great day when we get a shipment from Chain Smoking Records! The 2022 album"Horrorful" by Harley Poe is now on vinyl for the first time, and we have two different colored variants available.

03/19/2025

Show announcement!
On Friday, May 9th we have (Galaxy Proctor 5) coming to

Ecletic songster and journeyman, (Montana) will be playing second and our multifaceted friend, (Fort Wayne) will be opening the show.

will also be on hand serving intergalactic corndogs (Thumper’s favorite) from 10 PM - 1 AM

Tickets are $10 Advance, $12 Day of Show. Show will start at 9:30 PM. Link to tickets in our stories.

“Ty Walker went missing from his hometown of Roscoe, Montana back in 1972.

He has mysteriously reappeared, crafting sonically rich numbers with a group of what to appear to be extraterrestrials,
calling themselves “The Humanoids” or sometimes referred to as “The Gang of Galactic Ghouls”.

Poster by