Archive: 2021

The South by Southwest® Music Festival (SXSW®) has announced an initial list of Showcasing Artists invited to perform online at the 35th annual event. The festival will be the first opportunity to hear what’s been percolating in the minds of these emerging acts and established artists. This essential industry event occurs March 16 – 20, […]

Tibet House US is excited to announce that The Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Marc Anthony Thompson of Chocolate Genius, Inc. with Tessa Thompson and Saori Tsukada will join the eclectic line-up for the 34th Annual Tibet House US Virtual Benefit Concert. This year’s special virtual edition of one of the longest-running and most renowned live cultural events in New […]

Esther Rose’s homespun brand of country music has drawn comparisons to legends like Hank Williams, modern trailblazers like Rilo Kiley, and a host of other luminaries in between, but those who are doing the comparing always make note: she’s got her own thing going on. Rose’s innate ability to reflect on her own feelings, to […]

Today, songwriter and mandolinist Andrew Marlin of the acclaimed folk duo Mandolin Orange — who’ve “redefined roots music for a younger generation” (Washington Post) — announces a new pair of solo instrumental albums that emerge from the solitude of COVID lockdown with emotive melodies and impeccable arrangements. Both albums — Witching Hour, out February 5, […]

This year’s was the ninth annual She Rocks Awards , and the first time they have gone virtual. Presented by the Women’s International Music Network (the WiMN), the event opened with a red carpet Q&A with the honorees, hosted by John Stapleton, followed by a pre-show countdown hosted by Yahoo Entertainment music editor Lyndsey Parker, […]

Every song that Aaron Sinclair writes has a certain underlying feeling SPIN. Baeble Music sensed a “strung-out urgency” in his voice and KUTX says A. Sinclair epitomizes full-on rock, complete with massive guitar riffs, boozy vocals, and a driving swagger.” It’s surprising then, that in person, Sinclair is a quiet guy – reserved, humble, and […]

Leon III sounds like a relic from another age. In a time when so much of today’s music seems as disposable and temporal as a tweet, Leon III is standing athwart the tide; and here, the band conjures the spirit and ambition of Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead. Make no mistake, this is an album […]

Singer-songwriter electric and lap steel guitarist Selywn Birchwood delivers his third album, Living in a Burning House, for Alligator Records. He is one of the most appealing of the young vanguard of blues musicians keeping the music alive while melding in some other forms of roots music in the process. Birchwood calls his original music […]

American Pianists Award Winner Emmet Cohen makes his debut for Mack Avenue Records, with some tunes, involving the stride piano music from a century ago. Yet, as the title Future Stride indicates, the music doesn’t necessarily sound throw-back or dated. It was the vitality of the great stride pianists that later evolved into the music […]