Interviews

On his previous album, 2018’s Gimme Some Light, singer-songwriter Ryan Martin tapped into the kind of 70s folk-rock and Americana sound of groups like The Band, with rich, heartfelt harmonies and lyrics that conveyed honest music from someone who has lived an at times rough life but aims to do right. The album was an impressive […]

TRZTN, also known as Tristan Bechet, will be releasing his new project, Royal Dagger Ballet, on January 22nd, 2021 via Octopus Hotdog Records. His first two singles and videos, “Black Exit” featuring Interpol’s Paul Banks, and “Ruby’s Wheel” featuring Yesh, are out now, with another one arriving on December 10th. About every two weeks until the […]

As a songwriter, guitarist and producer, Reed Turchi never stops changing. Since his early days serving up raw and faithful interpretations of Hill Country blues to his more indie rock-inspired work to his psychedelic blues orchestra, the Nashville-based musician has continued to evolve and has done so at a remarkably productive pace for someone who […]

For a musician, there’s nothing like the feeling of a band coming together: the camaraderie, the creative mating of musical ideas, the grooves falling in all the right places. For the Allman Betts Band, that bond has solidified on their second release, Bless Your Heart. Coming a year after their debut, Down To The River, […]

Maria Maita-Keppeler aka MAITA was ready for a breakout year in 2020. The recent Kill Rock Stars signee had assembled a great team and was sitting on her impressive label debut record Best Wishes. Preparing for a long year of touring – suddenly (as we all know) – everything was put on hold. For bands […]

The Paranoyds are one of the reigning Garage bands of LA, specializing in high-energy performance more than interesting lyrics with a wide range of genre influences. In 2019, they released the LP Carnage Bargain, which took on the veneer of society and the realities that lurk beneath, but often with their trademark humor and witty […]

West London duo Babeheaven is made up of lifelong friends Nancy Andersen and Jamie Travis, who bring together indie, electronic and soul. Their new album Home For Now – a title that feels all too fitting for our current moment – finds the duo paying homage to the trip-hop sounds of groups like Portishead and […]

Buck Meek is an inspiring and kindhearted human; his talent is endless and his ability to seek and be in the moment is art in form. He brings a lightness to the room when he enters and he communicates musically with a sense of discovery, dedication, and focus that is rarely witnessed. Anyone who has […]

When Devon Allman announced he was going to expand his Devon Allman Project with Duane Betts into a bigger band, aptly called the Allman Betts Band, it made a lot of people happy, especially with Berry Oakley Jr coming in on bass. It was like the roots of good southern rock & roll was regenerating. […]

Vermonter Marcie Hernandez croons with confident phrasing and a depth of emotion on her debut record Amanecer: a fitting title as “amanecer” is Spanish for sunrise. Now is the dawn of Hernandez’s career as a recording artist and her debut record was conceived in a selection of mature, thoughtful, diverse, beautiful songs. An album that […]

Afie Jurvanen is a master of delicious tone. His sense of melody and volume is astonishing as the accomplished singer-songwriter forges luminous expressions of song. Since 2009 his musical moniker ‘Bahamas’ has blessed the world’s ears with honest, direct, and potent records, hinged on smooth and comforting vocal layers, tasteful and restrained guitar brilliance, chiseled […]

Before Seattle became synonymous with flannel and distorted guitars, even before Sunset Strip was a record executive honey hole for Aqua Netted glam bands with neon guitars, Athens, Georgia was the scene that launched a musical movement. Unpretentious and seemingly uninterested in what the rest of the music world was being driven by, a core […]

A native of Montana, Izaak Opatz  is a captivating songwriter with a golden voice. He charismatically cuts through alt-country instrumentals with an impressive knack for lyrical design, coupled with unpretending and flawless phrasing. Opatz was poised for a breakout year in 2020, with a new album ready to go — the follow up to his […]

Back in April, Soul Asylum released their twelfth studio album, Hurry Up & Wait. Preparing to take the new songs out on the road, a national pandemic had other plans and the band had to readjust to the new circumstances of life in America without music venues being open. So they did what other musicians […]

Cory Henry is trying to stay optimistic. You can hear it on the first half of his impressive new album Something to Say, which finds him once again teaming up with his talented band the Funk Apostles. With his “future soul” sound front and center, the keyboard master eases into a danceable groove with uplifting songs […]

Sometimes when a band decides to use songs from the past that never made it onto an album, that disc can sound disjointed, uninspired, dull. But when Black Stone Cherry had a hankering to do this for their new record, they got lightning in a bottle. Never a band to really chill out sonically, BSC […]

The Strapping Young Lad himself opens up about the creative process and the importance of live music.

While in the throes of a pandemic, social distancing, and virus-imposed isolation, so many have been faced with new levels of contemplation and introspection. San Diego-based artist Alfred Howard was one of those people. The longtime performer and songwriter, who was a member of multiple bands and prolifically wrote lyrics for other artists as well […]

Frontman/guitarist Andrew Nelson of Nashville based Great Peacock certainly tells it like it is when describing the inspiration behind the band’s third album Forever Worse Better (released 10/9). “We’re struggling to find success, and I want people to know we’re struggling, just like they are. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel, though, […]

The creatively admired Canadian label Arts & Crafts is home to many a renowned band- including Broken Social Scene, Stars, and Andy Shauf. The eight-piece Montreal jazz/funk collective, Busty & The Bass is bringing a retro-flavored soulful blast to the Arts & Crafts label with their recently released new LP Eddie, a well-needed spoonful of […]