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Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and based in Durham, NC, musical wonder-kid Justin Lee Schultz is the good news you did not even know you needed. He is joy personified. The multi-instrumental wizard who has dazzled audiences on TV shows Harry, Little Big Shots and American’s Most Musical Family, is a prodigy in the fashion […]

The intimate, alluring art of singer-composer and instrumentalist Emi Makabe is utterly individual, even as it resonates with inspirations ranging from Joni Mitchell and Theo Bleckmann to Japanese folk music and jazz improvisation. Born and raised in Japan but a decade-plus resident of New York, Makabe studied with the likes of Bleckmann, Jen Shyu and […]

Go With the Flow is the fifth full-length album from singer-songwriter Brad Lauretti under the name This Frontier Needs Heroes. This new collection of songs was written mostly in Nashville, TN, and in various cities across Europe. After his last album Real Job was released Lauretti toured across Europe and Canada by himself, moved to Nashville, and […]

Felix Hatfield’s been making madcap art and surrealist music in the Northwest for twenty-five years now, and his new album, False God, coming October 23rd, shows that he’s got a Buster Keaton taste for the absurd, an affinity for the trickster in every folk song. As a teenager, he hitchhiked out Route 2 in Vermont, […]

Toronto-based artist Tali has recently released her powerful three-track Shadows EP. Seductive, nocturnal and intoxicating, the three-track EP marries old-school songcraft to contemporary cutting-edge sonics and production. The result: proficient, polished tracks without expiration dates. Tracks that hit the sweet spot between pop, soul, R&B, jazz and electronica. And tracks that share Tali’s self-assured reflections on […]

The Inspector Cluzo plays their own kind of country music, their kind of folk music – a sort of folk music, if you like, but not at all folksy – it’s much too electric and furious for that. In any case, nothing would be more unfair than to try to put these raging ambassadors into a charming folklore […]

Dark Side Of Light is a newfound project born of unexpected circumstances. Natives, Nik Frost and Grant Conway birthed this tangerine slice of novel, tripped-out folk-hop to counteract the anxiety-filled hours of our new normal. Conceived over the last four months as a distraction from the timeless nature of the New Normal; the duo was […]

With an arm’s length list of credits stretching from the likes of Kesha, Caitlin Rose and Deer Tick, to Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town, pedal steel savant Spencer Cullum is one of Nashville’s most in-demand session cats. That’s in addition to making up half of acclaimed, primarily instrumental space-country duo Steelism. Clearly he’s had […]

The Claudettes fuse Chicago piano blues with the full-throttle energy of rockabilly and punk and the sultriness of ’60s soul to write a thrilling new chapter in American roots music. Johnny Iguana pounds the piano alongside seductive singer Berit Ulseth, bassist/guitarist/singer Zach Verdoorn and drummer Michael Caskey. Johnny, who toured for years with his cult-favorite […]

Introducing the multi-genre recording and performing artist Papa Rosko, who will be releasing his self-titled debut album on October 16th. Papa Rosko pulls together a wide spectrum of genres on his debut album, fusing elements of rock, pop, alternative, Latin, and country music into a seamless reggae sound. The self-titled album was recorded over the […]

In these trying modern times, real, honest music and art can draw people of vast backgrounds and cultures together for understanding and empathy. Singer-songwriter Andrew Weiss clings to and cherishes moments of intimacy, hard conversations, and emotional currency through his songwriting. A classic glow silhouettes Weiss’s storytelling. He fuses such a throwback warmth and charm right into the […]

If there ever was an album title that most perfectly explains an artist’s journey – it might belong to Hēran Soum and his debut Undeaf. Born with severe hearing loss, which over time deteriorated into a total loss, James Freeman-Tuner underwent multiple operations and years of speech therapy to regain his hearing and voice. A […]

When national attention came to the sibling duo Charlie Belle in 2014, Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds were literally just kids. Sixteen and fourteen-years-old at the time, they were both already veterans of the Austin music scene when their debut EP “Get To Know” blew up. Press came from NPR, Nylon, MTV, Vice, Wired and others, […]

Wanderlodge hails from Portland, Oregon, but like their RV namesake, they’ve spent most of their time on the road.  The duo was brought together in 2016 when Matt Cadenelli (Fernando and The Don of Division Street) returned to the Pacific Northwest after a two year stint living in Ojai, CA. While in southern California, Cadenelli […]

It was just two years ago that New York City’s Arsun was praised by media as the “New York teen resurrecting vintage rock.” And he’s not the first to have earned that nod, that’s for sure. But if quality over quantity means anything in this young song slinger’s career, that its time to take notice. […]

Montreal native Kim Bingham is a true journeywoman of music and has been apart of various projects beginning with her career in third-wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler, formed in 1990. Kim recorded three works: ‘Clown Heaven and Hell’ EP (1991), ‘Shiva Space Machine’ (1993) and Live ‘We Are Revolting: Live & Obscure 1990-1994’ […]

There are those of us who question the depth of our own constructed realities and the limits of time and space that can be stretched into slender and brittle opinions. Opinions forged in insecurity, fear, and isolation. As domesticated realities thrive, the truth of our vast existence and our sharing of space with dissimilar dimensions […]

Ryan And Pony is a brand-new project from two indie-rockers who have been kicking around the much-vaunted Minneapolis music scene for years. Their debut album Moshi Moshi was recorded at a variety of Minneapolis studios including Flight Simulator, Flowers, Master Mix, and The Kill Room with Ryan producing. John Fields mixed and Greg Reierson mastered […]

Justin Farren was born and raised in Sacramento, where he lives in a house built with his own two hands – or as he likes to refer to it, “a living museum of my own mistakes”. Justin‘s twin brother is a yellow truck named Yellow. Two round trips from California to Alaska, infinite dead-end, soul-sucking jobs and god knows how […]

Born among the pitch pines of southern New Jersey, Pine Barons is a project that came to fruition as friends gathered around campfires in the nature-rich environments of their hometowns. The band’s beginnings can be traced back to the members getting to know their instruments in their parents’ basements as well as outdoors, adventuring around, […]