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Bruce Watson’s acclaimed Memphis, TN-based label Bible & Tire Recording Co. has confirmed The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Record Story, Volume 1, out September 18. The collection features seventeen tracks recorded in Memphis during the 1970s along with complete liner notes by music historian/musician Michael Hurtt. Watson and JCR Records head Juan D. […]

The Joe Stamm Band makes countrified roots-rock with an emphasis on the roots, drawing on Stamm’s small-town upbringing in rural Illinois for a sound that blends heartland hooks with Nashville twang. It’s a sound that’s taken the songwriter from the college apartment where he strummed his first chords to venues beyond the Midwest, sharing shows […]

Megan Benavente is a familiar face to avid attendees of shows in the indie and punk rock scenes over the last several years. Working as a Front of House Engineer at LA’s legendary The Troubadour, Benavente has taken her skills as an engineer on the road with the likes of Manchester Orchestra, Kevin Devine, and […]

Cobra Man describes their style as “Los Angeles Power Disco,” but your reaction might be, “wtf -wasn’t the ’70s revival in the ’90s?” Well, hang on for a sec…. Creative honcho Andy Harry began writing and producing music for the Worble skate crew videos in 2016. After the release of “Manramp” Harry enlisted singer Sarah […]

Healthy Junkies’ first single off their new album Forever on the Road takes their unique brand of punk and brash alternative to a new level of adventurous musical mayhem. The album was made during the recent pandemic and quarantine as reflections of recent tours and life beyond the road offering a compelling record more akin […]

Conceived in the 1980s in Mexico and brought to California through the border inside of his 6-month-pregnant mother, Rudy de Anda is releasing his debut solo record, Tender Epoch (September 18 via Karma Chief Records), a love letter to the long historical lineage of rock ’n’ roll music as interpreted through his multicultural lens. “I […]

Nina Yates is a Portland, Oregon based singer songwriter who pulls you into her stories with thoughtful and distinctive songs. A slow, tender and delicate drag, yet fierce with lived emotion, the wisdom of a mother, the comfort of a sister and the heartbreak of a daughter. It didn’t occur to Yates to start writing […]

It’s only right that the new Stuffy Shmitt album comes out in the “WTF” months that we now perilously call 2020. Stuff Happens is Shmitt’s first record in eight years because, well, he went crazy. “I was living in New York and my brain was on fire. I got that bipolar thing. I was bouncing […]

What began as raucous noise in a Maine basement is poised to be the soundtrack to many a socially distanced soiree as Kurt Baker gets back to his roots on the rollicking new album After Party. A twelve-song sonic boom of hooks and melodies dropping October 23 on Wicked Cool Records, After Party marks a […]

Hadley and Mia are best friends. They formed Shutups together in 2015 after a brief period of disconnect; Hadley moving home with his parents as Mia moved to Oakland in 2013. They began primitively rehearsing songs Hadley had written before releasing their first EP in March 2016. Shutups would release three more EPs before their […]

Years before forming E.Z. Shakes, Zach Seibert grew up in small-town Illinois, raised on the sounds of heartland rock & roll, hard-hitting punk, and old-school country/gospel music. His parents were hippie Christians who bounced from church to church, searching for a congregation that suited their family’s countercultural ideals. The experience left a mark on Seibert, […]

Not long after he crossed over to the high side of 30, Minneapolis songwriter J.E. Sunde realized that his life had not quite followed the trajectory he’d expected. After nearly a decade alongside his brother and best friend in the magnetic folk trio The Daredevil Christopher Wright and a pair of solo albums, Sunde had […]

As frontman of acoustic collective Graber Gryass, Michael Graber fashions a vast and eclectic background into an immersive journey into an original expansive, exploratory song catalogue. The first record of two, Late Bloom, reads with straight-arrow storytelling, but carries a remarkable importance about the human experience. “This album really is symbolic of my whole existence. […]

Drawing from diverse musical backgrounds, Austin’s Cilantro Boombox creates an energetic, positive vibe that flows from the dance floor through your body and soul. The group was founded over a decade ago by bassist Félix Pacheco and saxophonist/flautist Joe Woullard, and quickly evolved into a tight knit unit adding the songwriting abilities of Christopher “Zumbi” […]

While traditional bluegrass is usually associated with the American South, the genre has surely found a safe and loving Canadian home in the form of Calgary-born singer/songwriter Bella White. Armed with a piercing voice, edged with teardrops, White’s debut album Just Like Leaving (due out September 25th), rings out as a coming of age anthem. The […]

With his machine gun blast and boombastic guitar sound, Tom Morello from tone alone, is one of the world’s most recognizable musicians. How’d he get that good? By “practicing his ass off each day” as he describes in an electrifying live musical narrative that Glide is proud to premiere via the “Practicing” clip below.. Morello […]

Decatur, IL-based Americana singer-songwriter Ashley Riley has been a staple in the music scene of her hometown Long Creek, IL, where she got her start hosting open mics in the Decatur area around 2008, helping to revitalize and nurture the underground singer-songwriter scene in town. After starting as an acoustic-based songwriter on her first record, […]

Originally from Duluth, MN, Mary Bue is a songwriter, Nada yogi, traveler, runner, vegan, retreat guide, music + yoga teacher based out of Minneapolis, often roaming this beautiful world. Just named Best Songwriter of 2020 by City Pages, Minneapolis folk/pop songwriter Mary Bue releases The World is Your Lover on August 21 and will be […]

The last time we heard from The Budos Band, they had reached a critical high watermark with Budos V in 2019. Debuting at #1 on Billboard Heatseekers chart, their fifth full-length was applauded by both new and life-long Budos fans and continued to make a dent in their eclectic Daptone scene.  Maintaining the momentum from […]

Over the course of his career, singer/songwriter and Americana artist Tom Freund has released more than a dozen records, collaborated with legends such as Elvis Costello, Phil Lesh and Jackson Browne, pulled a half-decade stint on bass for alt-country pioneers The Silos, and has shared bills with everyone from Matthew Sweet to Guided by Voices. Freund’s intimate, heartfelt […]