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Experimental dream pop group Jupiter Sprites – driven by songwriters Max Keena and Alicia Capp – hail from misty Olympia, WA, where late night recording sessions make for a lush array of compositions produced by Keena’s artful ear in his home studio. In the wake of a series of traumatic events involving two hospitalizations and […]

Blue on Blue, the new album by renowned singer, writer and ukulele-player Sylvie Simmons might be her second release but it hasn’t put her in in cruise control by any means. As an accomplished music journalist who has written biographies on Serge Gainsbourg, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and had the privilege of documenting Johnny Cash’s last […]

“The music goes ’round with love. It’s why this band means so much to so many,” writes MC Kostek about his favorite band, NRBQ, in his liner notes from the band’s new rarities retrospective. In their over five-decade career, NRBQ have never played by the rules. Why should they? They’re the ’Q. While other artists […]

Pete Krebs & The Gossamer Wings will release a new album on the first of three Record Store Day Drops on August 29, 2020. The legendary Portland, OR musician’s first solo album in 20 years contains 10 original songs, inspired by a few decades that have seemed like a lifetime and recorded with friends in […]

Electro-pop duos dominate the modern musical landscape ranging from the lush songs of Phantogram to the worldly soundscapes of Simian Mobile Disco. But what they are missing is a street cred of angular rhythms atop melodic beats. Enter Australia’s Boo Seeka – featuring best friends Ben Gumbleton & Michael May.  Since breaking out in 2015 […]

As the days, months, and years go by, skills sharpen with a whole lot of care and a little bit of elbow grease. After a decade-plus together, Beta Radio continue to diligently tinker and tighten their craft. The Wilmington, NC duo—Ben Mabry and Brent Holloman—artfully and carefully piece together songs with an architect’s attention to […]

Roots rock/Americana stalwart, Ned Hill – raised on the sounds of FM Radio, American Bandstand and drug store jukeboxes in the small town of Horse Cave, KY – has kept his sights on Music City, where he’s planted his feet for over 20 years, performing regularly at East Nashville’s The Five Spot, and touring the […]

Singer/songwriter Tommy Marz and leader of the venerable Tommy Marz Band has announced his new solo independent EP, Chasing Light, will be released on Wednesday, September 23rd. Marz recorded and filmed the song in quarantine after feeling a sense of shock watching what’s going on in the world, specifically with cyber-bullying. As he explains, “I […]

Horton Records is pleased to announce the August 28th release of  Back To Paradise:  A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music. In February 2020, a group of notable Tulsa musicians traveled to Leon Russell’s famed Paradise Studio at Grand Lake in Oklahoma to record the first album tracked there since 1978. Some of the biggest names […]

In name alone, Gloom Balloon represents grand ups and grand downs. The new album from Des Moines, Iowa-based mastermind Patrick Tape Fleming does, too. From its Sgt. Pepper’s-riffing cover (a theme of visual homage that has stretched across three full-lengths) to its compelling short story of a title (So Bergman Uses Bach To Get His […]

As the Founder of the Face the Music Collective Pete Kronowitt has continually helped musicians and artists engage in grassroots advocacy to drive today’s much needed social and political change. Pete Kronowitt’s new album, Do Something Now, presents the songwriter’s voice with a crisp production style that makes the tunes come vibrantly to life. The […]

A modern duo rooted in the old-school twang of the country singers, outlaws, and roots-rockers who came before them, The Jensen Sisters are torchbearers of a sound they proudly call “new wave retro country.” It’s a timeless sound built for honky-tonks, highways, and all places in between, and it’s taken the harmony-singing siblings from their small […]

Chris Stamey’s collaboration with the Fellow Travelers, A Brand-New Shade of Blue, was inspired by the intimate small-combo sound of the late ’50s and early ’60s — a time when the “cool jazz” compositions of such luminaries as John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk lived alongside the expanding pop vocabulary of Burt […]

Shaylee is the songwriting project and avatar of Elle Archer, a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter based in Portland, Oregon. Elle uses her music as a platform to explore her unique lived experience as a a queer trans person, with her songs functioning as diary entries that she crafts as a functioning one-woman band. Having been making […]

Vibrant newcomer Stephie James, debut EP These Days (out September 18) was produced, engineered & mixed by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff). While James has yet to become a household name, her credits are enviable: touring with 8-time GRAMMY Award winner Anita Baker at the age of 17, enjoying years on the road with Nikki Lane […]

Cutting undeniable grooves in the road of Americana music with their new release Cheers to Solitude, Sheridan WY quartet The Two Tracks bend genres into a sound both unique and immediately familiar, laced with a hint of that ‘high lonesome’ tradition. Their Western American sound caught the ear of respected musician and producer Will Kimbrough […]

Sometimes the best thing a band can do is take a step back. Such was the case for Nashville’s Desert Noises, who are preparing to release their new album, Everything Always (due out August 21st), after several years away from making music together. The time apart renewed the trio’s passion, a phenomenon that can be heard […]

From his homeschooled upbringing on an Alpaca farm in West Virginia, Trae Sheehan has always made the time to focus on crafting songs. From learning the ropes from his musician parents to going on tour as soon as he acquired a driver’s license, Sheehan used his every minute of that time to prepare himself for […]

EJ Marais has announced the release of his debut LP CUTS, out August 28th Via La Castanya. EJ Marais was born in Brighton and currently lives in Barcelona, where he has begun to carve out his career and the crew of collaborators that feature on CUTS. Basque saxophonist Haizea Martiartu appears as a Kenny G to EJ’s […]

For nearly two decades, there was no documentation that the final work recorded by folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim existed. The master tapes burned in a fire in late 2000 at Nickel & Dime Studio near Decatur, Ga. One copy remained, and from it, about 500 CDs were pressed and sold at a 2001 performance at […]