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When ​Endless Field​, the “ambient Americana” (NPR) acoustic duo of guitarist ​Jesse Lewis​ and bassist ​Ike Sturm​, released its eponymous debut on Biophilia in 2017, the album was hailed by ​Downbeat​ for its “awe-inspired tranquility,” evoking “distant horizons and airy, windswept melodies.” ​Endless Field​ received a four-star review and was included among Downbeat’s Best of […]

Plastic Handgun is the project of Toronto-based independent artist Mark Di Giovanni. Creating music for over 10 years, his sound has shifted from experimental electronic to more structured rock. After a string of EPs and digital releases, the 2015 LP Involuntary Memories marked this turning point, blending genres and layering sounds to create a hypnotic […]

The Northeast is churning up string instruments in a long-overdue revival that includes Boston’s, Town Meeting but Beantown has another up and comer in the fiddle, bass and mandolin game. Gasoline is Boston, MA quintet Grain Thief’s first release since 2018’s Stardust Lodge. While that release explored the boundaries of Americana, the new record showcases the group’s […]

At the intersection of comedy and metal sits Jordan Olds, more popularly known by his alter ego, Gwarsenio Hall. With a single season of his online series, Two Minutes to Late Night, a heavy metal send up of traditional late night comedy shows, Olds showed the world that the two seemingly disparate conditions of brutality […]

Songwriting has always been a form of therapy for Michael McArthur. Over the past decade, the Florida native has filled a handful of EPs with his own mix of raw soul and lushly layered folk, working with producers like David Bianco (Tom Petty, Lucinda Williams) and Greg Wells (Adele, One Republic) along the way. His […]

Treva Blomquist was a finalist in the first songwriting competition she ever entered—the 2005 Kerrville New Folk Competition—joining the ranks of such distinguished past winners as Lyle Lovett and Shawn Colvin. The following year, she received recognition in the USA Songwriting Competition’s folk category. However, her greatest prize still awaited; the Grand Prize at the […]

New York-based record label Youngbloods presents Violent Flowers, a glistening collection of Experimental Dream Pop from Israeli singer, songwriter, and film composer Zoe Polanski. Written in collaboration with producer Aviad Zinemanas, Violent Flowers (due out July 17th) uses Polanski’s tranquilizing voice as a guide across a vibrant landscape of inner musings that reflect her visual, […]

Round Eye, the experimental, sax wielding, freak punk outfit have accrued a loud and controversial name for themselves since forming in 2012. The Shanghai based group has as of late been a crucial force in bridging a wide gap between the eastern and western hemispheres of DIY punk rock. Along with blazing a trail all over the […]

A post-punk noise/pop band from NYC formed in 1986, Flower was a staple of the NYC underground scene carved out by Sonic Youth, Live Skull, and Swans, utilizing the noise element of the aforementioned artists to deepen the textures of more classically oriented pop/rock songs. They disbanded in 1990, leaving one EP and two albums […]

Over the course of five albums, indie folksinger Eliot Bronson has created his own brand of acclaimed Americana. He’s an award winner. A road warrior. An internationally-renowned musician with a voice that swoons and sweeps, making fans out of everyone from his hometown newspaper, The Baltimore Sun — who championed Bronson from the very start, […]

It is a bright, spring day. Your morning cup of coffee is warm in your hands as you turn on the TV to find that there has been a nuclear accident, and everything you know and love will be gone in twenty minutes. You look outside at your suburban neighborhood and suddenly, your world is […]

L.A. native Cassandra Violet’s new single “Superbloom” is a psychedelic folk-pop dreamscape of friendships and flowers wrapped in a scathing critique of modern social media. Produced by Joe Berry of M83, this song found its inspiration in ‘70s Harry Nilsson and Joshua Tree National Park. Violet’s haunting and beautiful music has been featured in films […]

The music business is no place for the meek of heart or timid of spirit. A move from Minnesota to Nashville and a personnel overhaul might have collapsed lesser bands. But Lake and Lyndale didn’t just survive those traumas. With songwriting always at its core, Lake & Lyndale is an exciting blend of Americana, rock, […]

Perhaps nobody has described The Sea The Sea better than The Huffington Post, when they proclaimed: “If Joni Mitchell and Elvis Costello had ever decided back in the day to write, sing, and make a duets record together, it might’ve sounded something like this.” Based in Upstate New York, The Sea The Sea, comprised of […]

Born and raised in Winnipeg and Montreal, Pash initially moved to Los Angeles, before calling Portland home for three years, moving to Nashville for nearly seventeen, and returning to Portland, where he now resides. Besides co-writing Hall & Oates’ “Private Eyes,” Pash has written music for film and television, played bass for Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, […]

Los Angeles soul man Cliff Beach sings with a voice both plaintive and uplifting. A voting member of NARAS, a songwriter and publisher with BMI, and an award-winning member of Toastmasters International, the Berklee-trained singer/songwriter/keyboardist and DC native has created a style of music he coins “Nu-funk”. In his fifteen years as a writer, Beach […]

Today, NYC based Bloody Your Hands have announced the release of their sophomore album, Sunday Scaries. The album with their nod to 90’s indie and punk, will be released on August 28th and with this announcement, Glide is premiering their first single “Weird Winter” – a noisy melodic puncher that combines the timeless alt-rock fuel […]

Patrick Krief has turned on, tuned in, dropped out and come out the other side with a psychedelic masterpiece of secular shamanistic humanism. On Chemical Trance, which is due out August 14th on Rock Ridge Music, the Montreal musician taps into that holy intersection of divine and mortality, confronting his own vulnerabilities in a beautiful […]

Once a bastion of camaraderie and artistic good will, the Mendoza Line is now an enterprise entirely shot through with and utterly hollowed out by hatred. Specifically, the women hate the men and the men hate themselves. The many excellent reasons for this development are meticulously and tunefully documented on the new LP We’re All […]

Good pop songs celebrate the history of the genre. They exist on a continuum – informed by the past, but pushing ahead into the future. From the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” to Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” pop songs are obsessed with the idea of “the moment.”  The characters in these songs are taking control of […]