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Winners of New England Music Award’s “2017 Roots Act of the Year,” Boston-based Town Meeting return June 19 with their third full-length album, Make Things Better. Comprised of brothers Luke Condon (vocals, guitar), Russ Condon (vocals, drums), Brendan “Babe” Condon (vocals, harmonica, percussion), Tim Cackett (mandolin, lead guitar, vocals), and Derek Fimbel (bass, banjo, vocals), they combine […]

On his hard-hitting new album Giving Up On Quitting, due out May 22nd, Texas born singer-songwriter Rett Smith places an intense focus on his inner truths through remarkably personal accounts of love, heartbreak and redemption, all while painting a lyrical landscape of his beloved southwest. Baring his all, Giving Up On Quitting finds Smith laying […]

Western Canada-based prolific producer Factor Chandelier released dropped a new full-length album titled First Storm, dedicated to his son. A culmination of 2 years of touring, collaborative projects, and fatherhood, this record is his most thematically in-depth and sonically expansive project to date. First Storm sees Factor merging genres to give his signature production a […]

Gregg Garvey honed his self-taught musical skills in the rural Moose Lakes area of Minnesota. A stint as the co-founder of the garage band The Brutes after relocating to Minneapolis led to a heady brush with success landing several tracks on MTV, E! Entertainment and Disney shows. And that was all he needed to pack […]

Amsterdam-by way of San Diego, CA-based singer-songwriter Gayle Skidmore’s most recent full-length The Golden West is the culmination of nearly two years of both heartache and mind-clearing revelations. The Golden West would test her perseverance, but ultimately help her grow as an artist.W ith an impending wedding and a new album on the horizon, Skidmore […]

There are singer-songwriters, and there are troubadours. Singer-songwriters are sensitive, polished souls, sharing their journal entries with the world, whereas troubadours do their best just to stay out of jail. And in the wake of Ben de la Cour’s astonishing new record, Shadow Land, you can add his name to the top of the list […]

Expanding on the boundaries of what an indie-folk band can be, Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards take their extensive string music background, add their knowledge of folk and roots music, and incorporate an edgy pop sensibility to create their new album, Bitter Better. A stunning lesson in all the ways string instruments can be played – […]

Individually, Rachelle Garniez, Amanda Homi and Terry Radigan are three gifted singers, songwriters, storytellers, and multi-instrumentalists with their own distinct styles. Together, as VickiKristinaBarcelona, they create something unique and magical through imaginative interpretations of Tom Waits songs. The trio shares this joyful music on their first album, Pawn Shop Radio, which arrives on May 29th. […]

The appreciable and authentic name Michael McDermott alone conjures sounds and images of that as a pristine and accomplished singer-songwriter. It also evokes a  listener to say they’ve heard McDermott before but can’t maybe quite remember the song, time, or place they did. Yet when the listener hears his fervently emotive vocals and force of […]

Nearly a decade ago, Jenn Grinels gave up her apartment, put her things in storage, and hit the road. She spent years touring from city to city, honing her skills as a singer-songwriter and performer, eventually headlining hundreds of concerts across the country and abroad, as well as supporting artists like 10,000 Maniacs, Marc Broussard, […]

Sara Rachele is at her best when she confronts difficult themes. Her 2015 song “Rebecca” is a heart-crushing recounting of having an abortion and its latent after-effects. 2020’s Scorpio Sun (due out June 26th), the follow-up to her 2019 release Scorpio Moon, is as uncompromising in its honesty as it is uplifting in its search […]

The Harmed Brothers’ story can best be traced by the highways and byways of the United States and beyond. From the plains of Ray Vietti’s boyhood home of Missouri, to the hustle and bustle of Alex Salcido’s Los Angeles upbringing, molded in the foothills of North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains and seasoned in the woodsy luster […]

Hayfitz is the solo moniker of Los Angeles-turned-Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Brandon Hafetz. On his debut solo album, Capsules, (out 5/29), Hayfitz debunks the value of time, nurturing brief yet defining experiences into lush songs covered in vocals as delicate as they are determined. The foundation of Capsules was recorded over eighteen days in a Seattle home surrounded by idyllic […]

A roller coaster in a long-closed Lake Minnetonka amusement park, walks through historic orthodox churches, a fossil-collecting canoe trip along the Niobrara River, and an isolated pizza place in South Africa. Old memories swirling in the warm Joshua Tree breezes provided Jayhawks founder Mark Olson and his wife, Norwegian singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ingunn Ringvold, with the inspiration […]

In the Ojibway language, the word Zoongide’ewin means “bravery, courage, the Bear Spirit.” It’s no wonder then that Daniel Monkman adopted Zoon as his musical moniker. The Hamilton-based musician has spent the better part of his 28 years channeling that strength to overcome such adversities as racism, poverty and addiction. Music saved Monkman’s life, and […]

Evan Myall is the full-length debut from LA-based singer-songwriter Evan Myall Reiss, who performs and records under the name Evan Myall. Evan has spent the last decade playing guitar, writing songs, and touring the world with Sleepy Sun, as well as writing and recording with Fine Points. Inspired by classic songwriters like Glen Campbell and George Harrison, […]

Nick Kizirnis (The Mulchmen, Tobin Sprout’s Eyesinweasel, Cage) has been writing genre-twisting songs for almost thirty years, releasing numerous varied albums and playing small clubs across the U.S. But while he has mainly focused on guitar-driven instrumentals for the past ten years, his new solo album The Distance, which is due out May 15th on […]

“Best of” albums certainly aren’t always worthwhile representations for artists whose best work is more widespread than unmistakable amongst a chosen few. Such is the case or acoustic guitar/”fearless finger styling expert Tommy Emmanuel – who has put on guitar clinics and wowed audiences with a virtuosic solo career that has now spanned 40 plus […]

It is not easy to find a fresh take of the coming-of-age story, which is perhaps what makes Chicago-based Paddlefish’s debut studio album Flyer so appealing. Principal songwriter Owen Misterovich doesn’t so much rewrite the coming-of-age narrative as crack it open and expose the process itself. Written over the course of his first year away […]

Alex Henry Foster will be officially releasing his first solo album which arrives in the form of the long-awaited opus Windows in the Sky on May 1st, The album which was due out earlier this year, and needed to be postponed because of the current crisis, finds itself extra poignant and powerful with is a […]