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Son of Thunderbird is an acoustic re-imagining of Oklahoma based musician Beau Jennings’ 2019’s acclaimed album The Thunderbird. Jennings performed and recorded the album himself, with contributions from friends John Calvin Abney, Andy Adams, Sherree Chamberlain, Samantha Crain and Chase Kerby. “What do you do when you have nothing to go back to, when you […]

In 2017, Latin GRAMMY award-winning producer, engineer, and musician Victor Rice released Smoke, his first solo album in over 15 years. The album was released on tastemaker indie label Easy Star Records and garnered critical praise and a cult-like following. Smoke was unique in how it presented Rice’s new sound combining the musical styles of […]

It’s the voice that hits you first. It’s big, a bit boisterous. It’s a voice that makes you grin, but it’s also sad and wise, and very observant. It’s a voice that stands you to a shot and a beer, kicks you out onto the dance floor despite your silly misgivings. It’s Cindy Emch’s voice […]

Chris Funk, best known as the talented multi-instrumentalist of The Decemberists, recently released his instrumental solo album The Painted Porch on Bandcamp via Jealous Butcher Records. On June 19th he will follow it up with a vinyl release. Currently, all profits from Bandcamp sales of the album will be donated to the COVID-19 Oregon Musicians’ Relief […]

On May 15th, the band Hawk, led by the American artist David Hawkins, will release its highly-anticipated new album, Fly, featuring the all-star lineup of Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Elliot Smith) on drums, Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, R.E.M., Big Star) on bass, vocals, keyboards, synths and guitar, keyboardist Morgan Fisher (Mott the Hoople, […]

For as long as it’s existed, the American music industry has obsessed over Black music, co-opting it into a package to be marketed and resold. Many Black perspectives deemed too threatening were defanged or erased in the process—particularly in genres like country, bluegrass, and folk, which draw on African-American sources but are usually performed by […]

Sylvia Rose Novak, after years of hoofing through and establishing herself in the Southern folk-country scene, has finally embraced her hard-edged southern roots and the gothicism of her home region by creating her first fully-fledged rock record. What her newfound dedication to her art has amounted to is a swaggering shakedown of her songwriting abilities, trading […]

Million Lands is composed of drummer Kid Millions (Man Forever, Oneida) and trombonist/electronics/guitarist Benjamin Lanz (Beirut, The National) and are gearing up for the release for their first record The Ochre World this Friday, April 24th. The duo has had a long history beyond the release of this first recording and its well worth the wait […]

Life-long “music lover and music doer,” Terry Borden is a child of 1970’s California whose early love of AM radio and his brother’s record collection has led him to numerous career highlights that are still accumulating. These include kind words from Lou Reed, two appearances on David Letterman, guitar hangs with Radiohead, and 250-plus tour […]

  Singer-songwriter Matt Lovell grew up learning to sing three-part harmonies in a household steeped in soul and Southern gospel, influences which have wound their way into the music he makes today. He comes by it honestly; in the 1950s, Lovell’s maternal grandfather was in touring gospel quartets, spending weekends singing for congregations across the […]

Cold Chocolate—the genre-bending Americana band that fuses folk, funk and bluegrass to create a unique sound all their own—will release Down The Line, their third full-length album on June 26. Led by Ethan Robbins (vocals/guitar) and Ariel Bernstein (percussion), the Boston-based group bring more electric instrumentation to their new eight-song collection than what their fans are accustomed to.  Punctuated by […]

Four voices coalesce, rooted in rhythm. Raised on the North American traditions of blues, folk, and soul and inspired by their world travels, the four women of Ley Line transcend genres and languages. Ley Line creates a global soundscape; blending influences from Brazil, Latin America and West Africa. Dynamic harmonies run like a current through […]

Tedo Stone was born to play rock and roll. Growing up in a family with a musical father and where brothers handed down bass guitars to younger siblings like old sweatshirts, Stone was fronting a band and playing in motorcycle bars around his hometown of Covington, Georgia, when he was 12 years old. A lifetime […]

Heffner is a quintet that burst onto the Athens, Georgia guitar scene in the fall of 2019. The group comes from all corners of the Athens scene, with members from Wanderwild, Grand Vapids and The Hernies. Together they are capable of both breakneck speeds and high school prom-paced balladry, using genre-neutral songwriting to craft guitar-driven […]

Brett Newski’s fourth studio album Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down (due out April 17th) is a call to arms against whatever destructive forces we may find ourselves battling, from our individual struggles with toxic relationships, low self esteem, loneliness and apathy to the more global challenges facing us in 2020: The erosion of face-to-face […]

Lover & A Fighter, Devil Doll’s new album (out May 1st) backs vibrant vignettes (“Ballad of the Rearview Mirror”) with carefully etched narratives (“Back Home to Me”). “I thought ‘lover and a fighter’ was such a great phrase to embody this song and the record,” lead singer and songwriter Colleen Duffy says. “It shows women […]

Even if you don’t know the names of the members of the Country Westerns, you likely know their work. Drummer Brian Kotzur starred in Harmony Korine’s film Trash Humpers and was a member of Silver Jews. Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Joseph Plunket led Brooklyn legends The Weight, with a bass-playing side-hustle for Atlanta’s Gentleman Jesse. […]

Indie pop vanguards The Mommyheads have continued to reappear at the most opportune times following their groundbreaking experimental indie-pop years of 1989-1998. Experimental sounds would mix with flawless harmonies in their songs which would later inadvertently appear in the realm of Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors. Perhaps The Mommyheads were 20 years ahead of their […]

The singer/songwriter/guitarist Morgan Geer, aka Drunken Prayer, spent much of last year on the road in support of his 2019 release Cordelia Elsewhere, an album that pondered the thoroughly mixed-up state of America and the individual American in the Trump era. But 2020 is, well, a whole different bag. And Geer has some other things […]

Today Atlanta-based duo Andrea & Mud, known for their mighty blend of surf-western music has announced the release of their new album Bad News Darlin’ (out June 12). Surf-western is a vigorous elixir – blending spaghetti westerns with rough-edged, honky-tonkin’ classic country. Andrea & Mud draw upon genre stalwart Junior Brown, who coined the “surf-western” term, into […]