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When Ohio-bred and based brothers Ben and Zach Gage sat down one Sunday afternoon in 2014 to kick around some harmonies and share their love of old folk tunes, the siblings had no idea at the time that this simple starting point would launch a speedy and successful musical path. Just a year later, the […]

The String Cheese Incident will release Believe, their seventh studio album, on April 14 via SCI Fidelity Recordings. The album is the first to come out of the band’s recently-opened Sound Lab Studio and was produced by Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison. SCI has teamed up with PledgeMusic to offer fans access to exclusive bonus content, limited edition […]

After 10 years, six albums, and over 1,000 shows with his former band, Dropsonic, Dan Dixon decided it was time to re-invent the wheel. Though Dropsonic had done too many tours to count and had toured with or opened for bands ranging from The Strokes, Garbage, Archers of Loaf, And You Will Know Us By the Trail […]

Fusing elements of folk, jazz, bluegrass, and rock n roll, Steep Ravine continues to enthrall audiences with their soulful California sound. Songwriter Simon Linsteadt (guitar, lead vocals) and Jan Purat (violin, vocals) began playing music together in high school in Northern California, later moving on to study music at UC Santa Cruz and the California Jazz Conservatory. They […]

Moonsville Collective is a Southern California band that writes songs shoveled from the soil that surrounds them. During an age of short attention spans and speedy business, the band draws their inspiration from a simple well and holds firm to the truth that good songs can hold a person’s hand through hard times. Before 2017, […]

Charleston, SC’s Dangermuffin will be releasing their sixth studio album Heritage this Friday, March 31st, 2017. Themes of sea, sun, and spiritual connection weave through the eight-track release combining a cohesive blend of Alt-Americana, Island grooves, Folk and Jam. In celebration of the band’s sixth release, Dangermuffin will tour throughout the spring and summer in support of the album. […]

The Starry Nites Music Festival took place  Live Oak Campground in Santa Barbara on March 18th and 19th. The two-day event was nestled atop a hill with four stages and 37 acts and featured local acts along with legacy acts and top billers The Kills, Teenage Fan Club, Cat Power and The Dandy Warhols. Photos by […]

Nashville-based independent artist Ron Pope will release his latest studio album, Work, August 18 on his own Brooklyn Basement Records. The release follows last year’s critically acclaimed Ron Pope & The Nighthawks. Most recently, Pope most performed at The Music of Aretha Franklin tribute at Carnegie Hall on March 6, where he killed it with an […]

Edward Herda has been a causal musician his whole life, but in 2011 decided to make a run at it. Leading up to that was the loss of a woman he was going to marry (who married someone three months after leaving him), and the beginning of what is now nearly six years of sobriety. […]

Americana singer-songwriter Ed Dupas’ lived-in melodies unwind with reflective lyrics and speak to the current state of the human condition, soothing where possible, agitating where necessary, and seeking change where appropriate. Crafted from the heart, Ed Dupas’ simple yet soulful music flows from an array of broad social themes to more personal narratives of love […]