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From the first burst of harmonica, jangly guitars, and contagious ’90s melodies on Peter Donovan’s “You Told Me Not To Call (I’m Wasted), ” you know this soon-to-be hit-maker has a knack for Smithereens/Marshal Crenshaw sprinkled power pop. After finding success and a dedicated fanbase with Seattle’s All The Real Girls and his side project […]

Tomorrow, indie-folk singer-songwriter Cooper Kenward officially shares a brand new single entitled “In Due Time,” featuring Jason Roberts (Norah Jones, Bedouin) on guitar and with a hand contributed by many other indie rock greats. The track is syrup-y sweet, decked out with swirling lo-fi chords, crisp and crooning vocals, and psych-influenced slow grooves. It’s like […]

System Exclusive is a very straight-forward band name, yet upon further listening to this duo comprised of Ari Blaisdell (Lower Self, The Beat Offs) and Matt Jones (Male Gaze, Castle Face Records) we get a fully-in tune machine that rekindles Faith era The Cure and the mysterious rhythmic adventures of Turn on the Bright Lights […]

Veering between lush folk and orchestral nods, Raygun Carver surely sounds bigger than its parts. With warm earnest singing, brooding openheartedness, and a kaleidoscope of genres, this musical project of Pacific NW artist Michael Soiseth is surely a name we deserver to hear more of. Bad Thing, the follow-up to the artists’ 2020 LP Moon […]

It’s always tempting to lay comparisons right off the bat, but surely Parisian band Gunwood has a Fairport Convention/Jethro Tull thing going on with their stately taste of pastoral folk. Yet this band has many multi-faceted musical approaches that run from hard rock, poetry folk, and whatever they are just feeling good about. The band’s […]

On Sunday, February 6th, Mikaela Davis and The Southern Star played at Garcia’s at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY as a pre-party to the Billy Strings show.

On Sunday, February 7th, Billy Strings capped off his four-night run at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY. SET 1Fire on My Tongue, Must Be Seven, Hellbender, Fire Line, Reuben’s Train, End of the Rainbow, Running the Route, Home, Highway HypnosisSET 2Taking Water, The Likes of Me, All Fall Down, Tennessee, Nothing’s Working, Doin’ […]

Thirty years since forming celebrated indie rock band Built to Spill, Doug Martsch is still playing to eager ears, judging from the crowd that came out for a Sunday show at Portland, Oregon’s Wonder Ballroom on January 30th, the second of a two-night run in the Rose City. Built to Spill is touring as a […]

The reputation of David Quinn should already be arresting to fans and contemporaries in the Americana and Country scenes. Yet his upcoming third album titled Country Fresh isn’t hiding what his most recent flavor entails. Country Fresh is due out April 15th and was born from a logo on a decades-old ashtray he found in […]

On Friday, January 28th, jamgrass outfit Greensky Bluegrass was joined by the Infamous Stringdusters at the House of Blues in Boston, MA.

Debut albums usually happen for most artists in a significant life timeline, but for 12 year old Seattle-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist Nikhil Bagga, he’s quite ahead of the curve. Deeply connected with music from his elementary school days, Bagga took up guitar at nine so he could learn to play along with his favorites: […]

More than most, Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers have an authentic knack for honky tonk twang that reverberates of cold miller light, decorative circle tables, and vintage neon signage. After all, they’ve been doing this as long as anyone this side of Willie Nelson. This family band dates back six generations, having traveled the […]

Dillon Vanders is a master of song and melody, almost effortlessly mixing his musical origins into cinematic lustre that can fit either in the studio or the honky tonk club. His earliest influences include Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash, and Marty Robbins, and those mighty voices shine brightly on his solo debut album […]

Given their lush vocal presentation and melodic presentation it’s entirely fitting that Boston’s Coral Moons have earned prestigious spots at this year’s Levitate Festival and Boston Calling Music Festival playing before acts that include Phil Lesh & Friends, Jack Johnson, Foo Fighters, and of course the mighty Metalllica. And while Coral Moon’s wistful and colorful […]

Yeah Tame Impala has a sound, but Kevin Parker has only been releasing albums since 2010 – so surely hazy nostalgic leaning psych pop isn’t owned. In fact, psychedelic dance music has been around way longer than Desert Daze Festival. Take Spaceface, a self-described “Retro Futurist Dream Rock” band from Memphis, TN, and Los Angeles, […]

To excuse the tired cliche, cover albums are indeed a dime a dozen. But when LA area producer and songstress Betty Moon releases her new covers album Undercover this Friday (1.28), the 10 song effort boats of reimaginations that aren’t your typical song choices. This modern leaning batch includes Moon’s takes on several of her […]

Desert rock arrives instinctively for Surf Through Death, a power psych trio featuring three accomplished Phoenix, Arizona musical veterans: Mike Upsahl (bass, vocals), Chan Schulman (guitar), and Shane Ocell drums). From pummeling guitar riffs, spectral howls, fuzzy bass, and primal drums; Surf Through Death ain’t your older brother’s psych doom band. These desert boys incorporate edgy anthemic anthems with […]

Andrew Pitrone, Andrew the Artist, puts the journey- in journeyman, living in various cities and townships up and down the western edge of America, filling his time with song and art-by-hand. Chiefly of which being a film project scripted around the actual building of a barn in the no-man’s-lands of southwestern Oregon. “Many times I find […]

Durability, melancholiness, and charm are hardly foreign substances to the work of Luke Winslow-King. The guitarist, singer, producer, and songwriter is an Americana Renaisance man, combining Mississippi delta blues, folk music, traditional jazz, and roots rock & roll. His songs blend contemporary styles of both past and present that produce a sound that is rustic […]

J.D. Pinkus has been all over the place in his musical career, from the Texas trippiness of the Butthole Surfers to the bottoms-up hard-rock band Honky that he formed in the mid-’90s to the double-bass extravaganza that was the Melvins’ 2018 album Pinkus Abortion Technician (a title riffed off of the Butthole Surfers’ 1987 self-recorded masterpiece Locust Abortion […]