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The Struts continue to keep it shaggy with their bombastic ’70s glam rock offerings that feature the colorful theatrics of leads singer Luke Spiller. The Derbyshire, England four-piece visited The Palace Theate in St Paul MN 9/18/21. Photos by Billy Briggs

St. Vincent brought her ‘Daddy’s Home’ World Tour to The Armory in Minneapolis, MN on 9/14/21. As the indie diva has showcased her new ’70s persona of late, there was plenty of soul slatned rock alongside spirited guitar moments that make Annie Clark such a vital live performer. Photos by Billy Briggs.

L.A. neo-psych band Dream Phases are back with their new single “Post TV” and accompanying music video that Glide is premiering below. This is the first track from their forthcoming sophomore album New Distractions. A co-write between brothers Brandon and Shane Graham, “Post TV” announces itself immediately with the most electric riff this band has […]

Every great artist needs a good story to tell. For Bill Filipiak, a producer for the Grand Ole Opry sure has worked with a list that would giddy up the most casual music listener. With a gritty voice and a knack for roadhouse rhythm blues, Filipiak has used his tenacious chops and ears that have […]

On September 13th, My Morning Jacket played its long-awaited rescheduled date at Alpharetta, Georgia’s Ameris Bank Amphitheatre.  The show was pushed from its original date of September 3rd as a result of a covid exposure. The band was clearly in good spirits and eager to make an impact, as they delivered a vastly different setlist […]

If one needed to show credentials to play soul music, surely 93-year-old Roscoe Robinson should be the one marking the yes or no box. Robinson’s voice has got it going on and then some with high energy soul that is relentlessly contagious and a voice that peels from generations and decades of emotions. Pourings gospel, […]

It’s nuts the Calumet River south of Chicago doesn’t get more musical nods. Sure it’s no Mississippi or Hudson but surely this body of water sneaking below one of our country’s greatest musical cities would get a big chorus in some Creedence type chugger. Enter Kiely Connell and her righteously soulful charismatic vocal who has […]

Vancouver-based alt-rock duo Dear Rouge — composed of partners Drew and Danielle McTaggart — emerged in 2012 with their debut EP Heads Up! Watch Out!, followed soon thereafter with their 2015 album Black to Gold (which helped them earn the 2016 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year, and features their #3 Alt Rock […]

It sounds like an old Willie Nelson song but who wouldn’t want to keep it simple and real: small house, pets, a yard, songs to play locally, and never having to work for the man. Well, Charles Wesley Godwin is matching some of those very ideal life priorities worth his number one. Yet Godwin has […]

To say Tommy Emmanuel found his musical match is like saying Daniel Day-Lewis got out-acted. Yeah, the maestro guitar fingerstyle master slinger had to join up with another fret-minded pal to mix it up. Emmanuel will be releasing a four-song EP Accomplice Series Vol. 2 featuring Richard Smith, out September 10 that features the two reworking beloved Chet Atkins […]

Montreal-based artist Julia Daigle (co-founder of Paupière) is premiering today with Glide “Sur la haute colline” off her debut album, Un singe sur l’épaule (due out November 5th via Lisbon Lux). The song contains an otherworldy sulty sheen that is full of seductive tempos atop Daigle’s compelling vocals. Imagine a track that purrs with the electro tugs of Giorgio Moroder with the distillation […]

While many an artist has been compared to Jason Isbell in the last four years, surely Sean McConnell has earned that nod more than most with his raspy vocals and shoot-em dead lyrics. Yet behind that edge is a melodic whimsicality that gels with Hiss Golden Messenger’s enigmatic talent of matching hummable music for dark […]

Benefit albums often truly dont get their due: 2009’s Dark Was The Night for instance that featured a plethor of original music from Bon Iver, Beiurit, Cat Power, Spoon & more, while raising a million and a half dollars for AIDS relief. Maybe its the mixture of artists or they arent sexy on vinyl, but […]

Glide is premiering D.C.’s Broke Royals’ newest single “Postcard”, a cathartic, infectious, and pristine pop-rock standout, and tease at their third album out next year. The single comes off a collaboration with fellow D.C.’s genre-bending Bartees Strange, and features a more autobiographical approach to songwriting than Broke Royals has seen before. The song trembles with […]

If the soulful sounds of Yola ever merged with the edgy alt of Phoebe Bridgers, the passionate artistic flair of Mimi Oz would surely emerge. This Canadian singer-songwriter and visual artist brings a gritty artsy folk grandeur to her songbook that is tough as nails and melodically moody in all the right spots. Oz’s new […]

KAYMA is an exciting new act emerging from Tel Aviv. The nom de plume for the commercially successful songwriter/producer Ori Toledano (whose music has made its way into commercials for Subaru, Intel, Pepsi and more), KAYMA is the songwriter’s first stab at solo work, and it’s remarkable. His debut single “Onsitelover” was a radio-ready hit […]

You’d think that a global Covid pandemic, a 13-month postponement, a change of venue with a whole new setup, and a “microburst-like” storm hitting for the first 45 minutes of the festival would be too much for a small, local, volunteer-run music festival to overcome; but Green River triumphed on August 28th and 29th, making […]

The Tedeschi Trucks Band at LOCKN’ FARM weekend 3 featured three days that included the first full band performance from Tedeschi Trucks Band since March 2020. Other highlights of the three-day event that took place August 27th thru August 29th at LOCKN’ Farm in Arrington, VA included Jon Batiste and The Marus King Band. Photos […]

Live music scene forces dictate that if you can make ’em dance, people will attend. Such is the case with Texas groove revivalists Flyjack who demonstrate a dedication to soaring rhythmic patterns with jazzy leads that diverge into a wild concoction of world, funk and cinematic soundtrack delights. If Thievery Corporation and Khruangbin had a […]

Dallas rockers The Roomsounds, who are set to release their latest LP Good Company on October 15 know a thing or two about big hummable hooks and a classic rock fervor that rekindles Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers along with Cheap Trick. Mix in thick bleeding guitars and fat bottom beats, and this rock and roll swagger sure […]