PREMIERES

All ears on deck as one of the more disarming yet creative bands out there has new music on the horizon. Meet Martin Cartagena, Jose Aybar, Patsy Carroll, Giovanni Kincade and Rob Bryn who serve as the crooked backbone to one of Brooklyn’s most beloved rock bands – Wild Yaks. The band returns with Great […]

New Orleans based Biglemoi named themselves after a fantastical dance which, if performed properly, creates an atmosphere of flowing energy that invites everybody to join. The term Biglemoi, lifted from the French book “Froth on the Daydream (L’Ecume des Jours)” by surrealist-wave author Boris Vian, fits the 5-piece. Biglemoi is an indie rock band that combines elements […]

Upbeat, yet maybe a little beaten-down, Hadley, MA artist Honeyfitz crafts intricate, infectious lo-fi indie pop. I Don’t Need Tennis Lessons, I Need A Therapist is a bittersweet collection of portraits of suburban youth grappling with the eternal questions of life and love, while fending off the creeping tendrils of too-familiar mental illness. With a […]

While at university, Keegan McInroe began playing music in local bars, and in 2003, he helped found the rock-and-roll band Catfish Whiskey. The band called it quits in 2009. A professional musician since 2006, McInroe now troubadours primarily as a solo artist. Since 2012, he spends about half of each year playing everything from house concerts […]

Charlie Sub & Sound Dogs, an indie rock band, perform original music inspired by an iconic era in rock and roll history. They combine the singing and songwriting skills of Charlie Sub with the guitar mastery of Pat Branch, keyboard melodies of Rich Brotman, dynamic backing vocals of Genevieve Faivre, saxophone harmonics of Pete Esser, […]

Quixotic is an innovative performance art collective that fuses imagination with technology, dance, projection mapping and live music to create fully-immersive, multi-sensory experiences. Quixotic was given Silicon Valley’s unofficial stamp of genius when they were invited to perform at the global TED Conference in 2012. A unique blend of performance art, technology and emotion, Quixotic […]

Argentina-born rocker Fernando Vicoconte came of age in L.A., and moved to Portland in 1994 where he released 5 albums between 1994 and 2001, while building a rabid audience who hung on his every word. It was 2006’s Enter to Exit, however, that put Fernando on the musical map, so to speak, with glowing reviews from […]

Call her a diva and call her a folkie. Tara Velarde embodies that elusive combination of swagger and sensitivity. She writes songs with a sharp sense of poetics and vulnerability, and then steps up to the mic to her deliver words and vocal melodies with powerhouse pipes. Tara’s world is diva-folk, and she owns it […]

For more than a dozen years, Massy Ferguson have proudly planted their boots on both sides of the country-rock divide, carving out their own brand of amplified Americana along the way. Based in Seattle, they’ve become international torchbearers of a sound that’s distinctly American, with a touring history that spans nine different countries. On their […]

On the walls of any local used music shop there hangs a gallery of mysteries. Picked up and handed down across the decades, each instrument contains the imprints and stories of those who have played it before, most of which remain untold. For Kansas City-based songwriter Kelly Hunt the most intriguing of these stories is […]

Headed by singer/guitarist Freddy J IV, Left Lane Cruiser is a bona fide blues rock band from the American Midwest. Far from pretending to be rambling hobos for the sake of a manufactured image, Left Lane Cruiser has been genuinely living the blues for over a decade, bringing its freestyle jams to crowds all over […]

Things are looking up for Patrick Krief. Dovetale (out June 7 on Rock Ridge Music) is the new record by the Montreal singer, songwriter, and guitarist, a triumphant union of contemporary pop and rock sounds that emerged from the literal honeymoon phase of Krief’s marriage. While domestic bliss doesn’t typically the inspire the kind of open-heart […]

Sailors & Ships is the songwriting project of Athens, Georgia’s Jeremy Wheatley. During the past 15 years, while recording and playing drums with bands and songwriters (Eric Bachmann/Crooked Fingers, Cracker, Palace Doctor…), he was also recording his own songs focusing on sparse arrangements and melodies. Jeremy says, “As I became more comfortable writing, as well […]

Produced by a stable of some of Canada’s finest musical minds including DJ Kemo (The Rascalz, Kardinal Offishall), Chin Injeti (DJ Khalil, Eminem, Drake) and Daniel Lee (Hooded Fang, Phedre), Record Kicks proudly presents The Gumption the awaited new album by Canadian soul star Tanika Charles that will hit the streets worldwide on May 10th. […]

Ten years – and over 1,000 shows – strong, Chicago, IL’s Mutts define perseverance. Hey, We Are All Mutts is more than a collection of favorites from their catalog. It’s a testament to maintaining unfettered creativity in the face of adversity. In their time myriad bands have exploded – and then just as quickly imploded. […]

South Carolina’s The High Divers have announced the release of their new Sadler Vaden-produced EP, Ride With You (out June 7th)— an emotion-clad and wholly triumphant project — this four-piece are poised to break out on a national scale. “Sadler wanted us to really focus on songs that were entwined with our lives and real experiences, which got […]

Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, Sound Company makes its own kind of rock & roll, mixing psychedelic swagger with rhythmic, groove-driven stomp. The band is thrilled to announce the release of their self-titled new album out May 31st via Core Sample Records.  Gluing the mix together is the chemistry of a band whose five members have all logged […]

Sara Rachele’s new LP, Scorpio Moon (out May 31st on Angrygal Records) was recorded live to tape in Brooklyn, N.Y., with Binky Griptite and other members of Amy Winehouse & Sharon Jones’ former backing band The Dap-Kings for all of the full live band recordings. Co-produced by Rachele and keyboardist Spencer Garn (Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics) […]

Following the release of her widely lauded album Don’t Talk About It, Ruby Boots is launching a collaborative single “Might Be Losing My Mind” via Bloodshot with Nashville group Indianola. The track comes just in time for Ruby’s debut performance at Stagecoach Festival on Sunday, April 28 and in advance of a joint Ruby Boots-Indianola May tour across […]

Sprouted from a blend of American folk, country, rock-n-roll, and blues, Erik Koskinen and his top-shelf band realize a sound that is distinctive and fresh while familiar and classic. The Minnesota songsmith has just recently announced the June 28th release of Burning The Deal on Real Phonic Records/Tone Tree Music. Koskinen’s albums are a lyrical and musical metaphor of America’s theaters of […]