PREMIERES

Named one of Total Guitar’s Top 10 Best New Guitarists in 2018 two years after being named one of Yahoo! Music’s “Top Ten Best New Artist,” Australia’s roots rock artist, Hamish Anderson is teeing up his new album for 2019. Hamish released his critically acclaimed debut album Trouble in 2016. He supported the album with […]

doubleVee launched in 2012 when it became clear how Allan and Barb Vest’s musical backgrounds complemented each other and how well the two worked together in the studio. Allan was the primary songwriter, lead vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist for indie/orchestral pop band Starlight Mints, having produced and released four albums between 2000 and 2009, with legendary producer Dave Sardy co-producing […]

On Pain Waves, Seattle, WA’s Chris King & The Gutterballs have crafted a record that breathes in the spaces between Americana, Country, and Rock & Roll. King’s plaintive, near high-lonesome voice and weary swagger belie his youth, though the maturity of his songwriting does little to dispel the illusion. Sometimes life steps on the accelerator without asking permission, […]

Sour Bridges is that browngrass band from Austin Browngrass; it’s like bluegrass, but a little dirtier. Built Ford tough in 2010, the band includes Bill Pucci, Matt Pucci, Garrett Ross and “Uncle Willie” Vaughan. Sour Bridges have created their own style of back porch, good timin’ music. They are traditionally a string band gone wild! […]

Los Angeles soul man Cliff Beach sings with a voice both plaintive and uplifting. His debut full-length from 2017, The Gospel According to Cliff Beach, served as immediately arresting, both joyful and bittersweet. A voting member of NARAS, a songwriter and publisher with BMI, and an award-winning member of Toastmasters International, the Berklee-trained singer/songwriter/keyboardist and DC […]

In a time when it’s altogether too easy to fabricate a musical identity, Trickshooter Social Club guns for the opposite. For a band intentionally steeped in authenticity, the realization of their own goals came true when a fan approached them after their set and said simply: “That was the truth.” Starkly genuine and madly organic, […]

Fauvely is the project of Chicago-based singer-guitarist Sophie Brochu (Astrobrite, Videotape), who creates deeply personal dream-pop music. After completing her master’s in fiction writing and feeling frustrated with the constraints of her craft, Sophie turned to music for its raw and immediate release. The title of her debut EP, Watch Me Overcomplicate This, speaks to […]

Gorky began as the music project of guitarist-vocalist Jesse Valencia in October of 2001 when he moved with his parents to Show Low, Arizona at the age of 15. The following year, Ben Holladay joined on as drummer after the two struck up a friendship in Geography class, as the two quickly discovered that out […]

Kempt is James Hanna (ex. Asobi Seksu) and MC Wolfe (ex. Dance for the Dying). Formed in Brooklyn in the winter of 2018, the duo marries Hanna’s atmospheric and heavily layered guitar work with MC’s ethereal vocals over sub-heavy, goth-inspired electro beats. Kempt ’s live show adds to the intensity with hypnotic strobe lights and […]

An American Forrest is Western music. Country and folk. Ragged-voiced tales and wild, hybrid style, finger-picked and strummed guitar. Poetic incantations that conjure images: a lone rider silhouetted against a sunset, the days fading light, the unspoken bond between horses and people. Songs as detailed as tooled leather about old love, and new frontiers. An […]

When fans listen to Atlas Maior, the blend of international sounds and progressive jazz styles may not conjure up the imagery of Austin, TX, a place known more for folk, singer/songwriters, and indie rock. But there is no other city like Austin, which draws top notch musicians from around the world, where such a unique […]

Juan Antonio Lopez was once on track to become a professional trumpet player. Growing up in an upbringing filled with varied musical backdrops (school band, his musician father’s traditional Latin music, and 90s alternative, to start), the brainchild behind L.A.-based solo project Sofa City Sweetheart played the instrument nearly his entire life until an unexpected […]

Blurring the lines between country, folk, indie, and rock, LA native Desure unveils his latest track “West Wind (Stay Here Awhile)” and has announced his self titled debut EP out May 3rd. This release will coincide with his show at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Josh Desure jumpstarted his career in the music business […]

After a summer tour in 2017 with Looms, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sharif Mekawy came home to the end of a relationship. This heartbreak led to a month wherein he confined himself to a month of writing music on his roof. Now, that time has gone on to inform Looms’ third full-length, The Way Up, out […]

With an invigorating blend of soul, roots, blues and gospel, exceptionally versatile vocalist/songwriter Maggie Rose is writing her own pop and soul success script with the recently released Change The Whole Thing. The album is Rose’s first full-length record release in five years and commands the attention of fans and onlookers. In 2018, Rose was named […]

Chain Station is a 4-piece, high-energy, get ‘em out on the dance floor string band born high in the mountains but based in Denver, Colorado. Their music is well-steeped in Americana roots with vocal harmonies that are high, lonesome, and tight. Their picking ranges from lightning-fast to mountain mellow. A bluegrass band that would satisfy […]

There’s no counting the worlds Jeremie Albino has traveled to get to where he is today, and no telling which ones he might head to next. Born and raised in the bright and booming metropolis of Toronto, his heart led him out of the city and into Prince Edward County, where country living and a […]

Aaron Rice is an American singer, songwriter and producer based in Minneapolis. He makes vocally-driven electronic music with influences as diverse as his ancestry. His career began with dichotomy, his fifth grade garage band covering Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails, while at home he sang along to Jodeci, TLC and 2Pac. Growing up in a […]

The latest release from Berlin-bred, NYC-based indie artist Panteon called “The Hill (Iini Istako)” was written during her residency at Banff Center of Arts and Creativity (Canada). The song was written in less than an hour looking outside the studio space at a view of steep and snowy mountain peaks. One mountain in particular called […]

With their 8-piece modern take on vintage soul funk, Crowd Company are brimming with energy and a raw edge, catchy hooks, and tight grooves. The band combines a retro Hammond organ-based sound with a virtuoso horn section, soulful lead, and harmony vocals, and they proudly evoke the spirit of 60s and early 70s funk as well […]