PREMIERES

Houston based five-piece The Wheel Workers are known for their politically charged rockers, but their new album post-truth (out Nov. 2) isn’t so much focused on politics as it is the daily realities we all now face as a society.Now, the band’s lean and quirky Dead Kennedys, The Clash, and Pixies-influenced style shoves real life in […]

Hailing from Seattle, The Dip is an electrifying seven-piece ensemble that melds vintage rhythm and blues and modern pop with “impeccably crafted, 60’s-steeped soul” (KEXP). The group quickly gained notoriety throughout the Pacific Northwest for their eminently danceable live shows that feature the powerful vocals of frontman Tom Eddy (Beat Connection), bolstered by the deep […]

The story of Dwayne Shivers is a story about what it means to keep showing up, and it’s the creative mean of many fallings and risings. Buffered & Blest, Micah Dalton’s debut LP as Dwayne Shivers, is the result of a rotating door of collaborators, losing a manager, starting a family, and rooting in a […]

The Krickets are an all female swamp folk band that Paste Magazine describes as “…a truly stunning, one-of-a-kind sound.” Produced by Ben Tanner of the Alabama Shakes and recorded at John Paul White’s SunDrop Sound in Florence, AL, The Krickets released a debut album called “Spanish Moss Sirens” in May of 2016. The album earned […]

Melissa Ruth’s music lies somewhere along that stretch of sonic highway where Americana and blues converge into one long, sometimes lonesome road. But Ruth likes to detour toward a place she prefers to call “doo-wop twang” — a sound that contains, in her words, “the space of blues, the teeth of country and the grit […]

Chase McBride’s painterly folk is imbued with pop optimism, his sense for rhythm and melody, and his gentle voice. His previous albums Cold Water and Green Shade have found viral success on streaming platforms, but about his latest Pink Lemonade (out 11/30) he says “This album, from an aesthetic standpoint, feels the most like me.” The album was co-produced Andrew Heringer […]

Valley Lodge is basically the best rock band that you think you’ve never heard of, but that you already totally know. The band’s wildly popular song “Go” is the theme song to HBO’s late-night news satire program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Valley Lodge is known for infusing their hook-saturated songs with a sense […]

If you’ve spent any amount of time around the Northwest Music Scene, the name Hillstomp should sound familiar to you. They’ve been making music for the past 17 years and touring with the likes of Reverend Horton Heat, The Devil Makes Three, and Southern Culture on the Skids. And yet misconceptions still abound. Let’s start […]

Sam Chown is back with yet another whirlwind of whimsical sounds as Shmu on his upcoming album Lead Me To the Glow (out 9/28). As co-creator of Austin electro-noise spazzes Zorch, and member of a vast, swirling nebula of various side projects, there are plenty of reference points for his diverse sound menu. According to Chown, LMTTG […]

Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, a hub of historical soul and blues that crafted much of the world’s modern music, Dirty Streets have spent years on the road and in the studio forging their own style. They’ve moved from DIY, independent recordings to ambitiously self-produced studio ventures over the course of five albums. Their fifth, and […]

In 2015, Lost Bayou Ramblers co-founder and fiddler Louis Michot was invited by The Stone’s artistic director John Zorn to perform a residency at this experimental music venue in New York City that has no bar and allows no talking during performances, a room where the music is the sole focus. Each artist residency consists […]

The Color Forty Nine hail from San Diego, California, where pretty much everything is nice. The weather and languid pace can easily lull you into a blissful complacency…or implore you to seek for more. For their first recording, the band has mined a collection of seven musical stories from their surroundings, daily life, countries traveled, and […]

Sam Ravenna crashed onto the scene in 2017 with his self-titled debut EP which was hailed by the Tahoe Weekly, ”a clear statement of an artist intent on breaking new ground.” The Berklee College of Music graduate and Lake Tahoe-based musician has spent the bigger part of the last decade as a side man for […]

Southern Indiana musician Nick Dittmeier finds a needed reprieve from the looming presence of loss in his life with his new record All Damn Day (due October 26th). Fronting Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters, the singer-songwriter lingers on the omniscient Grim Reaper in a way that’s hopeful and uplifting as it is forlorn, harkening to the works of […]

Respected Dallas, TX-based singer/songwriter/producer/musician-of-many-trades Salim Nourallah is set to release a sprawling double-album, Somewhere South of Sane, on September 28 on Palo Santo Records. His seventh solo album, it is Nourallah’s boldest work yet, exploring the desolation of peace in America (“Relief”), the implosion of a marriage (“A Betrayal”), madness of a life lived among […]

Matt Costa is releasing the Novella Edition of his critically acclaimed new album Santa Rosa Fangs on Oct 5. In anticipation of the upcoming reissue — which includes never-before-heard b-sides, interstitial tracks and Costa‘s own narration of the concept album’s coming of age story of three California youths, Costa is releasing the b-side “Lovely Saturday” on September, 21st. Santa Rosa Fangs is […]

In a one-year span, top Memphis bassist-cum-songwriter Mark Edgar Stuart was diagnosed with lymphoma and lost his father to a heart attack. The combination shook up his world. While convalescing from chemotherapy, he started fingerpicking and working on his singing, neither ever focuses for Stuart, who was long one of Memphis’ first-call bassists, having played […]

Somewhere on a dusty road or a well-traveled interstate, right at this very moment, a rock n’ roll band is pounding the rock. They’re probably wearing the same clothes they had on yesterday, and reminiscing about last night’s gig. Inspired by a guitar lick that cuts to the bone or a melody that lingers on […]

At a time when both politics and the planet seem to be spinning out of control, Colin Devlin’s new album High Point takes the sonic high ground. The world has shifted since this Irish singer and songwriter released his acclaimed solo debut Democracy of One in 2010, but his approach to finely crafted music remains […]

There is a level of songwriting depth and maturity that one acquires the old-fashioned way: spending two decades on the road, playing thousands of shows all over the USA and Europe, sleeping on couches and floors, crowdfunding a dozen records paid for by hard-earned fans, and racking up millions of miles in cars, trains, and […]