PREMIERES

The fourth album from Brooklyn-based This Frontier Needs Heroes, Real Job, is comprised of esteemed songwriter Brad Loretta and friends. Like their previous album Hooky, the duo brought in a handful of talented friends to help out.  Joining singer-songwriter Brad Lauretti (Vocals and Guitar) are Sadie Frederick (Vocals and Violin) Cash Carter (Drums) Ryan Vogel (Bass) Adam Kurtz […]

A band with the name “Wolf” in it has recently become as commonplace as a new Starbucks opening. But naming a trio after a certain Mr. Winston Wolfe from the classic Tarantino film Pulp Fiction? Well just like the Harvey Keitel played smooth operator who “fixed” Jules’ and Vincent’s accident , this Brooklyn based trio […]

Truett’s debut self-titled EP released Sept. 30 via Brooklyn Basement Records is a mind-melting onslaught of fuzzed out guitars and urgent vocals. He worked out each song while touring the South, night after night, screaming into the bright lights and cigarette smoke until the EP was fully formed. Years ago, when he was still just a […]

Listen up for release day Friday 10/28, as Lo/Hi steers the beats and pop aesthetics with the Lessons From The Low End EP. Steve Rusch’s 808-laced, beat-driven sensibility and Mischa Mandel’s bluesy and soulful vocal melodies mix in a way that is undeniably delicious. Writing and producing together, Lo/Hi delivers lyrics filled with both the hardship […]

Who would’ve guessed that members of Austin’s Latin funk projects Brownout and Grupo Fantasma would be responsible for one of most solid tributes to heavy metal legends Black Sabbath that has ever been made? After a handful of acclaimed Sabbath-centric live performances, this gaggle of musicians decided to immortalize their take on the band’s music […]

What happens when some of the finest purveyors of soul music in the modern era team up for an album? The Olympians, that’s what. With the venerable Daptone Records behind it, this all-star cast of musicians features members of  Charles Bradley, The Dap-Kings, Menahan Street Band, Budos Band, Tonight Show Band, Lee Fields, El Michels Affair, The Arcs, Sugarman 3, […]

Often it’s the best songwriters who seem to fall right under the radar, making their way as a career musician while never fully getting their due. Interestingly, these lesser-known songwriters often garner the most devout fans from fellow musicians. Such is the case with Texas songwriter Adam Carroll. Though he is only forty-two, Carroll’s uncanny […]

Upon forming at a Halloween house party debut in 2011, the Chicago 7 (sometimes 8 or 9) piece Gramps The Vamp has been carving out its own niche of orchestrated funk workouts. In 2014, a year after being named Best New Band by Chicago Reader, Gramps The Vamp released its first official album produced by Sergio […]

It’s easy to generalize Nashville these days as the home to market-driven pop “country” for the masses, but anyone who’s been paying attention can tell you that’s only a small part of what’s actually coming out of Music City. With their debut album More Than A Little, which comes out on November 4th, husband and wife duo Adrian + […]

On October 21st the Dallas-based band Vandoliers release their new album Ameri-Kinda. The title is fitting considering this band is an eclectic mix that goes beyond your standard Americana pigeonholing. With lead singer Joshua Fleming’s background, rock influences are evident, but the band also brings Tejano and bluegrass into the fold, all while playing anthems about […]

Hoots and Hellmouth’s fourth album In The Trees is coming out October 28th, and this is an effort that has felt like an expedition. The new album began to take shape over two years ago in a transformed silversmith mill in the little Philadelphia suburb of Clifton Heights, PA. Listen to In The Trees and it should come […]

On October 28th Chicago-based quartet The Youngest will release their sophomore album See It Through. Compared to their debut Feral Road, this album finds the band taking a more progressive, grown-up approach to their music, even if their band name suggests otherwise. See It Through is thirteen shimmering, fleshed out folk rock tunes. With each song the band taps into […]

The newly revitalized lineup of ’90s Washington D.C. alt-country staples The Linemen is gearing up to release its debut album Close the Place Down (due 10/14). The 10-song collection ranges from the melancholy valentine of a title track to the roiling honky-tonk abandon of “Playing Hard to Get Even” and jangle-pop perfection of “Mystery in the […]

Lay These Weapons Down (out 10/21) is the sophomore record from the Champaign, IL indie outfit Rebecca Rego and The Trainmen and represents a swift departure from their 2014 debut folk release Tolono. LTWD is a sonic exercise the group planned and labored on for over a year. Since the release of Tolono, the group has faced divorce, death, […]

For years now, Courtney Granger has been best known as the fiddle player in the renowned Cajun band the Pine Leaf Boys. Now Granger is taking things in a different direction with the release of his debut solo album Beneath Still Waters, which comes out on October 14th on Louisiana label Valcour Records. Cajun music and country music […]

Oakland singer-songwriter Joe Rut may not be a household name, but fans of alt-country, Americana, and folk will quickly find themselves drawn to the creative ramblings of this quirky character. Rut counts acts like Todd Snider, Jason Isbell, The Band, and the Grateful Dead as influences, and those influences can be heard on the impressive collection […]

Boston based neo-psychedelic rock band Ghosts of Jupiter will release their second full length album The Great Bright Horses on October 11th, 2016. The release will be accompanied by a run of live dates around New England, with appearances in Worcester MA, Cambridge MA, Portland ME, and Dover NH. Formed in 2011 and led by singer/composer and […]

Young UK band Broken Hands possess a sound that is as heavy as it is melodic. This is the rock and roll that used to be played on mainstream radio before much of it went to shit. Despite that, there is clearly still an audience for the good stuff as can be evidenced by the […]

After a half-decade hiatus, cult-favorite Alabama rock & roll collective The Dexateens are back in action, on the road again, and finally set to release their classic lineup’s long-shelved swan song Teenage Hallelujah (out Oct. 7 from Cornelius Chapel Records). The decidedly blue-collar Dexateens are proudly comprised of a cabinet maker, a carpenter, multiple restaurant […]

Austin,TX-based Americana-rock group, Bonnie Whitmore and Her Band, will release their third new album, F*ck with Sad Girls, on October 28th. Recorded at Austin’s Ramble Creek by Britton Beisenherz (The Swindle Boys, The Fox and the Bird, Matt Powell), the ten tracks tell a story and, in one way or another, boldly address the stigma placed […]