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Reed Turchi is a musician, poet, and producer from Swannanoa, North Carolina, now living in Brooklyn. He has won a GRAMMY Award and received an EMMY Nomination, and his poetry has appeared in POETRY Magazine, The American Poetry Review, and Narrative Magazine, among others. Turchi learned to play slide-guitar while living in North Mississippi, and […]

Rock n’ Roll, at its core, is a collaborative event. It is the process by which separate minds become a collective consciousness for the purpose of self-expression through stadium-sized guitar riffs and explosive vocal performances. Odd Marshall, the rocking singer/songwriter, is taking the collaborative core of rock music to new heights on Seconds. The artist’s […]

There’s nothing polite about the way Troy Mercy attacks a guitar. The elusive Americana and blues-schooled songwriter trades in raw, vintage-toned rock and roll that feels ripped from a sweat-soaked juke joint and rewired for the present tense. The riffs crackle and bite, but it’s Mercy’s gravelly conviction as a singer and the no-frills punch […]

Fifty years together. More than 20 million albums sold. Over 15 records packed with guitar-driven Southern rock and FM staples like “Hold On Loosely,” “Caught Up In You,” “If I’d Been The One,” “Back Where You Belong,” and “Second Chance.” 38 Special stands as living proof that there’s power in numbers. Formed in 1974, the […]

There’s something knowingly tongue-in-cheek about titling your debut album Greatest Hits, but for Naarm/Melbourne trio Billy Cart, the joke lands because the songs already feel lived-in. Out March 5th, the nine-track collection distills the band’s knack for turning small, everyday details into fuzzy, heart-on-sleeve anthems, threading together ‘90s alt-rock crunch, scrappy grunge textures, and a […]

Arguably, the world doesn’t need another song about New York City any more than the Red Hot Chili Peppers need another love letter to California. Still, NYC remains an asphalt jungle—its skyline boxed in by concrete, its daily rhythm a relentless hustle to survive. Unless you’re Aaron Judge, it’s not a place for the faint […]

In the late summer of 2023, something shifted for Michael Rudd. Songs began arriving in the middle of the night — fully formed melodies, stray lines of lyrics, entire arrangements vivid enough to jolt him awake. Within weeks, the music was no longer confined to sleep. It followed him through the day, insistent and unrelenting, […]

Born in Nashville and reshaped in Portland, Family Worship Center operates less like a traditional band and more like a traveling rock-and-soul commune. Their sound—groove-heavy, piano-pounded, and drenched in communal harmonies—pulls from dog-eared spiritual ephemera and strange, cult-adjacent texts uncovered during a cross-country field-recording odyssey. The result is a secular gospel of sorts, rooted in […]

Few artists are still carrying the torch for hard country with the conviction — and volume — of Dale Watson. For more than four decades, the Texas native has stood as a self-appointed guardian of honky-tonk, outlaw country, western swing, and rockabilly, carving out a lane so distinct he gave it its own name: Ameripolitan. […]

Despite influences that stretch far beyond Texas, The Point. feel inseparable from Austin. The trio filters psychedelia, Saharan guitar music, and cumbia through a jam-band looseness that reflects the city’s anything-goes musical DNA. The result is a laid-back but deeply intentional sound—worldly in scope, grounded in groove. On their recent album Maldito Animal (Deluxe Edition), […]

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Karen Dahlstrom arrived at folk music the long way around. Raised on show choirs and jazz ensembles, she built her early voice around the precision of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, earning attention as a gifted soloist. But a preoccupation with technique eventually led her to step away from singing for much of […]

A total eclipse is a rare phenomenon when dark and light converge. Strangers lift their faces toward the perfect circle in the sky, and, for a moment, the world around us quiets and all divides erase. It’s a reckoning similar to the one Americans now face: a reminder that, however different we are, we share […]

Eliza Noxon doesn’t hide behind metaphor. Her songs arrive unguarded—clear-eyed dispatches from the messy interior of becoming. Rooted in traditional folk but streaked with an indie-rock pulse, Noxon’s music wrestles with loss, identity, and the off-kilter ache of growing up. Open tunings bloom into widescreen arrangements on her debut LP Good Monsters with Bad Habits, […]

Love is a tricky thing to get a hold of, and even when it’s in your grasp, the complexity of it all forces a loose, slippery grip. Once forged by time and memory, love becomes a solid stone to rest upon, but the moments of its creation can be among the most confusing and, ironically, […]

Reverends’ new album, Sunsight, Sunclipse, is its most vivid and unguarded statement yet—a record that most maturely and confidently blends Americana, shoegaze, psych and cosmic country. Fronted by singer and songwriter Dandy Lee Strickland—with Kyle Jones on drums and Andy Watts and Matt Boehnlein on bass and guitars—the Atlanta trio has carved out its own […]

Consummate troubadour and songwriter Tim Easton wrote much of his new album beneath a painting of a red horse. The artwork—created by his sister, visual artist Susan Easton Burns—was executed in an abstract-realist style, using gardening tools instead of paintbrushes to form a vivid image from fragmented strokes. It now serves as the cover art […]

While commercial air travel is an easy punchline on the comedy circuit, others approach it with far more gravity—among them Paula Boggs, who knows the terrain from every angle. “Flying in 2025 is not for the faint of heart,” Boggs says. “Between DOGE, the firing of air traffic controllers, helicopter crashes, delayed or canceled flights, […]

While commercial air travel is an easy punchline on the comedy circuit, others approach it with far more gravity—among them Paula Boggs, who knows the terrain from every angle. “Flying in 2025 is not for the faint of heart,” Boggs says. “Between DOGE, the firing of air traffic controllers, helicopter crashes, delayed or canceled flights, […]

John Hollier has been experiencing a handful of full-circle moments lately. Originally from Louisiana, the rising singer-songwriter has been relentlessly chasing down not only his unique sound — this searing fusion of rock, soul and alt-country — but also himself in the process. The result is his latest album, Rainmaker (due out March 20 via […]

When taking on the moniker Chicago Farmer, singer-songwriter Cody Diekhoff aimed to not only showcase the dichotomy of his life and travels — growing up in the tiny Illinois farm community of Delavan, and calling “The Windy City” home for several years — he also wanted to honor his past through his uplifting, introspective melodies. […]