PREMIERES

Kait Warner wrote the single, Bowerbird, from her upcoming debut album, Rodeo Clown, after falling in love with her best friend of 10 years. As she descended into the confusing storm of new love, Kait became obsessed with passages from Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, a resonant masterwork on grief and love themed around the bowerbird. While […]

Singer-songwriter Rose Gerber is an intrepid American roots explorer, grafting country, folk, rock, alt-rock, and alt-country into an ageless, ache-laden signature sound. As a writer, Rose is both thick-skinned and delicate, shape-shifting from Heartland rock n’roll to heartbreaking balladry with unpretentious ease. Her songs are snapshots of everyday living that capture meaning in the seemingly […]

In February 2022, Boulevards, the project led by musician Jamil Rashad, released its fourth studio album, Electric Cowboy: Born in Carolina Mud. That album culminated years of slow building and provided the Raleigh, N.C. native the breakthrough he deserved. After an 18-month rigorous run, he wasn’t ready to take a deserved break.  Upon Electric Cowboy’s […]

Atlanta singer/songwriter and guitarist Parker Smith’s breezy third studio album Short Street (due out June 7th) was made with sensitivity, humor and an innate knack for creating art from life. Its easy-flowing melodies and lilting pedal steel infuse some rural Americana without going full-on country. Smith’s sweet, zephyr-like sound and welcoming everyman vocals continue from […]

Rebecca Frazier began performing professionally in Telluride, Colorado, in the late 90’s. Frazier came to national attention in 2006 as the first woman on the cover of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, and after moving to Nashville in 2007, she was recognized as “a genuine triple threat as a singer, songwriter, and flatpicking guitarist” by The Nashville […]

“This album is the purest distillation of our sound that we’ve ever captured,” says Crystal Damore, one half of the husband/wife folk duo Ordinary Elephant. “It’s just the two of us singing and performing live, losing ourselves in each other and the songs.” Given how raw and vulnerable the results are, it’s easy to see […]

With a buzzsaw psychedelic urgency, the Portland, Oregon-based instrumental surf-garage-psych project Trabants never relents into cruise control. With soft passages crashing into abrasively hypnotic squawls, along with guitar pyrotechnics, Trabants recalls the work of Russian Circles, Explosions in the Sky, and Allah-Las’. Trabants is orchestrated by musical auteur Eric Penna and a rotating cast of […]

Guitarist-vocalist Dan Rubinoff likes to joke that it only took him 50 years to write a good song. But once he did, he knocked out a bunch — 12 of which have landed on Pie Chart of Love, the stellar debut album Rubinoff and his partner, bassist-vocalist Joice Moore, will release on May 10th as […]

Acclaimed Canadian Americana artist Kyle McKearney is laying the groundwork for his third album with the blazing new single “Lonesome,” available April 26th on digital platforms. The song finds McKearney teamed up with Grammy-nominated bluegrass guitar hero Trey Hensley, and his licks intertwined with McKearney’s soulful vocals prove to be a powerful combination. Recorded with […]

Too tough for folk and too blues-influenced for country, Lynne Hanson’s brand of porch music with a little red dirt can turn on a dime from a sunshine, blue-sky ballad to a full-on thunderstorm of gritty Americana swamp from one song to the next. Her hard-living music has garnered her the nickname “Canada’s own Queen […]

It is beyond anyone’s imagination how Hamish Anderson isn’t headlining 3k capacity theaters. With a thrilling guitar style that rivals Gary Clark Jr., Anderson remains the guitar hero most music fans have yet to hear. His new album, ELECTRIC, is his first in five years and is described as a “Love Letter to the Electric […]

The Northeastern New Mexico town of Tucumcari is best known in song for its destination calling in Little Feat’s “Willin.” And while many probably havent’ been from Tucson to Tucumcari, there is still something engaging about that name of the town itself. Under the radar but highly respected singer-songwriter Dana Cooper has been allowing images […]

“I grew up in a really tight-knit community. Bakersfield isn’t necessarily a small town; however, it definitely has that energy. A lot of folks never leave, and this song is really based around that feeling of being trapped by your hometown,” says up-and-coming artist Jake Neuman about his hometown. Yeah, good ol’ Bakersfield is renowned […]

Keeley Boyle penned her first solo EP, Inviting, during the coldest, darkest months of the year in her hometown of Kenai, Alaska, a town with a population of only 7500 people. It is there in the depths of winter that Boyle was able to dislodge an almost decade-long spell of writer’s block, creating a glistening […]

With an eccentric mix of country and offshade country, it’s hard to believe Jeff Evans wasn’t a member of either The Meat Puppets or Butthole Surfers for at least even an album sometime back in the mid or late-80s. He certainly seems to follow in the path of artists like Jeff Pinkus, Paul Leary, and […]

“Sing them and let your soul, your cells, begin to recall the ways of your ancestors. How we lived in harmony with nature long before buildings, before technology, before we severed our ties to the earth in the name of progress. A friend of mine said, “We are the regeneration,” but before you can even […]

Ghosts is the sixth solo album from Chicago-based musician and songwriter Steve Dawson. It’s being released June 7th on venerable Chicago label Pravda Records on CD, 12” LP vinyl, digital download, and on streaming platforms. Hope, a poet wrote, is a thing with feathers, perched in the soul and singing a tune without words. In […]

Goodnight, Texas is a band you’ve almost certainly heard by accident somewhere. And now on second look, you’re deep in their catalog and they’re telling you stories about trapped coal miners and lovebird bank robbers. Banjos and mandolins twinkle. Now you’re seeing them live and they’re swelling to a fever pitch, suddenly singing quiet harmonies […]

“The best country songs take you home,” says Nicolette Hoang, frontwoman and songwriter for the Guelph, Ontario-based band, Nicolette & The Nobodies. “I want to write music that does that, songs that take you home.” Nicolette is romantic about retro Western music; she speaks with a soft grit, a warm and distinguished rattle that lends […]

Folk blues legend Chris Smither is back with his 20th album, All About The Bones, out May 3rd on Signature Sounds (PRE-ORDER). Recorded at Sonelab Studios in Easthampton, MA by Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., the Hold Steady), All About the Bones has an intimate feel that is somehow baroque and austere at once. […]