PREMIERES

In our current climate of constant climactic events where it seems like we have yet to process crucial matters before ten more join the fray, it can feel impossible to resolve our feelings on issues and enact real change on them. We constantly find ourselves at seemingly impassable crossroads that just lead to more impassable […]

A genre like punk can conjure up many images for many different people. Regardless of the band, tempo, sound, or city you think of when you hear the name “punk”, there is one universal truth that strings all of these different subgenres together. As long as you can play in your style and make it […]

We Belong, is the eighth studio album from Sinkane, a band led by multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab. And like much of Sinkane’s previous releases, it resists genre. It’s pop. It’s funk. It’s electronic. It blends the gritty punk newness of a 70s and 80s New York with the steady, foundational soul of the rhythms of his […]

Award-winning singer-songwriter-guitarist Sarah King makes her long-awaited full-length solo debut with When It All Goes Down, exploring life’s seismic shifts via her own singular strain of Gothic Americana. The album will drop on March 29th. Produced, engineered, and arranged by David Baron (The Lumineers, Noah Kahan, Darren Kiely), When It All Goes Down sees King […]

The idea of collaboration can take on many forms. In music, it represents two ideologies melting over each other to form one coherent emotional release for both parties. In its best shape, collaboration sounds like it isn’t happening at all. The two artists blend their styles together to form something new and refreshing. Such is […]

Over the past few years, Nashville has almost completely changed. What once was a sleepy southern city has been overtaken by WeWork buildings and bachelorette functions. While all these changes are all fine and dandy, natives to the south can’t help but scratch their heads and wonder where all the history went. You don’t need […]

Patrick Davis has spent two decades leaving his mark onstage, on record, and in the writing room. He’s a critically acclaimed solo artist. A road warrior. An organizer of music festivals like Songwriters in Paradise – a boutique series of exclusive in-the-round style performances set in breathtaking locations. And most importantly, Davis has established himself […]

Wesley Dean is hot off the back of the Crazy Hearts Across America Summer tour where he and his family drove over 5000 miles from Nashville to Los Angeles in an RV via towns steeped in musical history, from Memphis to New Orleans, and Luckenbach to Las Vegas. With a director and cameraperson in tow, […]

Breezers is the musical identity and songwriting vehicle of the Los Angeles-based, multidisciplinary artist and songwriter Evan apRoberts. His songs are influenced by the vastness and romanticism of life in the West and much like the walls of apRoberts’s music and art studio in northeast LA, they are brimming with desolate views into a world […]

January 12th saw the reissue, in a newly remastered edition, of New American Language, the 2001 album by acclaimed American songwriter Dan Bern. Surprisingly, the occasion marks the first appearance of a Bern album on vinyl, during a career spanning more than 30 releases. The remastered, first-time-on-vinyl edition of New American Language is followed by […]

Sometimes an album’s theme will emerge during the recording process. And that’s exactly what happened with The High Hawks’ new album Mother Nature’s Show, due out February 16th on LoHi Records. “It was total happenstance,” says High Hawk vocalist-guitarist Vince Herman. “As albums often do, you find an unconscious thread in them.” The unconscious thread […]

There are catchy songs, tracks with such fun grooves, and soaring melodies that they are undeniable. Then, there are infectious tracks. Songs with so much personality and charisma the nuances of the musicianship jump out of the speakers and shake you awake like Green Day’s “Longview.” We all remember where we were the first time […]

Originating from Gainesville, FL, Sister Hazel is comprised of five gifted, seasoned musicians whose well-spring of natural talent has been called “one of the Top 100 Most Influential Independent Performers of the last 15 years” by Performing Songwriter Magazine. Song “All for You” topped the adult alternative charts during the summer of 1997 and the […]

After 7 studio albums with both Secretly Canadian and Western Vinyl Records over the last 20+ years, Early Day Miners have returned with their latest offering, and their first with Solid Brass Records, titled Outside Lies Magic (to be released digitally and on Limited Edition Desert Sand or Ultra Clear vinyl on March 22nd). Led […]

Now residing in Brooklyn, Berklee College of Music graduate Nan Macmillan was first raised by the sea in Massachusetts, then spent her high school years in the hills of Southern California, before studying poetry in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The indie-folk-pop artist writes about the underlying threads connecting these chapters of her life […]

Lee Wilder’s debut album Sound Emporium (due out via Blind Owl Records on Feb 9th) is true to its title, channeling not only myriad music genres, but also influences from film, literature, and just life itself. Its ten songs of impassioned, gospel-flecked Americana are infused with danceable, sometimes bombastic grunge and pop sensibilities.  Recording to […]

Weaving thoughtful, introspective lyrics with irresistible melodies, Vanessa Peters has been releasing album after album of well-crafted folk-rock gems for nearly two decades. She has played thousands of shows across the US and Europe and has opened for artists like Josh Rouse, Nina Persson & James Yorkston, 10,000 Maniacs, John Oates, and Matthew Sweet. While […]

From Birmingham, Alabama, Kyle Kimbrell has been offering high-end Americana music since the release of his 2014 EP, Nobody’s Fool. One of the nicest guys in Birmingham, Kyle is also one of the smoothest deliverers of fine lyric this side of the Jackson Brown line. An accomplished songwriter, Kimbrell’s sound has been described as “cosmic […]

Envision and believe in your own universe, and it will eventually form around you. The HawtThorns are reimagining their universe in their latest recording adventures. The sun-kissed songwriting, deft guitar work, and lush vocal harmonies that have been at the core of their sound are exponentially magnified through the lens of their upcoming record, Zero […]

Led by the lyrical craftsmanship of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Clint Roberts, the distinctly Appalachian, old-time sound of Asheville’s Holler Choir combines haunting harmonies, stirring string compositions, and heart-wrenching ballads, yet hardly conforms to a stereotypical genre. Call it a confluence of old-time, Americana, and bluegrass, but, by its own exceptional design, the sound and […]