PREMIERES

Over the course of his career, singer/songwriter Tom Freund has released more than a dozen records, collaborated with legends such as Elvis Costello and Jackson Browne, and his long-time collaborator Ben Harper with whom he’s made numerous albums and toured the world. Tom has also recorded and toured with rock legend Graham Parker as well […]

The Slants’ final full-length album, aptly titled The Band Plays On, is a fourteen-track collection of the band’s melodic, highly danceable synth-pop, which will be released digitally and on vinyl October 20th. This year has been a very busy year for The Slants. While it may seem they’ve been dormant, with their last release being […]

Veteran producer Ted Hutt—whose credits include The Gaslight Anthem, Violent Femmes, Chuck Ragan, Lucero, Jesse Malin, The Devil Makes Three, and a Grammy-winning collaboration with Old Crow Medicine Show—certainly had a profound effect when working with Radiator King on their new song “Ghost of Elvis”. The compelling sounds of most of his prior collaborators are […]

After being forced to record his last album, Broken English, remotely in the spring of 2020, the Portland-based folk-rock troubadour Eddie Berman thought that perhaps he’d record all his albums that way moving forward. “I had exclusively recorded everything totally live before, but the comfort and ease of not having to leave my family for […]

Set upon the hard scrub granite slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains. Anchored in bedrock, bathed in dust, Old Californio defy easy categorization. Their country-folk tinged rock & roll; rooted, organic and expansive in spirit, traces its homegrown beginnings to a converted chicken coop garage on a forgotten street straight out of the imagination of […]

Benjamin Jayne is releasing his third full-length solo album, Broken, on October 13th, and it’s a project that pushes the boundaries of his previous work in terms of genre elements, song structures, vocal ranges, and even themes. Essentially, the album takes inspiration from confronting oneself in the midst of the life that has built up […]

Akron-based singer-songwriter Brian Lisik is a rock and roll lifer yet his songs continually evoke a songwriting knack that simplifies the listening process What’s wrong with a forthright infectious, energetic song with guitar solos and kinetic whimsicality? After listening to Lisik and his band Hard Legs, our ears are taken to the spirited sounds of Gaslight […]

Roots-Rock artist Adrian Sutherland is building on his solo work by following Juno Award-nominated debut album When The Magic Hits with a new collection called Precious Diamonds. While his first solo album necessitated the building of a studio in his home in the Attawapiskat First Nation of Northern Canada to write and record, for Precious […]

Authentic and from-the-heart, Stella Prince’s melodies delve deep into your spirit with her evocative and relatable songs. Her poetic lyrics, in tandem with the atmospheric sounds of her vocals, acoustic guitar, and musical compositions, appeal to a diverse, multi-generational audience. Born and raised in Woodstock, NY, Stella, who is nearing the end of her teenage […]

In a world thirsting for authenticity and genuine connection, Kristen Grainger & True North offers a wellspring of soul-stirring songs. Led by the enchanting vocals of Kristen Grainger and drawing on elements of bluegrass, country, and Americana, the Pacific Northwest string band deftly crafts songs that connect us, illuminating universal truths with haunting beauty. The […]

What would happen if you paired the plaintive simplicity of Philip Labes with rock, a touch of orchestral instruments, and the rustic folkiness of the South? The answer would be: John Bellows. If I could describe Certain Demise in one sentence, I might say it’s a mountainous path of an album rooted in the deepest […]

Washington, D.C.-based experimental pop band The North County is excited to share their new single “The Invisible Hand Overview” out today. The new song features the complex arrangements, danceable rhythms, and blistering political commentary emblematic of this one-of-a-kind experimental pop band. In their new song “The Invisible Hand” the band is here to remind you […]

With a band name like Old Heavy Hands, you know there ain’t no messing around with this group of rock and roll lifers from Greensboro, NC. Somewhere between the rugged worlds of Drive-By Truckers, Lucero and Whiskey Myers, Old Heavy Hands might be their most under-valued cousin in the Southern Rock meets meet punk and […]

Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran says this about The Living Pins: ”One of the things I can really recognize when I hear a bit of music– is the FUN. The fun that they were having when they made that. And they were having such a great time making that music. In fact, if you […]

When Atlanta alt-country / Americana veteran, singer-songwriter, and guitarist Lars Nagel was kicking around titles for his new solo album, he kept coming back to a familiar three-word phrase and well-known Ringo Starr-ism: Tomorrow Never Knows. “I was of course hesitant about using the name of a classic Beatles song,” Nagel says, “but I figured if The […]

With a name like The Wheel Workers, one would think the band would be rooted in either rust belt punk or overall laden Americana. But think again. This Texas-based underground indie music collective has been putting forth their brainy art rock that touches somewhere between the sonic and not-so-sonic worlds of Okkervill River, the Flaming […]

Piano rock seems to be a long-lost art form- aside from a couple of Bens (Folds and Rector), the subtle mix of ivory tickling and stick-in-your-head melodies is a thing of ’70s AM radio lost nuggets. The Lives of Famous Men nails the piano rock narrative on their new single “Darling Come Home” which Glide is […]

Blending languages, cultures, and musical sounds, one of the more unique live shows on the road this fall is the duo Larry & Joe – performing in more than 30 cities from September through December 2023. Larry & Joe’s debut album, Nuevo South Train features original songs and innovative interpretations of traditional folk tunes from […]

Back in late-2019 Taylor Hollingsworth, Wes McDonald, Will Stewart, Eric Wallace, and Chris McCauley collided in Birmingham, Alabama’s Ol’ Elegante recording studio and wrote an album in three sessions. Their self-titled debut, The Blips, struck lightning when Little Steven’s Underground Garage declared “Inside Out” The Coolest Song In The World in the spring of 2021. […]

Alessandra Rose’s voice is a thing of wonder: big, bold, brassy, and beautiful in just the right spots. Her charismatic range points towards Chrissie Hynde, Marianne Faithful, and Erika Wennerstrom and evokes a modern twist on gritty expressiveness. On Rose’s new album RODEOMOTHH (out 10/20), the Manette, WA artist has built a work of art […]