PREMIERES

When Petter Ericson Stakee, the principal songwriter and driving creative force behind Americana band Alberta Cross, began preparing for his Stripped Back acoustic tour, he felt like it would be a good idea to add a visual to the music. This came in the form of two different versions of “Beneath My Love”, the upcoming second single […]

The Harmed Brothers came of age a few years back when the airwaves were being polluted by the neo-folk revival with bands like Mumford and Sons and the Lumineers ho heying us all to the point where our ears bled. Though the Portland-based band had its roots in bluegrass and folk with distinctly poppy undertones, […]

By way of Boston and Washington D.C., Kingsley Flood have spent the last handful of years churning out socially aware Americana. The band’s sound, which feels like it could coexist in small town America as much as the major cities the band members call home, revolves around the potent lyrically punch of frontman Naseem Khuri. Growing […]

We live in complicated times. Our political system is in laughable disarray, as is our justice system, and with so much trouble abroad and on the homefront, sometimes it can feel like the world really is going to shit. For Louisiana bluesman Robert Finley, some of life’s most complicated issues are also the most personal, […]

At this point in time, after movies like the Boondock Saints, The Town, and The Departed have turned the city of Boston into a running line of cliches filled with hardened tough guys speaking with that unmistakable accent. Of course, the soundtrack for all of this has been the Celtic punk rock of bands like the […]

Seattle band Massy Ferguson dropped their new album Run It Right Into The Wall back in July, but for this release they took a different approach. Whereas the band’s last release, the EP Backwoods, was unmistakeably alt-country, bringing to mind Lucero and Whiskeytown with a West Coast country groove, their latest finds them embarking for a sound […]

Family flows through the music of Goshen, IN’s, Wilson’s Reservoir. From the songs on their new record to the name of the band itself, kin and home resonate through their world. Named both after an actual reservoir in Georgia – primary songwriter Ben Wilson and his father cleared the land on which it is dug, and thereafter the […]

The title track from Blake Rainey and His Demons’ latest album, Helicopter Rose, is about rescue, and it’s a theme that carries throughout the new record, one populated with stories of forlorn barflies, tattered relationships, and other hard-luck realities of modern life.”  Rainey has earned his share of acclaim over the past 15 years. His previous band, […]

Country-tinged California band The Mother Hips have been chugging along for over twenty years, amassing a cult following in that time as a result of their groovy, laid back songs and live shows that are never the same. In that time the Hips have released nine full-length albums, an impressive catalogue to say the least. […]

Since 2012, the trio known as Ohio Knife have been whipping up hard-hitting rock and roll that stays loyal to the blue collar roots of their home base of Cincinnati. With a sound that comes across as a grittier punk rock Bruce Springsteen meets the Midwestern roots and straightforward punch of Lifter Puller, Ohio Knife make […]