PREMIERES

The band Main Steam Stop Valve (mssv) are releasing their new album, Human Reaction, on September 1st, via Big Ego Records. It’s their second album together, although they’ve also released several EPs and done a fair amount of touring behind their work, since that’s a large part of how they operate. In fact, guitarist Mike […]

North Carolina-based singer-songwriter and Army veteran Colin Cutler might very well be the second coming of fellow Carolina musician/historian Dom Flemons. Armed with a banjo, guitar, and harmonicas, Colin’s music draws inspiration from various genres, including early country, blues, old-time, gospel, and rock and roll. It might be safe to say that if Bob Dylan […]

Lauren Denitzio of Worriers is a true rock and roll badass. With their soul-baring lyrics and indie rock guitar urgency, Denitzio is traveling alongside the musical path of such respected DIY bands as Yo La Tengo, Heartless Bastards, and Sharon Van Etten. Worriers is a project always in constant evolution, creating a soundtrack for the […]

Imagine yourself nearing the end of a trail in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina – variations of green fill your vision, a soft breeze cools the sweat on your brow, rustling leaves and running water join the song of the birds in your ears. This is where the music of Sully Bright takes […]

Sentimental Family Band is the songwriting partnership of Camille Lewis, Kyle Albrecht and Matthew Shepherd. The Texas-born and raised friends cut their chops in various corners of Austin’s diverse and bustling music scene but bonded over a shared affinity for the midcentury sounds of Bakersfield and Nashville alike. Filtered through the limestone aquifers of the […]

Vera Bloom has truly found her daring voice on her new independent EP, It’s Me, due out September 29th. Building off the tasty ferocity of Wet Leg, Bloom brings a relentless mix of 90’s and 00’s indie that never lets the drums and guitar rest too far back. Along with her voluminous honesty, it’s no wonder that […]

Drew Beskin & The Sunshine return in rare form with a new EP simply titled Garrett. Beskin views these 5 songs on Garrett as an opportunity to dwell on his favorite songwriting bad habits whilst pushing himself further creatively by exploring lengthy outros and experimenting with sounds not normally present in any Beskin/Sunshine recordings to […]

Randy Steele is an award winning banjo pickin’ singer/songwriter from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Randy’s creative music ranges from character based narratives to deeply personal and revelatory. Emotionally powerful, Steele can wake you up with a hard-drivin’ song, draw you in with deep lyrics, and have you laughing (or crying) with a compelling confession. Randy’s high-energy bluegrass […]

New Jersey-based Indie-rock pioneers the Feelies are releasing their seventh album, Some Kinda Love, their first ever live album. Some Kinda Love features their performance of an extensive retrospective set of songs written for the Velvet Underground, recorded at a sold-out White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, NJ on October 13th 2018, produced by Feelies […]

For all its “Last Frontier” singularity, Alaska certainly has turned out a few musical success stories including Portugal the Man and Jewel. There is a new up and comer who fits the alt pop world who sounds years beyond her 20. Ava Earl adds a couragoues pop twist to her songbook that lines up with […]

It’s always interesting to hear the back story of how collaboration comes to fruition. In the case of Van Plating and teaming up with Reckless Kelly, it was rather trouble-free on her new single “The Hard Way.“ I thought for a minute, and I said, “Well I really want this one to vibe Red Dirt […]

In a world full of lies and deception, it’s important to live within the truth when it comes to what we tell ourselves. That’s what Poet Lies (due out August 18th via Volar Records), the debut album by San Diego’s moondaddy, is all about. Multi-instrumentalist and driving force behind the project Cara Potiker wrote the […]

Masters of their trade, The Lonesome Ace Stringband bring grit, skill and abandon to Americana music, bridging old-time, bluegrass and folk traditions into a seamless hybrid of original material that is at once fresh and timeless.   Instrumentation alone sets the trio’s sound apart: consisting simply of fiddle (John Showman), clawhammer banjo (Chris Coole), and […]

Birds of Play is an Americawna Roots quartet based in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado. Their distinct sound is rooted and inspired by their connection to the land in which they reside. The band features multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Alex Paul on Guitar, Mandolin and Vocals; Eric Shedd on bass, Mandolin, Guitar and Vocals; […]

For Ross Cooper, getting out of Music City to spawn his creativity seemed like the right thing to do when recording his new album Lightning Heart due out September 29th. Despite the city being inundated with transplants and dreamers, Cooper earned his cowboy hat years ago. Hailing from Texas as a second-generation competitive horse rider and […]

Music provides a soundtrack to our daily lives while simultaneously helping us to transcend this mundane existence. We need its power to make it through the day. Seattle duo Aline & Wes have harnessed music’s supernatural properties to create their newest record, In Between The Middle.  Veterans of the Emerald City scene, Aline Vida and […]

Twin Bridges’ Zach Gerzon found solace in writing songs on a cello after experiencing the sudden passing of a parent and enduring romantic heartbreak. The tonalities of the instrument lent his darkly melodic indie-rock a beautifully haunting resonance that can be heard on his band’s emotive and cathartic debut, Fertile Ashes. Twin Bridges’s melancholic aesthetic […]

As the title suggests via their new album This Old World, Midwest Americana family-driven band Shannon Clark & the Sugar clearly have their values in a homespun realm that while the antithesis of punk, is rooted in the values of Americana. The record about the importance of family and having a support network: the down-home notion of […]

“When I asked Raul to sing a song with me for this album, he sent me three choices of Sam Cooke recordings. We knew it had to be a song that would suit just voice and guitar, not a big production,” describes acoustic guitar master Tommy Emmanuel about his recent song collaboration with Raul Malo […]

King Khan is that fiery arrow shot into the night sky which no one knows how high or far it will travel, however we do know that as that fiery arrow streaks across the heavens, along the way its flames will light up dark places. King Khan’s music can become the voice of many around […]