PREMIERES

In the opening track “To The Floor” off the new album The Switcher (coming June 24th) from Seattle trio Lonesome Shack, we hear the sound of beer bottles bouncing off the floor of a barroom. This sets the tone for the slow burning rush of gritty blues that unfolds over the next 14 songs. Though Lonesome […]

With their third album, Paper Moon, Kansas Bible Company tightens its approach, adding pop hooks and sharply focused songwriting to a sound that was once wildly experimental. Kansas Bible Company haven’t lost the unpredictable edge that pushed albums like Hotel Chicamauga into Frank Zappa territory, but Paper Moon shines a light on the melodic core that […]

Summer is just around the corner, which means it’s time to start working on that seasonal playlist. If you’re looking for something to be at the top of your rotation, look no further than the new album from slowcore cult favorites Spain. On June 3rd the band will release Carolina, and today we are excited to […]

Michael Fracasso has long been a highly respected singer-songwriter both within his home base of Austin, Texas and in the world of Americana as a whole. This may come from the fact that he has always refused to be tied down by any one style of music. At the core of everything he does there […]

If there is a claim to fame for Brooklyn band The Hollows, it’s the fact that there is no frontman. Or maybe it’s that there are in fact six frontmen, all of equal rank and contribution. Whatever way you slice it, these guys – who make damn fine use of a hodgepodge of mandolins, banjos, accordions, […]

Robert Rex Waller Jr. has spent the last sixteen years fronting I See Hawks In L.A., a California group whose cult following has found an appreciation for their hybrid style of country-rock laced with folk and psychedelic sounds. At the core of the group’s identity has always been the profoundly original lyrics of Waller. His […]

Since 2009 Boulder, Colorado band Grant Farm have been touring constantly, winning fans over with a style of music that brings to mind jam band acts like moe., the Grateful Dead and Phish, but with a proper country twang. It’s the more countryish element of the band that has gives their sound a rustic, organic quality. […]

Joshua Winstead, bass player, and long-time member of critically celebrated quartet, Metric, will release his debut solo album MMXX via Royal Cut Records on June 3. After more than a decade playing with Metric, and contributing to all six of their critically acclaimed albums, Winstead set out to record his first proper solo music with a desire to “just try to establish […]

Plenty of bands try to dodge the comparisons to their influences in an effort to come off as original and hip as possible. Other bands do not make the slightest attempt to cover up the bands they are emulating. The Explorers Club fall in the latter group and we are all better for it. You […]

When Peoria, Illinois natives Austin Thompson and Collin Krause joined forces with John Williams on bass and vocals, John Merikoski on drums and percussion, and Travis Kowalsky on banjo in 2013, they lit the fuse for a musical dynamic that would ignite fast. The quintet called themselves The Way Down Wanderers, which was a fitting name considering […]