Archive: 2017

The directors of Good Time sit down to discuss their claustrophobic new film.

Patti Cake$ emerges as one of this season’s most delightful cinematic experiences.

The Sundance hit proves that the hype is real.

The Safdie brothers take audiences on a paranoid, unpredictable journey through the streets of New York in this tour-de-force crime thriller

Hey, you could do worse.

Led by the unique voice and creative mind of Brandon Decker, decker. is gearing up to release his latest album, Into the Red, on August 25th, 2017 via the Royal Potato Family decker. Into the Red gathers some of the finest moments from decker.’s six album discography thus far, offering a bird’s eye view of the artist’s remarkable journey as a songwriter and […]

Eliot Bronson grew up in Baltimore feeling different than his peers. Like many musicians, Bronson was the “weirdo” in school and he found a sort of shelter in music. First came punk rock, then came Bob Dylan, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. Music took hold of young Bronson he soon found himself taking his own folk songs […]

Robert Plant’s new album, Carry Fire, will be released by Nonesuch/Warner Bros. Records on Friday, October 13, 2017. Carry Fire is available now for pre-order at all digital music retailers and via nonesuch.com and robertplant.com with an instant download of the album’s first track, “The May Queen.” Pre-orders via nonesuch.com and robertplant.com also include an exclusive limited-edition print featuring a beautiful image from the album art. Carry Fire, his eleventh solo […]

[rating=9.00] It’s been five years since Grizzly Bear released their acclaimed album Shields, and fans were beginning to wonder if all was well with the Brooklyn-based quartet. In May of this year, the band silenced any doubts about their return by releasing “Three Rings” as the first single from their two year recording process and […]

It’s sometimes astounding the things that come out of people’s idle hands. Since Mike Patton’s Faith No More has largely been on hiatus since their last world tour and Dave Lombardo left Slayer over contract disputes, Dead Cross was born. This is what happens when two guys like that, plus members of the Locust and […]

[rating=7.00] When you’ve been around the block, it’s easy to sit up on your porch and yell at the kids to stay off your lawn. But Ray Wylie Hubbard is anything but a curmudgeon. In fact, the 70-year old Texas singer-songwriter seems to enjoy teaming up with younger generations, from country superstar Eric Church to […]

New York-based Sam Evian, the project of songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sam Owens, announces his “Need You” EP, a creative collaboration with Chris Cohen, out October 6th via Saddle Creek, and a North American tour supporting Nick Hakim. Today, he presents the EP’s title track, a charming end of summer love song. The EP was […]

Plus, St. Vincent lines up her feature length directorial debut.

On Tuesday, September 5th, World Cafe and NPR Music will present a First Listen Live performance with The National. The band will perform its new album Sleep Well Beast live from Union Transfer in Philadelphia beginning at 8pm ET. Tickets for the show are on sale now HERE. Talia Schlanger of World Cafe and Bob […]

Bully burst onto the scene in 2015 with their critically acclaimed album Feels Like. Today the band announces Losing. The album was engineered and mixed by lead-singer Alicia Bognanno in Chicago at Electrical Audio. Today, the band shared the first track “Feel the Same.” Losing is available for pre-order now from Sub Pop Records and […]

Julien Baker will release her highly anticipated second album Turn Out The Lights on October 27th, 2017 via Matador Records. An early preview can now be heard in first single “Appointments,” a viscerally moving track that culminates in a swell of Baker’s voice, guitar, and piano. Turn Out The Lights will arrive nearly two years to the day after her debut […]

John Mark McMillan is something of an anomaly: an artist and Platinum-selling songwriter bending genres and defying categorization by carving out his own unique and independent path. With an ear for melody and a poet’s eye for metaphor, no topic has been off-limits. While each of his albums over the past decade have continued to […]

What do you get when you take a string band and move them into a log cabin in Kentucky for a week and a half to record an album? Probably not what you think. Kentucky Native, the new release from innovative cellist, vocalist and songwriter Ben Sollee, does delve into bluegrass music but it layers […]

Sheather Fest is unlike any festival in the country. Held this coming September 9 and 10, 2017, in Knights Ferry, California, the idea for this musical gathering was born out of  love and appreciation for one dude in England, David Sheather, and his wife, Sue. Arguably one of the finest music fans in the modern […]