Archive: 2019

Since forming less two years ago in Portland, Oregon, Sharlet Crooks’ distinctive and spirited blues stylings, which would sound just as at home in the California desert as they would echoing in a Louisiana bayou, has set them squarely in the spotlight, achieving an onrush of popularity among audiences locally and abroad. The band borrows […]

After forming in 1994, The Dandy Warhols impressed so much that they were signed at their first gig. Though never quite hitting the heights that both they and their label thought they would, the band has stayed consistent and maintained a loyal following. Each album tends to lean heavy on different rock elements. Their debut, […]

Atlantic Records artist gnash just just released his major label debut a week ago, and on Tuesday, January 22 he played NYC’s Irving Plaza with with opener Mallrat, who is from Brisbane, Australia and is billed as a next big thing to come out of the country.

As we know by now, The Stray Birds left us in September with the parting Let It Pass, the last of their great albums. A central figure in making those was co-founder and often frontwoman, multi-instrumentalist and superb vocalist/songwriter Maya De Vitry. This solo effort, Adaptations, gives De Vitry the freedom to put those great […]

Maybe it’s time to put down the Hash Pipe.

It was nothing short of a cataclysm for a certain kind of roots music fan when The Stray Birds announced they were disbanding last summer. When Maya de Vitry recorded Adaptations in 2017, she imagined it as a creative outlet. Now that it’s being released (1/25), it’s her path forward. And what a beautiful path […]

[rating=10.00] Rival Sons, a genuine rock and roll outfit hailing from Long Beach, California, are readying the release of their gritty and soulful sixth studio album, Feral Roots. This five-headed monster boasts the combined talents of Jay Buchanan (vocals/rhythm guitar), Scott Holiday (lead guitar), Michael Miley (drums), Dave Beste (bass) and secret weapon, Todd Ogren […]

[rating=9.00] If the first blush of the Spiral Scratch EP and various singles didn’t make it clear, the opening track on their debut full length, Another Music in a Different Kitchen solidified that there was something different about the Buzzcocks. The song is “Fast Cars” but unlike countless rockers before them, they were on the […]

[rating=8.00] Amelia White is one of those Americana artists revered in her home town of East Nashville and certainly in the UK, where a previous version of this album, Rhythm of the Rain, was released last year. This one has four different songs, and a few different session players. Her songs are not for the […]

In soaring three-part harmonies, tinged with echoing guitars played wide open in weighty down-the-road Americana tailoring, Patrick Kelly bellows: “out in the world without my father – no one here teaching wrong from right.” The Georgia native is about to celebrate a three-year anniversary with his wife, and with it, the three-year anniversary of becoming […]

Pickathon returns to the woods outside Portland, Oregon from August 2-4, 2019 for its 21st year with a lineup that includes Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (Rateliff’s first time playing Pickathon and he’ll be bringing two different bands), Khruangbin, Mandolin Orange, Tyler Childers, Lucius, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Fruit Bats, and Mountain Man with a […]

Today, Ryan Adams shared “F*ck The Rain” – the lead single from Big Colors, which is the first of three albums he will release in 2019. Checkout the track, which features a guitar solo by John Mayer below… Ryan Adams said, “Check out this song it’s cool. Or don’t- we all might die trump is president. I love you, sincerely Ryan Adams.” Adams will […]

Lady Lamb, a.k.a Brooklyn-based Aly Spaltro, announces her third full-length album, Even in the Tremor, out April 5th via Ba Da Bing Records. The follow up to 2015’s After, an album that “scraped-together simplicity in service of songs with far greater ambition” (The New York Times), Even in the Tremor is her most sonically soaring […]

Chris Stapleton will continue his extensive, sold-out “All-American Road Show” through 2019 with newly confirmed performances this summer and fall. The shows will kick-off July 9 at Allentown’s PPL Center and will span through November 2 at Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center. Special guest openers include Margo Price, Brent Cobb, Brothers Osborne, The Marcus King Band, […]

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe has announced its new studio album ‘Gnomes & Badgers’ will be released March 8 on Seven Spheres Records. The 11-track effort is KDTU’s first new recording in five years. Denson and his hard touring, road-honed band— featuring guitarist DJ Williams, lap steel guitarist Seth Freeman, trumpeter Chris Littlefield, organist David Veith, […]

Ahead of the January 25th release of singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph’s new album, Here Come The Young, Glide’s Trevor Christian spoke with the songwriter and activist about the title track. In it, he celebrates young people for being “inclusive” and having “open minds and hearts.” He predicts they won’t continue to stand for “military threat,” “trickle down,” […]

Steve Marion – the songwriter, guitarist, and producer who has made four studio records of primarily word-less, guitar-first music as Delicate Steve – is excited to announce his fifth LP today, titled Till I Burn Up. It will be released on March 1 via ANTI- Records. The new track “Selfie of Man”  (listen below) was recorded on the Oberheim OB-X […]

[rating=8.00] The Dutch quartet Mozes and the Firstborn’s third record Dadcore is catchy/fuzzy indie rock, loaded with heaps of 90’s alternative highpoints and a heavy dose of sparkling pop appeal. This is an impressive pack of ear-worming tunes from Melle Dielesen vocals/guitar, Corto Blommaert bass, Raven Aartsen drums, and Ernst-Jan van Doorn guitar.    Things […]

Despite having little commercial success and only existing for three years, Green River remains one of rock’s most important and influential bands. The grunge pioneers are best known for the bands they formed after Green River’s demise – such as Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, and Mother Love Bone – but the three albums released by Green […]