Archive: 2019

The Jayhawks brought their extensive catalog to an elated New York City crowd for the first of their two night run at NYC’s Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday, January 19th. The band eased into a two hour set mixing a variety of songs from their 30+ year catalog before arriving at a number of tracks from […]

Flatland Calvary is back and Cleto Cordero’s voice has improved tremendously. It’s as if the lead singer coated his throat with honey before recording Homeland Insecurity, the group’s polished sophomore LP. Cordero has also grown as a songwriter. There was a real charm to the way he seemingly freewheeled his way through parts of 2016’s […]

[rating=9.00] Despite whatever inferences are implied by their handle, Greensky Bluegrass rely more on their own invention and less on the more arcane strains of traditional bluegrass. Not that they’ve turned their back on those vintage strains entirely, but they’re clearly also adept at molding and shaping them to allow for a new breed of […]

Being invented in 1989, the World Wide Web has contributed a lot to the music industry. The internet has made music more accessible to the public. It also gave a possibility for consumers to broaden their musical horizons. Today audiophiles have no obstacles to access the albums of their favourite bands. A more recent development […]

Pickathon returns to the woods outside Portland, Oregon from August 2-4, 2019, with an initial lineup to be released January 21. Pickathon has built a reputation over the last twenty years as the best festival experience, combing groundbreaking programming focused on discovery, sustainable ethics, and a lineup that pushes the boundaries of genre. This vision […]

Mack Avenue Records is excited to announce the release of GRAMMY® nominated Julian Lage’s new album, Love Hurts. Out everywhere on February 22, Love Hurts was produced by Lage at The Loft, Wilco’s expansive studio space in Chicago’s Irving Park. The album marks the guitarist’s third Mack Avenue LP recorded with a trio, and his first to feature bassist Jorge Roeder […]

Acclaimed Texas singer-songwriter Matthew Logan Vasquez has announced the release of his excellent new album. The Delta Spirit frontman’s third solo LP, LIGHT’N UP arrives via Dine Alone Records on Friday, February 22. LIGHT’N UP is preceded by the hard driving first single, “Trailer Park,” along with its b-side “Poor Kids.” “Trailer Park” premieres today […]

[rating=8.00] Full of life and daring direction, early signs of Remind Me Tomorrow punch through as an ecstatic, emboldened statement for Sharon van Etten then a natural step forward in her music career. Unusually spirited and lively musicianship is only the dressing when taking in account it still has the same vulnerable aesthetic delivered with […]

[rating=8.00] The classically-infused and operatic ethereal sounds of Frances Cone bear the deep family roots of frontwoman Christina Cone’s upbringing and the more contemporary indie sounds of bands like Lucius. It took them a full five years to reach the point where they’ve fully flushed out their approach on Late Riser.  The band has already […]

[rating=8.00] Former Carolina Chocolate Drop Leyla McCalla is uncomfortable with the current political environment as exemplified by the album title, Capitalist Blues and several of its songs. Yet, she is growing increasingly fond of the musical culture of New Orleans, where she’s resided since 2010.  Although she added several instruments and voices to her 2016 […]

British rising star Yola today premiered the video for “Faraway Look,” (below) the second release from her forthcoming debut solo album, Walk Through Fire, which is produced by The Black Keys’ eight-time Grammy Award winner Dan Auerbach. The album will be released on February 22, 2019 on Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label. The video, directed by […]

Those who have followed Glen Hansard’s career since his Academy Award winning turn in the film Once will have witnessed one artistic arc: the journey of a Dublin busker who cut his teeth on the greats – Dylan, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen – and followed the path of the troubadour to great effect. But there […]

People’s Blues of Richmond (or PBR as they are affectionately referred to by their fans) is one of those rare three-pieces that somehow conjures the sonic power and visual intensity of a thunderstorm. Think Jimi Hendrix Experience meets MC5. They take psychedelic blues rock to a different level with a lyrical element seldom found in […]

The final effort from legendary bluesman Leo “Bud” Welch, The Angels in Heaven Have Done Signed My Name, is due out March 8, 2019 via Dan Auerbach’s label, Easy Eye Sound. The ten-song posthumous album draws from the 25-30 songs that were recorded at Auerbach’s studio in Nashville with his band The Arcs, and offers […]

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member and world-renowned Nashville-based keyboardist Reese Wynans announces his first-ever solo album Sweet Release, a collection of songs honoring a paramount selection of blues-rock legends. The long anticipated album comes following a career that’s spanned over 50 years and literally hundreds of historical collaborations. Sweet Release also serves as […]

Singer-songwriter Bob Hillman is readying the release of his fifth full-length album Some of Us Are Free, Some of Us Are Lost. The San Francisco-based musician’s latest is the follow-up to his 2016 album Lost Soul, which was produced by Peter Case. Hillman, respected for his literate and melodic songwriting since the late 90s, returns […]