Archive: 2019

GRAMMY® Award winner Patty Griffin has announced the release of her long-awaited new album. The acclaimed singer-songwriter’s 10th studio recording and first-ever eponymous LP, PATTY GRIFFIN arrives Friday, March 8 on her own PGM Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. The album was recorded predominantly at Griffin’s home in Austin, TX, with Griffin and longtime collaborator […]

Keyboard powerhouse Robert Walter brought his 20th Congress to Portland, Oregon on Thursday, January 10th to give fans a taste of tracks from his 2018 release Spacesuit, as well as compositions he’s created during the decades-long existence of the group. For this run of shows, he brought along a crew of virtuosos, including drummer Simon […]

POND, the prolific force from Perth announce their eighth studio album, Tasmania is set to be released March 1st on Interscope Records. Today, they also share the music video (below( and lead single, “Daisy.”  The video was directed by Jesse Taylor Smith and shot on Kulin and Nyoongar Nations lands in Australia. Tasmania was produced and mixed by POND and Kevin […]

[rating=7.00] Buoyed by the success of Alligator’s 2015 release, Meet Me in Bluesland, the label encores the by now almost iconic southern rockers The Kentucky Headhunters (KHH) first overseas festival appearance, along with additional tracks with Johnnie Johnson. This band has a way of connecting with an audience that few others can match. That’s due […]

[rating=8.00] For his fortieth album, six-time Grammy nominee John McCutcheon delivers an album he’s been waiting to make for over fifty years.  He takes a wide swath at the music of his friend and mentor Pete Seeger by enlisting the support of bluegrass band Hot Rize, Cajun unit Beausoleil,  harmonies from Canada’s Finest Kind, Nicaragua’s […]

Celebrating its 10th edition this year, Boston Calling unveils a lineup of epic proportions – from music to comedy to dance. The internationally acclaimed and locally grown music festival takes place Memorial Day weekend, May 24 – 26, 2019 at the Harvard Athletic Complex in Allston, MA (65 North Harvard Street, Boston). Headlined by Twenty One Pilots, Travis Scott, and Tame Impala, Boston Calling 2019 will […]

 Gary Clark Jr. returns with a brand new and powerful single “This Land” from the album of the same name. The song is taken from his forthcoming third full-length album, THIS LAND, to be released on March 1, 2019. Check the video out below… Directed by award-winning filmmaker Savanah Leaf, the clip translates the single’s spirit into a stirring and striking […]

Written in the wake of a brain operation that nearly cost him his life, Andrew Leahey’s sophomore LP, Airwaves, is as carpe diem as they come, an urgent sonic love letter channeling the 1980s FM-radio anthems he cut his teeth on as a kid. “We didn’t have cable TV growing up,” Leahey says, “but my big […]

Los Angeles-based musician Nick Waterhouse has announced his new self-titled album set for March 8th release via Innovative Leisure. Following 2016’s ‘Never Twice’ which was hailed by Vogue as “the second coming of soul” and earned Nick a performance on ‘Later’ with Jools Holland, the new album was recorded at LA’s legendary Electro-Vox Recorders, and co-produced with Paul Butler […]

Last night (1/9), Jeff Tweedy also performed “I Know What It’s Like” from his new solo album Warm on Jimmy Kimmel last night (1/9), which can be seen below. Backed by sons Spencer (drums) and Sammy (vocals), Tweedy made it a downhome family affair in front of an otherwise tv centric crowd. The band also featured Blake Mills […]

Born in the small town of Dunn, North Carolina, Clint Alphin always had a straight path to becoming a successful businessman. His family ran a second-generation meat and seafood distributing company, and it was assumed that he might someday take it over, or do something similar. Although his family are all musical, and he grew […]

Everybody in your life will write his or her own chapter in your story. Take a step back, and you’ll see the influence of your loved ones, mentors, and friends in your decisions. Shook Twins refer to these folks in the title of their fourth album, Some Good Lives, which is out February 15. Throughout […]

[rating=7.00] The UK collective Jazz Re:freshed has been hosting weekly live jams, curating festivals and releasing records from some of the brightest up and coming jazz based talents from across the pond since 2003. Artists such as Nubya Garcia, Richard Spaven and others have been showcased in their 5ive series and now their newest release comes from […]

[rating=9.00] The Delines have an irresistible, compelling sound, due to the weary, soulful vocals of Amy Boone and guitarist/songwriter Willy Vlautin’s desperate noir arrangements centered on his vivid, mostly down and out characters. It may sound like Dusty Springfield in Memphis at 3 AM or an exhausted Rickie Lee Jones finishing a set on fumes. […]

Coming off another four-night sold-out New Year’s Eve run at Madison Square Garden, Phish will hit the road again this summer. The 26-date tour begins with two performances at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, MO, includes two nights at Bonnaroo (one late-evening set on Friday and two headlining sets closing out the festival on […]

Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon are set to release their debut album Solstice on March 22nd via New West Records. The all-star collaboration features Luther Dickinson alongside Amy Helm, Amy LaVere, Birds of Chicago, Sharde Thomas, and the Como Mamas. Produced by Dickinson over four days at his family’s Zebra Ranch Studio in Independence, […]

Jeff Tweedy has just announced additional US tour dates in support of his album, WARM, released this past November via dBpm Records. Tickets for the newly announced dates are on sale Friday, January 11 at 7pm local time.  Tickets can be purchased at wilcoworld.net/shows. Additionally, Jeff Tweedy will appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight, performing songs off WARM. Jeff’s last television appearance was on the Late […]

Tedeschi Trucks Band, the unstoppable Grammy-winning 12-piece musical juggernaut led by husband and wife Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, have announced their new album ‘Signs,’ out February 15 on Fantasy Records/Concord. Featuring 11 new original songs, the album expands on the group’s omnivorous musical appetites, while facing down troubled times with credence and conviction. The group’s […]