Archive: 2019

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Better Oblivion Community Center, the new collaboration between Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Kat Myers is re-emerging with a vivacious voice and this time its that of “Voices Carry,” a cover of Til Tuesday’s (Aimee Mann) 1985 classic. You may remember Myers from her first band- Kat Myers and The Buzzards. In 2014, the Ohio native made LA her new home, and music her mission, after avoiding the inevitable […]

Wanderwild began as a one-person project for songwriter Matt Martin, bringing in members as needed for live shows, jamming, and recording from the local Athens, Georgia music scene. As time went on, Wes Gregory (drums) and Taylor Cotton (bass) became regular members of the band. Wanderwild have kept busy, releasing the Fleeting EP in 2016, […]

The Vandoliers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area have burst on to the scene like a gang of outlaws on horseback kicking up big clouds of real dust, with weapons drawn, and ready to fire at the least provocation. Once the fuse is lit, watch out.  It’s a similar rush to what we got when Jason […]

Lonesome Shack is high-concept. They’re a Seattle band led by guitarist Ben Todd, who, the story goes, spent time in a shack in the New Mexico desert, learning traditional blues and bluegrass licks, as so many of us have. The band now operates out of London. And that story explains their sound. It’s blues and […]

Master rock singer-songwriter-guitarist Nils Lofgren returns on April 26 with Blue With Lou, an all-new collection featuring a dozen dazzling, forceful songs, half of which were penned in collaboration with the late, legendary Lou Reed. The 12-track collection, issued on Lofgren’s own Cattle Track Road Records in single-CD and double-LP configurations, and due out on […]

ENDERNESS, A.A. Bondy’s first album in eight years, was finished the day before a wildfire burned his house down. He recorded and played everything himself. Fat Possum will release on May 10. The album is the follow up to 2011’s Believers. The video for the first single, “Images of Love,” is now streaming. A track […]

Jim James and The Claypool Lennon Delirium have announced plans for a summer 2019 co-headline tour. The two acts will join forces for nine dates across the United States and Canada – beginning June 21 at Salt Lake City’s Eccles Theater and then continuing into early July. “For over 150 years, the firm of Claypool […]

Outlaw Music Festival Tour for the Summer 2019 leg’ will host an incredible lineup of music stars includes Willie Nelson & Family, Phil Lesh & Friends, The Avett Brothers, Alison Krauss, The Revivalists, Counting Crows, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dawes, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Steve Earle […]

Today The National announced I Am Easy To Find due out May 17th on 4AD along with opening track “You Had Your Soul With You” featuring the vocals of longtime David Bowie collaborator Gail Ann Dorsey (below). I Am Easy To Find is the band’s eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s GRAMMY®-award winning release Sleep Well Beast. A companion […]