Archive: 2020

Devendra Banhart has released an Amazon Original cover of The Grateful Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower,” available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music and can be heard below Banhart’s cover is released in honor of the 45th anniversary of The Grateful Dead’s Blues for Allah. The song was produced and mixed by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Marlon Williams) and recorded with his current touring […]

King Khan is excited to announce his first-ever jazz album, titled The Infinite Ones (due October 30, 2020 via Khannibalism / Ernest Jenning Record Co.). Stream album opener “Wait Till The Stars Burn” below.. The album features contributions from Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott (Sun Ra Arkestra) and John Convertino and Martin Wenk (Calexico), among many others. See below for the full list of featured musicians. The Infinite Ones by King Khan […]

It’s only right that the new Stuffy Shmitt album comes out in the “WTF” months that we now perilously call 2020. Stuff Happens is Shmitt’s first record in eight years because, well, he went crazy. “I was living in New York and my brain was on fire. I got that bipolar thing. I was bouncing […]

What began as raucous noise in a Maine basement is poised to be the soundtrack to many a socially distanced soiree as Kurt Baker gets back to his roots on the rollicking new album After Party. A twelve-song sonic boom of hooks and melodies dropping October 23 on Wicked Cool Records, After Party marks a […]

Hadley and Mia are best friends. They formed Shutups together in 2015 after a brief period of disconnect; Hadley moving home with his parents as Mia moved to Oakland in 2013. They began primitively rehearsing songs Hadley had written before releasing their first EP in March 2016. Shutups would release three more EPs before their […]

Celebrated Malian songwriter and guitarist Afel Bocoum gathers a slew of guests and collaborators for his latest release, Lindé. Named after the wild expanse near Bocoum’s hometown of Niafunké, Lindé is a blend of deep tradition and daring innovation. World music giants, executive producers Damon Albarn and World Circuit artistic director Nick Gold, are behind the album which was recorded in […]

Peter Parcek is one of the most criminally underrated blues guitarists despite having earned a BMA nomination ten years ago. While folks like Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd get tons of ink, none of them have Parcek’s creativity, unpredictability, or his haunting, primal style. This writer calls Parcek’s brand “hard blues.”  If […]

Quintron & Miss Pussycat return for their first proper studio album in nine years! The Q & P experience is one of barely controlled electronic chaos, “Swamp-Tech” dance beats, small explosions, incredible clothes, and entertaining puppet stories. Produced by Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound / The Oblivians) and recorded on 2 inch tape at Gainesville, FL’s […]

The Nude Party are set to return with their sophomore album, Midnight Manor, on October 2nd via New West Records. The 12-song set was recorded live-to-tape over six days at the Outlier Inn in upstate New York and mixed by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile). Midnight Manor is the follow up to their critically acclaimed self-titled […]

The Mezzotint Label is proud and happy to finally announce the release of ultimate & deluxe package of ‘Polaris, Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete: 21st Century Edition’. It’s been an interstellar journey, but it’s really coming out on September 18 2020. The pre-sale begins September 1st. This record has been a labor […]

The open road has beckoned to generations of artists, writers, and seekers of authentic experience. For acclaimed singer/songwriter Ryan Hamilton, jumping into a minivan with his pup Peaches and driving from home near Fort Worth, Texas through the Southwest out to California last fall was not just catharsis, it was an unexpected impetus to create […]

Wilco’s third studio album, Summerteeth, will be expanded and back in stock Nov. 6. The band dug deep into the archives to create a Deluxe Edition of Summerteeth. The 5-LP / 4-CD set includes the original album remastered and is full to the brim with previously-unreleased live tracks, outtakes and demos. It’s available to preorder now in all formats and on all platforms. In […]

Following the outstanding success of their 2019 American tour, YES will release a new live album, The Royal Affair Live From Las Vegas, through BMG Records. The release date of the album is October 30, but it will be available exclusively through the YES Store starting October 2. Formats are: CD digi sleeve with a 12-page booklet; 2LP gatefold with 12″ booklet; and digital. […]

Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker announces two new albums, songs and instrumentals, out October 23rd on 4AD, and today presents a new single, “anything.” “anything” is a look into Lenker’s introspective and quietly magical catalogue. Backed by soft fingerpicking, Lenker’s magnetic voice references a flurry of memories and  beautiful imagery – a hot sun, juicy mango, family fighting on Christmas eve, a […]

Years before forming E.Z. Shakes, Zach Seibert grew up in small-town Illinois, raised on the sounds of heartland rock & roll, hard-hitting punk, and old-school country/gospel music. His parents were hippie Christians who bounced from church to church, searching for a congregation that suited their family’s countercultural ideals. The experience left a mark on Seibert, […]

Howlin Rain has announced Under The Wheels: Live From The Coasts, Vol. 2, the second edition in a planned series of live album recordings, will be released October 30 on Silver Current Records. Pre-order for the collection begins this week via Bandcamp Friday on September 4. Formats include a one-time, small pressing of limited edition color […]

Especially in recent years, it’s difficult to argue that Dirk Powell is the preeminent roots artist on today’s scene, certainly its foremost producer. He doesn’t assume the spotlight often for his own work, content in his various roles as producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and sideman.  This effort, When I Wait for You, is a follow-up to […]

Not long after he crossed over to the high side of 30, Minneapolis songwriter J.E. Sunde realized that his life had not quite followed the trajectory he’d expected. After nearly a decade alongside his brother and best friend in the magnetic folk trio The Daredevil Christopher Wright and a pair of solo albums, Sunde had […]