Archive: 2020

Deep Sea Diver has shared new track “Impossible Weight,” which features a stunning guest verse from Sharon Van Etten. The driving title track from their third album (due October 16 via High Beam Records / ATO Records) is accompanied by a video — watch it below. “For this video I thought, well… if we cant play shows right now then I’m going […]

Kevin Morby is pleased to announce his new album, Sundowner, out October 16th on Dead Oceans, and today presents its lead single/video, “Campfire”(below).Following 2019’s Oh My God, “Sundowner is Morby’s “attempt to put the Middle American twilight —  its beauty profound, though not always immediate —  into sound.” This is represented in “Campfire,” a track that’s textured with distinct, […]

Guitarist and composer William Tyler has shared the details of his upcoming New Vanitas EP. Clocking in at 39 minutes, the truly Extended Play consists of ghostly and otherworldly self-recordings mainly captured in and around Nashville this year. It follows Music from First Cow as Tyler’s second release of 2020. New Vanitas arrives this Friday, […]

The new action flick The 2nd, out today on VOD, pits Ryan Phillipe’s Vic Davis against Casper Van Dien’s Driver, an ominous character who’s known only by his job description. Or, part of it, anyway. Working for a shady, well-funded organization with a political motive in mind, Driver leads a team of bad guys into […]

Instrumental outfit North Americans have announced a new album titled Roped In, due October 9 via Third Man Records. The first glimpse of the music comes in the form of an epic, tender double video for album highlights “Furniture In The Valley” & “Rivers That You Cannot See.” Watch the video below. “Rainbow trout” colored vinyl  will be available at select […]

Bonnie Whitmore has been singing and playing music since she graduated from diapers. She was born into a family of musicians with her mom being trained as an opera singer, dad a folk singer, and her sister Eleanor sings and plays violin as one half of The Mastersons. The running joke in the family was […]

Ben Harper has unveiled his new album Winter Is For Lovers (ANTI- Records), and in many ways his entire musical life has culminated in this moment. The solo recording, which features just Harper and his Monteleone lap steel guitar, is a 15-song work of original instrumental compositions imagined as a symphony. Harper has pushed musical boundaries since his 1994 […]

Farm Aid has announced today that the organization will mark its 35th anniversary with a virtual at-home festival experience. Farm Aid 2020 On the Road, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 26, from 8 to 11 p.m. EDT, will include performances from more than 20 artists. The 3-hour event will be streamed at FarmAid.org, on Farm Aid’s […]

As frontman of acoustic collective Graber Gryass, Michael Graber fashions a vast and eclectic background into an immersive journey into an original expansive, exploratory song catalogue. The first record of two, Late Bloom, reads with straight-arrow storytelling, but carries a remarkable importance about the human experience. “This album really is symbolic of my whole existence. […]

Drawing from diverse musical backgrounds, Austin’s Cilantro Boombox creates an energetic, positive vibe that flows from the dance floor through your body and soul. The group was founded over a decade ago by bassist Félix Pacheco and saxophonist/flautist Joe Woullard, and quickly evolved into a tight knit unit adding the songwriting abilities of Christopher “Zumbi” […]

Hayes Carll is not the first one to do this. Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Richey. Lucinda Williams and others have re-imagined and re-interpreted their own material years later. Yet, Carll may be the first to do it this way. Carll teamed up with friend and frequent collaborator, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Darrell Scott, who produced, sang, and – […]

Ghosts to the left of me, racists to the right…

William Elliott Whitmore will release his eight full-length album I’m With You on October 16. On his first release of original material since 2015’s Radium Death (ANTI-), Whitmore widens the horizon of his True North folksongs and twangy punked-up country, aided by his world-weary voice, country-baked banjo and hard-strummed guitar. The video for the first […]

SiriusXM and The Blues Foundation announced today their new collaboration to broaden the content and reach of B.B. King’s Bluesville (ch. 74). The channel will be powered by The Blues Foundation, which will directly expand the featured programming to include exclusive performances, artist interviews and archival content that only The Blues Foundation can provide. To kick off this collaboration, B.B. […]

While traditional bluegrass is usually associated with the American South, the genre has surely found a safe and loving Canadian home in the form of Calgary-born singer/songwriter Bella White. Armed with a piercing voice, edged with teardrops, White’s debut album Just Like Leaving (due out September 25th), rings out as a coming of age anthem. The […]

When speaking with guitarist GE Smith, you get the distinct impression that he’s an everyday guy who just followed his passion. No big deal, right. Listening to tell him talk about his career, he shows no sign of braggadocio, although he’s played alongside Bob Dylan, Roger Waters and David Bowie, was the Musical Director for […]

The assembled cast here was too long or maybe it was the lengthy band name that didn’t permit us to squeeze the names into the headline, but we’ll mention these glowing names at the outset. The New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Riders are Charlie Musselwhite, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, the late Jim Dickinson, Luther […]

The blend of the electronic and the organic on Chief Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah’s studio albums, The Stretch Music concept, certainly piques curiosity about how this septet sounds live. Furthermore, this writer was scheduled to attend one of those March 2020 shows that the virus took away from us. Now with AXIOM, which leverages the […]