Archive: 2020

Today, Billy Strings is premiering the official video for “Watch it Fall” off the band’s latest album HOME, which was released in September 2019 via Rounder Records. Directed by INDECLINE, the new video features several apt illustrations reflecting Strings’ lyrics being drawn on a train as it moves across various points across the United States. Strings is known for his […]

Earlier this year, Greg Dulli, frontman of The Afghan Whigs and The Twilight Singers, released the criticially acclaimed album Random Desire, the first solo album under Dulli’s own name, on Royal Cream/BMG. This Saturday, a limited-edition 45” Record Store Day release hits stores. Dulli’s song “A Ghost,” taken from Random Desire, will be released on a blue vinyl 45” with a brand new b-side cover of Bob […]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, one of the largest, free, and beloved music festivals in the country celebrating American roots music, announces its first participants in this year’s Let The Music Play On, led by veterans Alison Brown and John Doe, returning artists Aaron Lee Tasjan, Yola, and first-time performer Sierra Ferrell. To keep community spirit high […]

California has been the epicenter of many musical movements over the past sixty years. Surf Rock and Folk Rock were born on the coast of Southern California and the streets of San Francisco in the 60s. Bands like X, Black Flag and the Circle Jerks spearheaded the Hardcore Punk movement of the 70s. Glam Rock […]

The Allman Betts Band’s BMG Records debut of 2019, Down To The River, showed plenty of promise in terms of both songwriting potential and collective musicianship. On this initial collaboration, the ensemble stated quite emphatically it could write with as much potency as it could improvise (and vice-versa), and, in displaying such versatility, the septet […]

Originally from Duluth, MN, Mary Bue is a songwriter, Nada yogi, traveler, runner, vegan, retreat guide, music + yoga teacher based out of Minneapolis, often roaming this beautiful world. Just named Best Songwriter of 2020 by City Pages, Minneapolis folk/pop songwriter Mary Bue releases The World is Your Lover on August 21 and will be […]

You’ve likely heard some of the singles from Bettye LaVette’s Blackbirds already. The buzz has been building for some time now and with the social unrest, protests, and momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement, it only made sense to release Bettye’s interpretation of Billie Holiday’s 1939 classic “Strange Fruit.” Strange Fruit” was written by Jewish teacher […]

Billy Childs has more than an armful of diverse talents. As a composer he has received five GRAMMY® Awards and 16 nominations, many for composition and arrangement. Presently in continual demand for symphonic and chamber commissions, he has also innovated a collection of compositions for jazz instrumentation and strings that is unique in the American […]

Hudson Valley NY-based singer-songwriter Ryan Martin has announces his new album Wandercease (PRE-ORDER) out October 23 on NYC label High Moon Records (home to Ace of Cups and reissues from Love, Terry Dolan, Gene Clark and more). The album was produced by Kenny Siegal (Langhorne Slim, Joseph Arthur, Chuck Prophet) at Old Soul Studios in […]

Havana-based pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa captures the joyous, dancing, vibrant music of today’s Cuba with an exhilarating marriage of jazz and Cuban pop music, defiantly standing up to the doubters who failed to share his radical vision. To understand the title, many didn’t think he could pull off such a marriage on this, his ninth […]

The last time we heard from The Budos Band, they had reached a critical high watermark with Budos V in 2019. Debuting at #1 on Billboard Heatseekers chart, their fifth full-length was applauded by both new and life-long Budos fans and continued to make a dent in their eclectic Daptone scene.  Maintaining the momentum from […]

On October 9th, Matador Records will release Yo La Tengo’s Sleepless Night — a six-song EP with one new tune (“Bleeding”) plus covers of songs by The Byrds, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Lane, and The Flying Machine. Today the band shares a new single from the EP, a cover of The Byrds’ “Wasn’t Born […]

2005 seems like an eternity ago. George W. Bush was president, YouTube was an unproven upstart, and Tom Cruise was frantically jumping on couches for reasons that remain unclear to this day. 2005 also marks the last occasion upon which the wonderfully eccentric musical dyad of Phish bassist Mike Gordon & acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo […]

Over the course of his career, singer/songwriter and Americana artist Tom Freund has released more than a dozen records, collaborated with legends such as Elvis Costello, Phil Lesh and Jackson Browne, pulled a half-decade stint on bass for alt-country pioneers The Silos, and has shared bills with everyone from Matthew Sweet to Guided by Voices. Freund’s intimate, heartfelt […]

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 […]

Experimental dream pop group Jupiter Sprites – driven by songwriters Max Keena and Alicia Capp – hail from misty Olympia, WA, where late night recording sessions make for a lush array of compositions produced by Keena’s artful ear in his home studio. In the wake of a series of traumatic events involving two hospitalizations and […]

There are more high profile guests on Heidi Newfield’s The Barfly Sessions than one might find on most tribute albums. That’s partly due to the ridiculous amount of styles embedded in this one project, from blues-rock to slow burners, to country ballads and honky tonkin’ stompers. When Newfield shows up, she seems fair game for […]

Bobby Rush at age 86 survived a bout with CoVid-19 earlier this year and is back with a stripped-down acoustic effort that in one sense is a follow-up to his all-original 2007 Raw, the one that has him crossing over to an Americana audience for the first time. It also inspired a series of acoustic […]