Archive: 2020

Tim Heidecker, the Los Angeles-based actor, comedian, producer, musician and podcast host, announces his new album, Fear of Death, to be released September 25th on Spacebomb Records, and presents the title track with a video. The follow-up to 2019’s What the Brokenhearted Do…, Fear of Death is a Serious Album about Serious Topics – a […]

When Pink Floyd was ten albums into their studio recording career, the iconic four piece offered their fans the long-form adventurous sounds of 1977’s Animals: a peak creative moment for one of rock’s most imaginative bands. And by no means do you regularly hear any Animals songs on classic rock radio. And you won’t hear […]

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 […]

North Colorado-based singer-songwriter Cary Morin is best known for his amazing finger-picking guitar skills that have earned the respect of icons such as David Bromberg, not to mention many press accolades. In recent years though, Morin has gained great respect for his songwriting too. Dockside Saints, though, is something completely different – great songs delivered […]

Immanuel Wilkins is a 22-year-old alto saxophonist and Julliard graduate from greater Philadelphia who came to the attention of most with his impressive playing on Joel Ross’ outstanding 2019 Blue Note debut Kingfisher. Now with Omega Wilkins makes his own Blue Note debut as leader. Wilkins is not only an astute student of jazz tradition: […]

Deep Sea Diver is excited to announce its third album Impossible Weight, which will arrive October 16, 2020 via High Beam Records (distributed by ATO Records). To ring in the announcement, the group — led by Seattle’s Jessica Dobson (once the lead guitarist for Beck, The Shins and many more) — has shared the video […]

The Budos Band is celebrating their 20th anniversary as band with an upcoming album, Long In The Tooth, that is set be released on October 9th via Daptone. Today the Brooklyn based retro-funk outfit shared a new single of the same name as the album. Check it out below… Signed to Daptone Records – bandleader […]

One of the great tragedies in the world of indie rock is the early passing of Jason Molina, who died at the age of 39 in 2013 of complications related to alcoholism. The posthumous new solo album Eight Gates is composed of songs recorded in 2009 a year before Molina would basically walk away from […]

He is the Zen Master of Tone. For Jack Casady, once he discovered it, he never stopped reaching for it and it has made him a legend. From a psychedelic folk rock band called Jefferson Airplane that turned on a generation of music lovers, to Hot Tuna and it’s bluesy-folk sizzle, Casady has done nothing […]

Joshua Ackley is a solo musician based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in South Carolina and raised on a farm in rural New Mexico, he moved to NYC at the age of 19 to pursue music and escape homophobia. He’s been on the music scene ever since – as the bassist and frontman of NYC art-punk […]

When Boston-area roots string band Grain Thief set out to record their second full-length album Gasoline this past winter, they had a clear vision to recreate, in the studio, the sound & energy from their renowned live performances. While the talented quintet’s previous studio efforts – the Animal EP (2015) and Stardust Lodge (2018) – […]

Imogen Clark is more road-hardened and wise than most performers twice her age, and with her new six-track EP The Making Of Me – due for release August 21st – the 25-year-old has translated the whole of who she is on record for the first time. “My whole career, I’ve felt beholden to other people’s […]

Sitting on the lawn of a beautiful vineyard and listening to the smooth jazz-swing music of Rachael &Vilray was the perfect way to spend a hot summer afternoon, one made only better by the fact that the show was the first live music that many of us had experienced since the COVID-19  lockdown in early […]

The Milk Carton Kids are digitally releasing the live album Live From Lincoln Theatre. Comprised of singers and acoustic guitar players Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale, The Milk Carton Kids both filmed and recorded their set at this Columbus, Ohio theatre in October 2013 during their tour in support of the Grammy-nominated album The Ash & Clay. Released […]

The Flat Five returns! Chicago’s beloved band of in-demand music biz ringers – Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor (The Decemberists, Neko Case, Andrew Bird, Mavis Staples, Iron & Wine, Jakob Dylan) Scott Ligon and Casey McDonough (NRBQ, Brian Wilson) and Alex Hall (J.D. McPherson, Cactus Blossoms) – will release their second album of twisted sunshine pop – Another World – on Pravda Records/Augiedisc Records on (lucky!) Friday November 13th – on […]

Mary Chapin Carpenter returns with The Dirt and the Stars, her first album of all-new material since 2016’s brilliant The Things That We Are Made Of. Just as with 2018’s Sometimes Just the Sky, mostly new versions of previously recorded songs, she again has Ethan Johns producing, this time recording entirely live at Peter Gabriel’s […]

When you’re a musician working on new tunes, the natural compulsion is to craft a series of selections that, while varied in execution, are cut from the same sonic cloth. Sometimes, though, the muse has other ideas, and you need to adjust your plans to accommodate inspiration. Seattle bandleader Birch Pereira has never been a […]