Archive: 2020

Its been five years since My Morning Jacket released their last album The Waterfall – their longest gap since their 1999 Tennesse Fire debut. The Kentucky five-piece has posted a teaser video with 30 seconds of new music (below) and they will be releasing a new album this Friday (7/10) via ATO. The Waterfall II was […]

Robert Pollard’s discography now stands at 107 albums and counting. When we last heard from Guided by Voices, they had released an astonishing four albums in just over 12 months. Each has a distinctive creative identity: Zeppelin Over China was a meat-and-potatoes double album, Warp and Woof was a return to the band’s low-fidelity roots and under-two-minute earworms, Sweating […]

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Emma Swift has announced the release of a new animated lyric video for the song, “Queen Jane Approximately.” The song is taken from her new album, Blonde on the Tracks – a collection of the Nashville-based artist’s interpretations of Bob Dylan songs, arriving via Tiny Ghost Records on Friday, August 14. Blonde on the Tracks is […]

From their first encounter around a roaring bonfire on the Washington coast to headlining sold-out shows at Seattle’s most prominent venues; March to May has quietly become a group to watch in today’s modern folk landscape. The guitar,  piano and Celtic harp led duo layers serene harmonies and intimate lyrics augmented by lush violin and […]

When ​Endless Field​, the “ambient Americana” (NPR) acoustic duo of guitarist ​Jesse Lewis​ and bassist ​Ike Sturm​, released its eponymous debut on Biophilia in 2017, the album was hailed by ​Downbeat​ for its “awe-inspired tranquility,” evoking “distant horizons and airy, windswept melodies.” ​Endless Field​ received a four-star review and was included among Downbeat’s Best of […]

This is young drummer Eric Binder’s third CD since he arrived in 2014. As he did on his 2018 The Malcolm Cecil Project, he works with a sax-drum-bass configuration, this time featuring Walter Smith III on tenor and Petros Klampanis on bass for Hard Bop. Usually, these kind of trio albums are led by the […]

Brazilian-born, NYC-based guitarist/composer/bandleader Ricardo Grilli likes to revisit history when developing themes for his albums. His previous 1954 began in the year of his father’s birth and centered on such topics as the Dawn of the Space Age and the height of bebop in his adopted city as well as the formative years of rock […]

Plastic Handgun is the project of Toronto-based independent artist Mark Di Giovanni. Creating music for over 10 years, his sound has shifted from experimental electronic to more structured rock. After a string of EPs and digital releases, the 2015 LP Involuntary Memories marked this turning point, blending genres and layering sounds to create a hypnotic […]

The journey for Margo Price to the release of her highly anticipated third album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, was fraught with obstacles. She recorded the album in the middle of her pregnancy with daughter Ramona. Her East Nashville home barely escaped the deadly tornadoes although she and her husband, singer-songwriter Jeremy Ivey, had many […]

This past Fall, relatively recent in terms of live music shows given this health pandemic, this writer saw Boston-based pianist/composer/bandleader Anthony Geraci deliver a sizzling show with his core band that plays on this, Geraci’s third and best CD as a leader, Daydreams in Blue. Geraci, a long-time sideman in the New England blues scene […]

DJ/Producer Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) announced an indefinite hiatus from his performance career, as well as his non-profit organization, Be Interactive, on Friday after allegations of sexual misconduct against him began to surface earlier in the week.  The allegations first arose publicly when an Instagram account @evidenceagainstbassnectar was created on June 28th and has generated significant […]

The latest iteration of Phish’s weekly web-streaming series Dinner And A Movie reaches all the way back to May 1, 1989 for the second set of the group’s performance from the basement of the Pearl Street Ballroom in Northhampton, MA. The closing stanza’s setlist, which clocks in at just over an hour, is chock-full of […]

Austin, Texas-based Heartless Bastards have teamed up with Spaceflight Records to release a digital single, “Revolution,” with a portion of proceeds from all downloads to be donated to the ACLU in support of civil rights. The song will be available July 3 for download via Bandcamp, the site is once again waiving fees to support […]

Originally forming in El Paso, TX, Holy Wave made their move to Austin, TX in 2008. And it’s no wonder, as Austin is a hot bed for great psychedelic rock. The 13th Floor Elevators were the first band to refer their music as “psychedelic rock” and bands like The Black Angels, The Octopus Project, Golden […]

Third Man Records is excited to announce L-Seven, a collection of unreleased studio and live recordings by influential early-80’s Detroit post-punk group L-Seven, to be released July 31, 2020 digitally and on vinyl. To ring in the announcement, Third Man has shared “Flowers of Romance” — listen below. The limited colored vinyl exclusive LP comes with a bonus 4-song […]

Jerry Joseph releases his third single, “Bone Towers”, off his upcoming album, The Beautiful Madness. Produced by Patterson Hood with Drive-By Truckers as his band, the album will be released worldwide on August 21, 2020. The track release is accompanied by a lyric video created by Thomas Van Genderen. View it here. “Bone Towers” places the listener at the unraveling of a relationship, […]

The Northeast is churning up string instruments in a long-overdue revival that includes Boston’s, Town Meeting but Beantown has another up and comer in the fiddle, bass and mandolin game. Gasoline is Boston, MA quintet Grain Thief’s first release since 2018’s Stardust Lodge. While that release explored the boundaries of Americana, the new record showcases the group’s […]