Archive: 2022

GRITS. is a rock n roll band born with a Southern soul that could only have been bred in Brooklyn. Their debut release Darlin’ has racked up over 4 million streams and earned them a dedicated following of nearly 70k monthly listeners around the world. Their upcoming full-length album marks the band’s first time working […]

The much-respected folk-punkers AJJ set off on their summer-long tour last night in Phoenix, Arizona at the Crescent Ballroom: a hometown show of sorts as the band formed in the desert back in 2004 as Andrew Jackson Jihad. This is the band’s first live show since October of last year when they finished up a […]

From Montgomery’s river region, up through west Alabama and over to Birmingham, a brief stint in Tennessee and tumbling back over Red Mountain to settle back in east Birmingham. You could describe Will Stewart’s sound as “Central Alabama Music.” A little south of Nashville, some might say. Stewart’s new full length Slow Life, due out […]

In September 2022, Park City, Utah will host the inaugural Park City Song Summit, an event whose founder and CEO, Ben Anderson of the jam band Aiko, is joined by Julia Rametta as Director of Business Operations and Julia Stout as Director of Event Operations. There is very little ambiguity about the goals and ideas […]

Billy Strings was joined by Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio on Wednesday night at New York’s relatively-new rooftop venue, Pier 17, to help close out a rousing performance with a diverse selection of songs that mixed Strings’ original material with some bluegrass standards as well as a pair of Phish classics. Prior to Anastasio’s appearance, Strings […]

LEVITATION once again takes over downtown Austin, Texas this Halloween weekend: OCTOBER 27-30, 2022! The first round of lineup confirmations have been released and 4 Day Passes and Single Show Tickets are on sale now. For over a decade now, Levitation has delivered lineups that span psych, punk, indie, metal, darkwave and electronic music – helping carry […]

Broken Bells, the musical partnership of Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) and James Mercer (The Shins) are back with the first song from their third full-length album, INTO THE BLUE, coming soon via AWAL.  In the unique and unmistakable signature style that Broken Bells have perfected since their Grammy-nominated 2009 debut, “We’re Not In Orbit Yet…” conjures […]

The 2022 Green River Festival was another resounding success. This 2 ½ day, 3 ½ stage festival, that takes place at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield Massachusetts, has quietly become one of the best “small” festivals in the country. Every year, the festival does a great job booking some of the finest indie, folk, […]

Pop meets present-day chaos in Matt DeMello’s experimental new LP: Confetti in a Coalmine. The self-described “multi-instrumentalist bricolage audio producer, sound artist, composer, and songwriter who was exiled from the prog and math rock scenes of Providence, Rhode Island just after the Great Recession” brings us something new and unexpected. A demented carousel of musical […]

OFF!, the punk braintrust formed in 2010 by Keith Morris (ex-Black Flag, Circle Jerks) and Dimitri Coats (ex-Burning Brides), recently announced they’d signed to the meticulously curated indie powerhouse Fat Possum for both future releases and back catalog reissues. Details of the latter have just surfaced, with vinyl reissues of the band’s acclaimed first three albums set for release in late July. Comprising deluxe colored […]

Matthew Bailey is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and recording engineer. When not producing records or on the road supporting some of Canada’s finest songwriters, he can be found in his home studio composing songs and exploring the spaces between notes. Since moving to Toronto in 2006, Matthew has released original music under the band […]

Featuring Mississippi Delta native Lizzie Rushing on vocals and UK transplant Rob Hamilton-Smith on guitar, Faux Naïf is an indie-soul collaboration that merges a somewhat childlike wonder of making music with hard-won life experience.  Touting musical and emotional influences from Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell to José González, Phoebe Bridgers, Nick Mulvey, and Thom Yorke, […]

Billy Strings performed his song, “The Fire On My Tongue,” last night on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Check out the performance below. The performance adds to yet another unstoppable year for Strings, who will continue his massive headline tour through this fall with newly confirmed shows at Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium, Los Angeles’ The Wiltern, Asheville’s […]

The Playboy branding is gone but the “Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival” is rebranded, triumphantly returning with a new name after a two-year absence due to the pandemic. The stellar two-day celebration marked its 42nd year of revelry over June 25-26, driven by top artists in jazz and more and hosted by an admittedly baked Arsenio […]

James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem went overseas for a 6-night residency at the Brixton Academy in London. The Dance-rock hybrid played a 17-song set to start off their stint in the U.K. and the setlist was filled with fan favorites. This residency comes as no surprise, LCD Soundsystem has been sticking to one venue for […]

Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, R.E.M.’s debut EP CHRONIC TOWN will be released for the first time ever as a standalone CD with extensive liner notes by the original producer Mitch Easter (Let’s Active).  It will be released in three different formats: CD, Picture Disc, and Cassette on August 19, 2022 via I.R.S./UMe and can be preordered here. Featuring such adored classics in […]

Today, The Gabbard Brothers released “Pockets of Your Mind,” the second single from their upcoming debut self-titled album (out July 15th via Karma Chief / Colemine Records). From the ashes of the acclaimed Ohio rock band Buffalo Killers, singers/ songwriters/siblings Zachary and Andrew Gabbard have re-emerged as The Gabbard Brothers. And while there are still similarities to their previous band — with […]

Nearness is the follow-up of sorts to 2018’s Science Fair for the duo of drummer Allison Miller and pianist Carmen Staaf.  Nearness though is strictly a duo album while the predecessor was a core trio album with Ambrose Akinmusire and Dayna Stephens adding trumpet and sax respectively to some tracks. Nonetheless, Miller and Staaf should […]