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Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals Embarking on Spring 2025 Tour
by Josh Sharpe - November 18, 2024 Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals have announced its Spring 2025 headline tour. Kicking off on Tuesday, April 1 at Off Broadway in St. Louis, MO, the tour will take in 22 evenings across the U.S. midwest and west coast....
Drive-By Truckers to Release 'American Band – Deluxe' Ahead of Election
by Josh Sharpe - October 03, 2024 Drive-By Truckers are marking the upcoming 2024 presidential election with an expanded new edition of their landmark 2016 album, American Band arriving on Friday, November 1....
Laura Jane Grace Details Debut EP With The Mississippi Medicals, New Single Available Now
by Josh Sharpe - July 30, 2024 Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals — the brand new rock quartet fronted by Grace and featuring Matt Patton of Drive-By Truckers (bass), Mikey Erg of The Ergs (drums) and Paris Campbell Grace (vocals, percussion) — will release the band’s debut EP, Give An Inch on Friday, September 6. Listen...
Downhaul Share New Alt-Country-Meets-Power-Pop Single 'Sinker'
by Josh Sharpe - July 02, 2024 Downhaul, the Richmond, Virginia four-piece, is back with the first new song of 2024 for the band with their new single “Sinker,” out now. Since forming in 2016, Downhaul–made up of vocalist/guitarist Gordon Phillips, drummer Andrew Seymour, guitarist Robbie Ludvigsen, and new bassist Chandler Brook...
Indie Rock Band Futurebirds Release New Single 'Solitaires'
by Josh Sharpe - June 12, 2024 Athens, GA indie rock band Futurebirds have released a new single, “Solitaires,” and accompanying video. The track is featured on the band’s forthcoming album, Easy Company, due out on August 9, 2024. Carter King from the band remarks: “This song was inspired by a graph I saw on Instagram - a kinda ...
Drive-By Truckers to Release 'Southern Rock Opera - Deluxe Edition'
by Josh Sharpe - May 07, 2024 Drive-By Truckers will celebrate their landmark third studio album, Southern Rock Opera, with an expanded new 3xLP edition arriving via New West Records on Friday, July 26. Pre-orders are available now. Southern Rock Opera – Deluxe sees the now-classic double album remixed, remastered, and re-sequen...
DRAAG Share New Single 'Microgravity tank' Ahead of New EP
by Josh Sharpe - May 07, 2024 Draag have shared “Microgravity tank,” the second preview of their highly anticipated new EP Actually, the quiet is nice. On the ominous, detuned track, principal songwriter Adrian Acosta shares “I used to live in a house that had this very unusual energy. It’s the kind of energy I could only connec...
DRAAG Announce New EP & Share Lead Single, Touring With Wednesday
by Stephi Wild - April 02, 2024 Draag have announced their highly anticipated new EP Actually, the quiet is nice and shared lead single “Orb weaver,” a potent dose of nostalgia where warped guitars and dense textures provide a backdrop for Jessica Huang & Adrian Acosta's interlocking vocal harmonies. ...
Drive-By Truckers Unveil 'Southern Rock Opera Revisited 2024' Tour Dates
by Michael Major - March 21, 2024 Join the Drive-By Truckers on their Southern Rock Opera Revisited 2024 tour. Experience the band's unique blend of southern rock and opera in a live setting. The tour gets underway June 7 at Indianapolis, IN's Egyptian Room at Old National Centre and then continues into early July....
Americana Duo The Glass Hours to Release New Album in March
by Michael Major - January 18, 2024 The Glass Hours will release self-titled studio album. Their self-titled nine-song debut album will be released by Cornelius Chapel Records in early 2024. With the exception of Sue Westcott on fiddle (Chet Atkins, Tom Jones), the album was written, performed, recorded and produced by Brad and Megan ...
The Paranoid Style Shares 'Last Night In Chickentown' From New LP 'The Interrogator
by Michael Major - January 09, 2024 The Paranoid Style is also notably confirmed to open for Drive-By Truckers in Athens, GA on February 16th at the famed 40 Watt as part of 'HeAthens Homecoming.' Watch the lyric video for the new single now!...
Americana Duo The Glass Hours Share New Single From Their Debut LP
by Michael Major - December 13, 2023 The Glass Hours are American songwriters Brad Armstrong and Megan Barbera. Their music blurs between Sunday afternoon country-folk and the golden age of the 1970s. With the exception of Sue Westcott on fiddle (Chet Atkins, Tom Jones), the album was written, performed, recorded and produced by Brad a...
Producer/Engineer Matt Ross-Spang Receives 7 Grammy Nods
by Michael Major - November 13, 2023 Ross-Spang has won two Grammy Awards, for engineering Isbell’s album Something More Than Free and again for its follow-up. Other recent work in 2023 alone include producing Peter One's Come Back To Me, Lucero's Should've Learned by Now, and St. Paul & the Broken Bones' Angels In Science Fiction, in ...
COLOSSAL STREET JAM Release 'No Way To Live'
by Michael Major - November 03, 2023 With soaring vocals from front-man GENE POTTS, Hammond organ by ERIC SAFKA, melodic guitar in the talented hands of SAL MARRA, and a rhythmic foundation from DAVE HALPERN, this new release will quickly become a hit, with an electrifying new music video slated to release late November, 2023....
The Legendary Downchild Blues Band Set Toronto Concert
by Michael Major - October 30, 2023 It’s been over 40 years since The Legendary Downchild Blues Band have played the iconic El Mocambo in Toronto, so the band thought it would be fun to play the club one more time on Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 8:00 pm with special guest Jeff Rogers....
TAXICAB VERSES Releases Reissue of 'IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT'
by Michael Major - October 20, 2023 TAXICAB VERSES releases reissue of 'IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT' via STROLLING BONES RECORDS. Over several days, they set up shop at the beloved Flicker Theatre & Bar, where nearly 20 people––including Brad Morgan (Drive-By Truckers), John Fernandes (Elephant Six), Matt “Pistol” Stoessel (Faye Webster), and...
Taxicab Verses Shares 'Ajenjua' From Album Reissue 'Is What You Make It'
by Michael Major - October 12, 2023 TAXICAB VERSES shares 'AJENJUA' from album reissue IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT. Check out the latest release from this Athens, GA based West African project. The 10-track set is a project of Jim Wilson and Kofi Atentenben and the Warriors and grew into an international effort featuring over 20 collaborators...
Old Crow Medicine Show Release New Single 'One Drop' Featuring Mavis Staples
by Michael Major - August 22, 2023 “One Drop” follows the release of “Belle Meade Cockfight” (feat. Sierra Ferrell) and the album’s debut single “Miles Away,” a sweetly reflective song co-written by Secor and bluegrass virtuoso Molly Tuttle, with guest vocals from Old Crow Medicine Show co-founder Willie Watson. Plus, check out upcom...
Hello June Announces New Album 'ARTIFACTS' & Launches New Single 'Interstate'
by Michael Major - August 03, 2023 Artifacts was recorded in Nashville at Bell Tone Recording with producer Roger Alan Nichols, featuring Rudy on vocals and guitar, Paul Niehaus on pedal steel (Calexico, Iron & Wine, Justin Townes Earle, Lambchop), Caleb Crosby on drums and percussion (Larkin Poe, Noah Gundersen), and Nichols on guit...
Video: Go Behind Tyler Childers' 'In Your Love' Music Video
by Michael Major - August 01, 2023 “The Making of ‘In Your Love,’” a special behind the scenes look at the official music video for Tyler Childers’ breakthrough new single, “In Your Love,” is debuting at Rolling Stone along with an interview with the video’s writer and creative director, Silas House, and stars, Colton Haynes and Jame...
Tyler Childers to Release 'Rustin' In The Rain' Album in September
by Michael Major - July 27, 2023 In advance of the album, the first single, “In Your Love,” is out now. Written and creative directed by Silas House (with a story idea by House and Jason Kyle Howard), the video was directed by Bryan Schlam and stars Colton Haynes and James Scully and depicts a timeless love story of two men set in ...
Two-time GRAMMY Winners Old Crow Medicine Show Join Forces with Sierra Ferrell for "Belle Meade Cockfight"
by Michael Major - July 18, 2023 Old Crow Medicine Show shares their new single “Belle Meade Cockfight” featuring singer/songwriter Sierra Ferrell. Accompanied by a campy old-school-hoedown music video directed and produced by band member Morgan Jahning, “Belle Meade Cockfight” is the latest track from the band’s new album Jubilee....
Old Crow Medicine Show Announces New Album 'Jubilee'
by Michael Major - June 20, 2023 Arriving as the two-time GRAMMY award-winning band gears up to celebrate their 25th anniversary, Jubilee finds the group once again co-producing with Matt Ross-Spang (Drive-By Truckers, St. Paul & the Broken Bones) and recording at their own Hartland Studios. The album features appearances from Mavi...
Jacob Morris Releases 'Stoney' From Upcoming EP
by Michael Major - June 08, 2023 Durham, North Carolina-based cellist, vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Morris spent years establishing himself in Athens, Georgia's music biome, supporting some of its finest musicians and songwriters, including Ham 1, Vic Chesnutt, Liz Durrett, Madeline Adams, and Patterson Hood...
Doug Levitt Shares New Single '40 West'
by Michael Major - April 13, 2023 Produced by multiple GRAMMY Award-winner Trina Shoemaker (Brandi Carlile, Josh Ritter, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris), this album powerfully chronicles his ongoing Greyhound bus journey over the last decade, traveling over 120,000 miles to date and sharing the inspiring stories of folks he’s met throu... |