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Jesse Dayton Releases New Road Kings Single 'Never Be Untrue'
by Josh Sharpe - December 04, 2024 Jesse Dayton is closing out 2024 with a bang, releasing “Never Be Untrue”—a live recording from last year’s explosive reunion of the Road Kings. Captured during a sold-out performance at Houston’s legendary Continental Club, the single is now available here....
Jeffrey Foucault Releases New Track 'Solo Modelo'
by Josh Sharpe - July 16, 2024 Jeffrey Foucault will release The Universal Fire on September 6. A series of high-voltage performances captured live in one room, the album is a kind of working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer, Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – as well as a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifa...
Musical Titan Jerry Douglas Shares Lead Single From 'The Set'
by Josh Sharpe - July 11, 2024 The American music luminary has detailed his first album in seven years, The Set. The 11-track album, comprising five new offerings and six revitalized songs from his catalog, is set for a September 20 release via Nolivan Records across the DSPs in addition to physical CDs and 180-gram vinyl. Listen...
Bob Mould Unveils Solo Fall Tour Dates
by Josh Sharpe - June 18, 2024 Bob Mould will play a 2024 fall solo tour in New England, the Midwest, and the Southeast in that order. The tour will take place through September and October. See here for the full list of tour dates! ...
Jeffrey Foucault to Release New Album 'The Universal Fire;' Shares Title Track
by Josh Sharpe - June 11, 2024 On September 6, Jeffrey Foucault will release The Universal Fire, his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances captured live in one room, the album is a kind of working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer, Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – a...
Iconic Rock Band Stryper to Release First Ever Acoustic Album
by Josh Sharpe - May 07, 2024 Multi-platinum rock band STRYPER has announced the upcoming release of their first-ever acoustic “unplugged” album, To Hell with the Amps. The first STRYPER album to be available in Dolby Atmos, To Hell with the Amps will be released digitally on May 10, 2024, with physical editions (including Blu-r...
Boston Rock Legends Nervous Eaters Debut New Song 'Don't Need To Make You Mine'
by Josh Sharpe - April 29, 2024 Boston rock pioneers Nervous Eaters have released the new single 'Don't Need To Make You Mine,' written by guitarist Adam Sherman, and featuring him on lead vocals. The b-side 'Someone Else In Your Arms,' was written by founding member and frontman Steve Cataldo. Listen to the songs here!...
Chris Smither Drops New Single 'All About The Bones'
by Michael Major - March 20, 2024 Discover CHRIS SMITHER's new single, ALL ABOUT THE BONES. The folk blues icon has also shared a performance video for the song where he's backed by longtime colleague David “Goody” Goodrich (electric guitar, electric diddley bow, percussion), Zak Trojano (drums, percussion), Chris Cheekus (baritone ...
Julian Lage New Album Out Now; US Tour Starts in March
by Michael Major - March 01, 2024 Speak To Me was produced by Joe Henry and offers a series of dispatches from Lage's ongoing search for narrative beyond words. Intimate in tone and intention, the music travels a wide range of American music and delights in the deliberate crossing of wires between gospel hymn and rural blues, Califo...
Joan Osborne Kicks Off U.S. Tour In March
by Michael Major - February 29, 2024 The twelve contemplative tracks offer hope and solace, while exploring Osborne's own unique journey from small-town Kentucky to around the world. Produced by Ben Rice (Valerie June, Norah Jones), this reflective record emulates that rich Americana sound, providing a sense of comfort and peace to the...
Brandy Clark Wins Best Americana Performance At 66th GRAMMY Awards
by Michael Major - February 05, 2024 Brandy Clark won Best Americana Performance at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards for her song “Dear Insecurity,” featuring 10x GRAMMY-winner Brandi Carlile—Clark's first GRAMMY win. Clark also performed the song during the GRAMMY Premiere Ceremony, accompanied by SistaStrings. ...
Jesse Dayton Releases Single From Shooter Jenning Produced Album
by Michael Major - January 23, 2024 Released as both a single and cinematic music video, 'Night Brain' arrives two weeks before the 66th Grammy Awards, where Death Wish Blues — Dayton's chart-topping collaboration with fellow songwriter and modern-day guitar hero Samantha Fish — has been nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album....
Julian Lage Announces New Album; Shares Two New Songs
by Michael Major - January 17, 2024 Speak To Me showcases the guitarist in a variety of settings, including solo acoustic, duo, his accustomed trio with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King, and a larger ensemble with keyboards (from Kris Davis and Patrick Warren) and woodwinds (Levon Henry). It's Lage's fourth effort for Blue N...
Samantha Fish to Embark On Bulletproof Tour 2024
by Michael Major - December 14, 2023 As an award-winning artist, singer/songwriter/guitarist, Samantha Fish has brought extraordinary power to her self-expression, capturing her inner world in combustible riffs, visceral rhythms, and spine-tingling vocal work. Tapped by Eric Clapton himself, Fish was a featured performer in Clapton's C...
Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton Announce 'Supadupabad' Tour 2024
by Michael Major - December 08, 2023 Fish and Dayton got together via an innocent co-writing session. They envisioned a sound that married the explosive blues with alt-rock. Out of this came an EP of covers, The Stardust Sessions. Following soon thereafter was Death Wish Blues, the duo's fully realized collaboration, which topped the B...
Brian Dunne & Caitlin Rose Deliver Vulnerable Version Of 'The Kids Are All Grown' From His New Album
by Michael Major - September 07, 2023 Brian Dunne releases “The Kids Are All Grown” featuring Caitlin Rose. Recorded at Nashville’s Blackbird Studio, Dunne delivers a stripped-down version of the track from his celebrated new album Loser On The Ropes (Kill Rock Stars). Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!...
Matt Anderson Announces Fall Headlining US Tour
by Michael Major - June 06, 2023 Following numerous sold-out shows in his native Canada, a spring tour with Tab Benoit, and a summer run with Devon Allman and Donavon Frankenreiter, dynamic singer/songwriter Matt Andersen is planning a fall U.S. headline tour, supporting his latest album, The Big Bottle of Joy....
Human Potential Shares Title Track From Forthcoming LP 'Hoosi, No!'
by Michael Major - February 07, 2023 Before long, Becker had drawn inspiration from the repetitive disorientation of Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man (“Some Small Anti-Christ At The Art Show”) and Hollis Frampton’s ruin of memory on Nostalgia (“Love Song For H.R. To Sing”), to the sultry light abstractions of John Cage’s “One11” (“Dye-Nigh...
Molly Tuttle Wins Best Bluegrass Album at 65th GRAMMY Awards
by Michael Major - February 06, 2023 Molly Tuttle won Best Bluegrass Album at last night’s 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards for her acclaimed record, Crooked Tree. Produced by Tuttle and Jerry Douglas, Crooked Tree explores Tuttle’s love of bluegrass and features collaborations with Sierra Hull, Old Crow Medicine Show, Margo Price, Billy Stri...
Club D'Elf Celebrates 25th Anniversary With U.S. Tour and Digital Re-Release
by Michael Major - January 26, 2023 For twenty-five years now, Boston-based dub-jazz collective Club d’Elf has been helping audiences lose track of time while creating mesmerizing musical chimeras that weave their distinct, Moroccan folk-infused trance with elements from an astonishing spectrum of other styles, including jazz, hip-hop...
Eric Johnson Announces Treasure Tour 2023
by Michael Major - November 16, 2022 ERIC JOHNSON, the prolific Grammy-Award winning, Austin-based songwriter and guitarist is hitting the road early next year after a long break when, like everyone, he was forced to cut his Spring 2020 tour a week short after the lockdown occurred. The Treasure Tour kicks off on February 11, 2023 in H...
GA-20 Release Third Album 'Crackdown'
by Michael Major - September 09, 2022 Acclaimed blues, roots-rock, and country revival trio GA-20 are thrilled to release their third album Crackdown, available everywhere now via Karma Chief Records / Colemine Records. To ring in the release, the band has shared album highlight 'Fairweather Friend.' Catch them on tour this fall with th...
Lilly Winwood Shares New Single 'Keep It Spinning'
by Michael Major - August 10, 2022 Holler premiered the music video for “Keep It Spinning,” writing, “With its warm 70s soft rock sound and poppy hooks, it sounds like Linda Ronstadt on a road trip with the Go-Gos, bringing to mind the country-tinged glossy pop of recent albums from Pearl Charles and Lola Kirke.” Watch the new music...
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm to Release New Album 'Carry Me Home'
by Michael Major - May 19, 2022 ’Carry Me Home’ is an album of music recorded live in the summer of 2011 by renowned artists Mavis Staples and Levon Helm at Levon Helm‘s Studios in Woodstock, NY. Out today is Staples and Helm’s poignant rendition of The Staple Singers song 'This May Be The Last Time” alongside a new video featurin...
VIDEO: Yves Jarvis Shares Video For New Track 'At The Whims'
by Michael Major - April 19, 2022 With influences ranging from the David Bowie, Yes and Captain Beefheart to CSNY, Fleetwood Mac and Harry Nilsson, Yves Jarvis continues to expand his sound on ‘The Zug.' Today he has shared the track “At The Whims” alongside a new video for the song that features Jarvis exuberantly dancing and singi... |