For most casual fans of music, the forty-five minutes that a band spends on the stage is all they can see. However, when the guitar cases are closed and the venue’s floor is littered with empty beer cans and trash, most bands load their gear into the van and return back to their normal lives.... Continue Reading →
Off The Stage: JD McPherson
For most casual fans of music, the forty-five minutes that a band spends on the stage is all they can see. However, when the guitar cases are closed and the venue’s floor is littered with empty beer cans and trash, most bands load their gear into the van and return back to their normal lives.... Continue Reading →
Pew Playlist: 3 Albums That Should Be On Your Radar, 10/27/17
Animal Years - Far From Home Brooklyn-by-way-of-Baltimore pop rockicana trio Animal Years released their new EP today via eOne Records, a follow up to their acclaimed debut Sun Will Rise. Produced by Ryan Hadlock, renowned for his work with The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile and Vance Joy, Far From Home houses five life-affirming fist-pumpers that are a guilty pleasure... Continue Reading →
MCP Sessions: Mary Bragg
In May, acclaimed Nashville Americana artist Mary Bragg released her latest album, Lucky Strike, a stunning collection of her most personal songs to date. With her crystalline vocals and heart-grabbing lyrics, Bragg's music forgoes distracting bells, whistles, other production trickery, and showcases her pure, raw talent. We had the pleasure of meeting Bragg for an exclusive... Continue Reading →
Off The Stage: Domino Kirke
For most casual fans of music, the forty-five minutes that a band spends on the stage is all they can see. However, when the guitar cases are closed and the venue’s floor is littered with empty beer cans and trash, most bands load their gear into the van and return back to their normal lives.... Continue Reading →
Album Review: 5j Barrow – The Journey Vol. 1
“Let me pull you closer to me, as we waltz ‘round the room,” sings 5j Barrow’s Jason Hite, in the opening verse of “Seagreen Dress,” the first song on their forthcoming EP, The Journey Vol. 1. His beautiful tenor ebbs and flows with the pulsating strums of the accompanying acoustic guitar—and then in an unexpected... Continue Reading →
Premiere: “Without Me” by Brett Benowitz
Folk singer/songwriter Brett Benowitz was raised on a well-balanced diet of Patsy Cline, Dylan, The Doors, and The Dead, and began writing his own songs as a child. His journey has culminated in Burn To Glow, his debut solo studio album, set for release on October 12th. “Burn To Glow is a heartfelt and universal concept... Continue Reading →
MCP Sessions: Ron Pope – “Someday We’re All Gonna Die”
“I’ve always told stories,” says alt-country rocker Ron Pope, who is one of the best (and one of our favorite) tale spinners around these days. “I was in a car with my dad and one of his friends, and we were riding back from Yankee Stadium. We were telling a story back and forth about... Continue Reading →
MCP Sessions: Roger Street Friedman – “Shoot The Moon”
Shoot The Moon, Roger Street Friedman’s latest release via The Playroom Records and co-produced by Friedman and Felix McTeigue (co-writer of Florida Georgia Line’s #1 hit “Anything Goes” and Americana chart topper and Grammy-nominated “Wreck You” by Lori McKenna), is the result of a concerted woodshedding effort following his critically lauded debut album, 2014’s The Waiting Sky.... Continue Reading →
Pew Playlist: 3 Albums That Should Be On Your Radar, 9/8/17
Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton - Wildflower Blues The Be Good Tanyas co-founders Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton gracefully wind their twangy way through rootsy folk and ragtime jazz, to soulful R&B and rollicking rock n' roll on their new album, Wildflower Blues, out today via their own label, Cinquefoil Records. Featuring originals and covers of Townes... Continue Reading →