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Chicago-based award-winning folk-rocker Jared Rabin will release his upcoming EP, Wondering About The Weather, on May 11th. Today, Rabin unleashes the video from EP track "Back to You,” directed by Kyle Dunleavy, and filmed on location around Chicago. "'Cause you know I'm out here flyin'/Down the road, I'm always tryin' to get back to you," he sings over... Continue Reading →
"I worked as a journalist for a lot of years, and I’ve tried to see things from as many sides as I could," says Jesse James DeConto of Durham, North Carolina-based folk-rock outfit The Pinkerton Raid. "But on election night in 2016, America just didn’t make any sense anymore, as though we had stopped being... Continue Reading →
Lisa LeBlanc, rockicana shredder and master of all things stringed, played her first headlining show in Nashville recently, appearing in the upstairs lounge of the City Winery. There were four players, a drum kit, microphones decorated with strings of lights in the shapes of lobsters, flamingos, and lemony yellow circles, and a music store’s worth... Continue Reading →
“If you’re a songwriter, it will find you. It blooms early for some and late for others. When I found it, there was no turning back,” says Nashville-based folkster Daniel Daniel. “There are some people who are perfectly content with the white picket fence and a summer home, making egg salad on the weekends, and it’s... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles-based collective The Herbert Bail Orchestra blends folk-rock, countricana, and blues into one soulfully delectable dish. The band began in 2011 with Anthony Frattolillo (singer, guitarist) and Andrew Katz (accordionist), childhood friends that started writing and performing music in homage to Frattolillo’s deceased “Grandpa Jack” who they posthumously found out was born by another... Continue Reading →
“I can’t tell you how many things I’ve seen, or times I’ve told somebody else that I loved them the most,” sings Nashville’s Charlie Abbott in his new single, “Friends and Formers.” The conversational song, recorded by Joshua St. Moblo at the Bakery in Nashville, features supporting vocals from fellow Music City artist Nightingail. Laced... Continue Reading →
Americountry duo The Contenders will release their debut full-length, Laughing With The Reckless, on November 3rd via Rock Ridge Music. The album, a follow-up to their 2014 EP Meet The Contenders, explores the perseverance of hope in dark times, and the connective power of music. In fact, it was music that connected Vermont-based singer/songwriter Jay... Continue Reading →
Watching For Foxes began as a group of friends rehearsing in an old math classroom in their vacant high school. After a move, and the addition of extra guitars, strings, and keys, the band has been creating a unique and powerful sonic landscape in which their songs about heartbreak, rebellion, and discovery can thrive. Now, the... Continue Reading →
“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 →
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 →