Airborne Toxic Event (Rounder)
Airborne Toxic Event founder Mikel Jollett was born in Santa Monica, CA in 1974. His parents lived in the “utopian drug-rehab cult”,...
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Ellie Sanders
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Margaret Glaspy (ATO)
Love as an imperfect endeavor is immensely prevalent fodder for songwriting, particularly when a romance is at its beginning or end....
Beth Kaufmann
- Jun 9, 2020
- 2 min
Will Hoge (Independent/Thirty Tigers)
For the past 20-years Will Hoge has been touring, turning over new pages of a career whose twists and turns sound like the stuff of some...
Jack Barton
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
Low Cut Connie (Contender)
After 10-years of career-building, 2020 was supposed to be the year Adam Weiner and his band, Low Cut Connie, enjoyed the culmination of...
Ellie Sanders
- May 19, 2020
- 2 min
Perfume Genius (Matador)
Michael Hadreas, best known since 2010 as Perfume Genius, is back with exactly what we need in this moment: fresh living-room dance...
Ellie Sanders
- May 12, 2020
- 2 min
Jensen McRae (Human-Re-Sources)
Jensen McRae may be an unfamiliar name to you now, but trust this is temporary. At 22, this Los Angeles native and recent grad from USC’s...
Beth Kaufmann
- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
OJR (Independent)
Oliver John-Rodgers is American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the moniker OJR. His self-produced his debut...
Jack Barton
- Apr 28, 2020
- 2 min
070 Shake (Def Jam)
The teenager from North Bergen, NJ was never particularly drawn to writing or performing music as she was growing up. Instead, the...
Jack Barton
- Apr 21, 2020
- 2 min
Mihali (11E1even)
While the songs on Breathe and Let Go were written and recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic had entered anyone’s consciousness, Twiddle...
Ellie Sanders
- Apr 14, 2020
- 2 min
The Wood Brothers (Independent/Thirty Tigers)
Rarely if ever does a complete body of work focused on universal truths of existential pain – moving forward from someone who’s no good...
Beth Kaufmann
- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min
Best Coast (Concord)
Best Coast front woman Bethany Consentino started writing songs in 2009, locked in a bedroom at her mom’s house in Burbank, California. A...
Jack Barton
- Mar 31, 2020
- 2 min
Aubrie Sellers (Soundly)
Take raucous Country-tinged Rock songs with piercing guitars, plus some beautiful love songs and give them all honest, pointed,...
Beth Kaufmann
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
Nahko And Medicine For The People (SideOneDummy)
Nahko has built a career with deeply personal, reflective songwriting, and Take Your Power Back is his most profound, revelatory, and...
Ellie Sanders
- Mar 17, 2020
- 2 min
Devon Gilfillian (Capitol)
Newcomer Devon Gilfillian has arrived with full-length “retro-modern" debut Black Hole Rainbow, the work catapulting Gilfillian’s deep...
Beth Kaufmann
- Mar 10, 2020
- 2 min
The Dirty Knobs (BMG)
Wreckless Abandon is the debut album from guitarist Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac) and his band, The...
Jack Barton
- Mar 3, 2020
- 2 min
EOB (Capitol)
Earth, the debut album from EOB – Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien’s new solo project – kicks off with the soulful, funky, melodic and...
Ellie Sanders
- Feb 25, 2020
- 1 min
Låpsley (XL Recordings)
After early success, moving at age 19 from Soundcloud to a world tour to the acclaimed debut Long Way Home (XL Recordings), it was time...
Ellie Sanders
- Feb 18, 2020
- 2 min
Yola (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch)
Breakout Americana star Yola is here with her debut Walk Through Fire, making us simultaneously wonder where she’s been all of our...
Beth Kaufmann
- Feb 11, 2020
- 2 min
Gregory Porter (Blue Note/Capitol)
Gregory Porter found his voice singing in church and studying his mother’s Nat King Cole records at home. It was Cole’s talent, wisdom...
Jack Barton
- Feb 4, 2020
- 1 min
Katie Pruitt (Rounder/Concord)
The making of her debut album, Expectations, was a soul-cleansing journey for Katie Pruitt, as she created songs that reflect on the...
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