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Jaime Wyatt (New West)
It was a “gnarly, gnarly process” (her words) that led Jaime Wyatt to her Shooter Jennings-produced New West Records debut, Neon Cross,...

Jack Barton
Jun 30, 20202 min read


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”,...

Beth Kaufmann
Jun 23, 20202 min read


Margaret Glaspy (ATO)
Love as an imperfect endeavor is immensely prevalent fodder for songwriting, particularly when a romance is at its beginning or end....

Ellie Sanders
Jun 16, 20202 min read


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...

Beth Kaufmann
Jun 9, 20202 min read


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...

Jack Barton
May 26, 20202 min read


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 19, 20202 min read


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...

Ellie Sanders
May 12, 20202 min read


OJR (Independent)
Oliver John-Rodgers is American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the moniker OJR. His self-produced his debut...

Beth Kaufmann
May 5, 20201 min read


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 28, 20202 min read


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...

Jack Barton
Apr 21, 20202 min read


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...

Ellie Sanders
Apr 14, 20202 min read


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...

Beth Kaufmann
Apr 7, 20202 min read


Aubrie Sellers (Soundly)
Take raucous Country-tinged Rock songs with piercing guitars, plus some beautiful love songs and give them all honest, pointed,...

Jack Barton
Mar 31, 20202 min read


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...

Beth Kaufmann
Mar 24, 20202 min read


Devon Gilfillian (Capitol)
Newcomer Devon Gilfillian has arrived with full-length “retro-modern" debut Black Hole Rainbow, the work catapulting Gilfillian’s deep...

Ellie Sanders
Mar 17, 20202 min read


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...

Beth Kaufmann
Mar 10, 20202 min read


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...

Jack Barton
Mar 3, 20202 min read


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 25, 20201 min read


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...

Ellie Sanders
Feb 18, 20202 min read


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...

Beth Kaufmann
Feb 11, 20202 min read
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