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Amy Shark (RCA)
A few summers ago, Amy Shark was introduced to the Triple A format in Boulder, playing to an enthusiastic audience of industry...

Beth Kaufmann
Aug 25, 20202 min read


The War And Treaty (Rounder/Concord)
When we first met Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount-Trotter – better known as The War And Treaty – it was a hot Boulder, CO afternoon...

Jack Barton
Aug 18, 20202 min read


Hamilton Leithauser (Glassnote)
If the fascinating social media account Humans of New York was an album, it would be Hamilton Leithauser’s The Loves of Your Life. Of the...

Ellie Sanders
Aug 11, 20202 min read


White Reaper (Elektra)
Before they were JBE Triple A Awards New Artist of the Year nominees, White Reaper was a duo of friends in a Louisville, KY high school,...

Ellie Sanders
Aug 4, 20201 min read


Diana DeMuth (Independent/Thirty Tigers)
Diana DeMuth grew up on the coast of Massachusetts immersed in a bohemian home, where she moved from place to place with her hippie...

Beth Kaufmann
Jul 28, 20202 min read


The Teskey Brothers (Glassnote)
When Glassnote Records re-released The Teskey Brothers’ first, independently released album, Half Mile Harvest, the first thing that...

Jack Barton
Jul 21, 20202 min read


Khruangbin (Dead Oceans)
While the band hails from Houston, World influences have always been front and center in Khruangbin’s mostly instrumental work, with...

Jack Barton
Jul 14, 20202 min read


Thao & The Get Down Stay Down (Domino)
Thao Nguyen was thinking maybe she was ready to move on. Struggling with whether or not 15 years of touring was finally enough, she...

Ellie Sanders
Jul 7, 20203 min read


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
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