Son Volt’s Jay Farrar is an iconic alt-country/Americana pioneer and one of the genre’s most vital and beloved songwriters. With his thoughtful, raw and honest lyrics, Farrar is once again speaking to our social consciousness in a way that only he can with new track “Livin’ in the USA.” The song questions the notion of the American dream as many …
Acclaimed singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm was a featured performer and interview subject on CBS This Morning: Saturday on July 3rd. The show aired three performances of songs from her latest release What the Flood Leaves Behind. Watch her conversation with Anthony Mason HERE and her performance of “Breathing,” “Sweet Mama” and “Are We Running Out Of Love.” Listen to …
Hailing from Portland, OR, TK & The Holy Know-Nothings announce the band’s much anticipated sophomore album The Incredible Heat Machine out October 15th (Mama Bird Recording Co.). The band is led by frontman Taylor Kingman, whose equally irreverent, delicate and cerebral first-person narratives somehow merge seamlessly with the group’s bar band ethos. The Incredible Heat Machine takes the band’s *half-facetiously* …
Singer/songwriter/feminist/activist/author Ani Di Franco is offering Revolutionary Love: Live at Big Blue, a full 95-minute concert documentary film from Ani, Terence Higgins and special guest Ivan Neville. Captured lovingly with seven cameras at Big Blue, Ani’s home and recording studio for the past decade, Revolutionary Love: Live at Big Blue finds Ani performing her 22nd studio album Revolutionary Love live, …
Grammy nominated, acclaimed singer/songwriter Joan Osborne has released the playful new video for her song “Meat & Potatoes”, off of her critically acclaimed album Trouble and Strife. The light-hearted clip features Osborne and a small group of friends from music and television having some fun in their home kitchens. Watch the music video HERE. “When the Trouble and Strife album …
Juno Award-winning artist Bahamas (aka Afie Jurvanen) has announced a long-awaited North American tour in support of his latest album Sad Hunk (Brushfire Records). Upon release, Sad Hunk was very well-received by fans and the press, with positive coverage running in The New York Times, MOJO, American Songwriter, Glide, Atwood Magazine and Uncut, who called the album “arrestingly original”. Bahamas performed …
Today, country music icon Connie Smith releases her newest track “A Million and One” from her long-awaited new album The Cry of the Heart, out August 20th (Fat Possum). On the release, the Country Music Hall of Fame legend is at her absolute finest, affirming Merle Haggard’s declaration about Smith when he said, “If you’re talking about a country singer, …
Acclaimed singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm will perform songs from her new album What The Flood Leaves Behind live from Levon Helm Studios at 8pm ET on Thursday June 17th. Helm will talk about the album with podcast host and radio personality Carmel Holt of SHEROES Radio. The event will be streamed on Amy Helm’s Facebook page and on her …
bLOW, the new album from blues singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer Colin Linden will be released September 17, 2021 (on Highway 20/Thirty Tigers). bLOW is the first release on Lucinda Williams’ imprint Highway 20 and embodies the powerful blues-meets-rock-meets-roots style Linden has crafted over his illustrious 45-year career, which set its course following a fateful meeting with Howlin’ Wolf at age 11. The opening …
“There’s not one single genre that can apply to Amigo the Devil, and that’s a good thing…‘Born Against’ is a triumphant collection of tracks from one of modern music’s most gifted storytellers.” A- – Consequence of Sound “…[Amigo The Devil] is not only navigating the light and darkness of life, but he’s striving to unearth the beautiful freedom that exists in …
