Born and raised on Long Island’s South Shore, and heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and The Replacements, singer/songwriter Johnnie Lee Jordan relocated to New York City when he was 18 – and Jordan […]
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Daniel Lanois is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and producer, who’s best known for his production work with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Brandon Flowers and U2’s most beloved and famous album, The […]
As it often is with any band origin story, a band can trace their origins to maybe one or two moments that can seem in retrospect to be both coincidental and destined to happen. In […]
Tristram Burden and his girlfriend J.E. Seuk founded the South Korean band Language of Shapes back in 2010 over their mutual love of the mandolin and lying around Korean beaches playing Leonard Cohen covers. And […]
As a student at the Berklee College of Music, Josh Siegel told one of his professors that he was going to quit school, return back to Chicago and start a band. And this professor quickly replied: “don’t procrastinate.” […]
As a student at the Berklee College of Music, Josh Siegel told one of his professors that he was going to quit school, return back to Chicago and start a band. And this professor quickly […]
A Q&A with the Halley DeVestern Band
Consisting of several grizzled veterans of the NYC music scene, the four primary members of the Halley Devestern Band, Halley Devestern (vocals), David Patterson (guitar), Tom Heinig (bass) and Rich Kulsar (drums) met the way […]
Communion at Rockwood Music Hall 1/7/14 featuring Carrie Ashley Hill, Michael Kiwanuka, and Anna Rose
Communion feating Carrie Ashley Hill, Michael Kiwanuka and Anna Rose Rockwood Music Hall January 7, 2014 Communion hosts a monthly series a of live music nights in a number of venues across both the States and […]
A Q&A with the Lonely H’s Mark Fredson
The Nashville, TN-based (by way of Washington State) quintet the Lonely H have been together for well over a decade, starting out when all of the members were high school teens. Back in June, the band released their […]
VII which will see an October 1st release through Vagrant Records is the aptly titled seventh full-length effort from renowned Americana act Blitzen Trapper. What has made them beloved by both critics and fans is the […]
A Q&A with the Dough Rollers’ Jack Byrne and Josh Barocas
Jack Byrne and Malcolm Ford formed the Dough Rollers in 2008, after bounding over their mutual love and appreciation for the blues. And much like countless bands before them, there have been a number of […]
Tessa Rose Jackson has made quite a name for herself in her native Netherlands as a singer,songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer — and she’s only 20 years old. Influenced by the music she grew up listening to […]
Signed to Jack White’s label, Third Man Records, the Dough Rollers continues White’s and Third Man Records’ reputation for putting out old school, grimy, bluesy rock. “Little Lilly,” is the first single off the Dough […]
A Q&A with The Lonely Wild’s Andrew Carroll
The Los Angeles-based band, The Lonely Wild’s debut EP, Dead End landed at number 19 on this site’s Best of 2011 list. Through that debut, the band won quite a bit of attention throughout the blogosphere, and […]
Tessa Rose Jackson has made quite a name for herself in her native Netherlands as a singer,songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer – and she’s only 20 years old. Influenced by the music she grew up listening […]