Frontman, songwriter and guitarist Ethan Miller first caught attention for his work in the Northern California-based psych rock band Comets on Fire. Originally, Howlin’ Rain started off in 2004 as a side project – the […]
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The Melbourne, Australia-based quartet of Husky have had the kind of success that many journalists and fans would refer to as “overnight success.” As a result of winning Australian radio station, Triple J’s Unearthed Contest, […]
The primary members of Hiss Golden Messenger, the Durham, NC-based singer/songwriter M.C. Taylor and the Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and recordist Scott Hirsch have been playing music together for almost two decades, and their fifth full-length effort, Lateness […]
Comprised of Jess Wolfe (lead vocals and synth), Holly Laessig (lead vocals and keys), Dan Molad (drums and vocals), Peter Lalish (guitar and vocals) and Andrew Burri (guitar, drums, vocals), the Brooklyn-based quintet of Lucius have been praised […]
As many of you know, The Joy of Violent Movement is a mostly one man operation run out of my apartment while I have a full-time job in midtown Manhattan. And as I’ve mentioned on […]
Singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante is probably best known in indie rock circles for his time as a member of Little Joy and Los Hermanos. Easy Sound Records released Amarante’s solo debut, Cavalo, a couple of months ago, and the material on the album […]
When the Los Angeles, CA-based singer/songwriter Moses Sumney was growing up, he avidly wrote songs but he was so painfully shy that he would hide them inside his mattress. Sumney moved out of his parents’ […]
Back in January, Eric D. Johnson, best known for his work in Fruit Bats decided to sit down and write an album’s worth of songs over the course of a few weeks. Of course, until then, it was […]
Born and raised in Washington DC, and now located in Brooklyn, singer/songwriter Nick Hakim grew up in a household that emphasized musical diversity as he heard soul, hip-hop, go-go, folk music and more – and […]
With the release of their eighth full-length effort, With Light and With Love, Woods continued to cement their recent reputation for experimenting with their sound – their latest album has the band employing the use of […]
After the 2009 release of the Honey Trees‘ Wake the Earth EP, the duo of Becky Filip and Jacob Wick spent four years writing the material that would wind up on their recently released debut full-length, Bright Fire. […]
If you truly know anything about music, you know that the blues and folk are deeply intertwined – especially when you talk about the early acoustic blues albums. if you don’t believe me, listen to […]
Hannah Thiem is a producer and violinist whose music is influenced by a deep appreciation of electronic and ambient soundscapes, as well as Eastern European, Nordic and Middle Eastern music. “Phavet”(pronounced Fa-vey) is the first single […]
Comprised of Jamie Lefler and Robert Cepeda, the Los Angeles, CA-based duo of DWNTWN originally got their start when both Lefler and Cepeda were getting over really bad breakups — interestingly and perhaps awkwardly Lefler had been with Cepeda’s […]
Alana Amram has been in music in some fashion for most of her life as she’s comes from a rather musical family. When Amram was a child, she was known to take naps around the guitar cases […]