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...
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Ellie Sanders
May 19, 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 12, 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...
Beth Kaufmann
May 5, 20201 min read
OJR (Independent)
Oliver John-Rodgers is American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the moniker OJR. His self-produced his debut...
Jack Barton
Apr 28, 20202 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 21, 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...
Ellie Sanders
Apr 14, 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...
Beth Kaufmann
Apr 7, 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...
Jack Barton
Mar 31, 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,...
Beth Kaufmann
Mar 24, 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...
Ellie Sanders
Mar 17, 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...
Beth Kaufmann
Mar 10, 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...
Jack Barton
Mar 3, 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...
Ellie Sanders
Feb 25, 20201 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 18, 20202 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...
Beth Kaufmann
Feb 11, 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...
Jack Barton
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Katie Pruitt (Rounder/Concord)
The making of her debut album, Expectations, was a soul-cleansing journey for Katie Pruitt, as she created songs that reflect on the...
Ellie Sanders
Jan 28, 20202 min read
Fruition (Independent)
With first single “Dawn” off latest release Broken At The Break of Day grabbing the top most-added slot for week one, the start of 2020...
Beth Kaufmann
Jan 21, 20202 min read
The James Hunter Six (Daptone)
British Soul singer James Hunter returns with a new Rhythm & Blues collection of songs scheduled for release on March 6, 2020 in the US,...
Jack Barton
Jan 14, 20201 min read
Pinegrove (Rough Trade)
A driving guitar chord opens “Moment,” the current single from Pinegrove’s third CD, Marigold (the band’s first for Rough Trade), and the...
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