Artists
Adrian Belew (born December 23, 1949 as Robert Steven Belew in Covington, Kentucky) is an American guitarist and vocalist (and sometimes drummer, pianist and bass player), perhaps best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock group King… (Read More)
In his own words AM describes “Soul Variations”: "’Soul Variations’ has more of a political edge. But like many of my songs I don’t think it has to be restricted to that. I try to write songs that can be applied… (Read More)
Amy Correia delivers her third album You Go Your Way with a raw power that’s both vulnerable and fierce. That musical honesty draws comparisons to Tom Waits and Michelle Shocked and The New York Times calls her a “singular talent.” Her… (Read More)
Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist Andrew Bird picked up his first violin at the age of 4. Actually, it was a Cracker Jack box with a ruler taped to it, and the first of his many Suzuki music lessons involved simply bowing… (Read More)
Hailing from the beautiful northern beaches of Sydney, Angus & Julia Stone form two halves of a musical act with a natural gift for telling emotive, honest and beguiling stories. Their acclaimed debut album, A Book Like This, is a perfect… (Read More)
Audra Mae is a natural. Once the Oklahoma native opens her mouth and lets loose with that voice, pure and strong, with a hint of country twang and a twinkle of good humor, you realize this is what she’s meant to… (Read More)
For a stalwart young artist who creates different means to an end, Ben Sollee has enjoyed a whirlwind year replete with remarkable success and warm, exciting music to match. Sollee hails from Kentucky, yet sounds nothing like the colloquial music one… (Read More)
Featuring freewheeling musical wanderings through countrified blues, slinky swamp ballads and homespun hillbilly heartbreaks, the Bourgeois Gypsies mix slow-burning, porch-setting music with poignant punk lullabies that make you tap your feet, clutch your heart and shake your head all at the… (Read More)
The members of Capgun Coup aren’t very good at listening to people compare their music to other bands. They aren’t interested, and probably aren’t familiar with the artists mentioned. Pixies, Pavement, Madvillain, Archers of Loaf, the Unicorns, the Books: Capgun Coup… (Read More)
One listen to Feast Or Famine, and it is undeniable that the deep, gruff voice that once screamed powerful punk anthems belongs to none other than Chuck Ragan. The former Hot Water Music frontman has become a musical troubadour, writing stripped-down… (Read More)
We live in a perpetual state of war. It’s an obvious subject, yet a dangerous one. Every songwriter owes it to themselves to confront it, either allegorically or directly. On his fifth album, Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!, Corb Lund writes about… (Read More)
Photo Credit: Len Irish David Jacobs-Strain, a consummate finger-style and slide guitarist, plays in the blues tradition but isn’t from it. You’ll hear echoes of Skip James, Charlie Patton, Tommy Johnson, and a song or two by Fred McDowell or Robert… (Read More)
“[David Ross Macdonald] is one of those few songwriters like Nick Drake, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), and Josh Ritter that can captivate his listeners armed only with a voice and guitar.” American Songwriter Magazine "David Ross MacDonald’s vocals, lyrics, and intricate… (Read More)
There’s something rugged about David. It’s in his eyes, it’s in his soul. Though only twenty-two, he has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, of good times and heartbreak. He’s been quietly touring the country for over a year, steadily… (Read More)
Vince Gill says it simply, and maybe best: “I’d rather hear Del McCoury sing ‘Are You Teasing Me’ than just about anything.” For fifty years, Del’s music has defined authenticity for hard core bluegrass fans-count Gill among them-as well as a… (Read More)
There he was, this musically lucked child of a once-priest and a near-nun, 12 years old and piled high with a Radio Shack combo stereo, stacks of records, and pockets full of dubbed tapes. It was 1984 and Martin Dosh was… (Read More)
Young in age and conception, Elephant Revival carries a fresh sense of creativity and inspiration that is felt by people of every generation. The neo-acoustic quintet is on the cutting edge of an emerging new genre that is known as ‘Transcendental… (Read More)
Channeling Fleetwood Mac’s musical stylings with a hint of late-era Beatles, Family of the Year braid catchy melodies, stellar male/female vocals and personal folk tales to create some of the happiest and saddest music you’ve ever heard. The band’s classic musical… (Read More)
Ferraby Lionheart, a Los Angeles transplant from Nashville,Tennesse, lives in a studio apartment in Korea Town. He owns a guitar and a piano. He idolizes Shel Silverstein and Judy Garland. Ferraby recorded his self-titled EP in the living room of his… (Read More)
In 2000 The Freddy Jones Band went on hiatus. During the ten previous years of recording and touring, the band had amassed a body of work that included five albums of ambitious, wide-reaching rock and a reputation for expansive and energetic… (Read More)
Not so long ago, Garrison Starr hit the road supporting Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Melissa Etheridge. No surprise, then, that she’s learned a thing or two about crafting a great story. Starr regularly pinches a sleight of hand or… (Read More)
“Falling Awake”, the first song from Gary Jules’ independently released self-titled album appeared on two separate Billboard ‘Top 100’ charts in January 2007, one week after being heavily featured in an exceptionally popular episode of “Grey’s Anatomy”. When the editorial staff… (Read More)
Hot Buttered Rum, one of the hardest-working and fastest-rising stars in the musical firmament, has become, over the last five years, a group that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. It began with a core of five uniquely… (Read More)
“Houses have provoked me to say more embarrassing things than any other band in Denver.” Westword, Kiernan Maletsky “{Houses} will leave you covered in goosebumps and ready to fucking wrestle a buffalo.” Westword, Kiernan Maletsky "The band, six strong, kept up… (Read More)
New York-based Michaelson’s parents were both artists (composer Carl Michaelson and sculptor Elizabeth Egbert Director). She took up piano at the age of five, attending Manhattan’s Third Street Music School for two years, going on to the Jewish Community Center of… (Read More)
One of the most celebrated country-folk performers of her day, singer/songwriter Iris Dement was born on January 5, 1961, in rural Paragould, AR, the youngest of 14 children. At the age of three, her devoutly religious family moved to California, where… (Read More)
From a bedroom in Colorado, young singer/songwriter Jacob Russo just released his debut full-length album “Start Again Somewhere” using some equipment he was able to purchase, whatever else he could find at his disposal. At the age of 19, Jacob has… (Read More)
In the Spring of 1998 Jason Webley quit his day job, picked up his accordion, and hopped on a Greyhound bus with the intention of playing in the streets until his money ran out. Seven years, four albums and over a… (Read More)
Jeffrey Lewis was raised in New York City and is a maker of comic books, tragi-comic folk narratives, and lysergic garage rock. With brother Jack on bass and David Beauchamp on drums, the Jeffrey Lewis Band mixes 60s acoustic psychedelia like… (Read More)
“I’m highly motivated,” says postmillennial troubadour Jeremy Fisher. “I love getting my hands in there.” The Vancouver-based writer/artist used those hands (which are generally affixed to his trusty acoustic guitar) to shoot the stop-motion footage and fashion the anthropomorphic title character… (Read More)
