Artists
Amanda Palmer is a performer, director, composer and musician who is best known for her role as front woman and keyboardist for internationally acclaimed punk-cabaret band The Dresden Dolls. On September 16, 2008, Amanda released Who Killed Amanda Palmer, her debut… (Read More)
“Supply and Demand,” the second studio album from Philadelphia native Amos Lee, illuminates his growth from emerging singer-songwriter to established recording artist. From the sparse, powerful, family elegy “Long Line of Pain,” to the country-r&b flavored title track, "Supply and Demand,… (Read More)
After 20 years in the music biz, self-described “Little Folksinger” Ani DiFranco is still technically little, although her influence on fellow musicians, activists, and indie-minded people the world over has been huge. She still proudly identifies as a folksinger, too, but… (Read More)
If there is one thing I know to be true about music, it is this: Writing a great, enduring pop song is hard as Chinese arithmetic. You want it to be contemporary, but you want it to last. You want it… (Read More)
Show a little love for the hometown boys, as he sings on his upcoming release; Brent James knew what he wanted from an early age. He began singing with his mother in the front seat of their car and around the… (Read More)
“In many ways this is my first album,” Brett Dennen says of his fourth record, Loverboy, out April 12th, 2011. "On my previous albums I said what I needed to say. I evoked every different mood and sentiment and emotion. Now… (Read More)
Since the release of his first album in April 1986, Bruce Hornsby has created a musical life that has expanded far and wide to include a broad stylistic range of activity. Hornsby, an 12-time Grammy nominee, has won three Grammys –… (Read More)
Callie Angel spreads her wings in Aspen, Colorado with her debut album “Center of That Day” Her style mixes classic rock with a little bit of country for a unique pop sound. Her voice goes from edgy to pure and back… (Read More)
The trick to the irresistibly organic, pure pop sound is that the music, and even the lead singer, take a back seat to the real star: the songs. As the principal songwriter and singer for nationally acclaimed alt-rock trio The Push… (Read More)
Christopher Hawley makes music in ski towns, artist communities, beach pubs, and college towns all over the world, solo acoustic and with his band, the Rollers. Winning over new fans and warming hearts in even the coldest of places, Hawley has… (Read More)
Corey Chisel and The Wandering Sons
Like many American musicians, across vastly diverse backgrounds, cultures and genres, singer-songwriter Cory Chisel forged his first connection to the power of song through the music he heard – and made – in church. His father was a Baptist pastor, his… (Read More)
Like many artists before him, Wisconsin-based singer-songwriter Cory Chisel, first connected with the power of song – and the spellbinding possibilities of live performance – through the music he heard in church as the son of a Baptist minister. The gospel’s… (Read More)
“Get over your self-ness.” That’s it. Damato’s one sentence sum-up of the philosophy behind his life, his outlook and his music. But it wasn’t always that easy for this surfing soul son of a preacher man. It’s taken a while to… (Read More)
Millions of people around the country fell in love with rock belter David Cook while watching him make other people’s songs his own week after week on the seventh season of American Idol. Cook won the competition handily thanks to viewers… (Read More)
Rocked to sleep as a child to the music of Stevie Wonder, Dechen Hawk is a balladeer at heart. His music ranges from ambient rock to serious get up get down funk. A 2009 graduate of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado… (Read More)
From elegant pop to balls-out rock,sweet electronics to witty swing, Erin McKeown has packed a ton of music into her young career. With 5 albums, 2 EPs, and numerous soundtracks and compilations to her credit, the 29-year-old songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hasn’t… (Read More)
Fairchildren is Nathaniel Rateliff’s backing band, including Joseph Pope III (electric guitar), Julie Davis (upright bass), James Han (keyboards), and Patrick Meese (drums), playing songs based on the fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. (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)
Greg Brown’s mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the Hacklebarney section of Iowa, where the Gospel and music are a way of life. Brown’s first professional singing job came at… (Read More)
“Writing and performing is a mystery to me,” explains singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Gregory Alan Isakov. “I try to get myself out of the way as much as I can.” This Empty Northern Hemisphere is Isakov’s latest collection of songs in which… (Read More)
Born in England and raised in Thailand, Hugo — a seriously dedicated songwriter, musician and performer — has already plowed through several aesthetic incarnations on the road to Old Tyme Religion. As a young teen in Thailand, he achieved nationwide success… (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)
Discussing the imminent release of Giving Up the Ghost, his fifth album and first on 429 Records, Jackie Greene – singer and songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player, acoustic solo artist and electrifying band leader – hesitates to spell things out too… (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)
This multi-award winning New England-based songwriter discovered his father’s collection of eight-track tapes as a child and never looked back. After early exposure to songwriter legends like Neil Young, Paul Simon, Jim Croce and Van Morrison along with Motown heavies like… (Read More)
In addition to pleasing audiences in the United States and Europe with the alternately witty and insightful songs featured on his five solo CDs Lost In Your Hometown, Behind The Midway, King For A Day, Live and Otherwise Volume 1, and… (Read More)
I’ve been writing songs for over thirty years. I don’t write hits. I don’t send out demos to famous singers. I just write songs. They’re my diaries. I had everything I’ve ever written in this big, black notebook. Some… (Read More)
Jenny and Johnny first started working together in Los Angeles in 2005, after being introduced by Conor Oberst. Rice had traveled to Nebraska to make his first record before moving to L.A., where Lewis was beginning work with Mike Mogis on… (Read More)
“See How I Run–Jessie Baylin” “Norah Jones–style L.A. singer travels light on this track from Firesight, but does pack some marvelous guitar parts.” —USA TODAY June 24, 2008 By Brian Mansfield "Twenty–four year old singer Jessie Baylin has a voice mature… (Read More)
