First impressions matter. Especially on a debut album. Time and attention-strapped listeners size up an artist within a song or two, then move on or delve in further. Fortunately, it only takes Margo Price about twenty-eight seconds to convince you that you’re hearing the arrival of a singular new talent. “Hands of Time,” the opener […]

ADAM GONTIER Facebook Twitter Former frontman from the legendary Three Days Grace and Frontman of his new super group, Saint Asonia. Adam Gontier to perform all of the hits from Three Days Grace, Saint Asonia, and his solo stuff!

The Weeks The Weeks are an indie rock band from Mississippi whose cathartic output of songs stems from the same root: their geography and disadvantaged youth. Beginning In March of 2006, The Weeks, ages ranging between 14 and 16 years, formed as a 5-piece band. In 2008 they signed with a local MS-based indie label […]

QUIET HOLLERS Facebook MATT WOODS Website Facebook Twitter Matt Woods is an outlaw country and southern roots songwriter from Knoxville, Tennessee who spends a hell of a lot of time on the road, playing his songs for anyone who cares to listen. "Some folks call what I do Americana, but I have a hard time putting a label on […]

SIRIUS BLVCK Website Facebook Twitter SIRIUS BLVCK aka THE HEAVENLY WOLF aka DARK BICVIT aka DARKY B DEVINE CARAMA Facebook Lyrical & socially conscious hip hop artist out of Lexington, Ky featured on 2DopeBoyz, Complex, Respect, and Vibe magazines!

SUNDY BEST Website Facebook Twitter In the universe of music-making, countless debates have been had comparing and contrasting less vs. more, style vs. substance, form vs. function. Those debates have little merit if the final product isn't excellent. Quality trumps all other quantitative discussions. When you look at the recent output of Sundy Best, the Lexington, Ky.-bred duo […]

ALCATRAZ SHAKEDOWN Website Facebook Alcatraz Shakedown is a culmination of 4 guys with a diverse and professional background in live and recorded rock music. While grooving bass and syncopated drums keep the sound moving and provides energy to the sound, Soulful vocals and blues inspired guitar riffs drive what makes up the sound of Alcatraz Shakedown. Alcatraz […]

Knife The Symphony (Cincinnati, Phratry Records) https://knifethesymphony.bandcamp.com/ The Full Counts (Pittsburgh) https://thefullcounts.bandcamp.com/

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MICHAELA ANNE Website Facebook Twitter A staple of the New Nashville scene of progressive indie-country artists, Michaela Anne is a writer with narrative depth and a timeless voice, who can honky-tonk with the best of them. Rolling Stone recently featured her in AmericanaFest 2016: 20 Best Things We Saw. Since relocating to Nashville (after several years living and […]

Parsonsfield May 6, 2015: Day One in the abandoned axe factory hadn't gone as planned, so today is the first time the five members of Parsonsfield will actually get to make music here. They'd been looking forward to converting this cavernous industrial space on the banks of the Farmington River in Collinsville, CT, ever since […]

THE VEGABONDS Website Facebook Twitter With a swagger reminiscent of the Black Crowes and a tight musicianship that will have you drawing comparisons to everyone from Led Zeppelin to the Allman Brothers, Nashville-based rock band THE VEGABONDS are just getting started. A mix of different musical interests laid the groundwork for the band's debut album, Dear Revolution, and […]

“WHERE WORDS FAIL… MUSIC SPEAKS.” That simple line atop Elephant Revival’s Facebook page contains only five words, but reveals volumes about the band’s reason for being. Music unites us in ways that no other medium can. Even when we don’t understand one another’s languages – we can be moved by a rhythm, soothed by a […]

“There are only two kinds of songs,” Townes Van Zandt said, well before he died. “There’s the blues, and there’s zip-a-dee-doo-dah.” The new Son Volt album is titled Notes of Blue. Simple as that, maybe. Just now pushing fifty, Jay Farrar, the creative force behind Son Volt, is still not as old as his voice. […]

10 FOOT POLE They defined a lot of shit for the city of Lexington. This is their story, their reunion, their swan song, their return, their end, their beginning, their alpha-omega, their dawn and sunset,... I mean right? who knows it's 10 Foot Pole get your ass to The Burl. JOHNNY CONQUEROO Johnny Conqueroo is […]

DANGERMUFFIN Website Facebook Twitter How can we be whole? It's a question asked — in one way or another — by anyone who allows him or herself to dig deeper into their own existence than the simple day-to-day drudgery that seems to fuel our society. "I want to know it and sing it from my soul," answers Dan […]

Becca Stevens Always reaching, always expanding, Becca Stevens reinvents herself once again with her new album, Regina. In the years since the release of her critically acclaimed third album, Perfect Animal, Stevens has undertaken a journey that began with a study of Queen Elizabeth I. This expanded into tributes to various queens from history, literature, […]

The Werks The Werks have quickly emerged as a national powerhouse. As a result of their eclectic individual influences, The Werks produce a dance party that can be appreciated by a majority of musical tastes. Fusing the psychedelic shredding guitar and screaming organ of jam and classic rock with funk slap bass, synthesizers, and modern […]

WILLIAM MATHENY Website Facebook Twitter There is talent you glancingly acknowledge and then there is talent you ignore at your own risk. Consider West Virginia's William Matheny amongst the latter. The 11 songs featured on his pending debut, Strange Constellations, contain echoes of the hard won wit and wisdom of Loudon Wainwright, the guitar prowess […]

KELSEY WALDONWebsite Facebook Twitter Thinking about country music, Kelsey Waldon muses, "If it's a part of who you are, it's a part of who you are." And country music is very much a part of who she is, a part of who she's always been. The Kentucky singer/songwriter hails from Monkey's Eyebrow, in rural Ballard County where […]

BRYAN MINKS AND THE KENTUCKY SONS Facebook Folks Roots Explosion MICHAEL DEAN DAMRON Website Facebook "Michael is one full grown walking bad ass song writing son of a bitch with grit, groove, tone, taste and high coolness." ~Ray Wylie Hubbard CORY CALL Facebook of Arliss Nancy

CHORD OVERSTREET Facebook Singer/Songwriter Chord Overstreet grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, in a musical environment with his parents and 5 siblings. His father, Paul Overstreet, is a two time Grammy award winner and the recipient of 5 BMI Songwriter of the Year awards.  Known for his critically acclaimed role as quarterback turned glee club member Sam […]

of Montreal Defining of Montreal is impossible. There are too many perspectives to consider, angles to explore, layers to uncover. Just when you think you have a concept of what kind of creature they are, they transform into something unexpected and new. As a result, each album holds the opportunity for re-discovery, re-immersion, re-appreciation. On […]

The Districts The Districts are a band that exists in the moment. Described by close friends and girlfriends as a well oiled machine, filthily cult like, and also “normal dudes.” The Philadelphia four-piece channels its long-forged bonds into visceral, explosive genre blurring music. Informed equally by arrangements and dynamics, and a focus on lyrics, they […]

BROTHER SMITH Facebook Brother Smith is a young six piece band, native to the Greater Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky area. Led by Brothers Wes and Aaron Smith, the group has created a unique blend mixing the heart of Country, the creativity of Funk, and the passion of Soul. Brother Smith’s humble beginning as two brothers with a […]

Jelly Roll With his wealth of tattoos, Southern rapper Jelly Roll is an illustrated man. But the ink tells the story of who the onetime gangster was — not who he is now. Today, he is a reformed man, an underdog, a dedicated father to a little girl, an inspiration to those who grew up […]

TRAVIS HARRIS & THE WEST COAST TURNAROUNDS Website Facebook Holding steady to the roots of original Country Music. Writing and singing songs from the common man's point of view.

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Funk, Rock, Electronic ENERGY: These four Pigeons bring it every night. Based out of Baltimore, MD, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong has an undeniably unique and versatile live sound that ascends peaks of musical ecstasy. Their evolving arrangement of original compositions, psychedelic improvisational jams, and contagious smiles have 'The Flock' growing and […]

NICK DITTMEIER & THE SAWDUSTERS Website Facebook Twitter A four piece Americana band from Louisville, KY. They've released two EPs, "Extra Better" in 2013, and then "Light of Day" in 2014.Through relentless touring, they've become mainstays of the Midwest Americana scene. In September of 2015, they set ten highway-tested, fine-tuned songs loose in the confines […]

MAYBIRD Website Facebook Twitter Maybird was born in the summer of 2013 when singer/songwriter Josh Netsky performed at a small concert in the woods of upstate New York called the Stone Mill gathering. It was there that serendipity brought Netsky and his brother (drummer) Adam Netsky together with long-time guitarist Sam Snyder and new addition […]

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