Roberta Faceplant Brisket & Cigarettes Roberta Faceplant, the roots rock and honky tonk band hailing from Philadelphia, has a new EP Brisket & Cigarettes, and it’s 6 songs that deliver a helluva good musical time. Fast paced and fun packed with moments of irreverence and more serious observations, Brisket & Cigarettes sounds a kick-up-your heels […]
Jeremy Dion interview Oftentimes folk and Americana music twist at your heartstrings with sorrowful songs and tales of dashed hopes. By contrast, Jeremy Dion makes optimistic folk music for both kids and adults, like his recently released album Another Perfect Day. We has a chance to chat with him about the philosophy behind looking at […]
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Dave Martin Sunburned Wisdom Dave Martin is an acoustic guitar playing singer songwriter from Chicago who pens folk songs about pausing to reflect back over life to date and see the lessons and the history that brought us here. His latest album is Sunburned Wisdom, just newly released in August. It’s about appreciating the important […]
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Mike Thomas photo by Justin Hammond Mike Thomas makes Americana rootsy rock style music, using landscape metaphors for healing what’s ailing the American soul. In this song, we have the image of Mike fishing with his son, and the cathartic of the timeless tradition and the natural waters: “we’ve seen a lot pain these days […]
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Rags Rosenberg Rags Rosenberg has a new album of folk songs intriguingly titled Song of the Bricoleur. A bricoleur is an artist or writer, or just an average person, who creates things from a wide variety of sources and media. For Rags, this is an apt term for what is needed in the current social […]
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Diane King – Sky Diane King has a new album on the horizon, Sky. Diane’s journey involved an experience with a lymphoma scare, and then finding new love, and then finding a producer, Stephan Oberhoff, to believe in her songs as much as she did, and dive in to work on her new album. This […]
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Garreson Monte Garreson has a new album Monte, which features saved voicemails left by Garreson’s grandfather Monte Garrison, who was a country Western singer and musician and supported his grandson’s parallel passion for songwriting and music. Garreson named his album for his grandfather, and the songs weave a tightly supported tapestry of family talent, love, […]
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Tenkiller Burn the Boats Tenkiller has a new album Burn the Boats: it’s heavy, driving, and muddy electric Southern red dirt rock that beats like the hearts of struggling Southern folks themselves. And it’ll resonate with struggling folks everywhere. Hailing from Nashville, Tenkiller is a genre-blending alt country outfit whose members had roots in the […]
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Rosedale Junction Cornflakes and Coffee Rosedale Junction has a new album Cornflakes and Coffee, full of big clean roots rock sounds, in songs about coping and survival that turn into merrymaking. All of this takes place with a talented backing band including Phil Madeira and Roger Smith of the Tower of Power on keys with […]
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The Fremonts – The Failure Cabaret Folk – cabaret duo the Fremonts are re-releasing their album The Failure Cabaret this week, with lively theatrical songs that dynamically poke a bit of fun at life in now fresh recordings. The Fremonts are Stephanie Dodd (originally hailing from Fremont, Nebraska) and Justin Badger (originally hailing from Fremont, […]
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