The Isaac Jacob Band unveils their new long player, The Brush Country Tapes. Produced, arranged, mixed, and mastered by David Percefull, the album was recorded at yellow DOG Studios in San Marcos, Texas. Percefull and Ethan Lugbauer engineered the album, along with 2nd engineers Casey Johns and Galen Parish. Talking about the album, Jacob says, […]
Erin Lunsford Rhinestones Virginia-based folk/Americana singer-songwriter Erin Lunsford recently released her sophomore album, Rhinestones, exploring motifs of love, family, mental health, friendship, discouragement, and leaving home. Talking about the album, Lunsford shares, “I have fixed rhinestones in my hair, I have glued sequins to my guitar, I have tried to make my body smaller and […]
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Susto Stringband Susto Stringband (Volume 2) On Susto Stringband (Volume 2), Justin Osborne revisits SUSTO’s songbook with the instincts of a front-porch band, modifying familiar material in the language of an Appalachian string band. That loose, road-worn feeling is central to the record’s appeal. Osborne explains, “This album was so much fun to make over […]
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Micah Edwards Texas Soul Micah Edwards’ Texas Soul plays like a map of the state drawn in sound, part country reverie, part retro-soul slow burn, sewn together from the after-hours atmosphere of dance halls, the ache of pedal steel, and the glow of old dives. Across the double LP, he pulls from the musical lingo […]
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Ryan Bingham They Call Us The Lucky Ones Ryan Bingham’s first album in seven years, They Call Us the Lucky Ones, arrives with the weight of a long afterglow. Seventeen years have passed since “The Weary Kind” first introduced a wider audience to his deliciously scratchy baritone through Crazy Heart, a song so all-conquering it […]
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If Lily Vakili’s 2025 long player Oceans of Kansas revealed the width and depth of her songwriting, the new six-track EP Live Wire pulls the camera in close. Arriving after an East Coast run, Live Wire is a musical snapshot of an artist trying to bottle the electrifying charge that happens when her songs stop […]
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Laura Chavez My Voice On My Voice, blues guitarist Laura Chavez treats the instrumental album like a self-portrait: part ancestry, part flex, part love letter to the sounds she grew up listening to. Split between covers and originals, the record doesn’t just showcase chops—it reveals the complexities of touch, tone, and taste, the kind of […]
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Mike Zito Outside Or The Eastside Fresh off a shiny 2025 Blues Music Award for Blues Rock Album of the Year (for Life Is Hard), Mike Zito does the rock-blues equivalent of a victory lap with Outside Or The Eastside, his fourth solo record. He’s in full control here—frontman, guitarist, and producer. The cast is […]
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Brooke Ashton The Love of Song For Brooke Ashton, songwriting has always been less about churning out another song than connecting with music itself. Her new album, The Love of Song, feels like an album that arrived when it was ready. It wasn’t rushed or released before its time. This album reveals a patient process. […]
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Emma Cook Of the Morning Indie-folk artist Emma Cook has recently released her latest long-player, Of the Morning, an exploration of personal transformation. Cook says, “I’ve always had a lot of ideas, and I’m trying not to minimize the fact that as a self-employed indie musician it’s a really big deal that I was able […]
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