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 […]
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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Son Little Cityfolk Son Little’s new album, Cityfolk, reflects his heritage. His house in Atlanta flooded, and, due to a variety of other circumstances, he ended up recording in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where he connected with Alabama Shakes’ Ben Tanner. “Just by showing up, it brought something out,” Son Little explains. “I realized, in moving […]
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Sassparilla Honey, I’m Using Again Portland-and-Colorado-based Americana and back-porch soul band Sassparilla releases their new album, Honey, I’m Using Again, a collection of songs exploring motifs of loss, addiction, and survival. Produced by songwriter Kevin Blackwell and recorded in his studio basement in Golden, Colorado, Blackwell credits producer/engineer Chet Lyster for teaching him how to […]
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Tim Easton fIREHORSE Singer-songwriter Tim Easton unveils his new album, fIREHORSE, produced by Nashville producer Kevin Nolan, and featuring the rhythm section from Lainey Wilson’s band, with Matt Nolan (drums) and Tommy Scifres (bass). The cover art for the album is from a painting by Easton’s sister, Susan Easton Burns, reflecting an abstract-realist style, painted […]
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Lora Kelley Where I Am Now Americana artist and trauma-informed story work coach Lora Kelley recently released her newest album, Where I Am Now, which delves into themes of loss, recovery, and rebuilding life. Produced by Jeremy Casella, Where I Am Now features the talents of Matt Stanfield (piano), Josh Hunt (drums), Jacob Lowery (bass), […]
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