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Jenn Grinels and Marc Broussard Examine Love on "Evidence" (premiere)
Jenn Grinels and Marc Broussard join forces for the catchy, new soul-pop single, "Evidence".
18 Feb 2020
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Ben Watt Turns Middle-aged Angst Into Gold on 'Storm Damage'
For solo album #4, Ben Watt makes second age musings on mortality and introspection sound beautiful.
17 Feb 2020
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BeauSoleil's Michael Doucet Steps Out with Lâcher Prise for "Water Water" (premiere)
Cajun music legend and BeauSoleil founder Michael Doucet releases a video for "Water Water", recorded with his new adventurous, roots music quintet, Lâcher Prise.
14 Feb 2020
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Plugging Into the Third Mind
Alt-rock supergroup the Third Mind launches a musical adventure that brings Alice Coltrane and Roky Erickson together and doesn't forget the guitar solos.
14 Feb 2020
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Nathaniel Rateliff Gets Personal on 'And It's Still Alright'
The title of Americana artist Nathaniel Rateliff's latest solo LP, And It's Still Alright, suggests that there's joy after pain, but the record's contents also note that the opposite is true.
11 Feb 2020
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John Moreland's 'LP5' Finds Strength in Simplicity
Americana's John Moreland has a deep voice and sings without affectation. There's an honesty in his straightforward delivery and something down-to-earth even in his most lofty sentiments.
04 Feb 2020
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Andy Shauf Shines a Light on 'The Neon Skyline'
On The Neon Skyline, Andy Shauf reminisces about the bad as well as the good with the fuzziness of alcohol cushioning the blows of memory. Life continues, he notes, even if it doesn't always progress.
22 Jan 2020
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Leaving Room: Ryley Walker and Charles Rumback on Collaboration and Listening
Little Common Twist, the latest improvisatory album from Ryley Walker and jazz drummer Charles Rumback, sounds like listening. The two musicians are locked in intuitive communion that confines neither guitar nor drums to their pigeonholes. We ask them how they do it and why.
08 Jan 2020
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Fruition Bring Halloween Catharsis to Petaluma's Mystic Theater
Fruition give the Bay Area a boost with a triumphant All Hallows Eve performance in the wake of PG&E's forced blackouts.
02 Dec 2019
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Enjoy Yourself: An Interview with Todd Snider
Todd Snider's 2004 album, East Nashville Skyline, is getting a new lease on life with a new vinyl edition, but the veteran troubadour remains creatively restless and committed to his musical future. "I might sound like I know how life works but I don't. I know less about it all the time."
22 Nov 2019
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The Lumineers Get Cerebral on 'III'
Gone are the days of the Lumineers' pop-standards and monosyllabic earworms. III is a cerebral and disquieting portrait of addiction.
22 Nov 2019
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Alec Shaw Bares His Soul in a Live Rendition of "Fools Gold" (premiere)
Indie pop singer-songwriter Alec Shaw brings gospel flavoring to a new live rendition of "Fools Gold", a song about observing the grey areas in religion.
21 Nov 2019
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The Timetravellin' Bob Dylan: On 'Bringing It All Back Home'
Bob Dylan is going nowhere—and will continue to do so. That is his lot. That is our luck. He was there at the birth of America. He will be there at the funeral.
18 Nov 2019
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Light in the Attic Celebrates New Releases By Late Singer-Songwriter Jim Sullivan
Light in the Attic's Matt Sullivan discusses the legacy of the late L.A. singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan who set out for Nashville in 1975 and disappeared somewhere in New Mexico.
Jedd Beaudoin
15 Nov 2019
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Bruce Springsteen's 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' Calls Out to Us
Bruce Springsteen's 1995 album, The Ghost of Tom Joad, inherited and built upon some powerful 20th century American literary, political, and pop culture themes. Can we hear its haunting call in these times?
14 Nov 2019
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Michael Kiwanuka Journeys Into His Soul
Soulful British folk rocker Michael Kiwanuka brings listeners along for an evocative sonic journey on his new album, Kiwanuku.
14 Nov 2019
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Lost Classic Or Self-Indulgent Folly? Gene Clark's 'No Other' Redefines Country Rock
A flop in 1974, but now looked on as one of popular music's finest albums, does this expansive 4AD reworking of Gene Clark's No Other confirm its greatness, or reveal a case of the emperor's new clothes?
06 Nov 2019
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A Shirt of Violent Green: R.E.M.'s 'Monster' Gets the Deluxe Reissue Treatment
Twenty-five years after the release of R.E.M.'s Monster, a lavish boxed set of the Georgia quartet's most controversial album creates a much-deserved opportunity for reassessment.
31 Oct 2019
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Allison Moorer Adds Heavy Songs, True Blood and Healing Heart to Painful Origin Story
Americana's Allison Moorer has traveled the world, but revisits the early years of her small-town past — and the horrific moment that changed two sisters' lives — with an album and memoir that go to hell and back.
30 Oct 2019
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The Velvet Underground's 'Grey Album' and the Delineation of a Decade
The Velvet Underground's 1969 self-titled release, known as the "Grey Album", blazes boldly 50 years later, and retains the same sonic relevance as a Laura Nyro or Nick Drake record: artworks utterly of their moment, that sound like they could have been made yesterday.
29 Oct 2019
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"There Are No Rules": An Interview With Wilderado's Max Rainer
Tulsa, Oklahoma's Wilderado continue their steady climb toward a first album. Lead singer Max Rainer talks about deciding to return to the heartland and the power of opening for Judah & the Lion.
Jedd Beaudoin
25 Oct 2019
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Bob Weir and Wolf Bros Mine for Sonic Gold in California
Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir and his trio Wolf Bros close out the summer with a festive blast in Napa and Santa Cruz.
25 Oct 2019
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Lee DeWyze's "Castles" Captures Childhood Memories in a Bottle (premiere)
Singer-songwriter Lee DeWyze offers a wistful, bittersweet look into the past through the stop-motion, paper-craft world of his new music video, "Castles".
24 Oct 2019
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Americana's Midnight North Take the "Long View" with New Single (premiere)
San Francisco Americana collective Midnight North let loose a soulful new single, "Long View", ahead of their fall tour.
17 Oct 2019
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