Anderson East – Delilah
Delilah – the third album and first major label release – from singer/songwriter Anderson East…read more→
Bumper Jacksons – Too Big World
The sophomore release from the Baltimore sextet Bumper Jacksons, Too Big World, is a collection…read more→
Homesick Hank – Beautiful Life
The Danish Americana band Homesick Hank formed in 2002 and it’s been six years since…read more→
Kevin Gordon – Long Gone Time
Nashville based Kevin Gordon follows-up his excellent 2012 release Gloryland with Long Gone Time –…read more→
Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
Since his departure from the southern country rock band the Drive-By Truckers in 2007, Jason…read more→
Israel Nash – Israel Nash’s Silver Season
Israel Nash follows-up his critically acclaimed 2013 album Rain Plans with Israel Nash’s Silver Season,…read more→
The Lonesome Billies – It’s Good To Be Lonesome
Portland four-piece The Lonesome Billies play a spirited blend of classic country, honky tonk, and…read more→
The Amigos – Diner In The Sky
The Amigos (now Silver City Bound) are a toe-tapping, high-energy accordion driven Americana band that…read more→
The Honeycutters – Me Oh My
Asheville, NC quintet The Honeycutters’ third album, Me Oh My, was produced by band leader…read more→
Rayland Baxter – Imaginary Man
Nashville based singer/songwriter Rayland Baxter’s sound has evolved from the stripped down acoustic vibe of…read more→
Phil Cook – Southland Mission
The impressive solo album Southland Mission by Phil Cook (Megafaun) was co-produced alongside his brother…read more→
Roadside Graves – Acne/Ears
It’s been four long years since New Jersey band Roadside Graves released the excellent We…read more→
Ruby Boots – Solitude
Perth based country singer/songwriter Ruby Boots (a.k.a. Bex Chilcott) follows-up a pair of well received…read more→
John Craigie – Working On My Farewell
John Craigie’s latest album, Working on My Farewell, is in its own right a departure…read more→
Built To Spill – Untethered Moon
Built to Spill’s 8th album, Untethered Moon, sees Doug Martsch and a combination of new…read more→
Eilen Jewell – Sundown Over Ghost Town
Following 2011’s acclaimed Queen of the Minor Key, singer/songwriter Eilen Jewell relocated back to her…read more→
Leon Bridges – Coming Home
Texas singer Leon Bridges’ debut album Coming Home is like stepping back in time to…read more→
The Dustbowl Revival – With A Lampshade On
The Dustbowl Revival follows-up 2013’s excellent “Carry Me Home” with a new batch of genre…read more→
Sam Outlaw – Angeleno
It was only a year ago that successful ad-sales director Sam Morgan took his mother’s…read more→
Dawes – All Your Favorite Bands
Dawes pulls out all the stops for their albums, relocating to specific studios and working…read more→
Barna Howard – Quite A Feelin’
Portland based singer/songwriter Barna Howard is out with his sophomore effort, Quite A Feelin’, the…read more→
Andy Gabbard – Fluff
Andy Gabbard (guitarist, vocalist) of the Cincinnati based rock band Buffalo Killers has released his…read more→
Charlie Parr – Stumpjumper
Prolific Minnesota based musician Charlie Parr is out with a fantastic full band album, Stumpjumper.…read more→
Joe Pug – Windfall
Following Joe Pug’s debut full-length Messenger in 2010 and The Great Despiser in 2012, and…read more→
Anna and Elizabeth – Anna and Elizabeth
The duo of multi-instrumentalist/singer Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Virginian folk singer Elizabeth LaPrelle released a beautiful…read more→
Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line – Wake
Nora Jane Struthers’ third album, Wake, continues to stray from her bluegrass roots to a…read more→
John Moreland – High on Tulsa Heat
Over the past few years some of the best emerging singer/songwriter talent has come out…read more→
Emma Swift – Emma Swift
Australian Emma Swift isn’t well known here in the states, but back home she is…read more→
Leaf Rapids – Lucky Stars
Leaf Rapids is the side project of Manitoba based band Nathan (singer/songwriter Keri Latimer and…read more→
Pharis and Jason Romero – A Wanderer I’ll Stay
Hailing from Horsefly, British Columbia husband-and-wife duo Pharis and Jason Romero released their third full-length,…read more→
Trout Steak Revival – Brighter Every Day
Coming off a win at the 41st Telluride Bluegrass Band Competition, Colorado based Trout Steak…read more→
Matthew E. White – Fresh Blood
Richmond, VA based Matthew E. White follows-up 2012’s excellent hazy Laurel Canyon, southern soul, piano…read more→
Buxton – Half a Native
I’m always surprised when a talented band like Houston’s Buxton hasn’t caught on beyond critics…read more→
William Elliott Whitmore – Radium Death
Iowa native William Elliott Whitmore is best known for his stark, rural folk albums, but…read more→
The Foghorn Stringband – Devil in the Seat
Portland’s The Foghorn Stringband may be one of the hardest working relatively unknown bands despite…read more→
Tom Brosseau – Perfect Abandon
For almost 15 years, Tom Brosseau has been writing and playing a brand of timeless…read more→
Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
24-year-old singer-songwriter/guitarist Ryley Walker follows-up his excellent 2014 full-length debut All Kinds of You, with…read more→
American Aquarium – Wolves
Wolves by Raleigh’s American Aquarium (a.k.a. singer/songwriter BJ Barham) is a bold and introspective album…read more→
Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight
The sophomore full-length album from Indiana quartet Houndmouth embraces a spirited combination of rock and…read more→
Calexico – Edge of the Sun
Tucson’s Calexico follows 2012’s New Orleans tinged Algiers with their eighth album Edge of the…read more→
Pokey LaFarge – Something In The Water
American music revivalist Pokey LaFarge jumps from Jack White’s Third Man Records to Rounder Records…read more→
Banditos – Banditos
Gritty, whiskey soaked Nashville-based/Birmingham bred southern rock band Banditos release their full-length self-titled debut via…read more→
Davey Craddock and The Spectacles – Going Home
For the past decade or so, Perth based Davey Craddock has built a reputation for…read more→
Tobias Jesso Jr. – Goon
If you’re are not yet familiar with Tobias Jesso Jr., he was member of the…read more→
Elvis Perkins – I Aubade
Six years after the release of his sophomore album Elvis Perkins in Dearland, the singer/songwriter…read more→
Pops Staples – Don’t Lose This
The posthumous Roebuck “Pops” Staples release Don’t Lose This comes to us by way of…read more→
Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear
Father John Misty (the mystical faux-bohemian alter ego of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman) follows 2012’s Fear…read more→
Two Gallants – We Are Undone
Two Gallants – the duo of Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel – have over the…read more→
JD McPherson – Let The Good Times Roll
JD McPherson was the breakout artist on the 2010 roots music scene with his debut…read more→
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors – Medicine
Medicine – the follow-up to Nashville-based singer/songwriter Drew Holcomb’s critically acclaimed 2013 album Good Light…read more→
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Jake Xerxes Fussell
The self-titled debut from Durham, NC based Jake Xerxes Fussell is an outright gem that…read more→
Steve Gunn and The Black Twig Pickers – Seasonal Hire
Seasonal Hire is collaborative release by indie folk artist Steve Gunn (formerly of Kurt Vile…read more→
The Lone Bellow – Then Came The Morning
The Lone Bellow follow-up their critically acclaimed 2013 self-titled debut album with Then Came the…read more→
Anthony D’Amato – The Shipwreck From the Shore
New Jersey native Anthony D’Amato’s start in songcraft began in Ivy League academia, with his…read more→
Whitey Morgan and The 78’s – Born Raised and Live From Flint
Whitey Morgan and The 78’s have released two country studio albums, 2008’s Honky Tonks &…read more→
Ronnie Fauss – Built To Break
Dallas based singer-songwriter Ronnie Fauss returns with his sophomore LP Built to Break, which follows…read more→
Justin Townes Earle – Absent Fathers
Absent Fathers is the companion piece to Justin Townes Earle’s late 2014 release, Single Mothers.…read more→
Sean Rowe – Madman
Troy, NY singer/songwriter Sean Rowe recently released his fourth album (fifth, if counting the re-release…read more→
Steve Gunn – Wayout Weather
New York based guitarist Steve Gunn has long paid his dues, as a member of…read more→
JP Harris and The Tough Choices – Home Is Where the Hurt Is
Nashville’s JP Harris & The Tough Choices released their follow-up to 2012’s award winning debut,…read more→
Field Report – Marigolden
Milwaukee, WI based quartet Field Report, led by Chris Porterfield (formerly of DeYarmond Edison), is…read more→
Mike Farris – Shine For All The People
Mike Farris, the former leader of the Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies and member of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s…read more→
Kevin Morby – Still Life
Prolific young musician Kevin Morby (the Woods bassist and Babies singer/guitarist) is out with his…read more→
Elliot Brood – Work And Love
Toronto trio Elliott Brood has released some of the best darkly tinged yet warmhearted roots…read more→
Shakey Graves – And The War Came
Austin based singer/songwriter Alejandro Rose-Garcia, better known as Shakey Graves, released his second excellent album,…read more→
Hiss Golden Messenger – Lateness of Dancers
Hiss Golden Messenger (MC Taylor) has had a pretty good year with the reissue of…read more→
Mirel Wagner – When The Cellar Children See The Light
When The Cellar Children See The Light is another hauntingly beautiful album by Finnish singer/songwriter…read more→
Justin Townes Earle – Single Mothers
Nashville-based Justin Townes Earle refuses to be pigeon-holed and seems to reinvent himself on each…read more→
Foxygen – …And Star Power
Foxygen (Sam France and Jonathan Rado) is back with their sophomore release and follow-up to…read more→
EDJ – EDJ
Last November, the folk rock band Fruit Bats announced they were calling it quits, and…read more→
Lewis And Clarke – Triumvirate
Lewis & Clarke (Lou Rogai) quietly released some of the best folk-tinged indie music over…read more→
Christopher Denny – If The Roses Don’t Kill Us
Seven years after Christopher Denny’s debut solo album, Age Old Hunger, Denny returns with Roses…read more→
King Tuff – Black Moon Spell
King Tuff (aka Kyle Thomas) seamlessly blends elements of garage rock, glam rock, and ’70s…read more→
Top Albums 2014
Our favorite albums of 2014 from left to right and top to bottom. Click the…read more→
Hollis Brown – Gets Loaded
New York band Hollis Brown boasts a song-for-song recreation of The Velvet Underground’s 1970 classic,…read more→
Lucero – Live From Atlanta
Live From Atlanta is the long overdue live album from Lucero – a band who…read more→
Luke Winslow-King – Everlasting Arms
Luke Winslow-King’s fourth full-length album, Everlasting Arms, is another polished set of 13 songs that…read more→
Old Crow Medicine Show – Remedy
On Remedy, the first album by Old Crow Medicine Show following the departure of founding…read more→
Trampled By Turtles – Wild Animals
On their seventh album titled Wild Animals, Duluth MN’s Trampled by Turtles continue to push…read more→
No Sinner – Boo Hoo Hoo
No Sinner takes it name from lead singer Colleen Rennison (“Rennison” spelled backwards), and is…read more→
Kevin Lee Florence – Given
California native and Portland, OR based singer/songwriter Kevin Lee Florence has released his debut album,…read more→
Cahalen Morrison and Country Hammer – The Flower of Muscle Shoals
Cahalen Morrison, along with his full band, Country Hammer, have released the The Flower of…read more→
Avi Buffalo – At Best Cuckold
Its been four years since the Long Beach, CA indie pop band Avi Buffalo (aka…read more→
Annie Ford Band – Annie Ford Band
Earlier this year, Virginia native and Seattle based Annie Ford is out with her stellar…read more→
Colleen Rennison – See The Sky About To Rain
Vancouver actress/musician Colleen Rennison is the lead singer of the boozy blues rock band, No…read more→
J. Mascis – Tied To A Star
J. Mascis’ latest solo release, Tied to a Star, picks-up where 2011’s Several Shades of…read more→
Jeff Whitehead – Bloodhound Heart
Austin based singer/songwriter Jeff Whiteblood released his debut solo full length, Bloodhound Heart, which follows…read more→
Ryley Walker – All Kinds of You
24 year old Chicago native and singer/songwriter/guitarist Ryley Walker is out with his full length…read more→
Nikki Lane – All or Nothin’
East Nashville based musician Nikki Lane released her second Dan Auerbach (Black Keys) produced album,…read more→
Pickathon 2014
3,500 attendees. 80 acres of farmland and woods. 50 indie bands. 16 years running. 7…read more→
Jessica Lea Mayfield – Make My Head Sing
After recording two albums with Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), singer/songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield decided…read more→
John Fullbright – Songs
Following his Grammy Award nominated 2012 debut, From the Ground Up, John Fullbright is back…read more→
Jerry David DeCicca – Understanding Land
The Black Swans released their last album, Occasion For Song, in 2012 – a candid…read more→
Zoe Muth – World of Strangers
Seattle native and Austin transplant Zoe Muth returns with her third album, World of Strangers…read more→
The 24th Street Wailers – Wicked
Toronto’s The 24th Street Wailers latest album, Wicked, is a blistering set of dirty, gritty,…read more→
Willie Watson – Folk Singer Vol. 1
Willie Watson of Old Crow Medicine Show released his solo debut, Folk Singer Vol. 1,…read more→
Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Sturgill Simpson won many fans with his 2013 debut album, High Top Mountain – a…read more→
Reuben and the Dark – Funeral Sky
Calgary singer/songwriter Reuben Bullock began as a solo act, but eventually expanded into a full…read more→
Chuck E. Weiss – Red Beans and Weiss
It has been seven years since SoCal bohemian stalwart Chuck E. Weiss released his last…read more→
Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams
Canadian blues folk trio Timber Timbre are out with their fantastic fifth album, Hot Dreams,…read more→