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Full Album Stream: Mree, Winterwell
“There's something about winter that seems to resonate with me and my music,” says indie-folk songwriter Mree, “and at first, I knew I wanted to try and capture it. But after taking the time to let...
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Album Premiere: Austin Lucas, Stay Reckless
Bluegrass, folk, and classic country meet bar-band rock & roll on Stay Reckless, the new album by Austin Lucas. It’s his debut for New West Records, but Lucas has been kicking around the Americana...
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Album Premiere: Brian Wright, Rattle Their Chains
The last time Bright Wright made a record, he kept the studio doors closed, only allowing one person -- co-producer Mike Vizcarra -- to help him nail down the tracks for 2011’s House on Fire. “I...
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Stream Saul Conrad’s Chamber-Pop Head Trip The Fancy
It's time to take off your dancing shoes and put on your thinking caps. Saul Conrad’s newest album, The Fancy, is a chamber-pop head trip, filled to the brim with oddball tricks -- key changes,...
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Album Premiere: Broken Anchor, Fresh Lemonade
Broken Anchor's Fresh Lemonade hits the middle point between Band of Horses and Snow Patrol, mixing woodsy rock & roll with rafter-reaching pop. It’s the sound of summer days threatening to turn...
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Stream John Paul Keith’s Memphis Circa 3 AM
John Paul Keith kicks it old-school on Memphis Circa 3 AM, a rock & roll album rooted in the best parts of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Remember when Marshall Crenshaw released his debut album almost 30...
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Stream J.D. Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers’ Wild Moon
The last time we heard from J.D. Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers, they were strumming their way through a rootsy, old-timey sound with 2011’s Wake Up, Sinners. Two years later, those Kentucky coeds are...
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Stream Andrew St. James’ Doldrums
Listen to a single song by alt-folk artist Andrew St. James and you'll find that his widsom extends far beyond his 18 years. His debut album, Doldrums, is nearly overflowing with clever lines and...
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Album Premiere: Declan O’Rourke, Mag Pai Zai
If you've ever written anything, be it an essay for English class, a short story, or a record, you know how the process can go: you sit down, start writing, and everything is going swimmingly... until...
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Album Premiere: Misner and Smith, Seven Hour Storm
San Francisco folk duo Misner and Smith are set to release their fourth album, Seven Hour Storm on October 15. The album is full of riches --"Lost and Found," a beautiful and tranquilizing ballad,...
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Exclusive: Jeffrey Lewis Album Stream And Q&A
Jeffrey Lewis is a modest man. While bold-face names like Jarvis Cocker and Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard have sung his praises (Cocker calls him “the best lyricist working in the US today”), the...
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Album Preview: John Fullbright, From the Ground Up
Okemah, Oklahoma singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who we first caught wind of at SXSW, will release his debut album, From the Ground Up via Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers on May 8. We’re excited to bring...
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Full Album Stream: The Kickstand Band, Puppy Love
The Kickstand Band hails from Detroit, a town known for its contributions to the Motown, garage rock and punk genres. On their new single “Let’s Get Bored,” the group swirls all three into the same...
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David Mayfield Parade: Full Album Stream & Q&A
Singer-songwriter David Mayfield doesn’t usually worry much about the vibe or look of a recording studio room. With his band the David Mayfield Parade he’s typically content going headlong into a song,...
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Stream John Murry’s Debut Album The Graceless Age
In his glowing review of The Graceless Age, the debut effort from Bay Area singer-songwriter (and William Faulkner descendant) John Murry, Jim Beviglia writes: This is an album that doesn’t hide its...
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Full Album Stream: Walker Lukens, Devoted
“Hopefully, on this record, people will stop using the word ‘folk’ to describe my songs,” says Walker Lukens, an Austin-based songwriter whose newest album, Devoted, hits stores today. “I was unafraid...
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Full Album Stream: Jonny Fritz, Dad Country
We’re big fans of Jonny Fritz, the joke-cracking, countryfied songwriter formerly known as Jonny Corndawg. By mixing the old-school sounds of honky tonk and outlaw country with equal doses of humor and...
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Full Album Stream: Cold Satellite, Calvacade
After releasing a handful of sparse, stark solo albums, singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault began widening his sound, piecing together his own brand of textured, midwestern Americana laced with pedal...
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Full Album Stream: Dailey And Vincent, Brothers of the Highway
Before forming their own band, Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent paid the bills as session musicians, lending their fleet-fingered solos and high-lonesome harmonies to albums by bluegrass icons like...
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Stream Jason Isbell’s Intense and Personal Southeastern
Southeastern is an album about the big and, more often than not, serious things in Jason Isbell’s life: sobriety, marriage, inner demons, self-realization … to name a few. The personal and poetic...
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