Listen to my favorite tracks off each album on my Spotify playlist! Updated weekly with all the best new country, Americana, and whatever else I feel like — this is music like your life depends on it. Ella Salter —…

Rodeo clowns bring levity to the drama and muscle of cattle and man — a titanic struggle that can be a metaphor for just about anything. With his rodeo days behind him, Sloppy Scales sets his sights on political satire,…

Lake & Lyndale engage in deft storytelling and wordplay on their latest song “The Man Upstairs.” Originally hailing from Minneapolis (the band’s name is a tribute to their hometown), the Nashville quartet weds keen musicianship with the lush pop country…

Listen to my favorite tracks off each album on my Spotify playlist! Updated weekly with all the best new country, Americana, and whatever else I feel like — this is music like your life depends on it. Wyatt Flores —…

Megan Burtt cuts to the quick on her recent song “Drugstore Brand.” Her album Witness came out this past September, and this single is a powerful motivator to listen to the rest. Here, Burtt takes a magnifying glass to self-loathing…