Born and raised in Iowa, Erik Timmons began playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager. But drug addiction and mental health crises led to a series of legal problems, psychiatric wards, and rehabs. Of his difficult teenage years, Erik…
Nashville due Red:30 describe themselves as “bluesy neo-country” — a label I can get behind. “Won’t Be Coming Home” is a swaggering, finger-wagging tour de force scolding a lover whose spot has just been blown up. “Drop” Dee Draeger’s masterful…
If this is Josh Mavilia’s cautiously dipping his toe into songwriting, he’s in good shape. Mavilia is releasing songs drip by drip and, as this video attests, keeping it casual. Even on a YouTube video playing in his living room,…
The Saddlemen are a Brooklyn rock & roll band with a big passion for high-energy barroom-bangers and honest story-telling. I’ve really enjoyed their singles, and it sounds like an album is coming out soon. The band writes, “We hope our…
Jamaican-American artist Ivory! has a distinctive pull on her listeners, easy to hear (and hard to resist) on her latest single “Little Wings.” The song is a hypnotic, lilting waltz that conveys warmth and tragedy in one breath. The Chicago-based…
Hope permeates Heal the Heart, the new album from eclectic Americana/world-fusion Nashville-based band The Deer’s Cry. It’s perhaps surprising, then, that the 10 songs on the band’s second record, set for release on September 30, 2022, grew out of dark,…
M. Lockwood Porter is announcing his new album Sisyphus Happy, which will be released Oct. 14 via Black Mesa Records. The project was co-produced and recorded in collaboration with acclaimed Americana singer-songwriter and longtime friend John Moreland, who contributed drums, bass, and…
Soul-stirring Americana artist Brittany Collins is a late bloomer who never imagined that her calling would be singing, but once she discovered it, there was no turning back. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, she didn’t step on stage to perform…