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,…