I’ve been drawn to Tucker Riggleman’s music precisely because it’s so intense and raw…yet has an intriguing sense of distance. Riggleman and his new band, the Cheap Dates, are giving us a brand new EP today with Heaven, and it’s…
Will Bennet’s one of those guys who sticks to his guns. After his spunky debut album, Wichita, Will needed to take a break to tend to some of the most important things in life. The band’s sophomore effort, All Your…
What do you get when you throw a bunch of jazz musicians into a jam session at New York’s famed the Bitter End? Well, some country rock, of course. That’s how New York-based band Saddlemen coalesced around a shared love…
Over the past few months, I’ve been struck by Grover Anderson‘s creativity. Between the blog and the podcast, I’ve introduced you to a few of his songs — and none of them sound the same. Anderson’s interested in telling the…
It’s not often that an artists takes 46 years between albums — let alone tours extensively to support it. But when Lavender Country, the first known recorded queer country band, was rediscovered in 2014 by Paradise of Bachelors records, it…