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…

When Maynard lived in Reno, Nevada, he played at dive bars (including the acclaimed Shae’s Tavern) until he moved to New York City in 2019. That was where he hit the stages and met Cupid at an Open Mic in…