2020 was going to be a big year for the Mad Caddies. The Santa Barbara, California, sextet had reached an impressive milestone: 25 years as a band. Had you asked any…
Thom Jurek at All Music said it best, “Only Gram Parsons’ term “Cosmic American Music” begins to touch her mercurial, changeling roots aesthetic, … McNally is a Zen-like, post-Beat song…
Minnesota’s Clayton Ryan is made of a different soil. His music isn’t available on streaming services. His albums are entirely crowd-funded, with zero use of kickstarter sites. He has built a…
Lou Roy’s debut album Pure Chaos might well be a little magical. The LA singer-songwriter, 29, had been getting deep into chaos magic, and she found that embracing the forces…
Born and raised on Boston’s North Shore, 25-year-old Lily Fitts is emerging as one of the most compelling new voices — an artist defined not by genre, but by the…
The year was 2019 when Kenny Mason seemingly emerged with his breakout single “Hit.” The song was a hit indeed (with over 17 million streams on Spotify alone), though it…
Joe Lally was onstage, playing at full throttle, when he realized that his band had found a true kindred spirit. It was the fall of 2021 and the Messthetics —…
Born and raised in Chicago, Graham meshes South Side Blues with Nashville Americana, beginning his career backing blues singers at famous haunts like Buddy Guy’s Legends and Kingston Mines. He…
Kolton Moore & The Clever Few’s steady rise from Texas’ best-kept secret to national headliner status didn’t come easy. For years, the band played 250 shows annually, sharpening their mix…
When Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mali Velasquez traded her Texas panhandle home for the verdant foothills of Tennessee, she did so with a newfound perspective that mirrored her environment, culminating in the…