THE WATERBOYS Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1983, for three decades now The Waterboys have provided a thrilling conduit for the questing spirit of Mike Scott and a fluid cast of fantastic musicians. From “The Wh…

BILLY BRAGG It was thirty years ago today when the Saturday boy from Essex who would become Britain’s foremost political singer-songwriter released his first record, the mini-album Life’s a Riot With Spy Vs Spy. It co…

Eddi Front is the moniker of Ivana Carrescia, a Nevada-born, New York-based singer/songwriter. Her debut EP came out on 5th November 2012 via Best Fit Recordings. Her sound has been compared to Emily Haines, Lucinda Will…

Roge represents the new generation of artists of the Brazilian Popular Music movement. His sound is the carioca face of Brazil. He plays a groovy kind of samba and moves effortlessly from bossa nova to samba to reggae wi…

BLUE SKY RIDERS (Kenny Loggins, Georgia Middleman, Gary Burr) The creative spark that eventually evolved into Blue Sky Riders was struck when two veteran singer/songwriters worked on their first song together. When K…

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It’s not easy to fuse a connection between the heartstrings and the hipbone, to bridge the emotional intensity of a singer-songwriter and the effortless swagger of a born rocker. But that’s exactly what California-bred, …

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Carrie Rodriguez At each stage of Carrie Rodriguez’s career—as a fiddler, singer, and songwriter—the Austin, Texas, native has learned the importance of letting go. That was certainly true when it came to recording he…

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Henry Wagons, recently named one of Melbourne’s Top 100 Most Influential People, is unanimously lauded as one of Australia’s greatest and most entertaining performers. Along with his rare charisma he offers heavy doses o…

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Carrying Lightning “Let’s not give away what all the songs are about,” requests Amanda Shires via email — shortly after an hour-long interview discussing exactly that. “I think I prefer for the listener to decide for…

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Muscle Shoals, Alabama native Jason Isbell has been honing his much touted songwriting craft for several years now. He has released three studio albums and a live album all highlighting Isbell's Southern roots, effortles…

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COUNTRY TORCHBEARERS JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS RETURN ON MAY 14 WITH DARK AND DIRTY MILE CO-PRODUCED BY SHOOTER JENNINGS “…a newly invigorated and steadily striking force.” - New York Times “...there might be h…

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“Luscious, luminous, lilting lullabies” is how the New York Times describes songs by Lucius, a five-piece band from Brooklyn, NY. At the center of Lucius are the “alluring and magnetic” (Seventeen) singers-in-unison,…

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Joe Banfi is a boy with a guitar but he’s more than just a lonesome acoustic troubadour. He’s not just a singer-songwriter, either, nor is he simply a musician with a voice. Here is someone whose intention it is to have …

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The Staves are English sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, whose unique vocal harmonies and haunting melodies have already seen them tipped for success by The Guardian, iTunes, Time Out, The Times, Nylon,…

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Leif Vollebekk spent two years searching for perfect takes. This search took him from his home in Montreal to a studio in Manhattan, from a farmhouse in Woodstock, NY to a mansion outside Paris, and the result is a dusty…

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“Gentle, folky, confidential tone, undershot by a coolness of intelligence and self possession” 4/5 The Daily Telegraph (Pop CD of the Week) “A bewitching one-off talent” Daily Star “Dark-hearted pop songs that striv…

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Half Moon Run is a talented young band from Ottawa, Ontario and Comox, British Columbia. It was in a practice studio situated in Montreal’s Mile-End district, through the hardships of time constraints and flat-lined bank…

When is the sum of the parts of a musical quantity far greater than the whole? When Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison unite as an ongoing musical act. After all, their own individual artistic achievements already sum up …

He’s a little bit country. She’s a little bit…vampire. Together, they’re Paul McDonald and Nikki Reed, Hollywood’s newest power couple and potential heirs to the Civil Wars’ vacant throne. After meeting at the premier…

Zach Williams, the Lone Bellow’s lead singer and principal songwriter, can pinpoint just about exactly when the Brooklyn-based group serendipitously willed itself into being. It was around 9 a.m. one morning in 2010, at…

Johnnyswim is a Los Angeles based, Nashville born duo comprised of Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano. The stunning and original sound of this new vocal duo began in a record deal gone bad. Though he’d given up on a career …

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