If you are like us at Ear to the Ground, you can easily spend hours on Youtube jumping through great performances from bands and cats alike. Today we offer you the fruit of our latest binge session. Here are three exceptional acts who …
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Crowdfunding Friday: Rachael Kilgour – Singer Songwriter Wants Your Support to Do This Album Right
Rachael Kilgour is absolutely as authentic as you will find in the music world today. Her album, as she admits, is born out of heartache and radical change in her life. The resulting music is something like raw, real country music and some …
Artist Interview – Heat / / New music from old souls
There is something undeniably cool about Montreal act Heat. The band would be just as much at home in ‘70’s New York City as they are in any modern club basement. Lead vocalist and Rickenbacker maestro Susil Sharma plays a melancholy but confident …
Album Review: Woody Pines – Self Titled
Album Review: Woody Pines – Self Titled Stop what you’re doing and click play on Woody Pines. He sounds like a countrified Pokey Lafarge. It’s that Justin Townes Earle style with a standup bass and fiddle behind him. It might be tempting to …
Three Singer Songwriters for Hayrides and Fall Festivals
Three Singer Songwriters for Hayrides and Fall Festivals Image credit: Flickr user Rich Bowen – Creative Commons Something about fall makes me want pump……… okay, not that. I’m actually more of the football and apple-everything. But more to the point here, I really …
Album Review: Mary Bue – Holy Bones
Album Review: Mary Bue – Holy Bones There’s something about the tone on the guitars on Mary Bue’s album Holy Bones that just sounds cool. Not cool as in “groovy man,” but cool as in temperature cool. It’s a great indie rock album …
Throwback Thursday: In The Valley Below – Pop Indie Fusion Gold
I cannot tell you how much we love In the Valley Below. Since covering them a little over a year ago, the band has exploded with bookings on a few late night shows and heavy radio play. This week, they are kicking off …
Artist Interview: Emily Hearn – Authentic Athens Georgia singer songwriter
Artist Interview: Emily Hearn – Authentic Athens Georgia singer songwriter Emily Hearn is an endearing singer songwriter who, if she’s honest, is actually half of a duo in life and in her music. Michael Harrison, Emily’s husband, is her musical partner as well. …
Five Americana Bands You Have to Hear to Believe
Five Americana Bands You Have to Hear to Believe Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers – Ocooch Mountain Home -Many bands attempt the “old timey” sound, but so few can do it well. Listeners will be shocked to hear that this is a 2015 album and …
Album Review: Beta Radio – Colony of Bees
Album Review: Beta Radio – Colony of Bees It’s shameful that we’re nearly a year away from this release and finally getting it the press it deserves, but here we go. Beta Radio are one of my favorite bands making music because of …
