I often find myself attracted to bands that have unique names, names the evoke questions, that demand explanations. The Wind and The Wave is one of those bands that provokes curiosity upon hearing the name and provides you with even more after the …
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Shaun Bosch–brought to you by the gorgeous Canadian wilderness
Some albums paint a portrait, a portrait of the artist or of the listener or both. This album is a landscape. It sprawls with gentle highlights, mountains and valleys, trees and rivers, the sun illuminating surfaces and casting shadows. “Silence” is one of …
Runaway Symphony – Cover “Washed by the Water” by NeedToBreathe and you need to hear it!
We’re big fans of NeedToBreathe here at ETTG and pretty much anything Eratosthenes Video films… so when those two things collided with this Runaway Symphony performance, we got really excited. The tempo is slower. The impact is still POWERFUL.
Kyle Cox–perfectly balanced southern rock-and-roll.
When I think of Florida, I think of old people and Disney World. This, despite having many friends there who consistently remind me that Florida has one of the fastest growing youth cultures in the nation. Kyle Cox has driven that fact home …
Free Music Friday! The Dirty Guv’nahs
Today is the first Free Music Friday of September, so we’re headed down south to Knoxville, TN and an old favorite of ours. The Dirty Guv’nahs are giving away their latest album, Hearts on Fire, for the next two weeks. Go, stop reading and …
Raining Jane – The Good Match
If you’re a Jason Mraz fan, these instruments and voices shoudl sound familiar as they are the band on the new album. If you aren’t, shame on you, but also, welcome to the world of Raining Jane, the incredibly talented groups of female …
Cahalen Morrison and Eli West – I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both of My Hands – Keeping traditional country music thriving
Every once in a while I run across an album that I find so endearing, so engaging, and so exciting that I struggle to find words for it. I kept this album in my car for my commute for literally weeks, thinking to …
Engine – Red Moon Rises – DIY Space Western music (for southern rock fans)
They do things differently in the South. Across the musical landscape that is changing and innovating, many bands are returning to their grassroots in order to unleash said music into the atmosphere. Bands like the pride of Shreveport, Louisiana, Engine are creating and …
Seven Reasons to Love Kollin Baer
1. This Texan turned Carolinian plays a whole bunch of instruments, including all of the sounds you will hear on his “The Woods” EP. He also has a voice like browned butter and a hoppy IPA. It’s smooth, mellow, earthy, but there …
Little Ugly – Named After Saints
So, every once and a while, we find a new band that’s oozing with such potential it becomes difficult to pinpoint which direction we’d like to see them go. Enter Little Ugly, a four piece folk band from Hartford, CT, and their EP, Where …
