Maybe some people think it’s splitting hairs, but we think there’s such a thing as Americana rock. It’s an Americana vein that’s a little in the Springsteen vein, but with a bit less of that hard driving element. Don McLean is the poster …
Category: Roots
A couple of rock jams you haven’t heard (but need to hear)
Oh yeah it’s time for some unconventional, quirky, satisfying rock. It’s such a diverse genre you can’t keep up with all of it, so we’ll find the best for you. Born Animal – “I Think I Think Too Much” -This dynamic rock hit …
Album Review: Hillside Spirit Revival – Self-titled debut from a rising gospel Americana group
If you are interested in deeply harmonic Americana music, you’ll love Hillside Spirit Revival. Sometimes bands use words like “revival” in an ironic sense, but you can tell from the first verse of the first song that the Hillside Spirit Revival come at …
Album Review: David Ramirez – We’re Not Going Anywhere
Austin, Texas singer-songwriter David Ramirez has come out swinging with this album. If you are looking for a relaxing Americana album, this is not for you. If you’re looking for some engaging folk rock that might just get you fighting mad, too, then …
Artist Interview: The Other Favorites – Josh Turner and Carson McKee prove to be clever songwriters, not fools at all
From the moment I accepted Josh Turner’s call for our video interview, I felt a sense of talking to someone important. Having corresponded with Carson McKee, the other half of the famous duo The Other Favorites, I was excited to digitally “meet” them …
New Music Friday – Episode 69 – Vote in the poll to decide who wins an artist feature!
If you’re a fan of exciting new music, you really should make a point to check out this list we curate every week. These are some amazing rising stars in the music world. Maybe you won’t love every track, but pick these from …
Album Review: The Wheelwrights – A Forest in Trees – Harmonic folk that’s good for your soul
One of the best things about editing a music website is that at the end of the day you can cover whatever you want. That was my decision on the Wheelwrights. After I fell in love with their harmonic folk compositions, I needed …
Rising Star: George Glew is an incredibly passionate songwriter
The reason most of you follow EarToTheGround is to find the next big thing in music. There are all sorts of playlists and tastemakers and ways to do that, but you read this site for OUR picks. Thanks for that! One of those …
Five New Songwriters to Help Us Find Hope
I don’t mean to trivialize the events of the past 24 hours (mass murder at a concert in Las Vegas and the death of American songwriting icon Tom Petty), but in these moments of collective mourning we do need hope. We hear a …
New Music Friday – Episode 67 – Vote in the poll to decide who wins an artist feature!
When we invented New Music Friday as a regular feature on the site, we hoped that artists would become more engaged without content and have an interest in promoting. It worked! These articles are far and away our best performing content for total …
