Anyone who attended festivals across America in 2012 (or at least saw the lineups) knows that a couple of the biggest themes have been simple folks bands laced with vocal harmonies and old dirty guitar garage rock. With a certain savvy, Two Gallants …
Artist Interview: The Young Vanish
It’s not every day we get a chance to hear genuine talent. Oftentimes music is full of co-opted mimicry. We don’t make it any better by saying artists sound like this one or that one. What makes true musical greatness, as we’ve learned …
Tips on How to Submit to a Music Blog
It’s been our experience that a lot of bands and promoters are doing it wrong. The process of submitting music to critics, bloggers, and other writers is complicated in one sense because each site wants things differently, but it’s often super simple. Here …
YouTube Gem: Nizlopi – Start Beginning
It’s one of my sad things, that Nizlopi is no longer a band. Two guys, a guitar and a stand up bass, seems a little slim for a band, but throw in some beatboxing, an incredible voice, and great songwriting and it’s all …
The Sheepdogs – The Sheepdogs
Every once in a while you get a chance to hear an album that takes you places. The Sheepdogs debut salvo does that with remarkable form taking listeners to the early seventies. They sound like The Doors meet Kansas. It’s classic rock, but …
Field Report – Field Report
Sometimes there are bands that don’t have success, fall apart, and find all of their members go on to varying degrees of, but undoubtedly, success. When you find out, 10 years later, that these guys all played together, you wonder why in the …
Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
Every once in a while a band comes along that changes everything for you. The way you think, feel, and experience the world is altered. You remember where you were the first time you heard them, what you were doing the first time …
YouTube Gems: Le Wrens – “Don’t Forget Me”
I’ve written about Le Wrens before. I feel terrible describing them as Noah Gundersen’s family… but… I mean… they are. But they stand on their own right. The phenomenal family harmonies on this song, “Don’t Forget Me” assure that we will not forget …
Kelley McRae Interview
The day is finally upon us. We had the chance to sit down with Kelley McRae, our unofficial artist of the month for September due to her new album, her new album giveaway (its FREE here), and her willingness to sit down with …
Artist Interview: Singer-Songwriter Lizzy Ross
Lizzy Ross, an artist I found through her YouTube cover of “To Make You Feel My Love” helped us out by answering a few questions about her music. In addition to the video at the end of the interview, I highly encourage you …
