CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Pssst ... Bandcamp Fridays Are a Great Time for Roots Music Preorders
In case you haven't heard the news, Bandcamp Fridays are back for the remainder of the year. For those unfamiliar, Bandcamp is a site that caters to independent and small-label artists, and Bandcamp Friday is an idea that began early in the pandemic. On the first Friday of
Madison Cunningham’s Relentless Evolution
Madison Cunningham is an artist who aims high.
The 25-year-old singer-songwriter already has two Grammy nominations and a showering of critical praise for her deft, jazz-inflected singing and guitar work as well as her preternaturally sophisticated lyricism, but her career thus far is really a story of constant, relentless artistic
Tyler Childers Lets Us Hear That ‘Angel Band,’ Announces New Album
After a few days of teasing via his mostly dormant Instagram account, Tyler Childers released a new song this morning, “Angel Band” — with two takes available on streaming services, “Jubilee Version” and “Hallelujah Version.”
As the titles might suggest, it’s a church-inflected modern-day hymn, peppered with phrases from gospel
ALBUM REVIEW: Stillhouse Junkies Capture the Sounds of ‘Small Towns’
On their latest album, Small Towns, Stillhouse Junkies have curated a collection of songs bearing the imprint of the area around Durango, Colorado, that the three members of the band now call home.
Products of small towns themselves, guitarist Fred Kosak, fiddler Alissa Wolf, and bassist Cody Tinnin met in
ALBUM REVIEW: Charley Crockett Lets His Band Shine on 'The Man From Waco’
For a solo artist releasing an album about a single titular protagonist, it’s an interesting turn by Charley Crockett to sequence the entire affair by giving his backing band the first impression. As it turns out, it’s a fitting move given that The Man From Waco is the
ALBUM REVIEW: Freedy Johnston Goes Retro on ‘Back on the Road to You’
Assuming you are old enough, you only need to listen to the first few bars on Freedy Johnston’s new album, Back on the Road to You, to be carried back to the late 1970s and the light pop of adult-oriented radio.
The entire album is a series of rocky