Whatever level of success they are at, indie rockers trying to make headway in the music industry tend to downplay their “day jobs” – or make them an afterthought to their artistic intentions. Multi-talented singer, songwriter and Americana rocker Gary Douglas – frontm...

It’s not often that a debut album not only introduces us to a fab new emerging vocal and songwriting talent, but also the crackling, steel guitar vibes of two bands that should have been on our radar long before. So while we’re immersing in the sensual/seductive yet pl...

Any raw, down home and infinitely hipster-cool Americana artist bold enough to put singing “Disney songs into a turkey baster” as an early musical memory is bound to grab my attention.

If he’s transcended tragedy (the loss of his mother and stepfather in a plane crash)...

Some of Camille Nelson’s fondest memories of growing up in Salt Lake City are the intimate moments she shared with her mother, an opera singer, who would sing her to sleep with beautiful lullabies. Now, in the midst of an extraordinary adult lifetime that has included...

Still Gushing, the compelling, heartrending debut full length album from Athens, GA based duo Nocturnal Blonde, is one of those dazzlers that can be appreciated for its emotional power and charms even if you don’t know the poignant backstory that drives it.

From the hau...

With the upcoming, highly anticipated release of the James Thomas Band’s latest, perfectly titled album The Loves of My Life and their simmering, heart-tugging new single “Eileen,” the multi-talented, Virginia based soul-blues (with a tinge of country) rocker continues...

In 2016, almost a quarter century after The Sighs ruled the summer of ’92 with their rambunctious smash “Think About Soul” and toured with The Gin Blossoms and Spin Doctors, the New England power pop greats reunited and released a new album, Wait on Another Day. While...

With his dreamy and soulful, easy grooving and uber-romantic new single “Lullaby,” award winning alt-pop/rock/Americana singer songwriter TJ Doyle marks ten years as a powerful, socially conscious force in indie music.

Driven by his cool, contemporary twist on that endu...

The budding indie success of husband and wife Americana duo Shaun and Rachel Stief – aka The Stifftones - gives hope to songwriters and musicians whose dreams begin with raw performances at the local open mic. The two met in 2011 on that scene in and around their homet...

When you’re listening to music and writing a review on a swelteringly obnoxious 100-degree day in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, you kind of look for any positive thing to say about the region. Learning that the unpredictably crazy-cool and eclectic band Wild Wing was for...

Forty- two years after Meat Loaf’s epic, multi-platinum global smash Bat out of Hell put Cleveland International Records in our collective musical consciousness, the legendary indie label is back in business. While their relaunch started with a CD and LP release of its...

With nine previous albums, including the critically acclaimed 2011 collection Kansawyer billed to W.C. Beck & The Valiant Swains, the multi-talented rootsy hybrid singer-songwriter should already be on most of our radars. But for those new to the Beck experience, there...