Singer-songwriter Buffalo Nichols released two new songs this week – his first since last year’s eponymous debut album. “Meet Me In The Bottom” brings electrifying blues while “Friends” shares evocative storytelling of hope, kindness and pain. The pairing creates a powerful and cathartic contrast – stay tuned for more to come from Buffalo Nichols in the near future.
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Singer-songwriter Matthew Davies released a new album this week. It’s a record of vivacity and palpable honesty with eleven tracks of Davies’ picturesque songwriting. He touches on topics like subconscious fears, joy in the present moment, finding what you’re good at, working hard to provide for the family, faith in a higher power. Musicians contributing to this record are Andrew
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At long last, Long Mama are out with their debut LP today. It’s ten songs that find singer-songwriter Kat Wodtke pouring her heart out to sweet melodies of Americana-tinged rock, country and folk. Incorporating themes of love, heartbreak, tough skin and running off to find yourself again, Long Mama detail the poignant affairs of companionship in life with “Poor Pretender.”
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Singer-songwriter Matthew Davies is gearing up to release a new album at the end of the month – before that though, he’s got a new single and video out that didn’t make it on the album. “Cinder Block” is about finding joy in the little things while the world feels like it’s falling apart, and Davies does so by goofing
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Mike Mangione pleas for reconciliation in a well-designed single and video.
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R.A.P. Ferreira sings the blues on a new EP.
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J. Ethan Zed is the solo folk project of dreamy rock act Angry Fix’s bassist Jeremy Zelman. He’s out with his debut album and it deals largely with everyday life in late-stage capitalism. Being a creative who’s forced to engage with a lifestyle of mindless work culture and exploitative systems is a challenge that we all face on the daily
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Dead, Dead Swans capture the tension and apathy of a relationship that crumbles on their single from “Lenses.”
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Americana singer-songwriter Mike Mangione has a new single and video out. He’s found in various settings – sandy fields, in the middle of the road, and in the backyard of a picturesque countryside house. The song touches on the concept of home, and how who and what you feel at home with shapes you as a person no matter where
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Americana rockers Long Mama are out with their second single off upcoming album “Poor Pretender.” With backing vocals from Eva Nimmer, Kat Wodtke tenderly sings the somber story of someone walking out on you without making a scene about it. The song takes thing downtempo, establishing a melancholy feel that reflects the stinging pain of abandonment. Stay tuned for Long
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With a distinct ramble, D.B. Rouse has the appeal of an earlier era.
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Peter Mulvey & SistaStrings sing of coming together in peace on a new single.
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Indie folk fixture Dead Horses have returned with a new album. Three years in the making, it’s ten tracks of warm, hopeful Midwestern charm that reflect the well-traveled evolution of Sarah Vos and Dan Wolff’s musical journey. Inspired by the titular Milwaukee strip, these songs intimately recognize the influence that places you’ve either grown up in or lived in leave
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Americana-folk band Long Mama are out with their debut single. It’s one about struggling to mask how you feel after getting heartbroken and feeling guilt for it. Kat Wodtke sings of being taught her whole life how to keep her head above water but now being vulnerable has become difficult. With a melancholy yet heartful delivery, Long Mama tackle the
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Dan Lepien sings about honest values and channeling his love on a new track.
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The group explores Americana on their new album.
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Country-Americana band Ryan Necci and the Buffalo Gospel released their new EP, featuring three recent singles and three unreleased ones. Tales of tribulations, cries for help, facing the devil, and acceptance are delivered with Necci’s reputably candid storytelling. While these songs channel despair and falter, he’s got fortitude in emerging from the bleakness, whether he’s breaking out of old habits
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Country-Americana band Ryan Necci and the Buffalo Gospel released the video accompanying their most recent single “Lend Me Your Heart.” Shot by Schuyler Howie, it finds Necci laying in the grass with the fragment of a mirror by his side. As he sings, he gets up and walks into the wilderness, where he finds more and more pieces of the
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Folk rock duo Wise Jennings released their new album on Friday. The husband-and-wife dynamic of Wise Jennings has always carried a polished, harmonious variety of country life storytelling; “Grinder” finds Jeff and Melissa contrasting tales of painstaking navigation of the current times with bright melodic synergy. Whether they’re singing tales of causing trouble in little towns (“Farmer’s Daughter”, “Mother Went
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Americana artist Old Pup’s latest single is out ahead of his upcoming album “Incognito Lounge.” With wailing harmonica and a rustic melody that fully soars into psychedelic territory in the second half, the song is lyrically honest and forthright about being hiding behind their phone screens without saying an actual word to one another, and it’s hard to break out
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The band delivers a somber new single.
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A new Americana duo emerges with a pair of tracks.
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The band brings you down home for their latest album.
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Singer-songwriter D.B. Rouse’s latest single is about being a brave couple in the desert. With Americana flare, Rouse tells a fun story of finding spicy wild berries, forgetting water, living among roadrunners and coyotes, and getting their car stuck. “Prickly Pair” is a warm folk tune that helps us during the winter blues just a bit.
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Singer-songwriter Merrill Miller released his debut single recently. Passionate and raw, the song is about loneliness and self-imposed isolation, where one yearns to be understood but fear of rejection keeps you quiet. It’s been easy for many to feel such a way in the last two years, and Merrill Miller turned those feelings into a solidarity tune with those struggling.
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