Old Coyote Club, a four-piece UK folk-punk band, is getting ready to release their second EP, The Serotonin Hustle. The six tracks on this recording start with “City Foxes,” a gritty acoustic punk offering, and then move on through “The […]
For the last several years I have worked as a freelance music journalist, publishing regularly with a handful of publications. Mostly I do it for the press passes to shows and free releases for review, etc, because I am a complete music nerd whose tastes include a variety of genres and subgenres. Roots music is one of my favorites, though. And I have done reviews and interviewed a number of today's more worthwhile country, bluegrass, blues, roots rock, rockabilly, psychobilly, folk, folk-punk bands and singer-songwriters.
Old Coyote Club, a four-piece UK folk-punk band, is getting ready to release their second EP, The Serotonin Hustle. The six tracks on this recording start with “City Foxes,” a gritty acoustic punk offering, and then move on through “The […]
Phantom of the Black Hills, one of the outlaw music scene’s favorite bands of renegade pickers, stummers, pluckers and bangers, is back with a new album on Ratchet Blade Records, Moonshine Bright. Continuing to terrorize the musical wagon trail of […]
There are a select handful of labels in today’s non-mainstream music that have proved themselves quite important to roots music and related genres and subgenres. One of those labels is the Chicago-based independent outfit Bloodshot Records, who have released more […]
Alaskan singer-songwriter Emma Hill has released a new ten-song indie folk and alt-country album on her own Kuskokwim Records. Denali, the follow-up to 2013’s The Black and Wretched Blue, features co-writer, multi-instrumentalist and project mainstay Bryan Daste, as well as […]
With their fourth full-length album, Sitcom Afterlife, Midwestern indie folk and pop band Frontier Ruckus are quite a number of miles down the road from their 2008 debut The Orion Songbook. It is a stretch of road that winds on and on […]
Austin-based bluesman and rocker John Schooley has composed and recorded a fresh 12-song album of one-man band brilliance and lunacy on Voodoo Rhythm Records. The Man Who Rode the Mule Around the World is Schooley’s first full-length release since 2007’s One […]
Brooklyn, New York-based troupe of music makers The World/Inferno Friendship Society, led by the one and only Jack Terricloth, have come together yet again to record a brand spanking new album of revelry and revolution, combining sound and word in a […]
During a time in music when listeners are utterly overwhelmed by the number of roots artists emerging, putting out recordings, and performing — all fueled by the steadily growing revival — there is a need for quality over quantity, now […]
Groningen roots rock trio Reverse Cowgirls are actually three guys with a rather unusual sound and setup. Songwriters Joost Dijkema and Michiel Hoving both sing and play foot drums and guitars, while Harry Kingman handles the upright bass. This somewhat […]
The Dead Brothers are one of those diverse and highly original bands one comes across too rarely in today’s music. This, along with the fact that they have only released six albums in the last 14 years, makes them quite […]