"Satin Warrior" envelops listeners in a hypnotic, laid-back feel that showcases Duke Garwood's blend of haunting clarinet, fervent vocals and intricate instrumentation. The single is a journ...

Call it Prairie Noir or Canadiana Desert Rock: Abigail Lapell sings haunting, gorgeous modern folk songs. The Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist returns with Anniversary, an evocat...

Daniel Romano's Outfit is a Canadian indie rock band shrouded in mystery, and known for their high intensity live performances. The band, which has garnered a reputation as a powerhouse supe...

If you're looking for ska with a touch of pop, you'll find it in England, of course, with Madness. But in recent years, a somewhat younger band has also played itself into the focus of all t...

Viv & Riley's sound is old-soul roots music to its core, elegantly combining a traditional backbone with the fresh iconic melodies of future-leaning indie-folk, and the tightly wound voc...

Sean Rowe is an American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist, and forager. Rowe has a powerful sound with an emotional conviction that demands attention. NPR’s All Songs Cons...

“I’m always trying to do something different because I feel like if we’re not searching, we’re not learning,” says ultimate folk troubadour, punk pioneer, and f...

Forgotten But Not Gone & Few and Far Between is the new double LP by songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling. Written and self-produced at home in the wake of a painful divorce from his par...

The story of Cordovas is one of rock ’n’ roll seekers, hammering away in search not just for a platonic ideal of their freewheeling sound, but also for some greater truth about o...

Victoria, BC-based singer/guitarist Jesse Roper has released his single, “Way Down In The Valley.” Roper is a blues/Americana artist with a penchant for writing modern indie-infu...

They’ve toured the world countless times. They kept the leather jacket-and-Converse look alive through an increasingly neon landscape. They’ve written songs about KISS, Top Gun a...

 At its best, harmony duo singing can transform simple math into a magic trick. One plus one, instead of equaling two, suddenly yields an unexpected third thing. An upper-case ONE. A un...

Buffalo Nichols released The Fatalist, his evocative and mesmerizing sophomore album, via Fat Possum. On the album Buffalo Nichols breathes new life into the blues. “Those ’70s...

"The January Album", the fourth record from Adam and David Moss, those twin sons of Peoria, Illinois, known musically as The Brother Brothers, is a COVID-era record in the strictest sense: T...

For nearly two decades, American Aquarium have pushed toward that rare form of rock-and-roll that’s revelatory in every sense. On their new album The Fear of Standing Still, the North...

The Hanging Stars continue to intrigue and amaze, "On A Golden Shore" is still cosmic but branching out. Having fashioned their most fully realised album in the shape of ‘Hollow H...

Songwriter Dylan LeBlanc, once quick-tempered and rash, has finally stopped fighting. His latest album, Coyote, finds him reconnecting with his father, and becoming a dad himself: "It's your...

Current Nashville resident Emily Nenni was born and raised in California. She has a vocal twang that is bigger than that of the state of Texas. Where she got her accent is unclear, but odds...

Formed in Santa Barbara, California, in 1995, the Mad Caddies quickly emerged as a unique force in the music scene with their original name "The Ivy League". Known for their energetic blend...

Strung Out and Belvedere will be over in the Netherlands for an appearance at Zwarte Cross and a show in Musicon this summer. Dead Rebellion marked a milestone for Strung Out's 35-year jour...

Founded in 1970, Asleep At The Wheel has been part of the American Roots music landscape for more than fifty years. Although the band got its start on a farm in Paw Paw, West Virginia, Aslee...

Jenny Don’t and the Spurs have been pioneering their own path in the music world for over a dozen years. Known for their high-energy Country Western style and captivating stage presenc...

Malin Pettersen’s solo debut References Pt. 1 won her a Spellemann Award (Norwegian Grammy), but it was the acoustic EP Alonesome that lifted her name to prominence outside of her nati...

Daniel Romano's Outfit is a Canadian indie rock band shrouded in mystery, and known for their high intensity live performances. The band, which has garnered a reputation as a powerhouse supe...

Singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, band leader, activist, and Grammy nominee. Aaron Lee Tasjan has been and continues to be all of these things.  Tasjan has released four excelle...

Canadian singer/songwriter Andrew McClelland, better known under his performance name, Li’l Andy, has produced a project of some considerable ambition and vision and has done so with u...

 Dr. Dom Flemons “The American Songster" received an Honorary Doctorate from Northern Arizona University and he's a GRAMMY Award Winner with four GRAMMY nominations, two-time EMMY...

It’s been a time of intense, worldwide change over the past few years … or maybe it all depends on scale. Zooming out to a geological timeline, maybe not much has changed at all...

Reaching the 32nd year of their career, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club present their newest LP, Kinnery of Lupercalia / Buell Legion, released May 31st. This is the second part of a trilogy o...

Australian pub-rock firebrands Private Function are coming to the Netherlands. Having spent the better part of five years crafting a solid reputation as one of the country’s most expl...

In Corb Lund’s world, the card tables are hot, the stakes are high, the boots are dirty, and the drinks are stiff. Listening to El Viejo, the Canadian country singer stalwart’s l...

Bob Wayne is a musician who makes raw, deep and 'pure country' music, balancing between comedy and dark truths. He never tries to be something he is not, and therefore ensures that everythin...

The Deep Dark Woods (solo) have announced the latest in their series of traditional music releases, ‘Broadside Ballads Vol. III’, which came out on May 3rd.  Following...

The Dead South have never been about constant reinvention, but about full commitment to their own singular way. With confidence in their sound and style and trust in each other, The Dead Sou...

Having fashioned their most fully realised album in the shape of Hollow Heart, albeit in the depths of lockdown, The Hanging Stars returned to the place of its genesis, the remote recording...

Skating Polly are coming back to Europe! October dates announced now: 10/10: Cologne, DE - Blue Shell11/10: Bielefeld, DE - Forum12/10: Tergnier, FR - Elles Rock Festival13/10: Brighton, UK...

Americana Award winner Sam Outlaw returns on European soil with Terra Cotta, a new album of ten original songs out last March.  Terra Cotta's sound is indicative of Sam’s evolvin...

The Harlem Gospel Travelers return with a brand new single "God's Love" and announce a short European tour.  Plucked from the depths of the Numero Group catalog, the group gives this h...

Acclaimed singer-songwriter and musician, Kaia Kater, unveils "In Montreal," the latest single from her highly anticipated album, Strange Medicine, set to release on May 17, 2024, via Free D...

Vincent Neil Emerson has become a staple among folk and country music fans in the US, celebrated for his honest tales of life on the road, heartbreak, and struggles of all sorts. His first L...

Dylan LeBlanc is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who often finds himself flirting with the edge -- or “dancing on a razor,” as he calls it -- as it is all he has ev...

Following the critically acclaimed release of the ""Ozarker" album, and an almost sold out winter tour, Israel Nash will return for another run of European dates this summer. Israel Nash ma...

The rock’n’roll mystics from Los Angeles, Death Valley Girls, are back with, Islands In The Sky, which is ready to tap into the depths of your cosmic energy. As a guidebook to sp...

Emotions that we feel but don’t talk about, and political taboos drenched in sarcasm, shaken, and poured into a glass battlecry on the psych-rocks — the Lauren Ruth Ward cocktail...

Tré Burt's latest album, Traffic Fiction, is a loving tribute to his late grandfather Tommy Burt. Inspired by the music they'd drive around and listen to, the record is a big swing in...

Second chances are rare in rock 'n' roll. Most bands only get one shot at the brass ring, and once the opportunity passes by, it's gone forever. Maybe that's why Uncle Lucius sounds lik...

Nat Myers' debut album Yellow Peril (Easy Eye Sound) is a back-porch rallying cry against injustice, otherness and Asian hate. It's a collection which calls on the sounds of the Delta blues...

Over the last couple of decades, Charlie Parr has crisscrossed the world on tour more times than one can count. He also has released over a dozen albums of his songs, acclaimed for their poe...

The story of Cordovas is one of rock ’n’ roll seekers, hammering away in search not just for a platonic ideal of their freewheeling sound, but also for some greater truth about o...

Although born in Alabama, Dale Watson is as Texas as the Panhandle or a smokey plate of BBQ. He came to country music early and naturally. His truck driving father moonlighted as a country s...

"Why am I always expected to do these? I write fiction—questionable fiction at that. This is my third attempt after being told by our manager to do and then redo a bio—I think I...

As a resolute preservationist, storyteller, and instrumentalist, Dom Flemons has long set himself apart by finding forgotten folk songs and making them live again. His work has been recogniz...

John R. Miller’s Heat Comes Down finds him teaming up with producers Andrija Tokic and John James Tourville (Alabama Shakes and Sunny War). With its understated but gorgeously detailed...

Cerys Hafana is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who mangles, mutates, and transforms traditional music. She explores the creative possibilities and unique qualities of the triple harp,...

With time, we come to understand the way the joy of connection is mirrored by the void of loss, how the constancy of love is matched only by the impermanence of life, the simple idea that we...

Vandoliers are a uniquely Texas band, distilling the Lone Star State’s vast and diverse musical identity into a raucous, breakneck vibe that’s all their own. After spending much...

GA-20 was formed by friends Pat Faherty and Matthew Stubbs in Boston, MA in 2018. The project was born out of their mutual love of heavy traditional Blues, R&B, and Rock & Roll of th...

Initially notorious for their relentless, brutal, high volume onslaughts of sound, the extreme, abject imagery of frontman Michael Gira’s lyrics and his thundering vocals, Swans would...

Jenny Don’t And The Spurs have maintained a relentless schedule of recording and touring ever since their inception a decade ago. Now, after almost 500 live shows in a dozen countries,...

The world is filling up with trash. Humanity remains addicted to pollution despite the planet getting hotter by the minute. People are downing horse dewormer because some goober on televisio...

For over fifty years, Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson has been traversing the globe as an ambassador of Western swing music and introducing its irresistible sound to generation after...

Dustbowl Revival has always been about pushing the boundaries of what American roots music can be. After celebrating over a decade of sonic adventuring and playing thousands of shows togethe...

Blues music can be raucous and ready to party, but can also speak directly to struggle and social inequality. Nat Myers, a Korean-American poet raised on hardcore and hip-hop, adds to the ca...

Based in Victoria, BC, Jesse Roper is a blues/Americana artist with a penchant for writing modern indie-infused blues music and delivering bombastic live performances buoyed by his virt...

The Dead South have never been about constant reinvention, but about full commitment to their own singular way. With confidence in their sound and style and trust in each other, The Dead Sou...

Israel Nash’s 2009 debut, New York Town, introduced a gifted artist with a powerfully expressive voice in search of both a sound and identity. He grew by leaps and bounds over the next...

Over the past decade, few artists have embodied the unbridled freedom of punk like Skating Polly. Formed when stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse were just nine and 13, the Oklahoma-b...

The latest album from Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band was written by candlelight and then recorded using the best technology available . . . in the 1950s. But listeners won’...

Jesse Roper just finished his first European tour supporting Dylan LeBlanc all over the continent. We're delighted we can already announce a new string of shows in the UK around Americanafes...

This is a special show. On Friday December 15th the Union Chapel in London will be the stage for Matilda Mann, Eloise, Hohnen Ford and Lydia Luce who will be performing live with Lockeland S...

For the better part of a decade, LA’s scrappy rock n’ roll mystics Death Valley Girls have used their music as a means of tapping into a communal cosmic energy. On albums like Gl...

Second chances are rare in rock 'n' roll. Most bands only get one shot at the brass ring, and once the opportunity passes by, it's gone forever. Maybe that's why Uncle Lucius sounds like a...

On A Golden Shore arrives as The Hanging Stars reflect on a year of triumphs. With an Americana Music Association Bob Harris - sanctioned award and a Nashville sell-out in Third Man’s...

Boogie Beasts: "Nos alegra mucho anunciar nuestra primera gira española. Nos vemos pronto para una fiesta loca!" Dirty beats, hypnotising slide, screaming harmonica riffs and plenty...

“I’m always searching,” says the Korean-American blues poet Nat Myers. “Itinerancy is something that I’ve owned. I’ve done a lot of traveling, but lately...

After an exceptional run in 2023, SWANS will continue their tour in February and March 2024, this time together with special guest Maria W Horn (Xkatedral). The album “The Beggar&rdquo...

Tré Burt was standing on a stage in Philadelphia in early 2023 when the latest bit of bad news arrived: His grandfather, a native of that very city, was dead. It wasn’t entirely...

With a familiar 1, 2, 3…Elliott BROOD count in a new album cycle, Town & Country, that explores the people and places that shape our lives, wherever we call home. On part one, Tow...

Corb Lund is a rural Albertan hailing from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with a long family lineage of ranchers and rodeo people. Lund is about as authentic as they come, and equally...

Anywhere off Hatteras Island, Chicamacomico sounds made up, like some wine-drunk incantation or maybe a tongue twister—try to sayit ten times fast. But as a former life-saving station...

This month The Pink Stones will bring "You Know Who" to Europe. “This record was me trying to take everything I love as a listener and a player and shove it all into one thing wit...

If you care to know how a rowdy 1950s Chicago juke joint sounded, GA-20 are here to help. They keep things simple and fierce…scything, growling riffs, driving grooves, blistering boog...

“My name is Coyote, I’m gonna cross that border town,” sings Dylan LeBlanc, as he taps into the American mythical landscape and takes on the role of one of its greatest sup...

Garrett T. Capps is a bad mofo. He makes cowboy kraut with his band NASA Country & also lots of Tex-Mex rock n' roll. He is San Antonio’s resident cosmic country gonzo honky tonk w...

Belgian roots icons The Seatsniffers deliver a show full of fierce songs, kick-ass riffs and an overdose of rock ’n roll! The quartet mixes rock-'n-roll, rhythm & blues, rockabill...

UltraBomb is the brand-new punk outfit hailing from three different countries (USA, Canada and England), to create one international punk rock power trio super group. Featuring legendary mem...

The Sadies will be back in Europe for an extensive tour.  The Sadies... Some writers are lucky enough to find a lane in which they thrive. John Prine’s superpower was his ability...

Matilda Mann, Eloise, Hohnen Ford and Lydia Luce Live with Lockeland Strings at Union Chapel in London on December 15th! Announced now and tickets are available!  Lockeland Strin...

Robert Ellis is a free man. That’s not to say he’s without obligation—he’s a husband and father and partner in a top-tier recording studio, after all—but rather...

Over the past decade, few artists have embodied the unbridled freedom of punk like Skating Polly. Formed when stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse were just nine and 13, the Oklahoma-b...

“Colder Streams” is the sound of everything coming together for The Sadies. Long confident that the result of their recordings is far more important than adhering to any schedule...

In November The Pink Stones are over for a short tour that leads them through the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany with "You Know Who" under their belt. You Know Who is the follow-up to 202...

Dustbowl Revival’s story started humbly. Nearly thirteen years ago Z. Lupetin, a Chicago native who attended college in Michigan came to L.A. to be a screenwriter, grew disillusioned w...

Nine years ago, Caitlin Rose released her second album, The Stand-In. The title spliced a couple inside jokes from the first record’s tour: The months onstage had her feeling like an i...

Acclaimed singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Dylan LeBlanc is set to release his highly-anticipated new album Coyote on October 20th via ATO Records. On Coyote, the prolific wordsmith e...

Lera Lynn is returning to the UK for one exclusive, intimate performance in London at The Slaughtered Lamb on 15th September. Her trip to London is in conjunction with promotion for her soun...

The Brother Brothers belong to a tradition of sibling harmony outfits that stretches far beyond the Everly Brothers, a chief influence on the duo of Adam and David Moss. An indie folk duo of...

Buffalo Nichols announces European tour dates and releases 'The Difference', the third single previewing his anticipated new album 'The Fatalist' due out on 15th September via Fat Possum. N...

Prolific Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Romano has one of the most interesting, eclectic careers in the music business. Although he’s not yet even 40 years old, he already tackled m...

The catalyst of Joshua Ray Walker’s new album, What Is It Even?, was sparked on the patio of the Tulsa, Oklahoma music venue and dive bar Mercury Lounge, a fitting origin story for any...

Bad Cop/Bad Cop has done angry. The band’s 2017 full-length, Warriors, was recorded in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. The Los Angeles quartet’s lastst full-leng...

When Jet of Buster Shuffle moved house at the end of lockdown he discovered that he had a very unusual new neighbour. Indeed, there was a turkey living in the next door neighbour’s gar...

Teenage Bottlerocket are a punk rock band who play in the tight, fast, funny, and frantic SoCal manner, even though they hail from Laramie, Wyoming rather than the Golden State. Ray Carlisle...

The Seatsniffers are probably Belgium's best, most popular, longest running and most international roots rock band. Their music is best described as a blend of Rock and Roll, Rhythm & Bl...

If Judy Blank would tell you she grew up in a beach town in Southern California, you’d probably believe her. But nothing could be further from the truth. Hailing from Utrecht, The Neth...

The Sadies announce a new European tour this October and November. A new run on the release of Colder Streams. The Juno "Adult Alternative Album Of The Year | 2023" marked the quartet's fina...

Grainy voiced Ian Noe has broadened his musical palette with his second album "River Fools & Mountain Saints", but the story is still blue-collar Kentucky. Excited to see Ian Noe return...

Born and raised in central New York, acclaimed songwriter Jonathon Linaberry got his start playing in hardcore and punk bands before becoming enamored with gospel, folk, and blues and launch...

Cordovas, is the total package, the real deal; it comes busting out the gate wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to take on the world like a glittering rattlesnake. A band with one foot in the...

When you’ve spent most of your life on the move, hopping from one country to another, tour to tour, city to city, bar to bed, bed to bus, what happens when you finally stop? It’s...

Los Peyotes is the band that revitalized the garage rock of the sixties in South America.  Using vintage instruments and tube gear, along with their go-go aesthetic, they created a uniq...

What the iconoclastic singer-songwriter’s fans have known all along: Chuck Ragan is a deeply compelling songwriter and an effortlessly charismatic performer, as well as a true believer...

Three time BMA nominee's Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band are "the greatest front-porch blues band in the world". They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier fi...

It's always fun to hear how people describe Tami Neilson when they first hear her perform. As one member of the press exclaimed, she is “a red-hot honky-tonker landing somewhere betwee...

It’s hard to pinpoint the kind of music that Vandoliers make. The Texan six-piece blends punk rock, country music, and Tejano tunes to create a sound that is uniquely their own. They&r...

Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, the Hot Club of Cowtown’s star has continued to rise as its reputation for jaw-dropping virtuosity and unforgettable live shows has become the b...

Following the release of their new single “Strange Weather”, Nicole Atkins and Jim Sclavunos will be singing their way across the UK from May 30th - June 11th: 30/05: Edinburgh,...

In the five years since the last album from The Deslondes, two members of the fivesome, Sam Doores and Riley Downing, have spread their wings as solo artists. And whatever lessons were learn...

After twenty-five years into their worldwide crusade, it’s clear those Legendary Shack Shakers have become the leaders in the underground music scene’s “Southern Gothic&rdq...

If you’re looking for a raw, sugary blast of distorted pop, look no further than Weird Nightmare. The debut album from METZ guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins contains all of his main...

The Sonics shouldn't need an introduction as they were the first and still is the best punk band of all times. Formed in 1960 and predated them all by four years with a rock ‘n’...

Daniel Romano's Outfit is a Canadian indie rock band shrouded in mystery, and known for their high intensity live performances. The band, which has garnered a reputation as a powerhouse supe...

Old 97's is an American alternative country band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in the early 90s, they are one of the most enduring bands in the alt-country community. Old 97's merged power pop...

In February of 2020, singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose settled in at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios for a week of tracking with William Tyler, Brian Kotzur, Jack Lawrence, and Luke Sc...

David Ramirez latest album My Love is a Hurricane is an ode to love from an exhausted heart. Written as a transformative relationship began ripping apart at the seams. The lyrics and storyte...

Like Willie, Waylon, and Kacey Musgraves, Garrett T. Capps and his band NASA Country come from a long line of Texans adding their own spin to country tradition. On last year’s People...

Texas-based singer/songwriter Robert Ellis released today his new single “Close Your Eyes” off his forthcoming album Yesterday’s News (out May 19th through his label Niles...

A working musician since the age of 13, Joshua Ray Walker first began honing his lyrical talents after the death of his beloved grandfather. “My granddad’s the one who got me int...

It has been a long wait for Mike and the Moonpies to come over to Europe. Their 2020 tour got postponed into 2021 what got postponed into 2022 and here we are April 2023: we finally have the...

Not many bands can claim that they were formed in a cemetery. But it was a perfect and appropriately poetic setting for the birth of roots music trailblazers The Pine Hill Haints. Just to ad...

Lauren Ruth Ward is revitalizing the image of rock’n’roll by unleashing a spree of viral hit singles and headlining a sold-out US concert tour. With the impact of “Mindseye...

JP Harris has a secret: his name is actually “Squash.” Long before Harris became a well regarded honky-tonker, he used his childhood nickname while playing archaic “old-tim...

A band with one foot in the present and another in the past, Cordovas embrace the sound of classic Americana and country-rock, with The Band, The Grateful Dead, and The Allman Brothers Band...

From being cradled as a baby in the arms of Roy Orbison, to performing a duet with Willie Nelson, you would think that Tami Neilson lived a country music fantasy life. However, in between th...

Three time BMA nominee's The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band are "the greatest front-porch blues band in the world". They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier fin...

They’ve toured the world countless times. They kept the leather jacket-and-Converse look alive through an increasingly neon landscape. They’ve written songs about KISS, Top Gun a...

Lera Lynn released a new single last month called "The Garden", from the forthcoming Sega video game The Endless Universe]. This song was written and produced by Lynn, with later synth and s...

Jesse Malin will be over to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘The Fine Art Of Self Destruction’. It will be reissued on 17th February 2023 in expanded form with a bonus dis...

B.J. Barham, frontman of American Aquarium, has spent the last couple of years trying to make musical sense of his own wreckage, so it’s not surprising to see the resulting set of...

The multi instrumentalist duo of Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse started Skating Polly band in Oklahoma in 2009. They recorded their debut album Taking Over The World in 2010 when they were r...

With banjo, mandolin, cello and guitar, The Dead South certainly look the part of bluegrass traditionalists. But, as outsiders to the bluegrass world by circumstances of geography, they&rsqu...

The Party Is Over takes takes Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra all over Europe for club shows and festivals. So don’t believe a word of their album title, the party is far from ov...

GA-20 clearly is on to something big. It’s a movement, a new traditional blues revival. The dynamic, throwback blues trio are disciples of the place where traditional blues, country an...

The Sadies don't just hit the heights because they are very tall. They touch the sky with their incredible songwriting, musicianship and exceeding charm as well. "Colder Streams" brings list...

Del Barber has really hit the sweet spot. It’s not just his songwriting, or even his performance, on this album. It’s that Barber’s sense of himself is so secure, and joyfu...

Rogues Gospel is Duke Garwood’s 7th official studio album, and was released in November '22 on God Unknown Records. Though formally a blues album, it’s all about the ambience.&nb...

We shed old skin in order to evolve and move forward. We let go of who we were in the past and embrace who we’re meant to be now. The Deslondes have taken such steps as not only bandma...

Next March Robert Ellis will be in the UK for a string of shows with his friend Courtney Marie Andrews: 01/03: Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club02/03: Bristol, UK - Trinity03/03: Manchester...

Hackensaw Boys are roots music shapeshifters. With their new self-titled album they make a triumphant return into the Netherlands and Belgium. The band have been operating as a sort of music...

Lera Lynn isn’t prone to repeating herself. Having moved further away from her countryish beginnings with 2018’s duets album, Plays Well With Others, she followed up with the sel...

David Ramirez latest album My Love is a Hurricane is an ode to love from an exhausted heart. Written as a transformative relationship began ripping apart at the seams. The lyrics and storyte...

Tim Baker is a prolific wild-eyed dreamer. In 2022, Baker has returned with "The Festival", a sonic embrace, a call in for love, and a cry out for connection. Baker wants us to bring our pai...

There's a difficult to describe, yet timeless quality to certain songs that transcends genre or era. It's something that you can't fake or contrive and it's what lies at the core of Skating...

Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz of Watchhouse – the critically acclaimed roots music duo who until recently were known as Mandolin Orange – announced their new self-titled album W...

This month The Sadies are coming over for a string of shows in the Benelux and Spain. They bring Kacy & Clayton not only as support but also as addition to their band. All in support of...

Hollis Brown’s last album, ‘In The Aftermath,’ is the deliciously depraved outcome of an all-night rock n’ roll riot. The Queens, New York-based quintet escaped to th...

Rogues Gospel is Duke Garwood's 7th official studio album, and will be released in November on God Unknown Records. With the album Garwood is touring in early  2023, first dates announc...

Channelling the sounds of The Byrds, Big Star and The Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as hints of Mojave 3 and The Allah Las, The Hanging Stars mainline the dying embers of the early 70s ps...

Guitar virtuoso, singer-songwriter, producer and member of the Canadian JUNO award-winning roots-rock band, Bros. Landreth, Ariel Posen is surely a name to remember in today's music scene.Bo...

Leeds-based Howlin’ Ric & the Rocketeers play vibrant and authentic rock and roll, roving from raucous rhythm and blues right through to dreamy popcorn love songs. Wailing vocals,...

Last summer, Sub Pop released the remastered and altogether deluxe 30th-anniversary edition of Mudhoney’s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, the Seattle group’s classic second full-l...

Scott H. Biram unleashes a fervent display of conviction through, not only the genuine blues, classic country, bluegrass, and rock n roll, but he seals the deal with punk, heavy metal, and &...

A Canadian duo whose music recalls the glory days of British folk-rock, Kacy & Clayton feature the talents of vocalist Kacy Anderson and guitarist and vocalist Clayton Linthicum. While t...

Adam and David Moss began earning Everly Brothers comparisons long before they officially joined their voices together as folk duo The Brother Brothers. But not even the late Phil and Don Ev...

With her unmistakable, passionate vocals and detailed songwriting rich with sly wisdom, Whitney Rose has remained a casual, assured Americana tour de force throughout the past decade. Bor...

No one forgets the first time they saw Tami Neilson. She can hush a room with an original song that channels the hurting spirit of Patsy Cline or the sensuality of Peggy Lee, or bring the au...

Though born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Nashville-based singer-songwriter and artist Andrew Combs can’t say for certain he identifies with any one place in particular. Through years o...

New York City art-rock icons BATTLES are taking their incendiary live show around the globe throughout 2022 - and this month it's time for the Netherlands finally: 22/08: Utrecht, NL -...

War On Women is a co-ed feminist hardcore-punk band. Formed in Baltimore, MD in 2011, War On Women use driving riffs and in your face vocals that attack the listener both sonically and lyric...

Roots music shapeshifters Hackensaw Boys make a triumphant return with their new self-titled album which is just out. Known for their energetic live shows, the band have been operating as a...

For a band that regularly plays 250 shows a year, there’s nothing like coming back home. ‘One To Grow On,’ the eighth studio album from Mike and the Moonpies, is a musical...

Anywhere off Hatteras Island, Chicamacomico sounds made up, like some wine-drunk incantation or maybe a tongue twister—try to say it ten times fast. But as a former life-saving station...

Carter Family meets Addams Family in Easy Listening for Jerks, two new covers EPs by gold-certified prairie pickers The Dead South. The source material for the EP two-pack sees The Dead Sou...

War On Women is a co-ed feminist hardcore-punk band. Formed in Baltimore, MD in 2011, W.O.W. use driving riffs and in your face vocals that attack the listener both sonically and lyrically,...

DIY darlings turned prominent punk exports – Clowns have become one of Australia’s most cherished punk figures, sporting their political spirit and party inspiring punk-rock. Th...

This week Daniel Roman's Outfit will start their European tour. They are over with Cobra Poems, a set of 10 new originals by Daniel Romano and his group of supreme-talents The Outfit. Here,...

Oh Boy Records is an independent record label based in Nashville and started by Grammy-winner and folk and country singer-songwriter John Prine and his business partner Al Bunetta. On June 1...

Following the release of their widely acclaimed new album ‘Hollow Heart’ , London cosmic country purveyors The Hanging Stars are sharing their new single ‘I Don’t Wan...

A rowdy, Texas-based alt-country outfit in the vein of bands like Jason & the Scorchers and the Old 97's, Vandoliers appeared in the late-2010s with a sound that melded gritty cowpunk wi...

In nearly 17 years since the Henhouse Prowlers inception, the band has forged its own path through music and across the globe. On stage the group's enthralling performances give audiences a...

For Ian Noe, it all started with a title. Two years ago, not long after releasing his stunning debut Between the Country, the Kentucky singer-songwriter was stumbling around in search of a c...

Toronto’s post-punk noiseniks Bike Thiefs are instantly likeable underdogs who sound as though they’ve thrown everything they have into debut album, Leaking.Bike Thiefs are a cha...

Based out of Brooklyn, New York, The Brother Brothers are a folk duo consisting of Adam and David Moss, identical twins who embarked on individual music careers of their own before...

With banjo, mandolin, cello and guitar, The Dead South certainly look the part of bluegrass traditionalists. But, as outsiders to the bluegrass world by circumstances of geography, they&rsqu...

Ambassadors of Americana music around the world, Hackensaw Boys are currently in Europe touring! And to celebrate the band has released the second single from their forthcoming album:...

Originally from Saskatchewan and now based on the east coast of Canada, The Deep Dark Woods take up a deep tradition of forlorn storytelling, drawing lines from Celtic folksongs to country b...

In 2020, Daniel Romano and his increasingly exalted band “The Outfit” were forced home, faced with the cancellation of tours and all live engagements due to public health necessi...

On his new album See You Next Time, Texas-bred singer/songwriter Joshua Ray Walker shares an imagined yet truthful portrait of a brokedown honky-tonk and the misfits who call it home: barfli...

Hollis Brown is an honest American rock band. The band was formed by Queens-natives and songwriters Mike Montali (lead vocals/guitar) and Jonathan Bonilla (lead guitar). Both first generatio...

Undelivered Legion is the first in a series of three albums to be released by SCACUNINCORPORATED record label; one each by Munly & the Lupercalians (#1), Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (#...

A body of work that culls from various styles weaved together into what the band appropriately calls “A Wilhelm Sampler,” Lose Your Delusion, A Wilhelm Scream’s first full-...

Named after a vintage Gibson amplifier, GA-20 are a trio dedicated to the raucous joys of early Chicago blues, the music of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and, their favourite, Hound Dog T...

A Dallas native now living near the same Nashville airport immortalized in the opening sequence of Robert Altman’s country music odyssey, Andrew Combs is a singer, songwriter, guitaris...

Catalan singer-songwriter Joana Serrat’s rich and immersive heritage and music performance is a case in point which exemplifies her fifth studio album, Hardcore From The Heart, as it u...

DIY darlings turned prominent punk exports – Clowns have become one of Australia’s most cherished punk figures, sporting their political spirit and party inspiring punk-rock. The...

Dylan LeBlanc’s most recent studio album Renegade was produced by Grammy Award winner Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson). Recorded at Cobb’s RCA Studio...

A recent word from Christopher Paul Stelling: "My 13th tour of Europe has yet to happen. I was just days away from heading to Europe and finishing up the U.S. leg of the tour for my album, B...

Oh Boy Records is an independent record label located in Nashville, Tennessee. The company was founded in 1981 by multiple Grammy Award winner, singer-songwriter, John Prine, and his manager...

It’s early 2021 and venues and clubs are closed due to COVID restrictions from the pandemic. Belgian blues rock band Boogie Beasts is looking for alternatives to celebrate their 10 yea...

From the mountains of Utah to the trenches of Vimy Ridge, Elliott BROOD's songs have travelled the gore and glory of history in equal measure for nearly a decade. With the stomp and thrash o...

After two years waiting Cordovas will finally return to Europe with Destiny Hotel. The record is a work of wild poetry and wide-eyed abandon, set to a glorious collision of folk and country...

AUSTIN LUCASAustin Lucas is a country songwriter, punk and antifascist activist from Bloomington, Indiana. Consumed by an overdeveloped sense of wanderlust as a young person, Austin spent hi...

New York City art-rock icons BATTLES are set to take their incendiary live show around the globe through 2022 - find full dates and club show flyers below. The shows will be in continued sup...

Tami Neilson is returning to Europe in August and September for two exclusive festivals.  Who? Tami Neilson: she can hush a room with an original song that channels the hurting spirit...

Rootsy and clever singer/songwriter John Paul Keith, is a journeyman artist with a bent toward vintage Fender Telecaster-driven pop/rock twang. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Keith grew u...

  There's a difficult to describe, yet timeless quality to certain songs that transcends genre or era. It's something that you can't fake or contrive and it's what lies at the core of...

Mike And The Moonpies postpone their European tour to 2023 but will bring "One To Grow On" to Europe in the end.  Formed in Houston, Texas back in 2007, they remained under the radar f...

You won't believe it, but the most played music on Utrecht's indiefolk sensation Judy Blank is.. Motown. Uplifting soul with a bittersweet edge, often hidden under festive horns. Dancea...

The Mastersons were supposed to be on tour right NOW, but due to reasons we all know we have reshuffled en reworked the tour. It's more compact now and it's taking place in May. It's UK and...

Out with new music last month are outlaw grassers The Dead South, with another single from their upcoming twin EPs, Easy Listening for Jerks Pt 1 & 2, due in early March. Check...

The vivid portraits Jake La Botz paints in his songs can take us straight into the depths of human experience. Soulful, sometimes mournful, and occasionally comical, La Botz’s offbeat...

Bike Thiefs are a chatty post-punk trio that sound like a cross between Parquet Courts and a late-night conversation with Charles Bukowski.  Comprised of bassist Kris Pandierada, drumm...

Much like stars across the night sky, our souls dot this plane of existence, flaring brighter over time. As one fades out, another flickers into focus—and so the cycle continues into e...

Hot on the tails of his last album, Headway, acclaimed guitarist and songwriter Ariel Posen is unveiled another new album, Mile End, last October. “This album idea came to me once the...

Originally from Saskatchewan and now based on the east coast of Canada, The Deep Dark Woods take up a deep tradition of forlorn storytelling, drawing lines from Celtic folksongs to country b...

‘Take my word for it, they're rocking’ THE SUN‘Inspired arrangements and effective songs One to watch (four stars)’ UNCUT ‘You'll enjoy this knees-up bar-room...

Sam Outlaw is a singer-songwriter living in Nashville. Born Samuel Morgan in South Dakota, his stage name comes from his late mother’s maiden name. Today Sam will release a new fu...

After two years Daniel Romano's Outfit are back on the road. Though a lot of time has passed since their last live performance, it certainly has not stopped their productivity in the studio...

Sacramento songwriter Tré Burt’s sophomore album, You, Yeah, You, is a narrated collection of songs featuring a cast of invented characters; heroes, villains, those destitute of...

With her new album On My Own, Lera Lynn has emerged not only with a clear vision of herself, but with an entirely self-propelled breakthrough: Lynn wrote, sang, produced and recorded On My O...

Unfortunately we have sad news:Where we really hoped the upcoming Spanish tour for The Sadies next November to be one of the first tours again, we had to decide to postpone this one on the v...

With his critically acclaimed new album Last of the Better Days Ahead now available on LP as well as CD and digital formats, US folk legend Charlie Parr has today announced a 2022 Europ...

The latest full-length from Cordovas, "Destiny Hotel" is a work of wild poetry and wide-eyed abandon, set to a glorious collision of folk and country and groove-heavy rock-and-roll. In a maj...

How does one gauge the success of a band pushing the envelope of a genre that receives little to no credit by the mainstream media? In the case of A Wilhelm Scream, the answeris “...

Garrett T. Capps is the city of San Antonio’s resident cosmic country gonzo honky tonk weirdo freak, and if you’re looking to unwind from all the bullshit of, well, pretty much e...

A message from The Deep Dark Woods: "Hello everybody - well, we’ve got some sad news. Due to Norway’s Covid regulations, Canadians are still not able to get into the country, so...

Don't forget: The Joey Cape "A Good Year To Forget“ tour starts this week and it starts in: 12/08: Vlaardingen, NL - Het Stadsstrand

By going back to basics with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time – or the last – they would be vindicated. A month after r...

Dirty beats, hypnotising slide, screaming harmonica riffs and plenty of fuzz: all of these will be served by this four-men band from Liège-Limburg-Namur, Belgium. Boogie Beasts translate th...

After recording the unfinished songs of the late, great Gary Stewart on last summer’s Touch of You – The Lost Songs of Gary Stewart, Mike and the Moonpies return with a new origi...

Sacramento songwriter Tré Burt’s sophomore album, You, Yeah, You, is a narrated collection of songs featuring a cast of invented characters; heroes, villains, those destitute of...

The Hanging Stars channel the sounds of The Byrds, Big Star and The Flying Burrito Brothers with hints of Mojave 3 and The Allah Las – mainlining the dying embers of the early 70s psyc...

The Sadies postpone their July 2021 dates into 2022.  The Sadies bring their signature blend of country, psychedelic, rock and surf into rifle-scope focus on Internal Sounds, further u...

When Joey Cape wrote his 2019 solo album, Let Me Know When You Give Up, he’d come to an important realization.  “When I wrote that record,” he says, “I was...

The Mastersons are singer-songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore. When they're not touring the world as valued longtime members of Steve Earle's band the Duk...

The music made by METZ, Alex Edkins (guitar & vocals), Hayden Menzies (drums) & Chris Slorach (bass) has always been a little difficult to pin down. Their earliest recordings contain...

"All Right, All Night" is a journey through Texas on a space ship that launches from San Antone,” explains Garrett T. Capps. “I'm the captain.  From the recent and dis...

Daniel Romano's Outfit is postponing its 2021 tour dates into 2022. In case of Daniel Romano it's waiting to see him play live rather than waiting for new music. "I'm always making something...

Vandoliers understand you miss the rock show every Saturday night but unfortunately their European fans have to wait for 2022 to see them play. Shows all be postponed to June and July 2...

In her first 25 years alone, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sierra Hull hit more milestones than many musicians accomplish in a lifetime. After making her Grand Ole Opry debut at th...

Austin duo Greyhounds (Anthony Farrell and Andrew Trube) released Primates last year. Another batch of catchy, funky Rock & Soul. Best known as the primary members of JJ Grey's MOFRO for...

Black Deer Festival organisers are “hugely optimistic” as music fans and families respond favourably to a BBC report highlighting the award-winning event being the first major fe...

There are two ways of handling a dangerous, raging river: you can surrender and let it carry you away, or you can swim against the flow. For The Secret Sisters, there was a point after the r...

For almost two decades, the Hackensaw Boys have plowed the asphalt bringing their raw, gritty American vernacular sounds to the music halls and streets across the world. Twenty years later,...

If you'd say Judy Blank was born in a little, rural American town, you'd take her word for it. But, even though she's on course to conquer the world with her beautiful mix of jerky indie-fol...

There's a difficult to describe, yet timeless quality to certain songs that transcends genre or era. It's something that you can't fake or contrive and it's what lies at the core of Skating...

From the mountains of Utah to the trenches of Vimy Ridge, Elliott BROOD’s songs have travelled the gore and glory of history in equal measure for nearly a decade . With the stomp and t...

‘Live Stream Live’ will take place on February 11th: Darlingside is playing their new album, Fish Pond Fish, in its entirety and in sequence (they've never tried this before), pl...

A rock band without a drummer, a bluegrass band without a fiddler. To the gentlemen of The Dead South, a self-styled 4-piece string band from Regina, Saskatchewan, it’s about how, not...

It's 12972,05 kilometers that separates Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada from Christchurch, New Zealand. Every December, Christchurch enjoys the start of summer as in Saskatoon it begins to...

The Ben Miller Band's early D.I.Y. approach extended to the lo-tech, largely self-built, instruments that the members still play on stage, including Miller's thrift-shop guitars and banjos a...

With your left eye closed, Daniel Romano seems a master synthesizer of sound and genre, a collage artist combining the corrupted influences of a century of so-called popular music forms, a c...

Nick Helderman, photographer and friend of Toronto noise rock trio METZ was present at the bands' release show of II. Early May 2015 METZ performed two nights in a row at Lee's Palace. Nick...

Unfortunately The Sadies are not able to make it to Spain in November what means their Spanish tour is being postponed to 2021.  The Sadies, one of the most accomplished bands to emerg...

“Change is inevitable if you’re lucky,” says guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins while talking about Atlas Vending, the fourth full-length album by Toronto’s METZ. “...

The Hanging Stars channel the sounds of The Byrds, Big Star and The Flying Burrito Brothers with hints of Mojave 3 and The Allah Las – mainlining the dying embers of the early 70s psyc...

DIY darlings turned prominent punk exports – Clowns have become one of Australia’s most cherished punk figures, sporting their political spirit and party inspiring punk-rock. Th...

Led by the bewitching voice and energy of the seductive and charismatic riot-girl Ciara Thompson, The Buttshakers lay down warm, raw soul music that digs into the furrows of the addictive rh...

Bob Wayne is a true road warrior, I'm sure most of you are fully aware of this fact already. When Bob started his world record attempt on 31 December 2019 no one would expect to happen was h...

Joshua Ray Walker seemingly came out of nowhere when he released his debut album Wish You Were Here in January 2019, but by years end, the Dallas, TX native had clearly added his name to a s...

The Dead South, a gold rush vibing four-piece acoustic set from Saskatchewan, infuse the genre's traditional trappings with an air of frontier recklessness, whiskey breakfasts and grizzled t...

In mid-March, while Americans were beginning to reckon with job losses and isolation spurred by coast-to-coast shelter-in-place orders, BJ Barham performed the American Aquarium songbook for...

[We're A Happy Family] This Ramones song title fits perfectly with this new series by Sedate Bookings. We're one big family of music aficionados and we want to spread this love. For this f...

The songs of the Adolescents endure precisely because they're not just aggressive and speedy: they're super-catchy, heavy-riffing rock & roll, proving again that punk was the true h...

Since the late ’80s, Mudhoney – the Seattle-based foursome whose muck-crusted version of rock, shot through with caustic wit and battened down by a ferocious low end – has...

Vandoliers planned to come over to Europe for the first time in June and July. That won't happen this year, so we moved the dates to exact the same period in 2021.  Vandoliers are the...

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band has built its reputation the long, slow, hard way. After 12 years of playing as many as 300 shows each year, Rev. Peyton, the world’s foremost country b...

Tami Neilson would have toured Europe in March and April this year if not for the pandemic that changes a lot of things the world now. We managed to postpone her dates to the fall of 2021 so...

Grammy Award winner, two-time Emmy nominee, Dom Flemons is originally from Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife Vania Kinard and their daughte...

Just as the title says really, the June/July tour for Legendary Shack Shakers is now reconfirmed for 2021. Because of the current situation we were forced to make this call. Someth...

The show that was scheduled for Swans in Amsterdam this coming May had to be postponed, due to obvious reasons. We found a new date which we are happy to announce today: 19/03/21: Amst...

The Ben Miller Band's early D.I.Y. approach extended to the lo-tech, largely self-built, instruments that the members still play on stage, including Miller's thrift-shop guitars and banjos a...

Due to reasons we are all living with currently we had to reschedule the European tour for Hackensaw Boys to May 2021. A lot of the dates could be rescheduled immediately, more will follow.&...

Garrett T. Capps is like a country artist without a country. Or more like a country artist without a planet. Space country is what he likes to call his music to attempt to convey the atmosph...

“This record has been a long time coming,” says Pert Near Sandstone’s Kevin Kniebel, and while that’s certainly true in the literal sense (it’s been four years...

The Ben Miller Band's early D.I.Y. approach extended to the lo-tech, largely self-built, instruments that the members still play on stage, including Miller's thrift-shop guitars and ban...

It’s with great joy to announce full line-up for the Down By The River. This year the festival will take place on Sunday 7 June in and around Poppodium Grenswerk in Venlo. On the sixth...

Texas-based singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker imagines several different characters going about their lives in the new video for his song “Canyon.” The powerful, mostly acousti...

The first and best wave of LA punk bands from 1977-1979 all broke up under-documented and unsigned, with the exception of X, the Germs and to a lesses extent the Plugz. But the leg...

The Courettes is the garage duo sensation from Brazil and Denmark!  One of the most hard working bands in the scene, The Courettes has been busy delivering their full-speed energe...

Since the late '80s, Mudhoney – the Seattle-based foursome whose muck-crusted version of rock, shot through with caustic wit and battened down by a ferocious low end – has been a...

In each song she creates, Nicole Atkins reveals her incredible power to transport listeners to a much more charmed time and space. On Italian Ice, the New Jersey-bred singer/songwriter conju...

Impassioned singer and virtuosic guitar player Christopher Paul Stelling has released his fifth album today. Titled Best of Luck, the Ben Harper-produced record is released th...

Long running southern California punk band Lagwagon dropped a ferocious new single called Surviving California – from their new album, RAILER alongside announcing a Dutch show in...

At the dawning of a new decade, Austin band Greyhounds (the duo of Andrew Trube and Anthony Farrell) are set to release their new album Primates, marking the 20...

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning mark a great divide in African American culture, and Reverend John Wilkins has stood on both sides. Today he’s a guitar- wielding Baptist preacher, bu...

Only over for one single show this month but still worth mentioning as this míght just trigger more endeavors this year... Who knows? Elliott BROOD are doing the AMA UK showcase...

A diverse group of masterfully talented musicians who stand out like a sore thumb from the traditional bluegrass world, Whiskey Shivers have made a name for themselves with a genre-pushing s...

Vandoliers are the next wave of Texas music. The six-piece Dallas-Fort Worth group channels all that makes this vast state unique: tradition, modernity, audacity, grit, and—of course&m...

On stage, the group's enthralling performances give audiences a sense of how much they love what they do; while on record, the band manages to explore their collective life experiences throu...

"I love my band, I love playing and traveling with other musicians, but over the years I have always fantasized about making a solo record and touring the world alone, just me and my guitar,...

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios with help from the London Symphony Orchestra, Cheap Silver And Solid Country Gold is Mike & The Moonpies' most adventurous record to date. An album that di...

On 29 December the Amsterdam alternative rootsrock trio T-99 celebrates their twenty-year anniversary at Paradiso. With a variety of friends/colleagues they'll share the stage: Ian Siegal, W...

Over the past seven years, Kelsey Waldon’s life has changed drastically. Since moving to Nashville, she’s found her place in a lush, supportive, and versatile artist community. S...

Mike & the Moonpies are coming back over to Europe in 2020. This time not for to record an other album but to play out live. The Texas country-rock band comes over with one of the best a...

We were going to say that Buster Shuffle were as east London as jellied eels and pie'n'mash, until a passing estate agent reminded us that the area in question was gentrified about 20 years...

London's finest roots orchestra, The Urban Voodoo Machine returns to the Netherlands: Paul-Ronney Angel and his family of suberbly talented musical miscreants have spent the last 16 years br...

Jerry Leger has a thing for ghosts. The Toronto singer/songwriter confirmed it a couple of years ago when he went on a personal journey to explore many of Ontario’s largely unknown gho...

Originally hailing from Toronto, Canada, The Sadies have been playing their unique brand of psychedelic country rock for over 20 years. For those unacquainted, imagine Graham Parson-era Byrd...

The Secret Sisters—Laura and Lydia Rogers—grapple with love and loss on fourth album Saturn Return. Produced by Brandi Carlile and Phil and Tim Hanseroth, Saturn R...

On his new album, Ideal Man, Andrew Combs worked with producer/engineer Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby, Benjamin Booker) to achieve a more raw, direct sound. The collec...

A punk band not bound by genre. Clowns are enjoying a 9 year career that has bred 4 critically acclaimed records that blend punk with all flavours between psychedelia, garage, hard...

For the past 20 years, Hackensaw Boys have been a hard-touring force of nature in the American roots music world, bringing a punk ferocity to their stringband base and a powerful sensitivity...

Lera Lynn's video for the "Dark Horse" will be released today at 7 PM Central European time. You can join her for the Youtube premiere where all can watch it together in real time. Lera will...

From Molly Tuttle's excellent album "When You’re Ready", this is a new video for her song "Don’t Let Go", a fresh, delicate and quite captivating ballad that sits somewhere betwe...

Tennessee native Erin Rae coaxes cinematic drama from within the intimate spaces of her finely crafted songs. Her second album,Putting on Airs, was released last year and has...

After 12 years of touring with his band and recording 8 albums Bob Wayne is grabbing his guitar and going solo for one year. Armed with his new record entitled 'ROGUE' Bob will begin hi...

Impassioned singer and virtuosic guitar player Christopher Paul Stelling is announcing his fifth album today. Titled Best of Luck, the Ben Harper-produced record will be released on Feb...

San Antonio honky tonker, rock and roller and space-country captain Garrett T. Capps is on a hot streak. In March 2018, Capps garnered considerable attention when his anthemic Southern...

A lot has been going on with Ben Miller Band. Not too long ago the sad news of Smilin' Bob Lewis' passing came to us. Things have been crazy since he was diagnosed with cancer last year. Ben...

On November 10th Clowns will be back in the Netherlands. This time to play Eindhoven's Blue Collar Hotel. What pretty much started as Australia’s answer to The Bronx (the band, not th...

Over the past few years, Dustbowl Revival has been making a name for itself with a vibrant mix of vintage Americana sounds. Critics have proclaimed that this eclectic formation&nbs...

After 12 years of touring with his band and recording 8 albums Bob Wayne is grabbing his guitar and going solo for one year.  "I love my band, I love playing and traveling with other m...

NASA country singer/songwriter Garrett T. Capps released his third studio album "All Right, All Night" via Shotgun House Records last week. Drawing inspiration from the Texas cultu...

Last year the roots rockers of T-99 came with the first of a series of vinyl singles. For number two in these "Single Series" the gents hit the Electrosaurus Studio and taped two new tracks...

Ray Benson has been the one constant in Asleep At the Wheel since the band’s founding in 1970 in Paw Paw, WV. Since that time, more than 100 musicians have passed through the Wheel, bu...

Tacocat are on their way to the Netherlands. The Seattle band kicked off their European tour last week and passes by the Netherlands next week,  following the exuberant pop thrill that...

Page Burkum and Jack Torrey a.k.a. The Cactus Blossoms are brothers, but their vocal talents aren't just simply a case of sibling harmonies. They didn't start singing together until the...

Making Room 41 nearly killed Paul Cauthen. Ironically enough, it's also te very thing that saved him. Written during a roughly two-year stint spent living out of a suitcase in Dallas&rsqu...

Hailing from the same ancient metropolis as Socrates, Plato and somehow Tommy Lee, Acid Baby Jesus are one of Athens’ best recent exports. Formed in 2009 they’ve released three f...

Andrew Combs‘ new Sam Cohen-produced album Ideal Man comes out September 20 via New West Records and, following recent singles “Stars Of Longing” and “Save Someb...

It's not a surprise to many that Robert Ellis is a big fan of NASA and for that matter the moon landing. In celebration of Apollo 11, the spaceflight that brought Neil Armstrong and Buz...

Globe-trotting troubadour, Davy Crockett descendant and prolific recording artist Charley Crockett didn’t know how long he had to live when he recorded The Valley. Now that t...

“It’s really hard to get arrested in New Orleans,”says Dylan LeBlanc. Somehow, though, the singer-songwriter managed that feat in 2014.  “I got into some s...

What we love during our youth often loses its power as we age. It’s understandable and expected, especially if the thing you loved, making music, was also your job for a long time...

What pretty much started as Australia’s answer to The Bronx (the band, not the NYC neighborhood) back in 2010, has since evolved into of down under’s more adventurous exports. We...

East Nashville Americana rockers Cordovas are taking their place amongst the musical lineage of cosmic country greats like Gram Parsons, Americana poster kids Uncle Tupelo, the New Riders of...

Over the course of Lera Lynn's career, the Nashville-based songwriter has explored the darker corners of American roots music. With her brooding, sinewy vocals and penchant for chronicling t...

Are you ready to boogie with the Beasts? Dirty beats, hypnotising slide, screaming harmonica riffs and plenty of fuzz: all of these will be served by this four-men band from Lièg...

Pert’ Near Sandstone’s chemistry harkens back to the family bands of the past, playing American string band music that melds old-time sensibilities with modern song craft. Gather...

Skinny ties, plastic sunglasses, matching bleach-blond dye jobs, bad haircuts and a record collection centred on The Adverts, Buzzcocks, The Undertones and The Weirdos. Yes folks The Briefs...

It's only been since April of this year when Nicole Atkins was on tour in Europe, including stops in Scandinavia. The Swedes are in for a treat again though! This summer she's over for...

Queens, New York, is a borough rich in rock 'n' roll history. KISS. The Ramones. RUN-DMC. Simon and Garfunkel. Dee Snider. Perry Farrell. And we'll take a leap -- Tony Bennett.  Hollis...

The Dead South, a gold rush vibing four-piece acoustic set from Saskatchewan, infuse the genre’s traditional trappings with an air of frontier recklessness, whiskey breakfasts and griz...

Everyone's favorite widely-adored and delightfully noisy 3-piece punk band METZ from Toronto, released their Sub Pop self-titled debut in 2012 and, in the time since, hav...

On the first date of their upcoming European tour the Hackensaw Boys will release a new EP through Free Dirt Records: A Fireproof House of Sunshine. The song "Late Night Kitchen" was premier...

Hailing from the same ancient metropolis as Socrates, Plato and somehow Tommy Lee, Acid Baby Jesus are one of Athens’ best recent exports. Formed in 2009 they’ve released three f...

The phrase "punk" gets thrown around a lot these days but for over a decade Off With Their Heads has eschewed trends and embodied that ethic with every ounce of their being. Having put out n...

For her fourth album in five years, Joana Serrat travelled from her home in Vic, Barcelona to the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. There she teamed up with Israel Nash at his Plum Creek So...

With a fresh new single called "Heaven Can't Save My Soul" singer/songwriter Jake La Botz tours Europe starting next week. The tour includes festivals and clubshows in Germany, The Neth...

There's a difficult to describe, yet timeless quality to certain songs that transcends genre or era. It's something that you can't fake or contrive and it's what lies at the core of Skating...

Through their first three albums, The Yawpers divined a signature style -what Pitchfork described as “an expansive vision of rock ‘n’ roll, one that cherrypi...

Imperial Wax, the surviving members of the last and longest running edition of legendary Manchester post-punk band The Fall are set to release their debut album Gastwerk Saboteurs this...

Over the course of Lera Lynn's career, the Nashville-based songwriter has explored the darker corners of American roots music. With her brooding, sinewy vocals and penchant for chronicling t...

Goleta, California’s Lagwagon first burst on the scene way back in 1988 playing a unique brand of speedy, highly technical pop-punk that made them one of the most influential...

Melbourne punks Clowns have never been ones to conform. The five-piece started life in 2010 as a more-or-less straightforward hardcore punk act, but over the course of their first...

Dustbowl Revival is an Americana Soul band with seven full-time members who mash the sounds of New Orleans funk, bluegrass, soul, pre-war blues, and roots music, into a g...

“We make a lot of assumptions about different people. Heck, I like Liberace. I got a kick out of him. He played vaudeville. And he was reverent about it. He’d come out with all t...

Rising out of the Austin, TX music scene, the Greyhounds, a duo comprising guitarist Andrew Trube and keyboardist Anthony Farrell, feature a unique sound that mixes R&B, soul, funk, and...

Mobility has always helped define America. Don’t settle for where you start. Find a new town, new coast, or new state of mind––then make it yours. “We export this ide...

“I’m a singer not a preacher, but these songs are my sermon,” says Paul Cauthen. “We’re ripping each other apart out there, and forgiveness and mercy are what&r...

Hailing from Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota and established in 2003, Pert’ Near Sandstone plays American stringband music that melds old-time sensibilities with modern song craft. F...

Daddy Long Legs takes the blues and turns it inside out, upside down, round about and renews their primal energy.  Brooklyn, NY-based trio Daddy Long Legs are Brian Hurd&...

Only one more week until the annual Down By The River festival is set to take place. On April 14th we welcome a hand-picked selection of artists we absolutely love: Theo Lawrence,...

For well over two decades the Canadian band The Sadies, consisting of singers and guitarists Dallas and Travis Good, bassist Sean Dean and drummer Mike Belitsky...

Blood Harmony. Whether it’s The Beach Boys, Bee Gees or First Aid Kit, that sibling vocal blend is the secret sauce in some of the most spine-tingling moments in popular music. The Cac...

Dylan LeBlanc, the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, singer-songwriter whose ethereal album Cautionary Tale was a must-hear of 2016, has announced his latest project. Renegade, released...

The Devil Makes Three are back in The Netherlands and Belgium this month! During their tour with the Dropkick Murphys in the UK they found the time to add a couple of festival appearances an...

It's been 10 years since Nicole Atkins released her debut, and criminally slept on, album Neptune City. She's returned recently with Goodnight Rhonda Lee which continues...

“New Routes” the brand-new album by Asleep At the Wheel, marks both a new pathforward and a nod to the freewheeling roots (get it?) of one of Texas’ most beloved bands.&nbs...

Try not to step on the chalk outlines when navigating through prairie pickers The Dead South's catalogue. Over the course of two full-length albums, it's true that the villainous, murderous...

Acclaimed Texas singer-songwriter Matthew Logan Vasquez’s new album, Light’n Up, is now! To celebrate, he shares a great new video for the scorcher, Vacation. Shot on l...

With their 2017 opus Strange Peace (out now on Sub Pop) still rattling around skulls on either side of the Atlantic, METZ return to Europe this June including NL dates in Amsterdam and Eindh...

The identical twins The Brother Brothers hail from Peoria, but the winds have blown them to Brooklyn via the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The Brother Brothers have been in thi...

At the moment of writing The Brother Brothers are on tour in Scandinavia, touring to promote their latest release Some People I Know. Adam and Davis Moss, are identical twins, carrying on th...

Extremely stoked to announce this perfect team-up of a tour. Eccentrics Charlie Parr and JD Wilkes hit the road this summer (August and September) and tour Europe together performing se...

Last month Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra released their fourth studio album titled Soul Of My City. On this album they are fine-tuning their blend of swing, rocka...

Punk rockers don't age, they just get weirder, baby. Twenty years have zipped by, and The Briefs are as frantic, energetic, and snotty as ever. Like a scud missile from outer space, the band...

Daniel Romano thinks that Finally Free, his third album of 2018 following the surprise release of Nerveless and Human Touch in January, is his strongest one yet...

The Mad Caddies have always had a diverse set of influences. Since forming in Solvang, California back in 1995, the band has channeled their love of classic reggae, dub, ska, dancehall, two-...

Daddy Long Legs return with savagery and sophistication on their upcoming Yep Roc debut, Lowdown Ways. The 12 original tracks punch a necessary hole in the 21st Century landscape, both sonic...

After a nine year lag, it’s time to get back on the wagon with the powerful and long-awaited album Hang from punk rock mainstays Lagwagon. It’s not that the band broke up or...

Out of the seven billion or so people on the planet, only seven men have been lucky enough to be gifted with the Ramone surname. As of 2017, four have already headed off to that great gig in...

For almost two decades, the Hackensaw Boys have plowed the asphalt bringing their raw, gritty American vernacular sounds to the music halls and streets across the world. Twenty years later,...

The power of words isn’t lost on longstanding Americana triumvirate The Devil Makes Three— Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino, and Cooper McBean. For as much as they remain rooted in tr...

Johnny Delaware grew up in a small South Dakota town surrounded by cornfields and dirt roads. For 19 years, he lived in a wide-eyed perspective baptized in the setting of a John Mellencamp s...

Nashville’s Blank Range is set to release their sophomore album, In Unison on 1 February. Their debut, Marooned With the Treasure was a favorite in 2017 and their live set backed that...

I was in some kind of mystic haze/Man I couldn’t see straight,” sings Ethan Johns on the meditative Jackie Lee, coming on like Bob Dylan after a heavy night of Holy Mountain and...

Texas-born Andrew Combs is a singer-songwriter who turns commonplace events into meaningful song-pictures. Previously likened to everyone from Leonard Cohen to Harry Nilsson to Nick Drake, w...

The Jersey-bred, Nashville-based theatrical pop singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins devotes much of her fourth album Goodnight Rhonda Lee to emotional excavation without ever assuming the s...

Rooted in triple-stacked harmonies, southern storytelling, and cosmic country twang, Cordovas create their own version of American roots-rock with That Santa Fe Channel. The album is the fo...

Mobility has always helped define America. Don’t settle for where you start. Find a new town, new coast, or new state of mind––then make it yours. “We export this ide...

The Legendary Shack Shakers’ hell-for-leather roadshow has earned quite a name for itself with its unique brand of Southern Gothic and swampy "hillbilly blues" that is all-at-once...

“Finally Free” marks Daniel Romano’s eighth long playing album in the last eight years. He has had what understatedly would be considered a prolific output o...

Somewhere on a dusty road or a well traveled interstate, right at this very moment, a rock n’ roll band is pounding the rock. They’re probably wearing the same clothes they had o...

Mandolin Orange’s music radiates a mysterious warmth —their songs feel like whispered secrets, one hand cupped to your ear. The North Carolina duo have built a steady and growing...

Kacy & Clayton are second cousins who hail from the Wood Mountain uplands of Southern Saskatchewan. Their latest album The Siren’s Song was released via New West Records...

Driven by a vicious and visceral soul, The Buttshakers are known for their fierce and fiery music: turntables steam from the heat of their records, dance floors buckle under the bl...

The Denver Broncos UK (shortened DBUK) comprise of Munly Munly, Lord Dwight Pentacost, Rebecca Vera and Slim Cessna of Slim Cessna's Auto Club from Denver, Colorado. Opposite to the rousing...

The cover of The Sadies’ latest album is a powerful image of the northern lights made by photographer David Kilabuk in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, a sight few of us will ever get to behold w...

In the 14 years since the Henhouse Prowlers inception, the band has forged its own path through bluegrass music and across the globe. On stage, the group's bombastic performances g...

Becca Mancari is rewriting the rules. Born in Staten Island, New York, to an Italian-Irish preacher and a Puerto Rican mother, Mancari has lived a life of transition - from working as a jan...

The Tao of Sarah Shook can be summarized by the first few lines of “New Ways to Fail,” the second song on her latest album Years: "It seems my way of livin’ don’t li...

Their sound is striking and undeniably captivating. Often leaning towards the darker, moody elements of Appalachian folk, and bluegrass traditions, their songs are laden with near perfect si...

Garrett T. Capps is a man on the rise. And he’s taking the San Antone Americana scene with him – hopefully. 2016's "Y Los Lonely Hipsters" slanted a wry, irreverent gri...

With endless touring came new levels of comfort and confidence, and when it was time to record Transient Lullaby, The Mastersons knew they wanted to take a different approach...

In the lush tobacco fields of North Carolina where BJ Barham was raised, people work hard. Families stay nearby, toiling and growing together. BJ loves those farms and his tiny Rei...

The heart-like form in the cracked muddy ground. The faces turned away from the fire. The unwanted flowers of spring – Ancient Shapes celebrate and shake with the supernatura...

Since the beginning of garage rock, the northwest sound, grunge, or whatever anyone calls it, the Sonics set the precedence and the pace, and the sound that gave to every musician and b...

His songs are inspired by the many travels he did around the world. You hear the tragic in Jake La Botz lived-through voice. The music is reminiscent of old greats such as Hank Williams...

This week Nicole Atkins will reside in Spain finishing her tour with Dylan LeBlanc which took her all across Europe this last month-and-a-half. Today we're excited to be sharing that Nicole...

The power of words isn’t lost on longstanding Americana triumvirate The Devil Makes Three - Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino and Cooper McBean. For as much as they remain rooted i...

Driven by a vicious and visceral soul, The Buttshakers are known for their fierce and fiery music: turntables steam from the heat of their records, dance floors buckle under the blistering p...

After a few solo tours David Ramirez brings his band along for shows in the Netherlands this weekend. He'll be performing songs from his latest release We’re Not Going Anywhere. A...

There is very few bands out there that are able to go beyond the boundaries of Americana so convincingly - without disowning their origin - than Ben Miller Band on Choke Cherry Tre...

Luke Winslow-King’s latest album is an example of craftsmanship at the highest level, radiating a warmth and timeless elegance. Adept at mixing country, blues, R&B, rock ‘n&r...

Goleta, California’s Lagwagon first burst on the scene way back in 1988 playing a unique brand of speedy, highly technical pop-punk that made them one of the most influential...

Thoreau had Walden Pond. Kerouac had Big Sur. Rayland Baxter? He had an old rubber band factory in Franklin, Kentucky, and it suited him just fine. As one of the hardest-touring artists on t...

The 28-year-old Dylan LeBlanc is an American singer-songwriter who grew up between Shreveport, Louisiana and Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He spent his teenage years watching his musician fat...

Every artist working in the shadow of country music lineage since Willie and Waylon were first branded as "outlaws" has had that designation at their disposal. The same goes for ma...

Darlingside first gained broad notice with 2015's Birds Say. On that album, bassist Dave Senft, guitarist/banjoist Don Mitchell, violinist/mandolinist Auyon Mukharji, and cellist/guitarist H...

There’s a storm on its way, a raucous and tumultuous swirl of bluegrass, punk, folk and gypsy jazz. Larry and His Flask are back! Returning to the UK and Europe next week for a handful...

Growing up with a single mother in San Benito, Texas, the hometown of Tejano star Freddy Fender, was not easy for blues singer Charley Crockett. Hitchhiking across the country exposed Crocke...

In celebration of this year's 4th of July The Band Of Heathens released a version of America The Beautiful which will be part of a full length release in September. It's their own version of...

Throughout her career — a nearly decade-long run filled with three album releases, a career-shifting appearance and soundtrack for HBO’s True Detective, hundreds of shows on both...

Never Gonna Die, the new album from Pennywise, is out now. The legendary punk band’s twelfth full-length, Never Gonna Die is the first full album of new songs with singe...

Featuring drummer Bill Stevenson, bassist Karl Alvarez, vocalist Milo Aukerman, and guitarist Stephen Egerton, Descendents formed in 1978.  After delivering their iconic full-...

Hailed by Rolling Stone for his exhilarating brand of “folk music raised on New Jersey grit,” acclaimed American songwriter Anthony D’Amato will cross the Atlantic this aut...

For almost two decades, the Hackensaw Boys have plowed the asphalt bringing their raw, gritty American vernacular sounds to the music halls and streets across the world. Twenty years later,&...

This weekend it's time for the annual Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival. In the old working-class quarter called Pijnacker a choice of the finest (bluegrass) artists are planned to take the stage...

By now Joseph Huber is probably working on his "solo" career for longer than he's been a part of the infamous bluegrass band The .357 Stringband who split in 2011. Despite it's abrupt break-...

When Sidelong, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers’ debut album, was released in early 2017, it quickly earned praise for its blast of fresh, fierce honesty and sly wit. It was a...

Having signed to Fat Wreck Chords, The Lillingtons toiled away on their new record in secret, crafting an album that is both a continuation of the band’s legacy and a dramatic rei...

With recently releasing Songs From The Land of Nod New York City band Beechwood garnished enthusiastic responses across the board and as we speak they reside in Europe for their debuting tou...

Garage-punk pioneers and, The Sonics return to the Netherlands this October. With a great amount of energy, a sexy slab of sax, and favourites such as Have Love, Will Travel, they command th...

Californian dreamers GospelbeacH are fronted by Brent Rademaker of Beachwood Sparks and The Tyde fame: the Sunshine State’s keepers of the psychedelic country faith.&nbs...

Over the years, the once-rotating cast of singers and songwriters in The Band of Heathens have steadily solidified into being a singular unit, one that shares the mic rather than passing it...

Don't bother asking The Mastersons where they're from. Brooklyn, Austin, Los Angeles, Terlingua; they've called each home in just the last few years alone. If you really want to get to know...

There's a difficult to describe, yet timeless quality to certain songs that transcends genre or era. It's something that you can't fake or contrive and it's what lies at the core of Skating...

This bluegrass group released their latest album Discovery Of Honey in 2016. Ever since Pert Near Sandstone formed a lot has happened. Personal struggles and new faces and new sounds. O...

These native New Yorkers were born in the late 80s when the city was identified by its grit, passion and authenticity. The combination of an urban upbringing and throwback musical influ...

With a tour starting this week Christopher Paul Stelling shares this letter with all of us. A tour starting in France, including the prestigieus Printemps de Bourges Festival, then taking hi...

There are many useful rules to live by, but for Whitney Rose, there’s one that stands alone as a guiding principle for life as she knows it: Rule 62. The origin of the rule is best sum...

"I like the idea of saying something very complicated in a very simple way," Ben Miller states. "That's what we strive for musically, and what I strive for lyrically—to get directly to...

Before the revivals and the festival movement of the 60s and 70s and even before 78 RPM records and live rural radio, American folk music just was – unnamed, unstudied and unaware of i...

When Becca Mancari sings, she shines with authenticity. It is evident that Mancari knows exactly who she is, and her music has a strong sense of identity. But it is her refusal to subsc...

This Sunday (April 8th) the fourth annual Down By The River festival takes place on the banks of the river Maas in Venlo. We're really excited to be able to continue the newborn tradition wi...

When Consequence of Sound captures the essence of the band so clearly, you should just quote it in full: "The Yawpers come out of some beer-drenched hole in Denver, full of fuzzy guitar with...

Andrew Combs’ anticipated New West Records debut, Canyons Of My Mind, was released mid-2017 and was co-produced by Skylar Wilson (Justin Townes Earle, Caitlin Rose)...

In the lush tobacco fields of North Carolina where BJ Barham was raised, people work hard. Families stay nearby, toiling and growing together. BJ loves those farms and his tiny Reidsville ho...

Tami Neilson blends her power vocals and slyly subersive lyrics with a gorgeous vintage sound on the stylish SASSAFRASS! The award-winning New Zealand singer delivers a dynamic set of twangy...

What happens when an anti-social petty thief, a male hustler, and a delinquent runaway come together to join forces in the streets of NYC? One of two things, usually. Either the birth of a g...

It’s been over a decade since The Lillingtons released a full-length album—and an anomaly of a record at that. 2006’s The Too Late Show proved The Lilli...

As the phenomena of instant connection and the need for constant self-improvement further implant their tendrils into our culture, the ability to truly connect with each other and ourselves...

Becca Mancari is rewriting the rules. Born in Staten Island, New York, to an Italian-Irish preacher and a Puerto Rican mother, Mancari has lived a life of transition - from working as a jan...

Finishing off their full band tour this weekend in Sweden we're excited to announce that Justin Osborne is returning to Europe this July for a bunch of solo tourdates! SUSTO has been given...

Luke Winslow-King will release a new studio record, Blue Mesa, on May 11, 2018 via Bloodshot Records. This latest album is an example of craftsmanship at the highest...

We already announced a Norwegian festival show a couple of month ago for Dylan LeBlanc and now a whole lot of shows are  added to this now sold out festival. LeBlanc's last European tou...

The music began in 1999 when four friends from Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley found their collective ways to the roots music hub of Charlottesville. They didn’t waste tim...

Life and art both move in cycles. While working on their second full-length album, the aptly titled Full Circle, Twin Bandit grew personally and creatively amidst life’s unpredictable...

With a successful European tour in memory last year we're excited to see Jake La Botz return to our shores. Starting early May and running until the first weekend of June he will explore Bel...

After debuting with an album that captured the good-time, easy feeling of the early-'70s version of the Grateful Dead at their warmest, GospelbeacH returned with a second album that jum...

His latest record Itinerant Arias is about nine months old now. Christopher Paul Stelling has never made one he's more proud of, and in his words "also never released one amidst so much nois...

It's been four years since Larry & His Flask have brought their high energy Rock and Roll to Europe. Incorporating elements of Punk, Gypsy, Jazz, Folk and Americana music. Some people re...

This weekend Mandolin Orange will be over for three SOLD OUT appearances across the Netherlands. Their good friends The Dead Tongues will come along from North Carolina and will support on a...

A sense of place has long permeated the music of JD Wilkes & The Shack Shaker Duo. He’s a native of Paducah, Kentucky, a city located at the confluence of various rivers and cultur...

Last summer Kacy & Clayton released their album The Siren's Song. Six months after the release we're happy to announce tour dates in Europe. Kacy & Clayton bring a full ban...

A Dallas native now living near the same Nashville airport immortalized in the opening sequence of Robert Altman’s country music odyssey, Andrew Combs is a singer, songwriter, guitaris...

Stoked to announce that Descendents are confirmed for an exclusive Dutch performance this summer: 07 JULY - HAARLEM - PATRONAAT A Wilhelm Scream is support on this show. Tickets a...

The country-blues tradition is full of heartbreak and hard knocks, and Charlie Parr's Dog is a heartfelt wander-through-an-alley of an album. The Duluth, Minn.-based songwriter str...

SUSTO is a Spanish word referring to a folk illness in Latin America that Osborne learned as anthropology student, meaning “when your soul is separated from your body,” ...

The Sonics return to the Netherlands this month. Since the beginning of garage rock the northwest sound grunge or whatever anyone calls it The Sonics set the precedence and the pace. The sou...

After a successful and very fun mainland tour last year The Deslondes are back for an UK tour this month starting on Thursday. They will promoting their critically acclaimed new al...

Joana Serrat will return to the UK this spring for an other album promo tour in UK clubs. Her fourth album Dripping Spings has been released by Loose Music this fall and came up in several y...

Notorious Southern California punk rockers Pennywise are back in full force and swinging harder than ever. The band who have inspired many throughout the world with their hard charging songs...

The Deep Dark Woods are touring Europe in 2018. Already listed were a handful Benelux and last Wednesday their appearance at the annual festival Down By The River was revealed. Today we're h...

Blitzen Trapper, The Deep Dark Woods, The Yawpers and Jay-Roon are the first four names announced for the fourth edition of the roots- and Americana festival Down By The River in Poppodium G...

The past two months Dead Bronco has been locked up in their rehearsal room practicing and preparing the new show and everything is coming out smooth like butter. But what would you expect fr...

Since SUSTO released their second album & I'm Fine Today back home in the States last year, thing's been happening in a fast pace for the band. The album got great reviews, the band has...

Overwhelmed by the speed at which Dylan LeBlanc's gift took him from Applebee’s server to “the new Neil Young” in a matter of months, he walked away from an unlikely major...

After a successful first European tour this year we're excited Pert Near Sandstone will be back next May again. On their last tour they performed to a raving crowd at festivals such as Roski...

The Yawpers craft tunes that are engrossed in creative context. Some might recall edges of the mid-1900s Delta blues, but only if those lived-in riffs were played by the MC5, broadcast...

Elliott BROOD is a three-piece, folk-rock/alt-country band based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Their brand of fuzzed-up roots music makes for a captivating and frenetic live performance...

Not so long ago, Athens, Georgia duo Cicada Rhythm embarked on a rather unique project. Following on from the release of their 2015 self titled debut, the alt-folk two-piece initiated a ser...

London’s bourbon-soaked gypsy blues, bop ‘n’ stroll band The Urban Voodoo Machine are back! This Saturday the band playing Helldorado Festival in Eindho...

Daddy Long Legs: New York City's most beloved blues bashers have been huffing and puffing and blowing houses down on a nightly basis on their infinite world tour and always bring an elevated...

Post-grunge/noise/hardcore juggernaut and overall cool Canadians METZ have released two cool album worth of aural onslaught. This time around, the band frantically push their well-estab...

We're in the train towards Groningen for Take Root to see a lot of great artists including The Secret Sisters. We're stoked to announce some fresh dates for the sisters in April next ye...

duende – [duen-de] (noun) 1. a quality of inspiration and passion 2. A heightened sense of emotion, expression and authenticity 3. a spirit Duende, the title of The Band of Heathens&r...

The Cactus Blossoms bring a new energy and vitality to a classic sound with their blood harmonies and instantly memorable songs — they’re often compared to th...

While staying true to their Americana sound, Mandolin Orange's new album Blindfaller tackles modern day themes seen in our daily headlines. The North Carolina duo—comprised of Emily Fr...

Floods and plagues, ghosts and slaughter: woe to those who populate the songs of Yarrow. A gentle summer breeze swings the gallows ropes, flowers bloom callously on lovers' graves. These ant...

If two people mine the same territory long enough, they’ll eventually meet. Johnny Dowd and Melle de Boer have been digging deep into the human soul for a long time. Like Orpheus, they...

After a successful tour at the beginning of this year we're excited to have Hackensaw Boys back in Europe this month into November. This time  they'll be here for shows in The...

Since the beginning of garage rock, the northwest sound, grunge, or whatever anyone calls it, the Sonics set the precedence and the pace, and the sound that gave to every musician an...

David Ramirez released his new album 'We’re Not Going Anywhere' at the beginning of this month. Produced by Sam Kassirer, the album finds Ramirez painting a vividly imagined pictu...

Charlie Parr, the Duluth, MN based virtuoso, has long been making music but spent most of his years working with the homeless throughout the Northern Minnesota region, while playing shows at...

After a successful and very fun mainland tour last month we're very excited to announce a UK tour for January 2018. The Deslondes will promoting their critically acclaimed new album Hurry Ho...

The Cactus Blossoms bring a new energy and vitality to a classic sound with their blood harmonies and instantly memorable songs — they’re often compared to the Eve...

Elliott BROOD is a three-piece, folk-rock/alt-country band based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Their brand of fuzzed-up roots music makes for a captivating and frenetic live performance. Tha...

This weekend Daniel Romano will kick off this European tour starting in Oxford. The Ontario-based country experimenter will be taking new LP Modern Pressure to the UK and Netherlan...

Overwhelmed by the speed at which his gift took him from Applebee’s server to “the new Neil Young” in a matter of months, he walked away from an unlikely major label deal a...

Langhorne Slim is the pseudonym of Sean Scolnick, a singer-songwriter originally from Pennsylvania; now living in Nashville.  Sometimes, truth can't be explained. But it can...

Five divergent musicians who eventually found each other in New Orleans, The Deslondes follow up their impressive debut album with the equally fine Hurry Home. Less country inclined than its...

Singer/songwriter Dylan LeBlanc returns to the UK/Europe with a tour in August/September. The shows, LeBlanc’s first oversees for almost 5 years, are in support of album Cautionar...

The New York band Spirit Family Reunion will kick off their European tour next week in London; this will be their second trip over to the old world this year.  Last April the...

After a successful at the beginning of this year we're excited to have the Hackensaw Boys back in Europe, this time for shows in The Netherlands and Spain.  Before string bands were...

Skating Polly will be over this month and the next to be main support for Kate Nash on her Europe and do some headline shows in between. Find all tourdates at the bottom of this message. Th...

On September, 22nd METZ will release Strange Peace, an emphatic but artful hammer swing to the status quo and their highly-anticipated third full-length album on Sub...

David Lynch's series Twin Peaks has trapped the Minnesota-based band The Cactus Blossoms to close out episode three with a live performance at the fictional Bang Bang Club. The song the two...

Hollis Brown is an American Rock ‘n’ Roll band. Named after a Bob Dylan song (“The Ballad of Hollis Brown”), the band was formed by Queens-natives and songwriters Mik...

England, David Wax Museum are finally coming back for cream tea and warm ale! New on the Sedate Bookings roster and announced to play the Beautiful Days Festival in Devon on August 19th.&nbs...

On a historic square in the centre of Rotterdam's "Old North" a beautiful boutique festival is held every year since 2011. Banjo's and mandolines, comics, workshops, beer and hotdogs....

Paducah, KY’s Legendary Shack Shakers have been blasting out their brand of rock ’n roll since the mid-1990’s. In their twenty years, they’ve traveled through ma...

Last month Matthew Logan Vasquez returned with his latest solo album, Does What He Wants. If you haven't heard it yet, the Delta Spirit's frontman’s follow-up to last year’s...

Saskatchewan is how it sounds: A province in the prairies of Canada. Double the size of Germany, but with less than one million residents. Lots of nature, and lots of silence. Perhaps lots o...

After their adventures in Asia and Australia Acid Baby Jesus went back to the studio to record their third album: Lilac Days. The album will be released through Fuzz Club Records, home of Go...

It's not possible to exorcize country music from this guy, but Robert Ellis takes out more and more country from his music. From his latest album you clearly hear the big inspiration st...

With the heart of a genuine Texas bluesman, the head (banging) of a Zappa and Lemmy disciple, and boots resting in the dust outside of town at sunrise, Scott H. Biram journeys through the ha...

Prolific songwriter and acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Daniel Romano releases his seventh solo album ​Modern​ ​Pressure​ today via New West Records. Daniel Romano will bring Modern Pressure...

Sometimes, truth can’t be explained. But it can be felt, running wild through a song. “I don’t want to tame myself. I want to be wild,” says Langhorne Slim.  &ld...

The Deslondes are a five-piece band from New Orleans. In the time between the release of their self-titled debut and sophomore album, Hurry Home, The Deslondes have toured the world and draw...

We are very proud to be inviting you to the third annual edition of Down By The River. This festival, held on May 14th, is organized by Poppodium Grenswerk in cooper...

Music site Twangville.com has just released a video of Christopher Paul Stelling's new single The Cost Of Doing Business that features him and his new band - Julia Christgau singing and doin...

Paducah, KY’s Legendary Shack Shakers have been blasting out their brand of rock ’n roll since the mid-1990’s. In their twenty years, they’ve traveled through ma...

Dylan LeBlanc knows second chances don’t come around often. But, neither do voices like his.Overwhelmed by the speed his gift would take him, from Applebee’s server to “the...

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra don’t care what genre you choose to put them in: western swing, country blues, ragtime hokum or whatever else, as long as you understand that...

One of the most joyful things about bluegrass, aside from the uptempo banjo picking and fiddling, is how bands huddle around one shared microphone. There’s a wonderfully classic approa...

We already shared the first bunch of August + September tourdates for New York outfit Spirit Family Reunion last month. Today we can add a few more and tell you a little more about their res...

With the addition of Fred Eaglesmith, Tim Knol, Matt Watts, Leadbeaters and Any Vegetable the line-up for Down By The River is complete. The third edition of this roots- and Americana f...

With their breakthrough album You’re Dreaming, the charismatic Minneapolis-born brothers behind The Cactus Blossoms—Page Burkum and Jack Torrey—burst onto the scene with a...

Canadian countrypolitan chanteuse Whitney Rose headed down to warmer climates to work a winter engagement at Austin’s famed Continental Club and fell in love with the Texas capito...

Today Daniel Romano announces the release of Modern Pressure in May. With this announcement Noisey Canada premiered the first video of the upcoming release. With the release coming...

The European tour for Henhouse Prowlers will kick off in Spain this Wednesday leading them through France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK for a month long tour. To...

After a successful clubtour in France and the Benelux in February Luke Winslow-King will return to Europe for festivals this summer. He and his band will be all over Europe in June and the s...

With Wolves, and the recently released live album Live At Terminal West American Aquarium proves to be bigger and better. The band from Raleigh, NC will hit the European road this week, taki...

Spirit Family Reunion began singing together on the street corners of New York City in 2009. Since that time they have travelled the highways of America and Europe delivering raw, high energ...

From Oklahoma, USA the Turnpike Troubadours have established themselves as one of the must see acts on the US Red Dirt Circuit. The Guardian included them in their top 10 best country album...

After a successful European tour last November Robert Ellis will return for a short tour in June. We’re happy to share the first two dates today. Robert Ellis has named his new album...

After a sold-out London show tonight Darlingside will come to the Benelux for three more gigs to promote their record Birds Says: 03-FEB: Eeklo (BE) @ N9 04-FEB: Leiden (NL) @ Q-Bus 05-FEB:...

Promised Land Sound, Nashville’s finest purveyors of febrile root-work psychedelia, chose to begin at the beginning; they named themselves after an immortal road-dogging Chuck Berry ja...

Good Luck Charm is the second album by The Mastersons the collaboration that Chris Masterson shares with his marital and musical partner Eleanor Whitmore. It’s generously filled with i...

Memphis punks Ex-Cult released a new nine-song full-length last September. Negative Growth was recorded by frontman Chris Shaw’s GØGGS bandmate Ty Segall in Los Angeles and is p...

JP Harris & Chance McCoy met under circumstances slightly different than many of Nashville's duos: a week- long, muddy, moonshine-fueled fiddler's convention, set high in the West Virgin...

After a well-deserved vacation in Greece with his fiancee Christopher Paul Stelling got back on the road a couple of weeks ago supporting The Low Anthem. Now the third - and last - leg of th...

From Oklahoma, USA the Turnpike Troubadours have established themselves as one of the must see acts on the US Red Dirt Circuit. The Guardian included them in their top 10 best country album...

In February Darlingside will come to Belgium and the Netherlands for a couple of gigs. The band released the beautiful record Birds Say earlier this year and to promote this they are coming...

We've never taken a look at JP Harris' tour luggage, but we're certain his bags include zero razors and an astounding amount of old-school honky tonk CDs. The rough-and-tumble, blue-collar f...

After a successful EU tour last May/June in support of their EP "Else", Solids will be back for a UK tour at the end of this month supporting PUP. See all dates below! For those yet unknown...

Years ago - before their raw - rowdy reboot of old-timey folk music landed them tours with Americana heavyweights like Levon Helm and the Alabama Shakes - Spirit Family Reunion played their...

For some reason it’s hard to think of The Flatliners as veterans of the punk scene, but at this point it’s undeniable: going strong for over ten years, they’ve released fou...

Since releasing her debut album, "Here on a Wire", Canadian singer-songwriter Jenny Berkel has been intoxicating listeners with her evocative songs and voice. Both on her own and as part of...

"Charismo" is the new record from notorious string band pickers Hackensaw Boys. The 11-track album feels like the zenith release of the band’s 17 years, gathering their diverse life ex...

Folk musician Christopher Paul Stelling has been on the road for five years. In June 2015, the Florida native released his third LP, Labor Against Waste (ANTI-), then toured Europe and the U...

We're excited to see The Deslondes head to the UK and EU this month for a select string of dates. All clubshows are supported by Twain: 15-06-2016: London (UK) @ O2 Academy 2 Islington ...

A lot has been published about Daniel Romano the last two weeks. Noisey did an interview: "Daniel Romano is a chameleon and a bit of a liar. The truth we think we know is, as a musician and...

Last year, METZ, the furious Canadian post-harcore power trio, gave us their clanging, banging, utterly badass album "II". And now, as an encore, they've teamed up with a kindred spirit to r...

Matthew Logan Vasquez is known to fans of folk and rock as the untamed frontman of Delta Spirit and one-third of the supergroup Middle Brother. When his mainstay outfit took a break after in...

Some busy weeks for Mandolin Orange after spending some time basking in the North-Carolina sun. The duo recently started taping a new album and now they have started their European tour. Pro...

After a short run last January Canadian roots-country singer/songwriter Corb Lund returns to Europe to further promote his latest output. Find all April and May tourdates in this message, st...

The Legendary Shack Shakers’ hell-for-leather roadshow has earned quite a name for itself with its unique brand of Southern Gothic that is all-at-once irreverent, revisionist, dangerou...