Roscoe is a road dog. The 14-year-old Boston Terrier has been there for the whole ride of Mapache, Clay Finch and Sam Blasucci's band, which has grown from being the casual project of two longtime buds to one of the most formidable cosmic-folk acts around. "Roscoe's been through a lot...

Two-time Grammy-nominated artist Madison Cunningham is set to release her highly anticipated new album, Revealer, September 9 on Verve Forecast. The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter-guitarist recently received her second Grammy nomination for Wednesday (Extended Edition) in the "Best Folk Album" category, previously having her debut album Who Are You Now nominated...

In early 2019 the members of Imarhan began literally laying the groundwork for their third album. The Tuareg quintet was building a professional recording studio, the first ever in their home city of Tamanrasset in Southern Algeria, from the ground up. By March of 2020 the studio was filled with...

After years of uncertainty including label disputes, unpaid royalties and a surprise (and successful) album drop, illuminati hotties⏤the project of producer/writer Sarah Tudzin⏤have arrived... and she is ready to make some noise. Her new album Let Me Do One More is three years in the making and Tudzin's most defiant...

Dust is the fifth album from The Dead Tongues, the project of Western North Carolina-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Gustafson. Gustafson recorded Dust in nine days, the fastest he'd ever recorded anything. It was the fastest he'd ever written anything. The record was recorded at Sylvan Esso's studio, Betty's, in...

This year marks ten years since Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent released their debut album O' Be Joyful, the first formally billed as Shovels & Rope. That decade included the release of six full-length albums, three collaborative covers albums (Busted Jukebox Volumes 1-3), a curated music festival in their...

As they enter a new cycle, Bear Witness and Tim "2oolman" Hill of A Tribe Called Red are reintroducing themselves as The Halluci Nation, to reflect the evolution of their music and mission. The Halluci Nation takes its name from a phrase coined by John Trudell to describe the vast...

Portland, OR-based singer, songwriter, and producer John Craigie adapts moments of solitude into stories perfectly suited for old Americana fiction anthologies. Instead of leaving them on dog-eared pages, he projects them widescreen in flashes of simmering soul and folk eloquence. On his 2022 full-length album, Mermaid Salt, we witness revenge...

The White Buffalo is Jake Smith--singer, songwriter, guitarist, teller of stories, Emmy nominee; an artist whose voice--a timber-shakin' baritone of gravitas and gravel--seems directly linked to a greater truth; an artist who will not be swayed by fashion or curtailed by genre.

Martin Sexton released his tenth studio album in 2021 and is touring with what Rolling Stone calls his "soul-marinated voice," acoustic guitar, and a suitcase full of heartfelt songs. The latest release, 2020 Vision, is produced by three-time Grammy-nominee John Alagia with John Mayer guesting on guitar.