Eleven months ago, Stephen Jacques released Send Them Love. Since then he has been busy creating his new album Groove Atlantic – 0. Pulling out all the stops, Stephen raids the cabinets of Chicago’s best musicians to back him in the studio. He also taps a legend to engineer the record. Behind the board is none other […]
Tag: Alt-country
Greg Loftus Shows Us ‘Western Medicine’
Based in Boston Massachusetts, Greg Loftus started making music at an early age. Eventually, his sound drifted south, where he honed his sound in Austin Texas. Loftus’s music makes itself at home among other alt-country contemporaries such as Drive-By Truckers, Lucero, and Drag the River. “Evergreen” is an honest country-folk track. Loftus wears his heart […]
“I Want More” Silverback Colony
As the United States enters what feels like the fiftieth month of the global COVID-19 pandemic, artists everywhere are answering our calls for new content. The months of isolation have permitted musicians on every level, in every genre, to create music that is more raw and organic than ever before. Like numerous others, Midwest alt-country […]
Stormcellar Keeps Us in The ‘Crossfire’
Staying power in the music industry is very difficult. So many bands come and go with nothing to show for it. The discipline and hard work needed to keep pushing forward creating music is not for the faint of heart. Our new friends Stormcellar have been at it for quite a long while and show […]
Middle Kids have come out with their Lost Friends LP. The Sydney, Australia trio consists of lead singer and guitarist Hannah Joy, her husband Tim Fitz on bass, and Harry Day on drums. After making their way to Elton John’s Beats 1 show, where they caught his attention before they even played their first show, […]
Roman Takes Country To The City
All too often we assume that certain styles of music must be from certain areas of the world. Why? We all get to hear music from all over the world. Why can’t we be influenced by it and put our own spin on it, even if we are not in the heart of the genre? […]
Country slangin’ Eugene Tyler Band’s latest track “Short Ride” explores their sophomore record Young Randy. Young Randy, out September 2017, brings a more stripped down intensity of the Eugene Tyler Band’s live show into a studio record. “Short Ride” shows this more acoustic centered side that the band headed towards on the record. Centered around […]
The Music Hall of Willamsburg welcomed Australian band Middle Kids on September 16. The group only emerged on the scene with their debut single “Edge of Town” in May of 2016, but things are moving fast for the Middle Kids. They dropped their first EP this February and already have new songs on the way. […]