You can hear Luke Winslow-King's new song "Heartsick Blues" right now via The Bluegrass Situation! Pre-order his new album 'I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always' on CD, vinyl LP, or digital.
Luke says "It's about cheating on the dance floor at a country two-step honky-tonk." And it sounds like just that....Read more
Texas honky tonk hero Wayne Hancock will return with new album Slingin' Rhythm on October 28th! Hear the title track via Rolling Stone / Rolling Stone Country right now!
Pre-order the album on CD, vinyl LP, or digital.
"Nodding to Bob Wills with its bouncy Western swing tempo, "Slingin' Rhythm" lets Hancock spell out the inherent joys and struggles...Read more
Hear garage legend Dex Romweber's version of the song "I Don't Know," originally performed by Jeff Bridges and Ryan Bingham, and written by T Bone Burnett for the film Crazy Heart. The Bluegrass Situation is streaming the song now ahead of this Friday's release of Dex's new album Carrboro. Dex certainly put his stamp on this one.
The Flat Five, a "supergroup" featuring Kelly Hogan, Nora O'Connor, Alex Hall, and Scott Ligon & Casey McDonough (of NRBQ), is releasing their debut album It's a World of Love and Hope on October 14th via Bloodshot/Augiedisc Records! Hear new song "This Is Your Night" right here, right now via RedEye.
"This is a...Read more
Free Lydia Loveless music! Download this NoiseTrade sampler including two tracks from her brand new album Real, plus three songs from her Bloodshot catalog! It's quite the sonic journey to listen to these songs back to back.
NoiseTrade also interviewed Lydia about the new album in comparison to her earlier material. Read it here.
The Boot talked to Luke Winslow-King about the personal and musical inspirations behind his upcoming album I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always, as well as life on the road, the New Orleans music community, and trout fishing.
"Anytime you’re grieving, you have to involve the world around you to get through it and bolster yourself and find yourself within...Read more
"In the spirit of their infamous 1987 life-on-the road cassette, "Mekons New York," the new album is a document that turns the audience and the recording space into accomplices for the band's high-wire act. A single microphone is one of the few concessions to technology."
What did you expect from a Mekons live album? Frampton Comes Alive? Greg Kot perfectly...Read more
"I kind of told everyone that I’d kill them if they got involved in the recording and messed anything up. Because that’s the most important thing to me: making records and being uninterrupted."
"My confidence onstage is a bit of a joke. It's weird for someone who does not like to be the center of attention to do something...Read more
This Saturday August 20th Lydia Loveless and her band will melt your TV screens on CBS This Morning! Saturday morning cartoons will have to take a backseat. She'll be performing songs from her album Real, which comes out this Friday! It's a Loveless weekend!
And yes, it's ok to put whiskey in your cereal when you tune in.
Lydia Loveless's Real is featured on the newest episode of Sound Opinions, and Greg and Jim give it uber high praise! They touch on the refined and honest songwriting, as well as the expanded stylistic range, "from pop to sparse acoustic to new wave, but all with her country flair in them."
LISTEN HERE!
"Same to You" is the first track on Lydia Loveless's new album Real. It's a wound-up suckerpunch of emotion. You can listen to it right here, right now via The Fader.
Real is out in exactly two weeks. Pre-order on CD, vinyl LP, or digital....Read more
New Lydia Loveless song! NPR Music is now streaming "Out On Love," from LL's upcoming album Real, coming August 19th. Pre-order the album on CD, vinyl LP, or digital.
"The adventurous musical structure of "Out On Love" feels like the literal sound of losing love and wondering where (and how) it went: quiet but insistent sounds that repeat,...Read more
New Orleans songwriter and slide guitar ace Luke Winslow-King returns with new album I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always on September 30th! Hear the explosive title track via Consequence of Sound now!
And pre-order the album on CD, vinyl LP, and digital.
LWK will tour the U.S. and Europe in support of the record this...Read more
The Fader had a real nice chat with Lydia Loveless about her upcoming album Real, and Lydia gets...er...um...real about songwriting and a number of other noteworthy topics. Worth a read for both new and seasoned LL fans. And the photos are pure summer FUN.
Mekons will release 'existentialism,' a limited edition 96-page book and CD on September 1st! The release is now available for pre-order. The album was recorded, collaboratively with an audience, live in July 2015 at Jalopy Theatre in Brooklyn. The book includes 12 chapters of writing and art from Mekons and friends.
Plus Mekons + Robbie Fulks's Jura now available...Read more
Next Friday July 8th Banditos will release a 7" single featuring a brand new song called "Fun All Night" and the first-ever studio recording their unhinged, showstopping cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins's "I Put a Spell On You," which you can hear now via Garden & Gun Magazine!
"Vocalist Mary Beth Richardson tears into the lyrics, while the band...Read more
"There comes a time when every man feels the urge to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats.
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