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Consequence of Sound just premiered "Still Sober (After All These Beers)" from Banditos' forthcoming self-titled debut album, out May 12th on Bloodshot. Listen to the song HERE. And pre-order on CD, vinyl LP, or digital here.
The tune seamlessly combines the band's country roots and punk scuzz with a swarm of furious guitars, three-vocal onslaught, and "beer...Read more
Cory Branan's 3D(!!) "You Make Me" music video just premiered via Rolling Stone/Rolling Stone Country! If ya got some red/blue 3D specs lyin' around, put em on! If not, it still looks real sweet in 2D. Watch it and read the slick write-up here.
AND you can get your own Cory Branan custom 3D...Read more
The fact of the matter is that we still feel bad about last year's April Fools' Day joke. We're making it up to you by releasing a split 7" single featuring Lydia Loveless and Cory Branan covering The Purple One himself for Record Store Day. On purple vinyl, limited to 1000 copies, only available...Read more
Our resident pedal steel empress Maggie Bjorklund and Kurt Wagner of Lambchop DIY'd their new music video for duet "Fro Fro Heart" and The Bluegrass Situation is streaming the video today!
The song is from Maggie's new album Shaken and she says of the video: “I went to Nashville with just a small camera in my bag. He picked me up at my...Read more
Murder By Death's new album Big Dark Love is a week away, but you can listen to it in advance all week on Pandora! Click HERE to listen.
After you become totally enamored with the record, order it on CD, vinyl LP, or digital....Read more
Lydia Loveless performed a Somewhere Else b-side at Bloodshot HQ and the video is now streaming via American Songwriter Magazine HERE.
It was a scorching summer day in Chicago before Lydia and her band played an outdoor festival in Wicker Park. We ate pizza and drank cheap beer before our friends Made of Chalk captured the stripped-down performance...Read more
Hear Murder By Death's new song "Natural Pearl," from the band's upcoming album Big Dark Love (out Feb. 3rd), on CMT Edge! Click HERE to listen to the song and read some commentary from singer/guitarist Adam Turla.
"A quick, unrelenting rhythm evokes the frantic pace of raising a child and watching her grow, while playful steel guitar...Read more
Murder By Death's new song "Send Me Home" is streaming on Noisey / VICE! Click HERE to listen to what Noisey calls "the album's most somber heartwrencher."
The band's gorgeous, ambitious new album Big Dark Love hits digital and physical stores on February 3rd! Pre-order on CD, vinyl LP, and iTunes HERE....Read more
Ha Ha Tonka's brilliantly stark and visually stunning video for "Lessons" is now playing via The AV Club! Watch it here.
"A muted black and white clip full of silhouettes and vacant stares, the clip for “Lessons” is both soothing and jarring—just like Ha Ha Tonka’s tunes."
The song is the title track to Ha Ha Tonka's newestRead more
"Strange Eyes," the first new song from Murder By Death's upcoming album Big Dark Love is now streaming via Entertainment Weekly! This one's a stunner.
Listen here and then pre-order the album on CD, vinyl LP, or iTunes (with instant download of "Strange Eyes") here.
"They tap into the same reserve of acid-fried energy that powers psych-rock bands like Spiritualized and The Black...Read more
Click HERE to listen to an exclusive stream of Whitey Morgan and the 78's playing a live version of "Where Do You Want It?", Dale Watson's tune about that one time Billy Joe Shaver shot a guy in the face in Waco.
The track streaming on Saving Country Music is from Whitey's forthcoming live album Born, Raised & Live from Flint, out...Read more
Hear Chicago's Into It. Over It. play a stark, haunting version of Neko Case's classic "Deep Red Bells" via Esquire HERE. Also included is an interview with our co-commander-in-chief Rob Miller.
This is the final song we are sharing from our upcoming 20th anniversary compilation While No One Was Looking before its release one week from today. The album also features Blitzen Trapper, Chuck...Read more
Watch Luke Winslow-King's new video for "Swing That Thing," directed by Kyle Newacheck (creator, writer, director, and co-star of Comedy Central's Workaholics), on Entertainment Weekly!
EW also interviewed Luke and Kyle about how they met and the making of the video for the article alongside the video.
"Swing That Thing" is from Luke Winslow-King's new album Everlasting...Read more
Maggie Bjorklund's new album Shaken comes out next Tuesday October 14th, but Guitar World is streaming the album front-to-back this week. CLICK HERE to listen to the album. Then go here to pre-order it on CD, vinyl LP, or digital.
Guitar World says: "At the sounds' core are the subtly dominant and defining touches of Bjorklund’s Sho-Bud pedal steel melody...Read more
Today, right here on our blog, you can hear track two from our upcoming compilation album While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records: Foo Fighters guitar-slinger Chris Shiflett's version of Justin Townes Earle's "Look the Other Way," originally from the 2012 Bloodshot album Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now.
The upcoming tribute album, which...Read more
We announced our upcoming compilation album While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records (out November 18th) two weeks ago via Rolling Stone Country/Rolling Stone along with a stream of the first song, Blitzen Trapper's cover of Ryan Adams's classic "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)." Today, right here on our blog or on...Read more
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