Away From Life Enjoys Vic Ruggiero’s New LP
Away From Life recently reviewed Stuff In My Pockets, Vic Ruggiero‘s new LP that is at radio now via ORG Music. According to the site, “on this [album] he leads us into a world of blues, ska, reggae and rock’n’roll. You get to hear almost all the influences that make him up or inspire him. There are great songs […]
Buzzbands Shares “Old Time Pugilist” by Rose’s Pawn Shop, Who Will Be Appearing at SXSW This Week
Buzzbands recently shared the new video for “Old Time Pugilist,” the lead track on the new Rose’s Pawn Shop LP Punch-Drunk Life. According to the site, “What better way to celebrate their first album in eight years than lead it off with a song about perseverance?” Read more, and see the clip, right here. Punch-Drunk Life cracked […]
Sunny War Shoplifts at Rough Trade NYC
Sunny War recently performed at Rough Trade NYC and participated in the shop’s longrunning Shoplifting web feature that highlights artists as they shop in the iconic store. War grabbed picks by Junior Murvin, A Tribe Called Quest, J Dilla, The Plasmatics, and The Damned. Find out what she has to say about each record right here. […]
Tinnitist Compares Vic Ruggiero’s Songs To “The Finest Pearls From The Late ’60s”
Tinnitist has a profile of Vic Ruggiero, the longtime Slackers frontman who has contributed to ska and punk projects including Rancid, The Transplants and Roger Miret and the Disasters. There’s “no ska” on his new solo album, however. As the site explains, “Folk, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, country, soul, garage, glam and proto-punk characterise his solo work, and so it’s no wonder that Stuff In […]
Gus Englehorn Is Blurbed At The Propaganda Site
The Propaganda Site recently published a blurb about Gus Englehorn, who it describes as “a puckish singer-songwriter who combines bits and pieces of the ’90s indie rock scene with his unabashed penchant for what might be described as wildly liberating weirdness… Despite all the manic energy his work exudes and all the imaginative shifts and turns he takes, […]
Clash Interviews James Yorkston and Nina Persson
According to Clash Music, “James Yorkston and Nina Persson are – on paper – a bit of an odd couple. One is a folk-hewn Scottish songwriter, whose quiet intensity has resulted in a singular catalogue. The other is Swedish, someone who took The Cardigans to international rock-pop stardom. New album The Great White Sea Eagle thrives on these differences, however, unlocking hitherto […]
New Music From Ghost Party
From Houston, Ghost Party is an indie psych revival group consisting of singer-songwriter/guitarist McCullough Ferguson, who has shared stages with Roky Erickson, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Night Beats as the lead guitarist of Flower Graves (Wallflower Records); drummer Victor Sanchez; and bassist/keyboardist Kendrick Ballard. Ghost Party pays homage to the godfathers of psych rock while advancing the form with a few modern twists and turns. […]
AmApAc Artists Travel to Austin for SXSW
Artists from A man A plan A canal will be in Austin next week during the South by Southwest Music Festival, and we are super-excited for all of them. Sunny War, whose Anarchist Gospel has been #1 at NACC Folk for two weeks in a row, has a few shows, as does Québecois heartthrob Gus Engelhorn, the bluegrass-inflected Rose’s Pawn Shop, and Fruit […]
Gus Englehorn Releases A Cowboy In Paris Documentary
Experience Gus Englehorn‘s 2022 tour with A Cowboy in Paris, “an autobiographical documentary film by Estée Preda and Gus Englehorn capturing life on the road while they were touring Europe during fall 2022. Shot on super 8 film in a peculiar and laconic cinema vérité style, the documentary strings together a series of live performances punctuated by mundane moments captured […]
Ava Live Radio Features Nima Kazerouni’s “Lush” Single “Never Enough”
AVA Live Radio writes that “Nima Kazerouni’s new single ‘Never Enough’ has a lush feel with soft warm vocal layered over beautiful flowing synths and a mix of analogue instruments… The singer adds variety to the single with a more empathetic tone in areas that build the song to add interest to the flow. There is […]
The New Yorker Sings The Praises of Sunny War’s New LP
According to The New Yorker, “Anarchist Gospel, a wistful new LP by Sunny War, was created with an aerodynamic Nashville band that smooths the singer’s edges, yet the record still revels in taking unexpected turns. Throughout, War skates between worlds, tucking gospel choruses behind ransacking guitars and choosing a melancholic ballad to quote the sloganeering British punks Crass. With a […]
Mary Halvorson Is Artist of the Month at WICN
Mary Halvorson is WICN’s Artist of the Month for March 2023. The station writes, “Covering genres ranging through acoustic instrumental, flamenco, rock, jazz, and intonations and effects of sound have demonstrated that she’s truly an artistic explorer.” The site describes her most recent releases, last year’s Amaryllis and Belladonna, as “a double release that found recognition with jazz critics for its […]
Sunny War Hits #1 At NACC Folk
There’s a new #1 at NACC folk: Sunny War‘s excellent Anarchist Gospel. We want to thank all the stations that included the LP on your folk list last week: KBOO, KCSB, KDUR, KEXP, KGLT, KVMR, KXCI, WMNF, WUTK, KAXE, CKUA, KOWS, and WHUP. The Nashville-based guitar goddess also got to a career peak #17 on the NACC Top […]
Paul Givant of Rose’s Pawn Shop Explains How The Pandemic Has Impacted His Process
In a recent interview with The Big Takeover, Rose’s Pawn Shop leader Paul Givant discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the band and his songwriting. As it turns out, being sidelined for a while was good for both his songwriting and his ability to strategize with live performances. “It was a good time to write,” he told the site. “I […]
Nima Kazerouni Unveils New Video Via Instagram
Nima Kazerouni recently released a video for “I Walk Down It,” which is Track #3 on his new self-titled EP. According to the artist, “A friend recently told me that this song belongs in a slasher movie. Had never thought of that but I couldn’t agree more. This video definitely evokes those creepy-eerie tones amidst a […]
MXDWN Gives A Thumbs-Up To The “Vivid, Human, and Moving” New LP from James Yorkston, Nina Persson, and The Second Hand Orchestra.
MXDWN recently reviewed The Great White Sea Eagle, which is at radio now from James Yorkston, Nina Persson, and The Second Hand Orchestra. The site contends that the LP “sounds like grownups reminiscing about the good and the bad times in a cabin by the sea, with quilts over their laps and a fire roaring, speaking in whimsical […]
Jason Bajada Releases Video and Continues His Québec Conquest
Jason Bajada recently shared a new video from Crushed Grapes. The album was released last year to critical acclaim, earning plaudits from The CBC, Dusty Organ, Ear To The Ground, Rock N Roll Globe, Broadway World, Enigma Online, and more. Now, fans can see the clip for album highlight “Brooklyn Isn’t Big Enough For the Both of […]
New Music From Kat Niles
Kat Niles is an LA-based singer-songwriter and composer whose work is a study in contradiction. She draws inspiration from the music of her childhood — Townes Van Zandt, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, medieval motets and choral pieces, and Britney Spears. Her lyrics are influenced by magical realism and the literary works of Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector. Her unruly and experimental song structures are […]
Paul Givant of Rose’s Pawn Shop Shares Stories and Advice With Americana Highways
Americana Highways recently spoke to Paul Givant of Rose’s Pawn Shop about his life as a touring musician, learning about his taste in coffee, the band’s craziest (and in one instance, deeply sad) tour lodging experience, and what CD he’d choose to have stuck in his tour van for the duration of a roadtrip. Givant also has advice […]
The Times Argus Says Sunny War Is “Vital”
Sunny War is in the Top 20 at the NACC 200 and has the #1 album at NACC Folk. That is no surprise, because – as the Barre/Montpelier Times Argus notes – she represents “one of the most compelling and distinctive voices in American roots music.” War plays Waterbury Center, Vermont tomorrow night, and the local paper calls […]
