New records, independent voices and the stories behind the music. Explore albums across Americana, indie, folk, country and roots.
Natalie Bergman | Release Spotlight |Cinematic Folk |Folk Noir
There is no safe distance in a title like I Killed A North American Songbird.
Natalie Bergman could have made a record about the disappearance of the natural world. The vanishing…
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DAREDEVIL
Chloe Kimes | Release Spotlight
Chloe Kimes has a fairly dramatic description of life as an independent musician.
Imagine climbing into a cannon.
Somebody lights the fuse.
Off you go.
And somewhere in the distance, hopefully, there's a reasonably…
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Darlin’ Brando | Release Spotlight
Darlin’ Brando has made a country EP full of people who could probably use a quiet evening.
Unfortunately, the band has other plans.
People dance while worrying about everything.
Smile for photographs…
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Maria Lane | Release Spotlight
The last message Maria Lane received from him ended with four words.
“I love you always.”
She never answered.
Instead, she wrote a song.
Ten minutes of it.
And apparently ten…
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They had never met before.
Forty-eight hours later they had written a song, recorded it and filmed a music video.
Which sounds like the beginning of a story about working very quickly.
…
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Mind Over Matter has been sitting at the end of Waylon's Time Jumper since November last year.
Track ten.
The last song.
And perhaps the quietest surprise on the record.
So seeing…
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Setting a boundary sounds easy.
Two words, perhaps.
No.
Enough.
Stop.
Then you actually have to say them.
That is where Summon begins to make sense.
Heidi Curtis describes her new single as “a totem of strength, courage and…
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Photo Mandi Fountain
There is an old photograph somewhere in the imagination when you hear the words Delta blues.
A man.
A guitar.
A road that probably isn't paved.
We have become rather good at putting this…
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There are days when you would quite like someone to tell you that everything is going to be alright.
And then there are days when you know that probably isn't going to happen.
Life Lately starts there.
“I…
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Some things leave.
Some things stay.
L I N G E R is about the second kind.
For Lisa Bondè, the seven songs on her first release under her own name grew out of…
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There is something nice about a songwriter who doesn't seem particularly interested in rushing the songs anywhere.
Ragged Tunes For A Lazy Afternoon brings together ten songs Stefan Olovsson has written over…
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Malena Cadiz, Fragile / Shoot the Moon
Some songs ask for your attention.
Others just begin.
That is how Fragile / Shoot the Moon, the new split single by Malena Cadiz, feels. Before you…
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Release Spotlight | Glitch&Gold Magazine
There are countless artists inspired by the music of the 1950s and 1960s. Few manage to convince you they're living inside that tradition rather than simply…
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On her first collection of songs, Heidi Curtis blends alternative folk, indie rock and subtle Americana into six tracks that feel intimate…
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The Missing Diamonds have built their reputation on raw energy, loud guitars and a no-frills approach to rock and roll. They're not a band that hides behind polished production or carefully manufactured emotion. That makes…
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On her debut single “Loud Mouth”, the Texas-based country-rock artist leans fully into the personality that already made people pay attention to her online, outspoken, self-made and completely unwilling to shrink…
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On “A Woman”, Dali turns frustration into something deeply personal, writing from the exhaustion of constantly having to protect your boundaries while watching people ignore them anyway. The song doesn’t try to dramatize pain…
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They stay somewhere inside you, lingering like smoke in a closed room, replaying decisions you thought you had already survived. On “48”, Aubany turns emotional withdrawal into something painfully intimate, capturing the strange…
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