If life experience equates to wisdom, then Mike Farris probably has more fatherly advice to impart than most. The Grammy winner does just that on “Golden Wings,” the first single from his upcoming LP Silver and Stone. As the lead singer of Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies during the Nineties, Farris fell …
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Phantogram released a poignant new single, “Someday,” as part of a mental health initiative. All proceeds from sales and streams of the track – and its B-side, an atmospheric cover of Sparklehorse ballad “Saturday” – will benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. “Someday I’ll find you; I’ll meet you, …
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Reaching far beyond their Americana roots, Sons of Bill brew up a lush, literate sound with this year’s Oh God Ma’am, a wide-ranging album that mixes honesty, hooks and headiness in equal measure. With electric guitars that chime and reverb-drenched harmonies that swoon, Oh God Ma’am nods to the atmospheric …
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Tupac Shakur once brought a bagful of weed to Snoop Dogg backstage at Saturday Night Live. Snoop Dogg spoke about the meet-up – which also included Madonna, who dated Shakur during the Nineties – for the first time during an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday. Snoop Dogg appeared as …
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“Is there room in the game for a lame who rhymes? Who wears short shorts and makes jokes sometimes?” These sorts of questions consumed Camp, the official debut album from Donald Glover‘s Childish Gambino project, when it came out in 2011. The record was intensely anxious and frequently biting, emphasizing …
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Jason Aldean has announced the new single from his latest album Rearview Town. “Drowns the Whiskey” follows the multi-week Number One “You Make It Easy” and features guest vocals from Miranda Lambert. The pair is captured in the recording studio in a new lyric video for the song that premiered …
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Ray Davies has announced his new album Our Country: Americana Act II, the follow-up to the Kinks frontman’s 2017 LP Americana. “Our Country follows my journey across America; through endless tours not just to reclaim the Kinks’ career, but to rediscover the country that offered me my earliest inspirations,” Davies …
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The first song Tony Joe White ever finished was “Polk Salad Annie,” the popular late-Sixties tribute to Southern women and edible weeds. Half a century later, he’s grown into a bluesy, backwoods folk hero, celebrated for his swampy guitar playing, slow-motion delivery and signature songwriting. He’s still an active musician, …
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Maddie & Tae stage a seductive comeback with the depiction of radioactive chemistry in their new single “Friends Don’t,” the duo’s first release since 2016. Set to hit radio stations on May 14th, the confessional power ballad was written by the duo with hit makers Justin Ebach and Jon Nite …
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Finding a musician and songwriter more influential in the collective genres of pop, folk, country and Americana music – and yet also more underappreciated – than the late Gene Clark would be a formidable task. Clark’s legacy as a singer, songwriter, founding member of the Byrds, and collaborator in a …
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