CONNOR GARVEY PREMIERES VIDEO FOR “WATER TO THE WELL” ON AMERICANA HIGHWAYS

“WATER TO THE WELL”

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PORTLAND, ME – Award-winning singer-songwriter Connor Garvey releases intimate performance video for “Water To The Well,” the second single from his forthcoming album Another End of a Year available July 21, 2022.

“In making the video for [“Water To The Well”] it was really important to me to capture the people I made this record with, who’ve been on this journey with me, IN the space where we worked on the songs, practiced, recorded, mixed, reviewed, and celebrated their completion and first launched them into the world,” shares Connor.  “There are a lot of ways to make a video but to me this captured who made the music and keeps the song as the central part of this experience.”

“Water To The Well” captures the experience and journey of trying to help, heal and progress through the complexity of depression and self-antagonism. Americana Highways notes, “Garvey’s music has an organic quality that slowly unfolds into its messages of hope of human blossoming in the midst of mundanity. The video, taken within the wooden studio walls, reflects the earthiness of the music itself, like the studio was made for this song.”

Connor Garvey is performing a limited special shows throughout the summer to support Another End of a Year with more fall and winter touring to be announced. Release dates below.

ABOUT CONNOR GARVEY

Connor Garvey’s interest in music and writing began at a very young age. Both his parents are educators- his mother an English teacher and his father a songwriter. Growing up in such a musical environment in the artistically rich Northeast, Garvey developed the firm belief that songwriting is a method for bringing community together and a way for people to explore a greater depth within their own lives. His combination of songwriting and performance strength has earned Garvey numerous awards including being named winner of the Kerrville New Folk, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, SolarFest, Wildflower Art and Music Festival and Maine Songwriters Association songwriting competitions, voted as Most Wanted artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, nominated for Best Male Performer in the New England Music Awards, and a top new singer songwriter by Sirius XM's The Coffeehouse. He has since gone on to perform around the country at many of the most notable folk/acoustic venues, festival stages, and teaching songwriting at some of the more distinguished song schools. He has previously released 6 full-length records, two EPs, and was an artist in residence onboard a cargo ship crossing the North Atlantic Ocean with just his guitar and a 9 person Russian crew.

U.S. RELEASE DATES

JUN 17 / VINALHAVEN, ME @ Skål

JUN 21 / CAMBRIDGE, MA @ Club Passim

JUL23 / PORTLAND, ME @ The Great Northeast Folk Festival

AUG 12 / LYONS, CO @ Rocky Mountain Folk Festival

AUG 21 / CONWAY, NH @ Cold River Radio Show

KEEP UP WITH CONNOR GARVEY

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OUT TODAY: BOB MARSTON & THE CREDIBLE SOURCES’ DEBUT LP SO LONG + ALBUM RELEASE SHOW IN BIRMINGHAM ON JUNE 4TH

“...a sound that'll seem really familiar to fans of early '70s California folk rock.” - The Montgomery Advertiser

"...you will find what you’re looking for in So Long" - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine 

"...a solid debut album. The band shows that they can shift gears from one style to another while providing a soundtrack that is just as good for a road trip as it is for the easy Sunday mornings they sing about." - Americana Highways 

“...part soulful Muscle Shoals and part edgy Merge Records” - Glide Magazine 

​​"...an immensely enjoyable record" - Twangville 

“...a big sound” - Americana-UK 

"A laudable debut and entertainingly diverse look at life." - The Spirit Of Progressive Rock 

"'...a cool southern charm" - Daily Reggae 

"Bob Marston & the Credible Sources’ So Long sounds both ancient and everlasting. It’s music written on the conclusive power of well-strummed acoustic guitars and soulful singing about aiming to come out victorious over life’s biggest issues." - Alt77

LISTEN: SO LONG

Today, Birmingham, Alabama-based outfit Bob Marston & the Credible Sources have released their debut full-length LP So Long, due out June 3rd. "With songs written as early as 2004, it would be an understatement to say that our debut album has been a long time in the making, which makes the title, So Long, completely appropriate,” Marston told It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine. “The album is a culmination of years of writing songs and developing them through live performance. The sound can best be described, broadly, as Americana but covers stylistic ground from old school R&B to reggae, from classic country to hard rock, with songs ultimately coming across as some form of roots rock."

The songs on the album fall into two categories–love songs and social justice anthems. From processing a breakup and singing lamentations of romantic deceit, to telling stories that convey big questions about social justice and exploring and trying to understand society and our history, the common thread on So Long is striving for and finding humanity in ourselves, our communities, and society as a whole.

Marston has been on a journey of self-discovery, and with the help of therapy, meditation, and cannabis, his empathic creativity comes shining through the lyrics of every song on So Long. The Credible Sources are equal parts roots rock backing band and high-flying, improv-ready aces. Truly a whole greater than the sum of its wildly capable parts, the band is known for its intricately-woven guitar parts, tight and compelling bass and drum grooves, and pure, emotive vocals, a sound that garners comparisons to The Grateful Dead, moe., Wilco, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and more.

So Long also features keyboard master Matt Slocum (Allman Brothers, Susan Tedeschi, Widespread Panic, and more), monster bass player Adrian Marmolejo (Early James and the Latest). Trombonist Chad Fisher (St. Paul and the Broken Bones), Allen Branstetter (St. Paul and the Broken Bones) on trumpet, award-winning fiddler Adam Purvis, and more.           

The album’s tracks explore love and devotion through the lens of attempts to salvage a challenging relationship, to pondering life’s big questions, and offering commentary on social injustice and societal issues. Brought together by luck, fate, and destiny, this band of seasoned professionals and unproven hotshots upends stereotypes and breaks paradigms as it brings a message of love, honesty, empathy, and infinite possibility to the world, one song at a time.

TOUR DATES

6/4 - Workplay - Birmingham, AL [ALBUM RELEASE SHOW]

6/22 - Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge - Nashville, TN

6/23 - Commonhouse Aleworks - Charleston, SC

6/25 - River Remedy Brewing Co. - Rome, GA

7/20 - The Hole in the Wall - Austin, TX

7/21 - The 101 - Bryan, TX

7/22 - Abita Brew Pub  - Abita Springs, LA

7/23 - Martin's Downtown - Jackson, MS

KYSHONA RELEASES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “OUT LOUD” + NEW TOUR DATES SUPPORTING SHOVELS & ROPE

"...one of the most compassionate and uplifting young voices in Nashville today." - NPR

Photo: Nora Canfield

WATCH // STREAM: “OUT LOUD” 

Today, critically-acclaimed artist Kyshona has released the video for her latest single “Out Loud,” a song she wrote with friend and fellow artist Caroline Spence, about braving the silence to speak a difficult truth. The video was created by Nashville-based, Emmy-nominated animator Katie Callahan in collaboration with Salt Lake City illustrator Molly Powers. “This video captures the feeling one may have when they speak their truth, that you’re speaking into the void,” Kyshona explains. “But the power of using your voice is that the sound creates ripple effects that go on forever. One day, those sound waves will reach someone and you’ll realize you were never really alone,” she adds. “Who has encouraged you to speak up? Who will you encourage to do the same? It’s not always easy to say what you need or to tell someone about something that happened to you, but it is important to find the words to do so when you’re ready,” she continues. “It’s equally important to let folks around you know that you are listening.”

The importance of listening is a central theme of Kyshona’s music. In 2020, she released the appropriately-titled LP Listen, which was lauded by NPR, Billboard, Rolling Stone, No Depression, The Bluegrass Situation, The Nashville Scene, and more.

STREAM: LISTEN

Kyshona is an artist ignited by untold stories, and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community.  With the background of a licensed music therapist, the curiosity of a writer, the patience of a friend, the vision of a social entrepreneur, the resolve of an activist, and the voice of a singer, Kyshona is unrelenting in her pursuit for the healing power of song.

She lends her voice and music to those that feel they have been silenced or forgotten.  She facilitates writing sessions with groups and individuals who feel left out or marginalized, in hopes of reconnecting those who are divided. In 2021, she founded charitable organization Your Song,* which currently provides therapeutic songwriting sessions with at-risk and marginalized youth, with the elderly to aid in memory care/recovery, with incarcerated populations and those re-entering society, with those experiencing addiction and those in recovery, as well as programming geared towards women’s health and healing, strengthening bonds between new parents and their children, and more.

Kyshona’s song “Listen” became an anthem for many in 2020. Of her album, one fan reviewer wrote: “Amidst these hard, divisive times this set of songs is a salve for the grief many of us are feeling about resulting loss of family, friends, and community.” Audiences will find a common thread of empowerment, overcoming adversity, and finding hope in her work. The show doesn’t end when the last song is sung. After her powerful performances, concertgoers often ask, "What can I do?" Her response? "Listen."

Kyshona is currently on tour, dates are listed below. Be sure to follow her via the links below for all the latest news and updates.

*a charitable organization fiscally sponsored through the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville

TOUR DATES: 

6/2 - The Basement East - Nashville, TN

​​6/10 - Norman Bird Sanctuary - Middletown, RI

6/24 - Musicians Corner - Nashville, TN

7/9 - PaoliFest - Paoli, IN

7/16 - Elm Street Cultural Arts - Woodstock, GA

7/22 - Hillside Festival - Guelph, ON

8/7 - Sundays On The River @ Olivette Riverside Pavillion - Asheville, NC

8/10 - The Ramkat - Winston-Salem, NC*

8/15 - Prescott Park Arts Festival - Portsmouth, NH

8/16 - CHIRP - Ridgefield, CT

8/17 - Woodbridge Wednesdays - Woodbridge, NJ

8/18 - Live At The Archway - Brooklyn, NY

8/21 - LOUD - Huntington, WV*

8/23 - Beacon Theatre - Hopewell, VA*

8/24 - Avalon Theatre - Easton, MD*

9//9 - Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion - Bristol, TN

9/14-9/17 - AmericanaFest - Nashville, TN

*w/ Shovels & Rope

INTRODUCING: CHAYLA HOPE

NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “LOVE IN LO-FI” OUT NOW 

DEBUT LIVE PERFORMANCE ON JULY 22

photo by Lindsey Poyar

LISTEN // WATCH: “LOVE IN LO-FI”   

Chayla Hope is pop’s next great voice. Making a name for herself in Cleveland’s music scene pressing vinyl at Gotta Groove Records and collaborating with up-and-coming producer Jesty Beatz (aka Holy Mattress Money), her sophisticated take on the sounds of the ‘80s and ‘90s recalls the influence of Kate Bush, Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, and Robyn, marrying inventive arrangements with an impressive range and infectious spirit.

After years spent fronting and singing in alternative rock bands, including Emmy and multiple ADDY award-winning local favorites Seafair, pop is where Chayla was meant to be. “Pop is the music that raised me, the music my mom used to listen to while cleaning the house,” she says on planting her musical flag in the genre. “It’s always been there for me as an anchoring and joyful force. It is me.”

A proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community who found her performance identity doing drag, it’s no surprise Chayla was selected to sing the theme song for Care Bears: Unlock The Magic and has numerous features in the show’s soundtrack and merchandise, embodying its core themes of empowerment, inclusion, and self-understanding through her music.

On April 29th, she released her first single, “Love in Lo-Fi,” a reminder of everything a pop anthem should be. Mixed by 10-time GRAMMY Award winner Josh Gudwin (Bad Bunny, Justin Bieber, Dua Lipa), it’s an aspirational earworm anchored in unforgettable artistry. The song’s accompanying music video was directed by JR Strickland with choreography by Nicole Kirkland. "Falling in love will forever remind me of dancing,” says Chayla on the inspiration behind the video. “Whether it's with a person, yourself, or your dreams, when you're in it, your pain disappears and you get to enjoy the feeling of being alive."

And it's only the beginning.  

On June 24th, she will release her new single “Falling,” an ode to the all-too-familiar feeling of instantly connecting with someone, only to question whether or not to blame it on the alcohol. Evoking Chayla’s past as a drag performer, the single’s strutting groove arrives just in time to close out Pride Month and turn anywhere into a runway fit for vamping. Both singles will appear on her forthcoming debut LP Damn, Feelings, set for release in late 2022. 

Chayla Hope will make her live debut on Friday, July 22nd as a part of Greyt Culture’s Golden Hour concert series in Cleveland. Click HERE for tickets and show information. Be sure to follow her at the links below for the latest news and updates.

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BOB MARSTON & THE CREDIBLE SOURCES PREMIERE NEW SINGLE “LYIN’ EYES” VIA GLIDE MAGAZINE

BOB MARSTON & THE CREDIBLE SOURCES PREMIERE NEW SINGLE

“LYIN’ EYES” VIA GLIDE MAGAZINE  

DEBUT LP SO LONG DUE OUT JUNE 3RD

LISTEN: “LYIN’ EYES” 

 Birmingham, Alabama-based outfit Bob Marston & the Credible Sources have released “Lyin’ Eyes,” the latest from their forthcoming debut full-length LP So Long, due out June 3rd. The track premiered at Glide Magazine, who called “Lyin’ Eyes” “swampy folk” and a “righteous and seriously in-the-pocket stunner that showcases Marston’s stunning arrangement that sounds part soulful Muscle Shoals and part edgy Merge Records.”

“When I was working a migrant farm job in Illinois. The job was corn de-tasseling which warrants a longer explanation but let’s just say it was a bunch of young to middle-aged people walking through cornfields for about 12 hours a day, partying as hard as they could until about midnight, and then doing it all over again,” Marston told Glide Magazine. “The crew was comprised of about 40 people of which 35 were male and five were female. Of those females, three were in committed relationships and one was not interested in men, which left one young lady free to flirt with at least two dozen young men. I was one of those young men and thought, based on some brief, flirtatious encounters, that I had a pretty good chance of being selected as her ‘corn boyfriend.’ When, to my great disappointment, she selected another, I was hurt, not deeply or in any lasting sort of way, but enough that the daily reminder stung a bit,” he added. 

“Lyin’ Eyes” follows reggae-tinged head-bobber “Real Magic, Good People,” about forgiveness and understanding being what truly unifies communities, and the album’s title track, which encourages understanding in order to heal societal rifts.

LISTEN: “REAL MAGIC, GOOD PEOPLE”  

LISTEN: “SO LONG” 

Marston has been on a journey of self-discovery, and with the help of therapy, meditation, and cannabis, his empathic creativity comes shining through the lyrics of every song on So Long. The Credible Sources are equal parts roots rock backing band and high-flying, improv-ready aces. Truly a whole greater than the sum of its wildly capable parts, the band is known for its intricately-woven guitar parts, tight and compelling bass and drum grooves, and pure, emotive vocals, a sound that garners comparisons to The Grateful Dead, moe., Wilco, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and more.

So Long also features keyboard master Matt Slocum (Allman Brothers, Susan Tedeschi, Widespread Panic, and more), monster bass player Adrian Marmolejo (Early James and the Latest). Trombonist Chad Fisher (St. Paul and the Broken Bones), Allen Branstetter (St. Paul and the Broken Bones) on trumpet, award-winning fiddler Adam Purvis, and more.

The album’s tracks explore love and devotion through the lens of attempts to salvage a challenging relationship, to pondering life’s big questions, and offering commentary on social injustice and societal issues. Brought together by luck, fate, and destiny, this band of seasoned professionals and unproven hotshots upends stereotypes and breaks paradigms as it brings a message of love, honesty, empathy, and infinite possibility to the world, one song at a time.

 

TOUR DATES 

5/28 - Coastal Crust - Charleston, SC*

6/3 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL**

6/4 - Workplay - Birmingham, AL [ALBUM RELEASE SHOW]

6/24 - Diplomat Deli - Vestavia Hills, AL**

7/1 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL**

8/5 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL**

8/13 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL**

9/24 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL**

10/7 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL**

10/9 - Mountain Brook Presbyterian - Mountain Brook, AL

10/15 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL**

11/4 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL**

11/5 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL**

12/2 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL**

12/10 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL**

 

*Bob Marston solo show 

**Bob Marston w/ Natalie Valentine

GRAMMY® AWARD WINNERS CATHY FINK, MARCY MARXER, & TOM PAXTON PREMIERE NEW SINGLE “SINCE YOU” VIA BLUEGRASS TODAY

GRAMMY® AWARD WINNERS CATHY FINK, MARCY MARXER, & TOM PAXTON PREMIERE NEW SINGLE “SINCE YOU”  VIA BLUEGRASS TODAY 

 LIVE ALBUM PROJECT ALL NEW SET FOR RELEASE ON JULY 29TH 

Photo: Michael G. Stewart

LISTEN: “SINCE YOU” 

GRAMMY® Award-winning folk icons Tom Paxton, and Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (who make music as Cathy & Marcy), have released “Since You,” the latest barn-burner from their forthcoming live, double album collaboration, ALL NEW, set for release on July 29th.  

“It’s a sprightly number that makes you feel good for listening,” said Bluegrass Today in their premiere. “It’s a story of true love, and good times on the horizon which Paxton says still occurs even in a topsy turvy world.” 

"Tom and I write all kinds of songs and one of our goals in co-writing has been to write Bluegrass songs. We may have crossed the line writing a happy Bluegrass love song, but we did it! And with Kimber Ludiker on fiddle, Marcy Marxer on mandolin, and Alex Lacquement on bass, how could we lose?” Fink told Bluegrass Today. “Love always wins." "It happens; don’t try to tell me it doesn’t. You’ll meet more than one person in a lifetime who will bring you up short and change your way of thinking - sometimes permanently,” added Paxton. “Usually, the change is for the better. Usually." 

“Since You” follows the release of the trio's first single, “Pete’s Shoulders: The Power Of Song,” a tribute to the legendary Pete Seeger and in honor of his birthday. “Pete Seeger was a Lincolnian figure to me and an avatar who never let us down,” says Paxton. “Pete once sent me a copy of one of his songbooks, nicely inscribed, and when I sent him one of my own I wrote on the title page, ‘To Pete, on whose aching shoulders I have stood for 50 years.’”  

The songs on ALL NEW began in weekly co-writing sessions on ZOOM with Paxton and Fink in 2020. The results include love songs, comedy, history, social justice, and great storytelling, spanning styles from folk to bluegrass to swing to round-singing. In January 2022, the three recorded 28 of the songs live in concert and in-studio.  

They also recently released “Don’t Say Gay,” a topical, tongue-in-cheek song and video in response to Florida’s controversial House Bill 1557. The song and video feature the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC. 

LISTEN // WATCH: “PETE’S SHOULDERS (THE POWER OF SONG)” 

WATCH: DON’T SAY GAY (ft. THE GAY MEN’S CHORUS OF WASHINGTON, DC) 

GRAMMY® Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Tom Paxton has become a voice of his generation, addressing issues of injustice and inhumanity, laying bare the absurdities of modern culture, and celebrating community. In describing Paxton's influence on his fellow musicians, Kennedy Center Honors Awardee Pete Seeger has said: "Tom's songs have a way of sneaking up on you. You find yourself humming them, whistling them, and singing a verse to a friend.”  

A catalog of hundreds of songs serves to document Paxton's 57-year career and the power his songs have had on major artists who have recorded them including Willie Nelson, Placido Domingo, Porter Waggoner and Dolly Parton, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, and more. 

TWO-TIME GRAMMY® Award Winners, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are an eclectic folk festival on their own terms. They have entertained the Queen of Thailand, been keynote singers for the AFL-CIO, performed at hundreds of folk festivals, and appeared on the "Today Show" and on National Public Radio. Their superb harmonies are backed by instrumental virtuosity on the guitar, five-string banjo, ukulele, mandolin, cello-banjo, and more.  

The duo, whose past students include Kaki King and Rhiannon Giddens, are the artistic directors of the Ola Belle Reed Songwriting retreat and of The Music Center at Strathmore’s annual Ukefest. They are closing in on their 50th recording and have been honored with 65 Washington Area Music Awards, 12 GRAMMY® nominations, and a multi-generational following of fans.   

Tom Paxton begins a tour on June 9th, details are listed below.  Check your local listings for PBS this month and tune in to catch Cathy & Marcy featured on David Holt’s State of Music, and be sure to follow Tom Paxton and Cathy & Marcy at the links below for the latest news and updates. 

TOM PAXTON ON TOUR 

6/9 - Godfrey Daniels - Bethlehem, PA 

6/10 - City Winery - NYC 

6/11 - Hurdy Gurdy Folk Club - Fair Lawn, NJ 

6/12 - Caffe Lena - Saratoga Springs, NY 

6/14 - Club Passim - Cambridge, MA 

6/16 - Norwood Village Green Concert Series - Norwood, NY 

6/17 - Smith Center for the Arts - Geneva, NY 

6/18 - 1891 Fredonia Opera House - Fredonia, NY 

6/24 - McCabe’s - Santa Monica, CA 

6/25 & 6/26 - Kate Wolf Music Festival - Laytonville, CA 

6/28 - Hopmonk Tavern - Novato, CA 

6/29 - Freight & Salvage - Berkeley, CA 

10/30 - The Birchmere - Alexandria, VA  

THE EARLY MAYS PREMIERE SINGLE “THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY FALL” VIA FOLK RADIO UK

PRETTIEST BLUE EP SET FOR RELEASE ON JULY 1

“The Early Mays are exceptional storytellers, singers and musicians who craft their songs with the utmost care and attention; they’re a joy to listen to.” - Folk Radio UK

Photo: Kristi Jan Hoover

LISTEN: “THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY FALL” 

Today, Pittsburgh-based duo The Early Mays (Ellen Gozion and Emily Pinkerton) have released a newly-composed "old-time"murder ballad with “The Ballad Of Johnny Fall,” the haunting lead single from their forthcoming EP, Prettiest Blue, due out on July 1, 2022. Written and sung by Gozion with Pinkerton on banjo and vocals and Nicole Myers on cello, "they conjure up a melancholic opening that taps straight into the darkness of this ballad and the endless cycle of abuse,” said Folk Radio UK in their premiere. “Appalachian murder ballads give us insight into the long history of violence and misogyny against women. The suffering woman in this story decides to take matters into her own hands, but fate intervenes for her here.” 

“A woman falls deeply in love when she is young, with a man whose eyes are the ‘prettiest blue,’” Gozion told Folk Radio UK  “As the years wear on, he is consumed by alcohol; their love frays under his abuse. She resolves to escape her suffering by shooting her husband. But the very night she sits on the porch with her gun, he does not come home. Fate had intervened. He was taken down by a train as he walked along the railroad tracks,” she added. “You feel the tragedy of abuse, of death, and of a love–once beautiful and bright– that was extinguished by addiction.” 

Somewhere on the border between old-time music and modern American songwriting, The Early Mays have built a band with harmonies that feel like home. It’s a partnership that has shared slow-burning, perfectly paired vocals for ten years—from NPR’s Mountain Stage to house concerts all over the mid-Atlantic.  

“I think part of our aesthetic comes from being introspective people,” Gozion reflects, “We don’t have a flashy, fast sound, but if you let the music engulf you, there are lots of layers. Our songs give people a place to slow down.” “The Early Mays rehearsals are restorative for me,” adds Pinkerton. “The hours spent in Ellen’s living room, with coffee and dark chocolate, following the harmonies wherever they take us, laughing and just loving that exploration as much as we love singing for other people. I hope you can hear the joy of the process in Prettiest Blue.”  

From the old-time music community, The Early Mays have absorbed the culture of deep listening that’s central to playing with sensitivity. “Revivalists like us–who didn’t live and breathe Appalachian music growing up–still learn and create by ear for the most part,” Pinkerton explains. “Being able to carry hours of tunes in my head was life-changing. And there is new meaning to uncover each time you return to a field recording or slowly build a relationship with a mentor.”  

That practice of deep listening–and slow, careful craftsmanship–spills over into every Early Mays performance and production as they sculpt their warm, immersive sound. The past ten years have been a steady search for musical and spiritual sustenance: for themselves and for their listeners. “Prettiest Blue is about keeping your eyes trained on something brighter, even in the midst of sadness,” reflects Pinkerton. A decade of friendship is palpable in the co-arranged songs, as well as the dedication to craft and the sustained pursuit of a rich acoustic aesthetic. You may find yourself comfortably swaying in that neo-traditional space–somewhere between old-time and songwriter sensibilities–getting a glimpse of how much these songs have been cared for.  

The Early Mays will celebrate the release with a show at SongSpace in Pittsburgh on June 25th. Click HERE for show information. Be sure to follow the band at the links below for the latest news. 

Painting by Ron Donoughe

OUT TODAY: KYSHONA RELEASES NEW SINGLE “OUT LOUD”

"...one of the most compassionate and uplifting young voices in Nashville today." - NPR

photo by Jimmy Fisco

STREAM: “OUT LOUD”  

Today, Nashville-based, critically-acclaimed artist Kyshona has released “Out Loud,” a song she wrote with friend and fellow artist Caroline Spence, about braving the silence to speak a difficult truth. “I often think of this song as if the trio and I are singing to a child - but really this song can be a message to anyone,” Kyshona explains, referencing vocalists Maureen Murphy and Nickie Conley, who regularly tour and perform with her. “Sometimes I think it is a message I’m sending to myself, as well.  It’s not always easy to say what you need or to tell someone about something that happened to you, but it is important to find the words to do so when you’re ready,” she adds. “It’s equally important to let folks around you know that you are listening.” 

The importance of listening is a central theme of Kyshona’s music. In 2020, she released the appropriately-titled LP Listen, which was lauded by NPR, Billboard, Rolling Stone, No Depression, The Bluegrass Situation, and more.  

STREAM: LISTEN 

Kyshona is an artist ignited by untold stories, and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community.  With the background of a licensed music therapist, the curiosity of a writer, the patience of a friend, the vision of a social entrepreneur, the resolve of an activist, and the voice of a singer, Kyshona is unrelenting in her pursuit for the healing power of song. 

She lends her voice and music to those that feel they have been silenced or forgotten.  She facilitates writing sessions with groups and individuals who feel left out or marginalized, in hopes of reconnecting those who are divided. In 2021, she founded charitable organization Your Song,* which currently provides therapeutic songwriting sessions with at-risk and marginalized youth, with the elderly to aid in memory care/recovery, with incarcerated populations and those re-entering society, with those experiencing addiction and those in recovery, as well as programming geared towards women’s health and healing, strengthening bonds between new parents and their children, and more. 

Kyshona’s song “Listen” became an anthem for many in 2020. Of her album, one fan reviewer wrote: “Amidst these hard, divisive times this set of songs is a salve for the grief many of us are feeling about resulting loss of family, friends, and community.” Audiences will find a common thread of empowerment, overcoming adversity, and finding hope in her work. The show doesn’t end when the last song is sung. After her powerful performances, concertgoers often ask, "What can I do?" Her response? "Listen." 

Kyshona is currently on tour, dates are listed below. Be sure to follow her via the links below for all the latest news and updates. 

*a charitable organization fiscally sponsored through the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville  

TOUR DATES: 

5/13 - Hendershot’s - Athens, GA

5/18 - Folk Alliance International - Kansas City, MO

5/29 - Kerrville Folk Festival - Kerrville, TX

6/2 - The Basement East - Nashville, TN

6/24 - Musicians Corner - Nashville, TN

7/22 - Hillside Festival - Guelph, ON

7/27 - Dakota - Minneapolis, MN

8/7 - Sundays On The River @ Olivette Riverside Pavillion - Asheville, NC

8/10 - The Ramkat - Winston-Salem, NC

8/18 - Live At The Archway - Brooklyn, NY

9//9 - Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion - Bristol, TN

LETHAL AMOUNTS ANNOUNCES THEIR FIRST IN-PERSON ART SHOW OF THE YEAR EMMA RUTH RUNDLE: DOWSING VOICE

The Los Angeles’ premiere provocateurs Lethal Amounts are excited to announce their first in-person art show since March 2020, Emma Ruth Rundle’s Dowsing Voice opening May 20.


The exhibit is the physical manifestation of Rundle’s EG2: Dowsing Voice album, which was released on May 13th. Rundle traveled alone to Wales in January of 2020 on a searching expedition. Searching for music, searching for meaning, searching for anything and everything. “What I found was a crack in the earth. A sacred spring. A liminal space. The Otherworld. An intercession with esoteric beings who dwell there and a chance to look upon them.,” says Rundle. “To be consumed by the crone and reborn with the spring. Here my ancestors and their gods shared the tongue of divine femininity - by way of voices, vision, place, and ‘channeled’ music.”

The bulk of the pieces in this exhibition was built in the summer and fall of 2020 at Rundle’s Louisville studio. The creation of this work coincided with a pause in touring, the end of Rundle’s marriage, and the isolation of the pandemic. “ This past year has been a time of deep reflection on the whole process of creating this work,” comments Rundle. “which for me, was the pursuit of escaping the conclusion that life is without context and without meaning.”

ABOUT LETHAL AMOUNTS

Lethal Amounts inhabits a physical gallery space in downtown Los Angeles that features three exhibition rooms and over 2,500 sq. ft. The gallery focuses on subversive and counter-cultural themes throughout history, addressing the social and artistic value of underground movements while highlighting taboo topics. They showcase the extremes of individuals who have moved culture forwards, living on the edge and outside of societal norms. Rock ’n Roll of the past has crossed over into pop culture fanaticism, street culture influences, and cult hero worship. Artists who have shown in the gallery include Leee Black Childers (the house photographer for Andy Warhol’s Factory), famed punk rock photographer Edward Colver, Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Al Jourgensen, Psychic TV, and more. Additional highlights include the Nick Cave Smoking exhibit, Spiritual Cramp : Christian Death exhibit and documentary launch, Shawn M. Crahan (of Slipknot’s) His Whores exhibit, an Anton LaVey event featuring an exhibit of photography and ephemera from the colorful, and notorious cultural icon, Goodbye Pogo: The Art of John Wayne Gacy and Once Upon a Time in 69' : The Life of Charles Manson.

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THE EARLY MAYS ANNOUNCE NEW EP PRETTIEST BLUE SET FOR RELEASE ON JULY 1

"What a beautiful, beautiful harmony sound..." - Larry Groce, NPR's Mountain Stage

“Emotionally stirring harmonies and delicate folk instrumentation… this group brings traditional and original music to spectacular life” -  Cindy Howes, Folk Alley

Photo: Kristi Jan Hoover

  WATCH THE TRAILER FOR PRETTIEST BLUE

Today, Pittsburgh-based duo The Early Mays announce their forthcoming EP, Prettiest Blue, which will release on July 1, 2022. Composed of artists Emily Pinkerton and Ellen Gozion, the pair sing Appalachian-inspired songs over a lush accompaniment of fiddle, banjo, guitar, and harmonium. Somewhere on the border between old-time music and modern American songwriting, The Early Mays have built a band with harmonies that feel like home. It’s a partnership that has shared slow-burning, perfectly paired vocals for ten years—from NPR’s Mountain Stage to house concerts all over the mid-Atlantic.

“I think part of our aesthetic comes from being introspective people,” Gozion reflects, “We don’t have a flashy, fast sound, but if you let the music engulf you, there are lots of layers. Our songs give people a place to slow down.” “The Early Mays rehearsals are restorative for me,” adds Pinkerton. “The hours spent in Ellen’s living room, with coffee and dark chocolate, following the harmonies wherever they take us, laughing and just loving that exploration as much as we love singing for other people. I hope you can hear the joy of the process in Prettiest Blue.”

From the old-time music community, The Early Mays have absorbed the culture of deep listening that’s central to playing with sensitivity. “Revivalists like us–who didn’t live and breathe Appalachian music growing up–still learn and create by ear for the most part,” Pinkerton explains. “Being able to carry hours of tunes in my head was life-changing. And there is new meaning to uncover each time you return to a field recording or slowly build a relationship with a mentor.”

That practice of deep listening–and slow, careful craftsmanship–spills over into every Early Mays performance and production. The duo strives to sculpt a warm, immersive sound. When recording albums, the band has explored everything from a single condenser mic in a church sanctuary to analog tape and vintage compressors. For Prettiest Blue, they were looking for a pared-down “in the room” sound, and recorded at Audible Images in Pittsburgh with Hollis Greathouse, combining live takes with multi-tracked vocals and cello. Drawn by Alex Perialas’ work on Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton’s latest release, The Early Mays decided to mix at Pyramid Sound Studios in Ithaca, NY. Cellist Nicole Myers joins the Mays on Prettiest Blue, lending sweeping melodic lines to support the vocals and old-time textures.

The Early Mays have spent most of their professional lives as musicians. Gozion is a pianist for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and a Music Director at First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh. In the world of old-time, she has made a name for herself as a ballad singer. This trajectory comes across on Prettiest Blue in the newly-composed “Ballad of Johnny Fall,” a dark tale of a man whose eyes were “once the prettiest blue.” 

Pinkerton has lived a bit of a double life in music, dedicating two decades to Chilean folk song, including three years overseas and several collaborations with South American artists: “Even when I’m writing with my banjo, traditional singing from Chile creeps into my rhythm and rhyme. You can hear hints of this in ‘On a Dying Day’ where the lyrics roll back and forth like waves,” she explains. 

The past ten years have been a steady search for musical and spiritual sustenance: for themselves and for their listeners. “Prettiest Blue is about keeping your eyes trained on something brighter, even in the midst of sadness,” reflects Pinkerton. A decade of friendship is palpable in the co-arranged songs, as well as the dedication to craft and the sustained pursuit of a rich acoustic aesthetic. You may find yourself comfortably swaying in that neo-traditional space–somewhere between old-time and songwriter sensibilities–getting a glimpse of how much these songs have been cared for.

The Early Mays will celebrate the release with a show at SongSpace in Pittsburgh on June 25th. Click HERE for show information. Be sure to follow the band at the links below for the latest news.

PRETTIEST BLUE TRACKLIST 

The Ballad Of Johnny Fall

On A Dying Day

Shakin’ Down The Acorns

Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow

My Home’s Across The Blue Ridge Mountains

DOPAPOD RELEASE THEIR NEW SINGLE “FANNIE” FROM THEIR SEVENTH ALBUM DOPAPOD DUE OUT ON MAY 27TH

“The band’s electric chemistry shines as they craft a dreamy sense of infinite expanse, carried by an insistent looping guitar riff, twinkling keys, distinctive vocals, and playful lyrics.” - Under the Radar on “Fannie”

“The band travels along parallel timelines and through alternate dimensions with syncopated rhythms... communicating in its patented brand of robot rock” - Live for Live Music (on the previous single “Black Holes”)

“Dopapod has always set itself apart within the world of jam. . Their music is big and bold, with muscle, bottom, and proper amounts of polish.” - Goldmine Magazine

“There’s a strong portion of heavy rock in the band’s music, jazz, blues, bluegrass and electronica also loom large, with Funk playing a healthy and prominent role. ” - Spirit of Progressive Rock

“Sandwiched by a jazzy-house passage, the song eventually opens up into a psych-folk anthem as the band share some positivity with their determined lyricism. It is a multidimensional and unpredictable track, filled with colour, shape, and melody.” Dusty Organ on “Black Holes”

Artwork & Design: Tandem Media & Katie Reahl

LISTEN TO “Fannie”: HERE

Today prog-rock journeymen Dopapod released their fourth single “Fannie” from their upcoming self-titled seventh album, due out May 27th. The song finds the band leaning into the kaleidoscopic mystery laying on the other side of the black hole. A

daydream-like journey through time and space, the song opens with a hypnotizing, bluesy guitar arrangement overtop elusive ambient soundscapes. The song’s narrator finds himself musing on the various gifts and delicacies he wants to treat his titular love Fannie with. The character dreams of taking her on a fancy date and to the movies after. “Take her to the movies is there anything that's good? / She's into Kurosawa and karate, want to treat my Fannie.”

Glowing keys and a steady drum beat underscore the song’s uncanniness, a dream within a dream. After a series of interpretive vignettes at the restaurant, the narrator takes Fannie back to his apartment, before the dream vanishes. Fannie is reading a note that is slipped under her door from the narrator. A closing sequence swells and churns the band’s sonics through dreamlike splendor. Under the Radar says “The band’s psychedelic alchemy works perfect with the track’s simmering pace and lets the track wind onwards with an irresistible allure.”

“The lyrics have a cool ring to them. They lend themselves to being interpreted in a lot of different ways by the listener,” says Dopapod’s Rob Campa. “We leaned on the groove, and it all worked together.”


The animated video for “Fannie” is the latest chapter in the band’s “Building A Time Machine” series, an episodic offering that plays with themes of space, time travel, and symmetry, concepts that are ever-present in Dopapod’s output. The new release comes on the heels of recent single releases "Think,” "Grow," and “Black Holes,” which build out Dopapod’s ever expansive sonic range with interpretive an lyrical themes, and set in motion a compendium animated short film project created with partners Tandem Media that is being released episodically.

In addition to new music, the band will be releasing an immersive tabletop board game Building a Time Machine that takes players through the history and lore of the group. Designed by the band’s longtime team member and former lighting designer Luke Stratton. Built into the gatefold vinyl packaging of their upcoming album, the game takes players through the past and present of the Dopapod universe as they collect pieces of their iconic palindrome logo to win. To accompany the game the band is offering multiple merch bundles that include game accessories such as Meeple Pawns, Dice, Game Piece Baggies, and Dopapod themed pads and pencils for keeping score.

As always, there’s more to Dopapod’s vision with the union of the physical and digital elements. “It does feel like we made all these albums and made a time machine,” says Compa, “And now we’re at the new frontier, wherever we're going.”

After nearly a decade of developing their craft, the quartet—Eli Winderman [keys, vocals], Rob Compa [guitar, vocals], Chuck Jones [bass], and Neal “Fro” Evans [drums]—consciously present albums as experiences, meant to be shared out of your

speakers, on stage and now in new interactive mediums such as the film project and the tabletop game created for this new album. With musical influences that range widely from metal to jazz and americana, and drawing inspiration from artists like Medeski Martin & Wood to Pink Floyd, Dopapod has created their own hypnotic hybrid of funk, rock, jazz, bluegrass, and electronica. Their ability to access a heightened level of cosmic harmony in their music bloomed brilliantly on 2009’s Radar, and continued to blossom on the following albums Never Odd Or Even [2014] and Megagem [2017]. Along the way, fan favorites such as “Present Ghosts” (2.4 million) and "Mucho" (1.7 million) raised their hand and garnered millions of streams on Spotify, and 2019’s studio offering Emit Time arrived at acclaim from Guitar World, Relix, Glide, Jambase, and more. Simultaneously, they sold out headline gigs and repeatedly graced the bills of hallmark festivals such as Electric Forest, Summer Camp, High Sierra, and Bonnaroo, where Rolling Stone named them among the festival’s “best-kept secrets.”

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Artwork by Luke Stratton

The band will additionally be hitting the road to perform new music at numerous festivals, headlining dates, and on a summer tour supporting legendary father of funk George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.

TOUR DATES

04/20/2022 / Sony Hall / New York, NY

04/28/2022 / Elevation 27 / Virginia Beach, VA

04/28/2022 - 05/01/2022 / Some Kind Of Jam 16 / Kempton, PA

04/29/2022 / Luckinghole Creek Brewery / Goochland, VA

05/13/2022 - 05/14/2-22 / Hookahville / Newark, OH

05/27/2022 - 05/29/2022 / Summer Camp Music Festival / Chillicothe, IL

06/15/2022 / SummerStage in Central Park / New York, NY**

06/17/2022 Beardfest / Hammonton, NJ

06/18/2022 / College Street Music Hall / New Haven, CT**

06/19/2022 / The Palladium / Worcester, MA**

06/30/2022 / Salvage Station / Asheville, NC**

07/02/2022 / The Caverns / Pelham, TN**

08/11/2022 / Mesa Amphitheater / Phoenix, AZ**

08/17/2022 / YouTube Theater / Inglewood, CA**

08/19/2022 / Mountain Winery / Saratoga, CA**

08/20/2022 / Blue Lake Casino / Blue Lake, CA**

08/21/2022 / Charles Krug Winery / Napa, CA**

** supporting George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic

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LOS ANGELES BAND CALLING CADENCE RELEASE THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT ON HI-RES RECORDS

“...it’s a smorgasbord of folk, rock, soul, punk, jazz and country with an easy-to-digest attitude and gotcha hooks. All that, coupled with the extremely high level of musicianship, makes the end product easily absorbed.” - The Audio Beat 

“The band casts a large net and has clearly soaked up inspiration from a disparate cross-section of some all-timers while forging their own sound that could sit comfortably next to Chris Stapleton (“Took a Chance”) or… Michael frigging Jackson (“This Time”). There’s Memphis Soul, and A.M. Gold in them hills too. A veritable smorgasbord of sonic exploration and goodness. “ - Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity  

”L.A. band Calling Cadence has released a new song with an old-school vibe. “Throw My Body” was recorded without the use of any computers; the performance was captured with a vintage tape machine.”  -  KTLA (on “Throw My Body”) 

“Calling Cadence isn’t a ‘70s act. Fronted by Rae Cole and Oscar Bugarin, this L.A.-based group is here-and-now. But theirs is a sound that hearkens back to that era, with hints of everything from Neil Young to Van Morrison to any number of artists associated with the Laurel Canyon movement.” - Musoscribe 

“​​[Just The Way It Goes] is off the band's self-titled debut album, whose songs nod to the past while resolutely pushing forward. It's a classic-sounding record for the contemporary world.” - Folk N Rock on “Just The Way It Goes”

LISTEN TO  CALLING CADENCE : HERE

Los Angeles-based group Calling Cadence released their self-titled debut album today on hi-res records. A tour-de-force that showcases the band’s extensive chops across wide-eyed classic Southern soul, Americana, old school rock & roll, pop, country and bluegrass, swampy blues and more, Calling Cadence’s 15 songs encapsulate the band’s wide range of influences, while steering these sounds and genres into a distinctly modern direction. “It’s a smorgasbord of folk, rock, soul, punk, jazz and country with easy-to-digest attitude and gotcha hooks,” explains The Audio Beat in a glowing review, “that, coupled with the extremely high level of musicianship, makes the end product easily absorbed.”

Fronted by Rae Cole and Oscar Bugarin, Calling Cadence is a band rooted in harmony and raised on the storied songwriting traditions of ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s American groups and songwriters. Produced by David Swartz and Matt Linesch, the album was recorded, mixed and mastered straight to analog tape, an approach that magnifies and multiplies the warmth of their voices and the vitality of their songwriting, while paying homage to the groups and songwriters Cole and Bugarin were raised on.

“These songs were all individually written as lessons in love – love for another person, love for one's self, and love lost,” says Cole. “The songs are a collection of experiences and ideas that all us writing partners have had in our lives.” 

The album’s advance singles “Just the Way It Goes,” “Throw My Body,” “Good Day” and “California Bartender” have earned praise from listeners and critics alike, and have been featured in a number of publications, programs, and playlists including NPR’s Finally Friday Sessions, KTLA, Folk N Rock, KLOS, The Indy Review, Apple Music’s New In Rock Playlist, and more. The band excels at translating these songs on stage and in a live setting, and thrive at re-creating the recording’s dazzling harmonies while building on and matching the vitality of the recordings. Calling Cadence’s performance for NPR’s Finally Friday Session particularly underscores the group’s power as live performers and musicians.

Album cuts, including “Rosie” and “Took A Chance,” build out Calling Cadence’s sonic universe. The former captures the complications of holding onto a love that is slipping through the cracks over a breezy acoustic arrangement. Named after Bugarin’s guitar, “Rosie” features sleek harmonies and stunning keys that lay the foundation for the band’s signature heart-on-their-sleeves confessionalism. The latter features a gorgeous waterfalling vocal harmony that further highlights the high-wire pressures that can take hold in a relationship. The band’s knack for revealing the nuance and depth of these interpersonal dynamics centers the humanity of their songwriting across the album. 

For Calling Cadence (whose name pays tribute to Oscar's time in the army), recording to analog tape wasn't just a production choice; it was a way of maintaining honesty with themselves and their audience. Like the classic albums that inspired Calling Cadence's layered vocal arrangements and warm, guitar-driven sound, the record is a genuine snapshot of a band on the rise. 

“There’s something exhilarating about laying down “the take” that you’re going to set in stone,” says Bugarin on analog recording. “When recording digitally, so many things can get clipped, shifted and tuned to line up perfectly on the grid. [Recording to tape] felt like I was taking a trip in a time machine, but a familiar dream. I just wanted to make music like my heroes did, pure raw music straight from the source, no frills, no tricks. Music made by people, no computers.”

The 15 songs shine a light on Calling Cadence's strength as a live act, blending Oscar and Rae's entwined voices with vintage keyboards, guitar heroics and plenty of percussive and low-end stomp. The accompanying musicians on this album include: Josh Adams on drums (Jon Batiste, Norah Jones, Devendra Banhart, Beck), Mitchell Yoshida on keyboards (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros), and Elijah Thomson on bass (Father John Misty, Nathaniel Rateliff).

With their debut full-length out now, the band has their sights on bringing these songs to the stage, connecting with fans and listeners, and setting the stage to grow as a group, and as songwriters. “We’re still evolving and going through our journey, individually and together, collaborating and growing alongside each other,” says Bugarin. “We’ve both learned from this process, facing things that we’ve never encountered. Now I can’t wait to work on the next batch.”

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YOUR SONG CONNECTS COMMUNITIES THROUGH SONGWRITING TO PROMOTE HEALING + BENEFIT SHOW AT THE BLUEBIRD CAFE ON MAY 10

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NASHVILLE, TN - Nashville-based, globally-focused, charitable organization Your Song, LLC*, is a collaborative songwriting program that connects performing arts centers, musicians, and artists with vulnerable communities to promote healing and connection, helmed by critically-acclaimed artist Kyshona, who is also a licensed music therapist.

As a songwriter, Kyshona has had the privilege of working with adults and youth experiencing homelessness, incarceration, trauma, and isolation. As a music therapist, she worked for more than 13 years in treatment facilities, rehabilitation programs, mental health facilities, forensics units, nursing homes, and special needs schools. By founding Your Song, Kyshona has merged her two worlds to focus on one mission: To be a voice and a vessel for those that feel lost, forgotten, silenced, and who are hurting.

“Your Song came out of my being isolated from my audiences and local community in 2020,” says Kyshona. “As a music therapist, I’ve always used music as my medium to connect, unite and heal; as a songwriter, I have the ability to pull a story out of a person that may feel their story doesn’t matter. Through Your Song, I hope to help those that feel like they are on the margins of society find their voice and their story through song while providing them with a platform and space to share their story.”

Music therapy is the use of music to achieve non-musical goals. In therapeutic songwriting sessions, the goals and outcomes are set with the individual or group before the writing process begins. Through guided journaling, improvisation, and exploration a song is created. Through sharing individual experiences and triumphs in song, participants can encourage others.

Your Song currently offers programming for at-risk and marginalized youth, memory care/recovery through songwriting sessions with the elderly, partnering with incarcerated populations and those re-entering society, those experiencing addiction and those in recovery, programming geared towards women’s health and healing, strengthening bonds between new parents and their children, and more.

In 2021, Your Song was funded as part of a grant from Matthew McConaughey and Wild Turkey® for community-based music initiatives. Fundraising efforts will continue with a benefit show at legendary Nashville venue The Bluebird Cafe on May 10th, featuring Kyshona, Shannon LaBrie, Crys Matthews, Amyliza de Jesus, and Whittney Martinez.  CLICK HERE FOR SHOW AND TICKET INFORMATION.

Your Song has also become a fundraising participant with Middle Tenneessee-based Just Love Coffee Roasters. From now on, for each bag of coffee purchased using the following unique link, Just Love will donate 36% of the proceeds to Your Song. Click HERE (justlovecoffee.com/yoursong) to purchase. You can also donate directly to Your Song HERE.

Be sure to follow Your Song via the links below for all the latest news and updates.

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GRAMMY® AWARD WINNERS CATHY FINK, MARCY MARXER, & TOM PAXTON JOIN FORCES FOR LIVE ALBUM PROJECT + ALL NEW SET FOR RELEASE ON JULY 29TH

ALBUM SINGLE “PETE’S SHOULDERS: THE POWER OF SONG” OUT TODAY IN HONOR OF PETE SEEGER’S BIRTHDAY  

 

TO SUPPORT FOLK ALLIANCE’S #FORPETESSAKEDONATE CAMPAIGN BENEFITING THE VILLAGE FUND 

Photo: Michael G. Stewart

LISTEN // WATCH: “PETE’S SHOULDERS: THE POWER OF SONG”

GRAMMY® Award-winning folk icons Tom Paxton, and Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (who make music as Cathy & Marcy), have announced their forthcoming live, double album collaboration, ALL NEW, set for release on July 29th. Today, the trio released the project’s first single, “Pete’s Shoulders: The Power Of Song,” a tribute to the legendary Pete Seeger and in honor of his birthday. “Pete Seeger was a Lincolnian figure to me and an avatar who never let us down,” says Paxton. “Pete once sent me a copy of one of his songbooks, nicely inscribed, and when I sent him one of my own I wrote on the title page, ‘To Pete, on whose aching shoulders I have stood for 50 years.’”

The song and its accompanying video are released in conjunction with Folk Alliance International’s #ForPetesSakeDonate campaign to raise money and awareness for The Village Fund, a grant program for folk artists and independent music industry professionals experiencing financial hardship.

The songs on ALL NEW began in weekly co-writing sessions on ZOOM with Paxton and Fink in 2020. Each week’s session resulted in a new song. The results include love songs, comedy, history, social justice, and great storytelling, and span styles from folk to bluegrass to swing to round-singing. In January 2022, the three recorded 28 of the songs live in concert and in-studio.

The trio also recently released “Don’t Say Gay,” a topical, tongue-in-cheek song and video in response to Florida’s controversial House Bill 1557. The song and video feature the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC.

WATCH: DON’T SAY GAY (ft. THE GAY MEN’S CHORUS OF WASHINGTON, DC)

GRAMMY® Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Tom Paxton has become a voice of his generation, addressing issues of injustice and inhumanity, laying bare the absurdities of modern culture, and celebrating community. In describing Paxton's influence on his fellow musicians, Kennedy Center Honors Awardee Pete Seeger has said: "Tom's songs have a way of sneaking up on you. You find yourself humming them, whistling them, and singing a verse to a friend.”

A catalog of hundreds of songs serves to document Paxton's 57-year career and the power his songs have had on major artists who have recorded them including Willie Nelson, Placido Domingo, Porter Waggoner and Dolly Parton, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, and more.

TWO-TIME GRAMMY® Award Winners, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are an eclectic folk festival on their own terms. They have entertained the Queen of Thailand, been keynote singers for the AFL-CIO, performed at hundreds of folk festivals, and appeared on the "Today Show" and on National Public Radio. Their superb harmonies are backed by instrumental virtuosity on the guitar, five-string banjo, ukulele, mandolin, cello-banjo, and more.

The duo, whose past students include Kaki King and Rhiannon Giddens, are the artistic directors of the Ola Belle Reed Songwriting retreat and of The Music Center at Strathmore’s annual Ukefest. They are closing in on their 50th recording and have been honored with 65 Washington Area Music Awards, 12 GRAMMY® nominations, and a multi-generational following of fans. 

Tom Paxton kicks off a run of tour dates on June 9th, dates are listed below.  Check your local listings for PBS this month and tune in to catch Cathy & Marcy featured on David Holt’s State of Music. Be sure to follow Tom Paxton and Cathy & Marcy at the links below for the latest news and updates.

TOM PAXTON ON TOUR

6/9 - Godfrey Daniels - Bethlehem, PA

6/10 - City Winery - NYC

6/11 - Hurdy Gurdy Folk Club - Fair Lawn, NJ

6/12 - Caffe Lena - Saratoga Springs, NY

6/14 - Club Passim - Cambridge, MA

6/16 - Norwood Village Green Concert Series - Norwood, NY

6/17 - Smith Center for the Arts - Geneva, NY

6/18 - 1891 Fredonia Opera House - Fredonia, NY

6/24 - McCabe’s - Santa Monica, CA

6/25 & 6/26 - Kate Wolf Music Festival - Laytonville, CA

6/28 - Hopmonk Tavern - Novato, CA

6/29 - Freight & Salvage - Berkeley, CA

10/30 - The Birchmere - Alexandria, VA

 

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OUT TODAY: ERIKA LEWIS’ A WALK AROUND THE SUN LP + RELEASE SHOW SET FOR TONIGHT IN ASHEVILLE

"The album...is a revelation...It’s music that’s built to last." - The Associated Press

"A classic country heartbreaker you can dance to" - Wide Open Country

"...a mix of different styles, from classic country to cosmic Americana to dreamy indie-folk, that showcase Lewis’ powerful vocals and strong lyrical content." - The Asheville Citizen-Times

"Cosmic Americana" - WNCW

"On her debut solo album, Lewis...trades in her blue notes for pure country. Lewis reveals a clear prettiness that much of her former work obscured, as well as formidable songwriting skills." - OffBeat Magazine

"Lewis delivers country-tinged indie-folk...you can also hear a rock sensibility in her vocals and melodies on such tracks as “Loser,” whose opening drum part echoes the beginning of the Ronettes’ 'Be My Baby.'" - The Aquarian Weekly

“...an awe-inspiring vocalist” - Radio Bristol

“...a powerful tribute to having your heart broken but making it through to the other side” - Americana Highways

“Wherever her muse takes her, we’ll be paying even more attention based on this gem of an album.” - Glide Magazine

“In this gorgeous testament to grace and perseverance in the midst of harrowing circumstances, Lewis steps into the spotlight - and outshines it.” - Mother Church Pew

"...ethereal, contemplative, and confident" - Sound and Soul

“...deeply pleasing folk-Americana with a country twist” - Americana-UK

“Erika Lewis is an exciting talent for country fans…she has it all” - Country Music People

“...able to sweep up all the sadness and pain of the human condition and bundle it up into something sweet and strangely uplifting…Taking the clear-eyed charm of Gillian Welch or Laura Cantrell and adding a cheeky twist of girl group sass” - Holler.

"Tuba Skinny’s Erika Lewis tries her hand convincingly at Americana on this...It’s a genre exercise, just like Tuba Skinny’s take on traditional jazz, but I’ll take exercises this well executed." - My Spilt Milk  

"This feels like it was written to be a soundtrack to a period piece about mid-20th century America and we’re here for it." - Ear To The Ground

“...light and modern take on folk while still being rooted in the traditional side of the genre” - If It’s Too Loud

"The voice of an angel" - Beehive Candy

LISTEN: A WALK AROUND THE SUN

Today, Asheville-based singer-songwriter and member of beloved New Orleans collective Tuba Skinny, Erika Lewis, has released her new album A Walk Around The Sun. Lewis recorded the album after a health scare that required surgery that could have ended her career. "The prospect of losing my ability to sing was paralyzing and I am lucky enough to have friends who helped initiate the recording process, knowing that I would regret it if [sic] I didn’t do it,” Lewis told The Asheville Citizen-Times. “In preparation, I gathered some songs I had written over the last decade and finished a couple of new ones started during quarantine…I think there was a sense of lessened anxiety knowing that I would have something to share despite the surgery’s outcome.”

Produced by John James Tourville (The Deslondes) and recorded in Nashville at Andrija Tokic’s analog paradise The Bomb Shelter, A Walk Around the Sun features a series of lyrical vignettes that examine the margins between love and loss, joy and grief, and longing and contentment. Each of its 11 all-original songs reflects Lewis’s songwriting power across narrative and textures. Whether it’s through sweeping strings, pedal steel, a hybridized psych-rock guitar, or Lewis’ soaring vocals, A Walk Around The Sun takes a closer look at the connections between lovers and friends, and the effect of these relationships on the self. It’s a sweeping portrait painted with broad strokes of roots music styles—a sonic palette of classic country, cosmic Americana, mid-century rock n’ roll, and dreamy indie-folk.

On album opener and third single "A Thousand Miles," featured at The Bluegrass Situation, Lewis takes us on a breezy classic country ramble, her angelic voice soaring above an easygoing waltz adorned with warm pedal steel and fiddle. She explores the loneliness of isolation (“If You Were Mine”) and the seeds of young love (“First Love”). Lewis comments on the push and pull of romantic relationships in “Loser,” which Radio Bristol said displays “descending scales of David Lynch-ian, reverb-laden guitar riffs in the space between wistful lyrics.” On tracks like “Running Wild” and “Wild Thing,” she celebrates fierceness of spirit, while on the album’s title track, along with “Hearts” and “Love Song,” she grieves ending relationships and comes to terms with major life changes. Twangville called “Unsatisfied,” a song born from life in New Orleans and navigating the dynamics that come with relationships that revolve around the never-ending nightlife, “a taste of good music to come." The album ends with wistful, country dreamscape “Thief and a Liar,” where she laments the failures of her heart.

Lewis excels at bottling sweeping, deeply relatable themes, and unraveling the human experience, all while pinpointing her place in these stories and within the world at large. Her approach as an artist and performer is informed by the years she spent cutting her teeth busking with Tuba Skinny in the streets of New Orleans’ French Quarter and across Europe. 

A Walk Around The Sun is now available for streaming and downloading HERE, and vinyl albums are available for pre-order HERE. Lewis will celebrate the release with a show in Asheville, North Carolina tonight, April 29th. Click HERE for show information. Be sure to follow Erika Lewis at the links below for the latest news. 

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BOB MARSTON & THE CREDIBLE SOURCES RELEASE NEW SINGLE “REAL MAGIC, GOOD PEOPLE” + DEBUT LP SO LONG DUE OUT JUNE 3RD

NEW TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

LISTEN: “REAL MAGIC, GOOD PEOPLE”   

Birmingham, Alabama-based outfit Bob Marston & the Credible Sources have released “Real Magic, Good People,” the second from their forthcoming debut full-length LP So Long, due out June 3rd. Marston was walking his dog at a local nature preserve, processing a difficult breakup, and the groove for “Real Magic, Good People” bubbled up through his soul.  

"The first half of each verse presents my attempt to balance my love of Birmingham with what I had, at the time, recently learned about her history of labor injustice, including convict-leasing and union-busting," Marston explains. "The chorus is a rallying cry to believe in ourselves and our potential as a community, realizing that for all of our differences we share more in common." While the inspiration was the troubling history of his hometown, the overall themes are universal--the power of honest expression, understanding, forgiveness, and acceptance is what truly connects and unifies our communities. “Real Magic, Good People” follows the release of the album’s title track, which encourages understanding each other in order to heal societal rifts. 

LISTEN: “SO LONG”  

Marston has been on a journey of self-discovery, and with the help of therapy, meditation, and cannabis, his empathic creativity comes shining through the lyrics of every song on So Long. The Credible Sources are equal parts roots rock backing band and high-flying, improv-ready aces. Truly a whole greater than the sum of its wildly capable parts, the band is known for its intricately-woven guitar parts, tight and compelling bass and drum grooves, and pure, emotive vocals, a sound that garners comparisons to The Grateful Dead, moe., Wilco, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and more. 

Marston (acoustic guitar/electric guitar/lead vocals) is accompanied by George Hipp (acoustic guitar/electric guitar/dobro/ backing vocals), Natalie Valentine (backing vocals), Aaron Branson or Eric Onimus on bass, and drummer Brett Huffman. So Long also features keyboard master Matt Slocum (Allman Brothers, Susan Tedeschi, Widespread Panic, and more), powerhouse vocalist LaToya Matthews, and monster bass player Adrian Marmolejo (Early James and the Latest). Trombonist Chad Fisher (St. Paul and the Broken Bones), Allen Branstetter (St. Paul and the Broken Bones) on trumpet, and Gary Wheat on saxophone and clarinet bring horn-infused heat, while award-winning fiddler Adam Purvis, Niamh Tuohy (violin), Melanie Richardson-Rodgers (viola), and Patty Pillon (cello) provide cinematic strings.  

The album’s tracks explore love and devotion through the lens of attempts to salvage a challenging relationship, the processing of a painful breakup, and a patient plea for reconciliation, to pondering life’s big questions and commentary on issues of social injustice and society. Ultimately, So Long is about striving to find humanity in ourselves, our communities, and in society as a whole. Brought together by luck, fate, and destiny, this band of seasoned professionals and unproven hotshots upends stereotypes and breaks paradigms as it brings a message of love, honesty, empathy, and infinite possibility to the world, one song at a time.  

TOUR DATES 

4/20 - Awendaw Green - Awendaw, SC 

4/21 - Golden Grove Farm & Brew - Piedmont, SC 

4/22 - Willie Jewel’s - Martinez, GA 

4/23 - Bucking Goat Brewing Co. - Dallas, GA 

4/24 - Magic City Art Connection - Birmingham, AL* 

4/28 - White Water Tavern - Little Rock, AR^ 

4/29 - Romie’s Grocery - Tupelo, MS 

4/30 - The Grocery Brewpub - Tuscaloosa, AL 

5/6 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL 

5/7 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL 

5/13 - Diplomat Deli - Vestavia Hills, AL 

5/14 - Sinclair's East - Montgomery, AL 

5/28 - Coastal Crust - Charleston, SC* 

6/3 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL** 

6/4 - Workplay - Birmingham, AL [ALBUM RELEASE SHOW] 

6/24 - Diplomat Deli - Vestavia Hills, AL** 

7/1 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL** 

8/5 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL** 

8/13 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL** 

9/24 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL** 

10/7 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL** 

10/9 - Mountain Brook Presbyterian - Mountain Brook, AL 

10/15 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL** 

11/4 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL** 

11/5 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL** 

12/2 - Little Italy’s - Birmingham, AL** 

12/10 - The Market @ Pepper Place - Birmingham, AL** 

*Bob Marston solo show  

^w/ Joe Sundell 

**Bob Marston w/ Natalie Valentine  

 

 

OUT TODAY: SUSAN CATTANEO’S LP ALL IS QUIET

“The tenor of local singer-songwriter Susan Cattaneo’s new album, All Is Quiet, is captured perfectly by its title, and with the help of the twinned guitars of Duke Levine and Kevin Barry she wraps its lyrical reflections in a musical blanket of shimmering beauty.” - The Boston Globe

“Incredibly skilled” - Parade Magazine

“...the whole record matches mastercraft writing with intimate arrangements." - The Boston Herald

“...hauntingly beautiful album about surviving the loneliness of the pandemic and finding one's way back to a promise for the future. The all-original songs are dreamy and engagingly intimate… It's an intensely poetic journey that feels honest all the way through." -  Steve Morse, Berklee College Of Music

“...fascinatingly multifaceted musician and individual” - Boston.com

“...a beautifully crafted album that provides the promise of hope” - Americana Highways

“...one of Boston’s finest Americana songwriters” - Twangville

“Cattaneo’s silky vocals flow over delicate instrumentation, her ocean-sized depth produces songs that break your heart in the best kind of way. She reminds us that it’s in the tough times that we really find out who we are.” - Mother Church Pew

“Powerful stuff” - Last Day Deaf

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The most powerful voice in the room isn't always the loudest one.  On her new album, All is Quiet, out today, award-winning artist Susan Cattaneo sings softly and carries a big song. Nine big songs, actually. Recorded remotely in 2020, All is Quiet reflects Cattaneo’s heartache for the world, but also reveals how she rediscovered joy and resiliency through music. 

“It’s been an extraordinary and challenging time to be a musician and creative person in the world,” she explains. “For many artists and musicians, including me, those first few months of 2020 were filled with uncertainty and fear. Opportunities were canceled, collaborations were scrapped, and most importantly, momentum was lost. For the first time in her life, Cattaneo felt creatively muted. All is Quiet was the project that helped her process these feelings and in making this album, she found the joy and redemption that only music can bring.  With All Is Quiet, she explores what makes us human–how our brokenness and painful experiences make us who we are. Even diamonds begin with rough edges; it is time and pressure that make them beautiful.

WATCH: “ALL IS QUIET”

With her powerful voice, captivating melodies, and finely-crafted lyrics, Susan Cattaneo is one of Boston’s most respected singer/songwriters. A compelling performer and vivid storyteller, her music blends folk, rock, and blues with a hint of country–call it New England Americana.

Following up on the success of her chart-topping double album The Hammer & The Heart, which charted #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, yielded a #1 song on folk radio, and was a top 10 album of 2017, All is Quiet features her signature lyrical and melodic craft as she brings her mastery to a quieter place. Embracing simplicity and vulnerability, the nine songs on All is Quiet speak to the personal nature of loss, relationships, and hope for the future. The album features the beautiful guitar work of national talents Kevin Barry and Duke Levine and was co-produced with Lorne Entress. 

Critics, audiences, and fellow artists have instantly connected with the personal nature of Cattaneo’s songs. She is a three-time Kerrville New Folk Finalist, a three-time nominee for Best Americana Artist at the Boston Music Awards, and she won the 2018 CT Folk Festival. Cattaneo has been a finalist or winner at some of the country’s most prestigious songwriting and music contests including the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Philadelphia Songwriters Project,  the Wildflower Festival, the Independent Music Awards, the International Acoustic Music Awards, 5 Unsigned Only, the USA Songwriting Competition, the Mountain Stage New Song Contest, and the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. 

She has opened for or shared the stage with Bill Kirchen, Mark Erelli, David Wilcox, Rose Cousins, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Livingston Taylor, Paula Cole, Huey Lewis and The News, Amy Grant, Travis Tritt, and more. Cattaneo is also an in-demand educator and collaborator. As a Songwriting Professor at the Berklee College of Music for the past 20 years, she has helped students work on over 15,000 songs in all musical genres and styles and mentored over 2,000 artists. She is also one half of the indie-folk duo called Honest Mechanik with Paul Hansen of The Grownup Noise. The duo launched their first album in July of 2020 and was nominated for Folk Act of The Year at the 2021 Boston Music Awards.

All Is Quiet is available at iTunes, Amazon Music, and Bandcamp. Be sure to follow Susan Cattaneo at the links below for the latest news and updates. 

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OLIVE VOX RELEASE VIDEO FOR “MIDDLE NAME” APRIL TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

“…the pair effectively blend the thick distorted-guitar assault of Mudhoney with a trippy Ty Segall psychedelia, resulting in a sound that is simultaneously aged and ageless.” – FW Weekly

photo credit Olive Vox

“MIDDLE NAME” VIDEO: WATCH/SHARE 

DALLAS/FORT WORTH, TX – Psychedelic, grunge rockers Olive Vox are releasing their latest video for the single “Middle Name” today. The track is featured on their self-title EP released earlier this year.

The creation of singer-songwriter, social media creator/influencer Parker James and his brother guitarist-songwriter Caden Shea, Olive Vox have created a sound well beyond their years with influence of Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Alice In Chains as well as psychedelic influence of veterans Pink Floyd, and more current Ty Segall.

Olive Vox made their live debut in at the 2021 Levitation Festival in Austin, Texas opening for Fuzz. They will continue to tour with new dates announced in Texas beginning today (3/31) at Three Links in Dallas opening for Betcha and Arlie. In April, they will open for PUDDLE OF MUDD as well as a few dates on the Better Strangers tour. Links and details below.

BUZZ

“…a smooth groove machine of a rock ‘n’ roll tune, evoking the gloriously sludgy grunge psychedelia of Screaming Trees, Temple of the Dog and Stone Temple Pilots. Parker’s voice rings out like a young David Gilmour ‘standing by the Nile’ in 1969, while Caden’s guitars purr with the finesse of a freshly refurbished muscle car.” -Dallas Observer 

“…a sound that loves to let the distortion pedals go wild and light the feedback ablaze… nailing the thickness and rawness of what makes psych, blues and garage rock really sit well with young and older audiences alike, Olive Vox is showing plenty of promise in its early goings.” -Central Track

“For a couple of teenagers, this is pretty damn heady stuff as Olive Vox will have you thinking while you bang your head against the living room wall.” - Texas Music Monthly

“Though it’s a ridiculously overused quote pulled from a song Pete Townshend wrote for The Who, it’s applicable to say that the kids are, indeed, alright. Those of us who survived the ’90s will hear the familiar grungy warmth on the 5 songs on the band’s self-titled debut EP while Gen Z will be introduced to something that very few new bands are doing.” - The Big Takeover


“…a vintage rock n’ roll sound that’s more advanced and progressive than you’d expect from young musicians just beginning to find their traction.”  - V13

“…the pair effectively blend the thick distorted-guitar assault of Mudhoney with a trippy Ty Segall psychedelia, resulting in a sound that is simultaneously aged and ageless.” – FW Weekly

“…based on their bold sound, combining elements psychedelic and grunge elements to create something totally their own, you'd never guess they were so young.” – Sweety High

Featured on Sirius/XM “Volume West” and SPIN Magazine x Twitch takeover 

Olive Vox EP debuted at #17 on Submodern Radio Top 200 Album Chart

Specialty show radio airplay at: Q104.3 NYC, The Edge Buffalo, KROX Austin, The Point St. Louis, 91X San Diego, KJEE Santa Barbara, KRXP Colorado Springs and WCSF Joliet, IL.

ABOUT OLIVE VOX: Originally from Orange County, CA, Parker & Caden moved to Texas as pre-adolescent kids searching to fit into a new landlocked environment. During the COVID induced lockdown Parker and Caden developed their sound influenced by psychedelic indie rock, garage rock, 90s grunge and more. Their Gen Z perspective makes the music they play resonate to an audience searching for a new sound to embrace.

U.S. TOUR DATES

MAR 31 / DALLAS, TX @ Three Links

APR 1 / CEDAR PARK, TX @ Haute Spot*

APR 23 / AUSTIN, TX @ Empire Control Room^

APR 24 / FT WORTH, TX @ Tulips^

*opening for PUDDLE OF MUDD

^with Better Strangers + Caroline Carr

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INDIE-POP DUO OSHIMA BROTHERS RELEASE SOPHOMORE ALBUM DARK NIGHTS GOLDEN DAYS TODAY!

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DARK NIGHTS GOLDEN DAYS ALBUM: STREAM 

PORTLAND, ME. – Today, Oshima Brothers release their sophomore full length album Dark Nights Golden Days.

For their sophomore album, Oshima Brothers could have taken the safe path and stuck to the "roots-based pop sound that is infectious" (-NPR) on their well-received, 2016 self-titled debut. Instead, Sean and Jamie Oshima conceived a more ambitious, more expansive project that reflects the brothers’ wide-ranging artistic interests. On Dark Nights Golden Days (due April 1, 2022) the brothers have crafted a richly layered, genre-splicing sound that is at once retro and metro, spacious and intimate, lush and graceful. It is a set of music that invites people to dance in grocery stores as well as get lost in the wilderness.

Oshima Brothers are eager to play to live crowds again and share their Dark Nights Golden Days album due April 1, 2022. Confirmed tour dates as follows.

BUZZ

“Oshima Brothers are casting a cool spell with the vibey atmospheric of ‘Dance with Me.’ It’s a grooving, low-key tune that runs flush to their roots-pop moniker well, heavily influenced by R&B with a dash of their folksier origins… It’s breezy and charmingly vintage.” - Popmatters

“the brothers will harmonize on their original songs, which blend the sounds of contemporary folk and acoustic pop music, accompanying themselves on a variety of instruments…indie folk pop music drenched in brother harmony.” – Chicago Tribune

Live Performance on “The 207” News Center Maine and WISH-TV Indianapolis

U.S. TOUR DATES

MAY 20 / SYRACUSE, NY @ Folkus Project

MAY 28 / PETERBOROUGH, NH @ Bass Hall

JUN 26 / GREENFIELD, MA @ Green River Festival

JUL 15 / MIDDLEBURY, VT @ Festival on the Green

MORE DATES TBA….

"DANCE WITH ME" VIDEO: WATCH

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DOPAPOD RELEASE THEIR NEW SINGLE “BLACK HOLES” + ANNOUNCE THEIR SEVENTH ALBUM DOPAPOD DUE OUT ON MAY 27TH

WITH AN ACCOMPANYING BOARD GAME + SUMMER DATES WITH GEORGE CLINTON

“The song carries a funk-forward vibe…with a sound distinct from some of the band’s more hard-hitting tracks….bassline punches through the layered instruments….syncopated guitar phrasings. The mathematically-minded group speaks in lyrics like binary code.” - Live for Live Music (on the previous single “Grow”) 

“Dopapod has named all of its albums after palindromes, and the band has an idiosyncratic, electro-jam sound that makes you move your feet.” - Westword 

“Grow” showcases the band’s staple funk-ability, highlighting their laid-back, beachy aesthetic with tight jams and polished vocals.” - JamBands 

“With an intergalactic groove punctuated by a head-nodding bassline, “Grow” features all the staples of the Dopapod sound – slick guitar, simmering cymbals, and smooth vocals.” - NYS Music

Artwork & Design: Tandem Media & Katie Reahl

LISTEN TO “Black Holes”: HERE

Progressive journeymen Dopapod have released their new single "Black Holes,” the third single offering from their forthcoming self-titled studio album. Filled with infectious grooves and layered with mind-bending lyrics the likes of, “Neurons linking, eyes are blinking, mind imprinting, thoughts keep thinking theoretically, gravitation explanation parabolic acceleration hypothetically” the track also comes equipped with an uplifting chorus that echoes, “all for one, and one for all, you’ll never fly til you learn to fall into black holes.” Keyboardist and sometimes sharer of vocal duties Eli Winderman elaborates on the message behind the music, “It’s a song about not giving up and thinking creatively to achieve the desired outcome. All for one and one for all is another concept that we try to tap into with improvising as well. The main focus is on the group to achieve moments of unity.”

The video for “Black Holes” directed by Curtis Peel draws on the ideas of space and time travel, themes ever-present in Dopapod’s music, intertwined with performance shots accentuated by colorful post-production work, capturing the essence of the band both on recordings and in the live setting. The new release comes on the heels of recent single releases "Think" and "Grow" which boast an expanding sonic range with equally holistic lyrical themes, and set in motion a compendium animated short film project created with partners Tandem Media that is being released episodically.

After nearly a decade of developing their craft, the quartet—Eli Winderman [keys, vocals], Rob Compa [guitar, vocals], Chuck Jones [bass], and Neal “Fro” Evans [drums]—consciously present albums as experiences, meant to be shared out of your speakers, on stage and now in new interactive mediums such as the film project and the tabletop game created for this new album. With musical influences that range widely from metal to jazz and americana, and drawing inspiration from artists like Medeski Martin & Wood to Pink Floyd, Dopapod has created their own hypnotic hybrid of funk, rock, jazz, bluegrass, and electronica. Their ability to access a heightened level of cosmic harmony in their music bloomed brilliantly on 2009’s Radar, and continued to blossom on the following albums Never Odd Or Even [2014] and Megagem [2017]. Along the way, fan favorites such as “Present Ghosts” (2.4 million) and "Mucho" (1.7 million) raised their hand and garnered millions of streams on Spotify, and 2019’s studio offering Emit Time arrived at acclaim from Guitar World, Relix, Glide, Jambase, and more. Simultaneously, they sold out headline gigs and repeatedly graced the bills of hallmark festivals such as Electric Forest, Summer Camp, High Sierra, and Bonnaroo, where Rolling Stone named them among the festival’s “best-kept secrets.”

The band took a year-plus hiatus to realign and re-energize before making a “soft return," which was then cut short by the pandemic. “The hiatus allowed us to redefine ourselves, and carry on with a lot of new energy. It was a restorative opportunity and helped us move forward,” says drummer Neal Evans. “We definitely came back with new energy and new intention.” The time off and forced isolation of the pandemic ushered in a laser-sharp focus on new material that included picking up the threads of a “concept catalog,” first introduced on Never Odd Or Even. The focus of this concept brought the music full circle in what would be the 11 tracks on Dopapod, the band's seventh album due out on May 27th

PRE-SAVE NEW ALBUM Dopapod : HERE

The experiential emphasis on Dopapod resulted in a deluge of new ideas that gave way to the creation of the Building a Time Machine tabletop roll-and-move board game, which is cleverly integrated into the gatefold vinyl packaging of the album. The gameplay itself is similar to Monopoly and The Game of Life, and takes players through the past and present Dopapod musical landscape as they collect pieces of their signature palindrome logo to achieve a win scenario.  To accompany the game the band is offering multiple merch bundles that include game accessories such as Meeple Pawns, Dice, Game Piece Baggies, and Dopapod themed pads and pencils for keeping score. The illustrative details and custom game mechanics reflect how carefully it was created alongside their longtime team member and former lighting designer Luke Stratton, who is now realizing his calling as a professional role-playing game and map designer. In addition to being the mastermind behind the band's game design, he also recently launched a Kickstarter for his own Dungeons & Dragons-inspired game Pirate Borg, complete with illustrated maps and a hardcover rulebook. The indie, crowd-funded game quickly reached its initial $3,000 goal and has now grossed over $132,000. He also maintains a wildly successful Patreon account under the alias Limithron where he sells additional cartography and content packs.

The game concept came to Stratton and the band during the early days of the pandemic, while streaming their regular Zoom hangout sessions online. After spitballing ideas for album artwork, the group realized they had a greater overarching journey in mind. “We got to thinking, what if we're building a time machine that allows us to go back through Dopapod’s history? In the game, each album is its own land, and every space on the board is a different song.,” says Stratton. “We came up with the infinity loop concept and portal as a way to travel through the band’s history.”

As always, there’s more to Dopapod’s vision with the union of the physical and digital elements. “It does feel like we made all these albums and made a time machine,” says Compa, “And now we’re at the new frontier, wherever we're going.”

And going they are, on the road this year introducing fans to the new music on festivals, headlining dates, and a summer tour where they will be supporting the father of funk George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.

Artwork by Luke Stratton

Artwork by Luke Stratton

DOPAPOD (OUT MAY 27TH)

  1. Think

  2. Building A Time Machine

  3. Black Holes

  4. Fannie

  5. Grow

  6. Velcro

  7. Nuff

  8. Ebb and Flow

  9. Make a Design

  10. Happy Accident

  11. Time is Funny

TOUR DATES

04/20/2022 / Sony Hall / New York, NY

04/28/2022 / Elevation 27 / Virginia Beach, VA

04/28/2022 - 05/01/2022 / Some Kind Of Jam 16 / Kempton, PA

04/29/2022 / Luckinghole Creek Brewery / Goochland, VA

05/13/2022 - 05/14/2-22 / Hookahville / Newark, OH

05/27/2022 - 05/29/2022 / Summer Camp Music Festival / Chillicothe, IL

06/15/2022 / SummerStage in Central Park / New York, NY**

06/17/2022 Beardfest / Hammonton, NJ

06/18/2022 / College Street Music Hall / New Haven, CT**

06/19/2022 / The Palladium / Worcester, MA**

06/30/2022 / Salvage Station / Asheville, NC**

07/02/2022 / The Caverns / Pelham, TN**

08/11/2022 / Mesa Amphitheater / Phoenix, AZ**

08/17/2022 / YouTube Theater / Inglewood, CA**

08/19/2022 / Mountain Winery / Saratoga, CA**

08/20/2022 / Blue Lake Casino / Blue Lake, CA**

08/21/2022 / Charles Krug Winery / Napa, CA**

** supporting George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic

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