Between the two of them, Megan and Shane Baskerville have played just about every kind of American music you can imagine. Born in Wisconsin and based in the Southwest—with a lot of rambling in between—they’re veterans of punk scenes, bluegrass circuits, ska bands, even hip-hop acts, all of which informs their work with the School of Rock franchises they operate in Arizona. But nearest and dearest to their hearts is country music, which allows them a unique opportunity to meld all these disparate interests, and to air their darkest secrets. Defined by Megan’s force-of-nature vocals and Shane’s inventive guitar playing, Daughter of Country is a memoir set to music, every word the God’s honest truth, as the husband-wife duo re-create the sounds pioneered by their heroes, while putting their own personal spin on the genre.
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Americana UK debuts powerful new single from Bill Filipiak, a song that finds the folk-blues artist grappling with his father’s death
“Fearing the Dawn” is a country-blues shuffle of a song on which Bill Filipiak sings of coming to terms with his father’s death—not an easy journey as he confesses, “It took five years for me to say goodbye to you” and then, perhaps just as hard to accept, “now the world is expecting me to fill your shoes.“ Speaking of the song, Filipiak emphasized these themes: “There’s something about that moment when you realize, ‘I’m the eldest in the family, I’m the patriarch now’ and facing that new dawn, that’s scary as hell.”
As a producer for the Grand Ole Opry, Bill has worked with, befriended and learned from an impressive list of artists including Ray Wylie Hubbard, Keb Mo, George Thorogood, Allison Russell, Lera Lynn and Sarah Jarosz. And for the last five years, taking inspiration from these luminaries, he’s embarked on a solo career of his own.
Ecuador’s Indie Criollo calls Takénobu’s new single “Traveling Light” “a perfect work”
Ecuador’s Indie Criollo has included Takénobu’s new single “Traveling Light” in its 10 Daily Recommendations for a Demanding Ear. Here’s an English translation of the article:
“Takénobu arrives with “Traveling Light,” a song that wears its heart on its sleeve. It’s a perfect work, a song to help shield us from anything that might disturb our good vibes out in the world. It is a weighty and well-constructed song, a pleasurable listen, a happy yet powerful composition. An emotional struggle that finds Takéobu yearning to get right with the world. And we’re invited along for the ride.”
LA art-rockers LoveyDove share new video “Good Leash” at It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine
LoveyDove, the creative partnership of “Queen of Lo-Fi” Azalia Snail and LA producer/musician Dan West, are preparing to release their new LP, Rude Dawgs, a nine-track collection of noisy art-rock songs about love, politics and community. READ MORE…
Glide Magazine debuts the latest “hard-biting” new single from Ditchbird, “Heads Up,” saying it “swarms with crushing lyrics, stomping folk, and to finish it off – an acrobatic guitar solo.”
Glide is premiering the hard-biting “Heads Up,” which swarms with crushing lyrics, stomping folk, and to finish it off- an acrobatic guitar solo. Ditchbird has cemented himself as an artist who refuses to be “soundcast” into a particular genre corner and instead raises his musical middle finger with a glorious take mixing both the electric and organic.
The All Scene Eye interviews Washington DC psych/post-punk artist Binding Spell
When it comes to production, DC artist Roger Poulin, aka Binding Spell, is a proponent of making do with what you have. Though his new album English Basement makes him sound like an interstellar voyager moving at time-dilating speeds, voice echoing off space capsule walls, it gets its name from the underground apartment he’s been confined to since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic–a modest setup, but with everything he needed to construct a pocket post-punk universe. READ MORE…