The third album from indie/folk rock band Under the Rug moves on from the blistering ‘Dear Adeline‘ (released early in 2022), an album chronicling the breakup of a relationship and grief over the loss of a beloved mother. The band consists of lead singer, guitarist and songwriter Casey Dayan, guitarist Sean Campbell and drummer Brendan McQueeney and over a period of ten years or more they have been making a name for themselves with their quirky, enigmatic, sometimes beautiful songs.
Some artists just have that touch to enable a song to become something bigger than just the lyrics and notes. With a gravelly authentic song presentation that stings with the tried and true Americana, David G Smith has been spreading his own brand of gospel for years.
Smith will be releasing his 11th LP, Witness Trees on June 2nd, an album about equality, love, death, and legacy. On Witness Trees, Smith moves from blues-driven roots music that showcases his masterful slide guitar work, to more story-driven folk rock. It’s an album about recognizing the injustices of the world, looking to our future, and acknowledging that we can do better.
It might seem odd to some that Americana UK is premiering this new song from Farees, which will be released everywhere on the 30th of March. It’s a song that sees Farees taking what may seem like a radical new direction – ‘She Talks With Jesus‘ is a song that has a narrative folk ballad form, with an injection of Beatlesque power-pop which could not be further from the neo-funk and hip-hop that Farees is better known for. But, as he proclaims on his website, “Change is my only tradition.“
‘Can’t Let Go‘ makes up one of three tracks on the Los Angeles singer/guitarist’s new EP, ‘Living Room Sessions, which will be released on May 26th. It’s a release that was inspired by The Grand Ole Echo, a weekly Sunday music series every summer at The Echo in Silverlake, at which Leeann Skoda has been a regular participant.
Nobody can tell me how to feel. Nothing is ideal, but I am fine. Under the Rug’s words ring like a mantra, bold and beautiful. Life is going to get you down, but we can’t let a little hindrance stop us from moving forward, now, can we? Intimate, inspiring, and achingly raw, “Turkey Vulture” is the smile-inducing bit of fresh air – and hard true – we need to put the wind back in our sails and get ourselves up and running at full speed. READ MORE
