For many Americans, the work felt like it was done after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election. For Los Angeles punks the SP’s, this is no time to rest on our laurels. Their new song and video for “Rise/Fall,” which we’re premiering today, is about just that. READ MORE…
The Wirelight is the recording project of Lewis Beard, who might have been born a decade or two too late. New single, “Everything’s Cool,” takes us back to the wonderful days of Material Issue and early stages of the Gin Blossoms. READ MORE…
Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
GoldenOak – Islands
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – O Death
Katie Jo – How Soon
Nick Waterhouse – The Spanish Look
Ditchbird – Be Good To Yourself
Jon LaDeau – Alone
The Armadillo Paradox – I Wish I Had More Exes
Parker Smith – Fray
David Quinn – Maybe I’ll Move out to California
Josh Merritt – Fly Away
Wayne Graham – Passenger Train (K&F Records)
Matthew Check – Walk Away
Tom Freund – Happy Uke
Joanie Leeds, Lisa Loeb – All the Ladies – Grammy winner for Best Children’s Music Album
Martin Ruby – Way up There (Don’t Say a Word) – Whistlepig Records
James Houlahan – You Are Not Alone
Stuffy Shmitt – The Good Land
Farees – The Changing of the Guard
Simona Smirnova – Preliminary Inquiry – Original soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 French silent film directed by Carl Dreyer)
Ingvild Flottorp, Malin Pettersen – A Part of Me
Edwin, The Morning Yells – Two Sparrows
Emily Lockett – Do You Wanna Go Out?
The Winnie Blues – Little Pressures
Pat Reedy, “Roadsick Blues”
Ezra Bell – the (only) ballerina from Tennessee
Joshua Quimby – “Work of Art”
Emily Kinney – Easy
Bill MacKay, Nathan Bowles – Late for your Funeral Again
Parker Millsap – Rolling
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Rattle Can
The Pink Stones – Blueberry Dream (Normaltown Records)
Acoustic Syndicate – Sunny
Stephen Flatt – White County Shine
Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones – Let’s Go
In Their Words: “Human beings are messy emotional creatures. Sometimes when we struggle to communicate in relationships it’s because there’s the voice we speak with and that voice in our head. ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’ bounces between a professed love to another person and a confessed loneliness on the inside.” — Andrew Grimm, June Star
Ahead of his forthcoming album, the Duluth-based musician Tony Petersen, aka Ditchbird, immerses in a burst of energy that’s packed with sharp hooks and a warm melodic sweetness on his latest single “Be Good to Yourself.”
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
K Michelle Dubois – Waves Break (Baby Robot Records)
BROCKHAMPTON, Danny Brown – BUZZCUT
Coma Girls – Wedding Roses (Baby Robot Records)
Arlo Parks – Hope
Ditchbird – Be Good To Yourself
tUne-yArDs – make it right.
Parker Woodland – Hit by a Bus
Foxing, WHY? – Speak With the Dead
Guitarmy of One – Emma Bella Citronella
Wavves – Sinking Feeling
This Way to the EGRESS – Last Call
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – O.N.E.
Stetch Panic – I Can’t Help It, (I’m a Zombie Now)
St. Vincent – The Melting of the Sun
Karaoke – Lo Hi
Nick Cave, Warren Ellis – Old Time
Carissa Johnson, The Cure-Alls -The Upside
Kurt Deemer Band – Rain
Japanese Breakfast – Posing in Bondage
Juana Everett – Light up a Fire
Simona Smirnova – Preliminary Inquiry – Original soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 French silent film directed by Carl Dreyer)
You, Me and This Fuckin’ Guy – Owls
Abhi the Nomad – Cable Car
Home is Where – Sewn Together from the Membrane of the Great Sea Cucumber
Scout Durwood – Millennial Malaise (Blue Elan)
SeepeopleS – It Feels Heavy
The Deathray Davies – You and Me Until the End (State Fair Records)
Kooley High – Lazy Sunday
Fog Lake – Dakota
Squid – Paddling
Show Me The Body – Rubberband
Kane Strang – Happy to Perform
The Armed – An Iteration