Unless you’re from around Hammond, Indiana in the States, it’s likely singer/songwriter Kiely Connell’s name is unfamiliar. As if to acknowledge that, she provides a capsule of her life and personality in the opening title track of this stunning debut. READ MORE…
In early March of last year, Carissa Johnson packed up her guitar and her gear and flew cross country from Boston to Los Angeles. The singer-songwriter had some success on the East Coast, with albums both under her name and the group name of Carissa Johnson and the Cure-Alls. READ MORE…
Artist: Matthew Check
Hometown: New York, New York
Song: “Lovely to have met you”
Album: The November Album
Release Date: November 5, 2021
With one foot in tradition and one foot into the future, William Russell Wallace is set to release Confidence Man in January of 2022. The narrative of his songs on the album are uniquely his own and it follows his acclaimed album 2019’s Dirty Soul.
“We can play a country church in Mississippi, or we can draw a crowd at a hipster club in Brooklyn. We connect with a wide-ranging audience,” says veteran musician Walter Parks, speaking of the music on his debut LP album, The Unlawful Assembly (out via Atomic Sound). “The joy, gratitude, pain and yearning in these songs is universally felt.”