Americana Highways brings you this video premiere of Walter Parks’ version of the spiritual song “Wade in the Water,” from their forthcoming album Unlawful Assembly, due out on Sept 10th on Atomic Records. Walter Parks was the sideman for Richie Havens for a decade. Unlawful Assembly was produced by Stephen Williams (Sade, David Byrne, De La Soul), recorded at Atomic Sound in NYC, and mixed recorded and engineered by Merle Chornuk.
Matthew Check is a lifelong singer/songwriter whose musical career shrinks the distance between genres, finding its own balance of American roots-rock, contemporary Jewish folk, children’s music, and bluegrass.
The music project of Brazil-born/NYC-based musician Matt Jones, Two Cent Revival is a fresh approach to Americana. It’s not only an homage to pioneering old-school country and blues, but it also bursts with inspiration from jazz, bluegrass, garage rock, rockabilly, and indie-pop. READ MORE…
If there’s anything to be learned through this past year, it’s that life truly is impermanent. Singer-songwriter Casey Dayan was reminded of this during a trip out to Marathon, Texas, a town boasting a population of less than 500 when the conversation turned to death and loss. READ MORE…
LA indie-rock/soul-pop band Under the Rug sit down with Vents Magazine to talk about their new single “Raindrops,” out this Thursday, July 22nd.
I’m not sure about the rest of the world, but here in Seattle, it’s no secret that Jeff Bezos is completely, thoroughly despised. What Amazon has done to this city is so astronomical, from changing (read: massacring) our culture, landscape, and housing costs, it’s hard to imagine it ever being undone. And now that our resident Mr. Burns is more interested in traveling to space than selling books, it only makes him look like more of a complete dick while the people who actually work for him are peeing in bottles in order to fulfill the orders of his monolithic company.
The plight of these underpaid and overworked laborers is exemplified in the video for chamber pop duo Takénobu’s new single “Traveling Light.” In it, Nick Ogawa plays a rodent trapped in the literal rat race of working day-in-day-out in a warehouse at a company called Amazing. With the same logo and colors as the Bezos-owned company, it’s less a wink and more a shove at who Ogawa’s referencing.