As Music Band, Nashville pals Harry Kagan, Duncan Shea, and Lee Putney make invigorated garage rock that bristles with excitement. After a four-year hiatus following their last LP, 2016’s Wake Up Laughing, the band is gearing up for a major return this April with the release of their third album Celebration. READ MORE…
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Sarah Rachele’s last album ‘Scorpio Moon’ had a richly layered augmented band sound, but the follow up ‘Scorpio Sun’ which is due out this year has ripped up that design and started afresh with the emphasis on the raw, the personal and the stripped back. It means that there’s nothing between the listener and the song, just the rawness laid out in full view.
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
Bee Appleseed – All is Forgiven (Baby Robot Records)
Grouplove – Deleter
The Pedaljets – Placid City Girl
Pixies – Please, Don’t Go – Demo
Church Girls – Florida
Amyl and the Sniffers – Got You
Sara Melson – Rather Have You
Bambara – Serafina
Doomtree – Spill Me Up
Atmosphere, Nikki Jean – Lovely (Rhymesayers)
JAMS The Flava Child – G.M.Y.L.
Caroline Rose – Feel the Way I Want (New West Records)
Mara Connor – Wildfire
Tennis – Need Your Love
Slow Parade – Waiting on the Smoke to Clear
Pearla – Daydream
Moses Sumney – Me in 20 Years
Pom Pom Squad – Red with Love
Beach Slang – Let It Ride (Bridge 9 Records)
Public Practice – Extra-Ordinary
Stu Bangas, Ty Farris – Open the Lane
Water From Your Eyes – Adeleine
QWAM – Mall
Habibi – Angel Eyes
Cro-Mags – PTSD (Victory Records)
Nada Surf – Something I Should Do
Wasted Shirt, Ty Segall, Black Pus – Double the Dream
Boogie – Tired/Reflections
Thundercat, Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington – Black Qualls – Single Version
Grandaddy – RIP Coyote Condo #5
Sunwatchers – Sunwatchers vs. Tooth Decay
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Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
Bee Appleseed – All is Forgiven (Baby Robot Records)
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Be Afraid
Sara Melson – Rather Have You
Wynonna, Bob Weir – Ramble On Rose (Anti Records)
Craig Gerdes – Between the Cradle and the Grave
Jim Lauderdale – As a Sign (Yep Roc)
Sarah Peacock – Mojave
Michelle Brooke – Find Your Love
Andy Brasher – If She Loves
Alan Barnosky – Ain’t It a Shame
Jen Starsinic – Drive to the Ocean
The Little Miss – Baby, It’s October
Bridge 19 – Come What May
Dallas Moore – Mama & Daddy
Mara Connor – Wildfire
Anna Ash – Sister Golden Hair (America cover)
Robert Vincent – Conundrum (Thirty Tigers)
The War and Treaty – Jealousy
Maya de Vitry – Constantly
Nicole Atkins, Britt Daniel – Captain
Son Little – neve give up
Terry Allen, The Panhandle Mystery Band, Shannon McNally – Houdini Didn’t Like the Spiritualists
Gill Landry – The Wolf
The Lil Smokies – Fortunes
Pokey LaFarge – Fuck Me Up (New West)
James Hunter Six – Brother or Other
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – This Is Far From Over (Drag City)
Samantha Fish – Kill or Be Kind
The Ballroom Thieves – Homme Run
Vance Gilbert – Pie & Whiskey
Jackson Browne – Love is Strange/Stay
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