heartland rock

  • Mattiel’s Leather Americana… Or, Georgia Gothic (3/1 at JB’s)

    February 21, 2022
    Mattiel’s upcoming third LP, Georgia Gothic, will likely earn the award for 2022’s most straightforward album title.  The album’s cover features Mattiel Brown and Jonah Swilley donning red-leather suits (of sorts) and grasping pitchforks in a sort of space-age, fetish homage to Grant Wood’s famous painting.  The 11 tacks...

  • Lauren Jenkins on Independence and Getting Back on the Road

    July 17, 2021
    “It really means more than I can express every time someone plays one of my songs for someone, whether they’re buying it or streaming it.  That puts gas in my tank,” says Lauren Jenkins.  Jenkins is a heartland rocker who seems to live the life of an always-impeccably-styled Americana...