Lucinda Williams

“I think on some level I’ve been surprised by the lack of acknowledgement about the change in sound.  I thought people would be upset that it wasn’t another bluegrass record!” jokes singer/songwriter Bella White of her sophomore LP, Among Other Things, which drops this Friday (4/21) on Rounder Records...

Although Americana singer/songwriter Michaela Anne calls Nashville home, she certainly has a special place in her heart for the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.  When we last spoke, in November of 2019, just prior to her headlining show at MilkBoy, she told me that her recent sold-out...

Since the release of their last full-length, 2018’s Constant Image, DC-based indie rockers Flasher have been through a few major changes.  Bassist Daniel Saperstein parted ways with the band, leaving guitarist Taylor Mulitz and drummer Emma Baker (who share vocal duties) to continue on as a duo.  Mulitz also...

“I’ve been looking forward to this show for so long, for years now,” said Katie Crutchfield, better known as Waxahatchee, four songs into her set last Sunday night, before launching into “The Eye” off of the indie rock singer/songwriter’s 2020 album Saint Cloud.  The performance was the first of...

“Fucking Kathleen Hanna Tweeted about my record and I literally shat my pants!  I’m literally thinking of getting that Tweet printed on a fucking shirt!” Madi Diaz tells me during a recent phone chat.  The last time I talked to the Nashville-based artist was last August, just prior to...

Although best known as vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for New York indie poppers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Kip Berman has spent recent years embracing a different sort of lifestyle… parenting, husbanding, but also making a slightly different kind of sound as The Natvral.  Earlier this year,...

Alt (in every sense of the world) country sensation Orville Peck may have just kicked off his Drive Me, Crazy Tour, but two of his bandmates have some additional news of their own.  Multi-instrumentalists Bria Salmena and Duncan Hay Jennings, of Peck’s backing band and Canadian indie rockers FRIGS,...

Today New York-based Americana outfit, The Booklights, release their debut EP, Into a Ball, a release that likely wouldn’t have happened, if it wasn’t for the pandemic.  “It’s so wild to be releasing an EP right now.  We recorded almost everything last summer and, for the most part, it...

“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...