New West Records

“I love that!  It makes me extra excited!” says Lilly Hiatt when I tell her that her show here next week will actually be in a diner that was once featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.  Next Tuesday, March 11th, the Nashville singer/songwriter will be making her Silk City...

“These days I’m pretty stoked on wellness stuff.  I try to do an infrared sauna in almost every town, I do yoga backstage, a lot of meditation, and I got into tapping, this new thing,” says Jaime Wyatt, which has me a little taken aback, considering that Wyatt first...

This April Americana singer/songwriter Esther Rose dropped her fourth studio LP, Safe to Run, courtesy of New West Records, home to PHILTHY phriends Aaron Lee Tasjan, Caroline Rose, and Emily Nenni, among others.  The album – whose title track features Hurray For The Riff Raff – was written over...

“Izzy, I’m so excited for the light show!” says indie pop singer/songwriter Caroline Rose, who embarks on their biggest headlining tour yet at the end of this month, which includes an April 11th stop at Union Transfer.  I first met Caroline Rose in January of 2014, when they had...

It’s not often we come across a country singer/songwriter with Spotify playlists filled with the likes of The Cramps, MC5, and Lou Reed…  However, that just seems to be how Nashville-based Emily Nenni rolls.  “I’m just a huge fan of music, not just country,” she tells me during a...

“The main goal is to connect with people,” says Justin Osborne, singer, songwriter, and mainman of Charleston, South Carolina-based indie Americana outfit SUSTO.  He’s speaking to me from the road and we’re discussing SUSTO’s fourth full-length, Time in the Sun, which was released last year and called by No...