PREMIERE: Reilly Downes Invents New Wave Honky Tonk on "Dog Days"
In her new track "Dog Days," Reilly Downes takes DEHD's deep cut and transforms it into an urgent new wave/honky-tonk cut.
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Episode 32: Issue 6 Preview
In episode 32 of Issue 6, Rachel guides you through the zine. You'll hear from Allison Russell about Hadestown, Josh Friedberg talks us through his essay about Beyonce winning the Best Country Album Grammy, Vandoliers, Glen Meadmore's glory hole, and more!
Garreson -- Monte
Garreson pays tribute to his grandfather on his debut album Monte. Come for the '70s-tinted folk, stay for Garreson's buttery barroom baritone and divine tenor.
PREMIERE: No Lonesome "Falls Apart" in the Chicago Winter
No Lonesome barely keeps it together through the Chicago winter on their powerfully nostalgic track "Falls Apart."
Rainbow Ruckus 8/26: Rennie Coleman, Weakened Friends, Mimi Gilbert, and More!
This week's Rainbow Ruckus features ego death, brash confidence, rainbow rodeos (not ours), '90s country realness, and lesbian hunters.
MORGXN - Heartland: Part I
MORGXN takes a country turn on his outstanding album Heartland: Part I. Bee Delores guides us through this "wallop" of a meditation on pain and belonging in rural America.
INTERVIEW: Rita Bliss Offers Hopeful Resistance With "We Will Sing"
Rita Bliss offers up hopeful resistance with her soaring protest anthems. In our interview, she explains how she makes that particular magic happen.
Rainbow Ruckus 8/19: Brye, Lily Rose, Maren Morris, and More!
This week's Rainbow Ruckus features pop splendor, gender euphoria, breakups, old flames, and breaking cycles of trauma.
Shamir -- Ten
Shamir dazzles with his album Ten, a true reckoning of where one has arrived in life – and where you want to be going.
INTERVIEW: Haunted Like Human Proudly Rep Queer and Trans Appalachia
Haunted Like Human conjures haunting harmonies and mysterious vistas in their carefully crafted folk music. Dale Chapman (they/them) and Cody Clark (he/him) tell us why they are proud to rep queer and trans life in the South.
Kennedy Shaw -- With Love, From NJ
On her EP With Love, From NJ, Kennedy Shaw teasingly drags a foot across the line in the sand between indie pop and country music and erases it completely.
Bryan Ruby -- Growing Season
Bryan Ruby illustrates the fine storyteller he's turning into this jewel box of an EP, Growing Season.
Rainbow Ruckus 8/13: Ty Herndon, Sug Daniels, Joy Oladokun, and More!
This week's Rainbow Ruckus features men holding on to women, brand new days, swim practices, war games, and more!
INTERVIEW: Great Aunt's Existential Bedtime Focuses on "The Little Things"
Australian duo Great Aunt dig into those little existential questions our brains like to bring up as we fall asleep -- and driving on the right side of the road when they tour the US.