Boston-based indie rocker Carissa Johnson is back this fall with her new LP, Blue Hour. Recorded over lockdown, the record is Johnson’s first solo album since 2016’s Only Roses. In the intervening years, she’s been playing with her band, The Cure-Alls, but quarantine found her retreating inward for one of her most personal offerings yet. READ MORE…
A veteran rock & roller, singer/songwriter and guitarist with a couple decades in the trenches, Stuffy Shmitt has played with everyone from The Band’s Levon Helm to Violent Femmes’ Gordan Gano and David Johansen of the New York Dolls.
About eight years ago, the poor bastard went off the rails, consumed by bipolar disorder. Finally, though, he got himself properly medicated, moved from NYC to Nashville, and was able to sort out everything he’d created during his bouts of depression and mania. The resulting album, Stuff Happens—featuring Aaron Lee Tasjan, Brian Wright and more—is Stuffy’s finest yet.
And now, on September 10th, he’s releasing a special deluxe edition, More Stuff Happens. …
Big Takeover is stoked to host the premiere of the new music video for the live deluxe-edition “Scratchin’ at the Cat,” which finds Stuffy and his band operating at full-tilt at The 5 Spot in Nashville, offering a taste of what it might sound like to hear Warren Zevon fronting The Beatles circa The White Album.
Read more and check out the new video at The Big Takeover.
‘Daughter of Country’ is, by the admission of husband-and-wife duo Shane and Megan Baskerville, a sad album. There is no attempt here to disguise the personal nature of these songs. Everyone one is a scar picked at or opened up, a cathartic reveal to the world through that age-old proven medium of country music.
This Canadian singer-songwriter and visual artist brings a gritty artsy folk grandeur to her songbook that is tough as nails and melodically moody in all the right spots. Oz’s new album, the self-produced Growing Pains aims to consolidate Oz’s talent into a caravan of styles and emotions, melding elements of soul, rock n’ roll, and jazz to her ever-growing sonic palette.
