The Joe Stamm Band makes countrified roots-rock with an emphasis on the roots, drawing on Stamm’s small-town upbringing in rural Illinois for a sound that blends heartland hooks with Nashville twang. It’s a sound that’s taken the songwriter from the college apartment where he strummed his first chords to venues beyond the Midwest, sharing shows with personal heroes like Kris Kristofferson and Chris Knight along the way. With his debut studio LP, The Good & The Crooked (& The High & The Horny), which is due out September 25th, Stamm begins building his own legacy, leading his band of road warriors through an album rooted in all-American storytelling and guitar-driven swagger.
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Seattle indie-pop phenom Left at London shares new single “T-Shirt” at Flood Magazine
Nat Puff, the mastermind behind Left at London, is frank. She’s frank about shitty people in her most popular acoustic ballad “I DONT TRUST U ANYMORE,” and she’s frank about her struggles in her newest single, “T-Shirt.” It comes from her forthcoming album Transgender Street Legend Vol. 2. READ MORE…
Canadian country/folk artist Spencer Burton signs with Still Records, shares new single “Further” at American Songwriter
Similar to the way having a copious amount of choice can bring enthralling possibility or a paralyzing level of uncertainty, being left to one’s own devices in a place of quiet separation can yield vastly different results for anyone that embraces the environment. Though some might find the prospect of deliberate social withdrawal challenging, for songwriter and musical journeyman Spencer Burton, pursuit of a quieter life after extensive touring and becoming a parent served as more of a full circle milestone and Burton’s new single “Further” definitely supports that idea. READ MORE…
Our Culture Mag shines their artist spotlight on Margaret Chavez, debuting NEW video for 8-minute epic, “H O R A”
Margaret Chavez is the project of Austin-based singer-songwriter Marcus William Striplin, who fuses elements of space rock, freak folk, and alt-country. Having started out his career in the late 90s as one half of the psychedelic outfit Pleasant Grove, he recently issued his second solo album, Into An Atmosphere – a sprawling, ambitious, and often breathtaking effort co-produced by longtime collaborator Stuart Sikes (Cat Power, Loretta Lynn, The White Stripes) and mastered by Greg Calbi (John Lennon, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen).
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette unfolds the epic story behind Hi-Watter, the long-awaited debut album from Rev. Greg Spradlin and the Band of Imperials
In 2010 Pete Thomas, the drummer for Elvis Costello’s bands The Attractions and The Imposters, was in Little Rock to record some songs with Indy Grotto, wife of producer Jason Weinheimer, for her solo album. While Thomas was here, Weinheimer encouraged Greg Spradlin, the singer-songwriter-hotshot guitarist and longtime Arkansas musical stalwart, to come jam with the British drummer.
That session was a life-changing one for Spradlin, though he didn’t know it at the time. “I thought, yeah, I could spend a day with him,” the 51-year-old Spradlin says. “I had about three songs. That’s probably all we could get done anyway.”
He admits that he was expecting something more laid-back, but Thomas — who not only drummed on legendary Costello albums like “This Year’s Model,” “Get Happy,” “Armed Forces,” “Imperial Bedroom” and more, but is also an in-demand studio drummer who has played with Randy Newman, Sheryl Crow and others — had a different approach. “He’s a perfectionist, and it goes really quick,” Spradlin says. “We got through those three songs before lunch.”
There was an undeniable chemistry, and that informal jam started Spradlin on a musical trip that would take him to Los Angeles to record with, among others, Thomas, Los Lobos founding member David Hidalgo, the late keyboardist Rudy Copeland and bassist Davey Faragher of Cracker and The Imposters.