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Michelle Billingsley’s new song “Gaslighting” featured on most recent episode of the Adobe and Teardrops podcast

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Michelle Billingsley’s song “Gaslighting”—from her new debut album Not the Marrying Kind“—is featured on the most recent episode of the Adobe and Teardrops podcast. The track begins at 53:00.

American Songwriter recently called Michelle’s work “charming” and Glide said it was “biting & enigmatic” with the “knock ’em dead bravado of Nancy Sinatra and the blunt storytelling of Neko Case.”

Billingsley wraps her slyly cutting lyrics in her dry and dark sense of humor and whipsmart-assed vocal delivery. Her songs are genuine, irreverent, unique and fearless, and Not the Marrying Kind is a deceptively heavy set of songs. Yet somehow it’s still undeniably fun—fantastic whimsy mixed with black comedy and brisk little melodies that make the journey all the more powerful, human and affecting.

“Gaslighting” is a perfect example, an upbeat country-folk tune with plenty of John Prine-style wit and wise-assery on display as Billingsley’s unrepentant cheater of a protagonist tells a cockamamie tale that gets harder to swallow with each verse. LISTEN HERE…

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The Big Takeover Debuts Radiator King’s New Single, “Haunts Me Now,” Ahead Of Livestream Performance From The Bowery Electric

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Since the release of Radiator King’s 2017 second album, A Hollow Triumph After All, singer-guitarist and creative mastermind Adam Silvestri has been searching high and low for a sign, a trail, a clue, that would lead his sound and songwriting in some new direction.

As he geared up to write and record what would become his new album, Unborn Ghosts, Silvestri alternated between the trenches of rock & roll—touring America on a shoestring budget in a Ford Econoline van—and holing up in his Brooklyn apartment or the local public library, reading and researching—gathering fuel for his muse.

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Spill Magazine gives readers a tastes of art-punk outfit This Way to the Egress’s new album and premieres cabaret-punk single “End is Nigh”

Pennsylvania art-punk outfit This Way to the Egress gets downright introspective on their new album Retrospectiva! all the while forcing you to move your body to Balkan beats and burlesque bop. It’s a modern journey through Tom Waits-esque folk-punk junkyards, esoteric worlds of vaudevillian juke joints and underground big band Great Gatsby parties. READ MORE… 

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American Songwriter debuts new single from Joe Stamm Band, “Wild Imagination,” calling it “a foot-stomping outlaw country number.”

“Writing ‘Wild Imagination’ was a bit of a rite of passage for me,” Stamm tells American Songwriter of the track, which premieres below. “I was camping by myself outside Sparta, Wisconsin, staying in this tiny old camper that my buddy’s grandparents owned, trying to write songs. I got through the first day on some Dinty Moore, a bag of little powdered donuts and the better part of a case of Busch Light. But I wrote three songs, and one of those was ‘Wild Imagination.’”

The final product is a foot-stomping outlaw country number that traces a night of boozy shenanigans.

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Nashville.com premieres Laura Rabell’s new single “The Highway”

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Nashville-based singer/songwriter Laura Rabell is exclusively premiering her new single “The Highway”  today on Nashville.com. Listen above. A cross between Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert might be a good description of Rabell’s style. She’s more at home in an East Nashville bar than she is at a touristy writer’s round downtown. On February 22, 2019, Laura Rabell was in the studio working on background vocals for song called “Ride the Wolf” with friend and collaborator Kristen Cothron and producer Dave Coleman. But in the middle of wrapping up overdubs for her debut album, she found it difficult to focus—Rabell had just had a biopsy, and she was waiting on the results.

“I couldn’t sleep the night before the session, so I decided to get up and do something productive,” recalls the Nashville-based singer/songwriter and alt-country artist. “Dave had sent me rough mixes with a suggested tracklist, so I got everything in order and pressed play on the album for the first time. I was so excited to hear that it finally existed. All of my dreams were coming true. But as soon as the second song started playing, my heart sank. I thought, ‘Wait, this isn’t real life. No one gets to be this happy. I’m going to find out I have cancer today.’ And sure enough, 12 hours later, not long after I got home from the studio, the doctor called me with the news.”

Just three weeks before that fateful day, Rabell had proudly announced her debut record to fans, friends and family via email blast. The big reveal? The album would be called… Immortal. She laughs darkly at the recollection: “I guess you shouldn’t call the Titanic unsinkable. I guess you shouldn’t call your first album Immortal. You’re just asking for it.”

In the midst of her very own tragicomedy, the former musical-theater student pressed on, mustering all the strength she could, finishing mixes for her album just in time to put it on the shelf where it would wait impatiently while she endured two surgeries and four rounds of chemo. Now, a year later, Rabell is cancer free and gearing up for Immortal’s release. “Stressful as that time was,” she says, “working on the record, and having the album launch to look forward to was absolutely my oxygen. Just knowing—I have work to do and music to put out into the world—helped me get through the darkest days of dealing with cancer.” READ MORE…

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Record Crates United applauds 8 Inch Betsy’s album amidst moments of tragedy

To call 8 Inch Betsy iconic would be putting it lightly. The group is often quoted as being one of the greatest queercore acts to have ever appeared, and their final posthumously released record might be the greatest proof to back that claim. The tracks on this record flow with equal parts riotous fury and expert pop punk song-craft. Imagine if you took The Muffs’ melodies and grafted them onto the grit and amped-up energy of early Misfits or L7, then you get a good idea of the strengths of of this badass record. READ MORE…