In January 2018, Colleen Duffy, front-woman of L.A.-based rockabilly band Devil Doll, emerged from a four-year health-related hiatus to announce a crowdfunding campaign for her third album. That album, Lover and a Fighter, has now been completed and comes out May 1. READ MORE…
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Post to Wire shares Michelle Billingsley’s new music video for “Portia”
Michelle Billingsley has just released two new singles, the first of which is ‘Portia’, a song of which she says “Portia’s an everywoman. Actually, she’s my front. This song is about my most private insecurities, so it felt freer to package them up as someone else.” The song drifts and slow-dances along on a lilting melody—a touch of Emmylou about the sound of her voice. Musically it’s a perfect blend of old-timey country and soft shuffle. READ MORE…
B-Sides & Badlands offers an exclusive preview of the new title track from David Burchfield’s forthcoming album State to State
Sometimes, we burn through memories and experiences like we’re stoking a campfire. Other times, we tuck away those that mean more to us in brown paper packages for safe keeping. Indie-folk storyteller David Burchfield places his new song “State to State,” premiering at B-Sides & Badlands, firmly in the latter thematic box. “The way across the way / From state to state / This one that I / Keep close to me,” he lugs around the intangible ghosts and physical mementos, his knapsack brimming with the past. READ MORE…
New Noise premieres Devil Doll’s latest single “To All Our Friends”
Devil Doll’s “To All Our Friends,” out May 1 on Lover & a Fighter, is spooky, vibrant, rock at its best. READ MORE…
Americana UK spotlights the ‘biting wit’ of Michelle Billingsley’s new single ‘Gaslighting’
The Wild Honey Pie features new single, “Honeysuckles,” from Margaret Chavez on Buzzing Daily, calling it “a dark folk masterpiece.”
“Honeysuckles” is a dark folk masterpiece in balance from Austin-based Margaret Chavez (Marcus Striplin). The track opens with hypnotic guitar arpeggiations that draw you in like waving wildflowers drawing honeybees. Then come the lyrics, which paint vignettes of tragedy that seem initially at odds with the cheerful guitar melody. As the song progresses, the track unfolds into a retrospective of loss and love.