If you’re looking to get your night started, and feel like a total badass while doing so, we suggest you hit play on “Little Devil.”
The latest track from Derek Hoke, its laid-back rock/country nature is enough to kick up some dust and cause a stir. Off of his newly released album, Bring the Flood, “Little Devil” aims to methodically keep you subdued to enjoy a great time. Playing it cool, as they say.
Ben Lee must play nice with others, because the Australian indie folk star has cultivated a number of fruitful collaborations across his 25-year career. Once upon a time, he teamed up with Ben Folds and Ben Kweller to form a supergroup called, appropriately, The Bens. Since then, he’s filled his prolific solo output with guest spots from the likes of Zooey Deschanel, Mandy Moore, Sean Lennon, Neil Finn, and Azure Ray. Now he’s found what many might deem to be a surprising new collaborator in actor Josh Radnor.
Their self-titled debut drops this Friday, November 10th. In advance, Consequence of Sound is premiering “Still Though We Should Dance”, an affirming duet with musician Sam Shelton. The track finds both singers working to cast aside their own regrets and embrace the present, the future, and the possibility that maybe all of us imperfect beings are allowed to be happy after all. The song’s rollicking percussion, soaring fiddle, and rowdy chorus wouldn’t sound out of place against the clinks of a crowded, candlelit pub.
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Straddling the two extremes, roots-rockers Kat Myers and The Buzzards offers the E.P. with the official title Kat Myers & The Buzzards Owe Everybody Money. Myers voice is a pleasing intersection where Aimee Mann and Natalie Merchant collide with equal parts roadhouse and street-corner busking informing the tunes.
“Under The Rug” mixes rock directness with southern accents in a way not too dissimilar from Dents and Shells-era Richard Buckner. “The Things I Love” moves from a rollicking strum to a reverb-laden heavy rocker, then morphs back into the congenial crowd-pleaser it started off as; an odd but effective Jeckyll-and-Hyde of a tune, but it works from start to finish.
Myers and company allow the occasional lightheartedness to accent the songs, not mire them down. The tracks about social and relationship dysfunction are not dark ruminations that demand you pay attention because this is serious. They are more like camera phone snapshots of vignettes that remind us that, at heart, we’re all kind of screwed up.
Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.
Kat Myers & The Buzzards are an indie band based in Los Angeles, California. Their unique sound that’s mixed with country and rock & roll makes them a group your earbuds will never forget. Their new album, Owe Everybody Money, comes out November 17th. But before the big reveal of their new music, I got a chance to chat with frontwoman, Kat Myers, about the band’s early days, what fans can expect in their new music, and more.
TYF: Where did the title of the new album, Owe Everybody Money, come from?
Kat Myers: Owe Everybody Money is a lyric from our song “So Kind” and when I said it out loud it made for a pretty funny album title so we went with it.
TYF: What is your writing process like?
Myers: I’ve never been one of those “wake up and write” types, though I wish I was. I tend to get ideas at random times and sing them into my phone or scribble lyrics in various notepads or type them on my phone and then try to put them all together once I force myself to sit down.
TYF: When you were writing the music and putting together the EP, did you ever experience writer’s block?
Myers: I didn’t actually start to experience writer’s block for the first time until recently. It’s pretty rough! I’m not really sure what triggered it but I just wasn’t getting any new ideas and I felt like I was no longer a musician. I’ve snapped out of it.
TYF: How do you overcome it?
Myers: I’d say, the best way to overcome writer’s block is to just relax and don’t be so hard on yourself. If you made stuff before, you will make stuff again. The more you beat yourself up, the more you will prolong it. Just gotta consider it a forced vacation!
TYF: What can fans expect to hear on the new album?
Myers: For this EP, we recorded it all live, which was both fun and challenging. We worked out the arrangements with that in mind, knowing we would keep the production limited. We wanted to introduce ourselves as we are without extra elements that we wouldn’t be able to deliver at our live show.
TYF: What was it like getting to work with Vance Powell on the album?
Myers: Vance is a machine, he’s amazing to work with. There is certainly a reason that he has reached the level of success that he has reached. He put touches on the songs that we wouldn’t have thought of and really brought them to life. Super cool guy too, a fellow midwesterner!
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Derek Hoke will probably get a statue in East Nashville someday…well, at least in our eyes he should. The singer-songwriter and community builder has been the curator of the renowned Two Dollar Tuesdays at East Nashville’s The 5 Spot for 7 years and running and embedded himself fully into the every expanding landscape of Americana and Roots music in town and beyond.
This month Hoke celebrated the release of his latest effort “Bring the Flood”, an introspective look at the world around him. An exploration in how an artist can make a shit storm of emotion and turmoil digestable to a broader audience and a success in the fullest extent of the term. Laying out a well balanced sonic palette of steel driven roots and tele twang, but its truly Derek Hoke’s voice that shines brightest across the breadth of its 10 tracks. Smooth but cutting in all the right ways, it leaves you with a lasting mark and begs for a revisit again and again.
We had the pleasure of catching up with Derek to talk about this latest release, the blossoming state of community through his eye’s in East Nashville and that special evening that went from tumbleweeds to top notch entertainment in his able hands.
Alt-country band Karen & The Sorrows are making a name for themselves after releasing The Narrow Place in September. The self-described “queer country trailblazers” have reimagined the genre to create their own brand of Dolly Parton-esque vocals, twangy petal steel guitar and easy-going rhythms, a brand that is demonstrated in their single “Nowhere.” Today, the band is debuting the video accompaniment for the song, exclusively at Paste.
From the sound of her voice, you’d never guess that vocalist Karen Pittelman previously fronted a punk band. However, having grown up on 1970s country rock, she started a band with The Sorrows, and together, they embraced the music of their past, becoming the center of a growing queer country scene.
“Now more than ever, we are grateful to be in community with so many amazing musicians,” Pittelman says. “Country music can tell compelling stories about family, love, heartbreak and strength. Those stories should include all of our families, all of our love, and especially all of our heartbreak and our strength.”
Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.