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The Big Takeover on Stuffy Shmitt’s new single: “Like Warren Zevon fronting The Beatles circa The White Album”

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.

by Baby Robot Media

Americana UK gives Daughter of Country – the new record from Megan & Shane – an 8/10, calling it “country as it was intended, with an edge, raw in emotion and feeling.”

‘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.

by Baby Robot Media

Glide Magazine debuts new single from Mimi Oz, “Time Will Tell,” comparing her to the “soulful sounds of Yola” and “the edgy alt of Phoebe Bridgers.”

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.

by Baby Robot Media

The Bluegrass Situation talks with Bill Filipiak about places of healing, introspection and refuge

The Bluegrass Situation has debuted Bill Filipiak’s new single “Conesus Lake.” The song is a meditative, acoustic country-blues track inspired by the refuge and healing the songwriter has found at his family’s Upstate New York retreat. Even more than that, Filipiak explains, “Conesus Lake” represents a state of mind—that place you go when you need to be introspective, put things behind you and start over again.

Read more and check out the song at The Bluegrass Situation.

by Baby Robot Media

EARMILK weighs in on the new single from Dylan Chambers, “Me Vs. Me,” praising its “bright textures, funky guitar riffs, and rousing drum grooves.”

L.A.-based pop, funk-soul guitarist/vocalist Dylan Chambers is a one-man band whose newest effort “Me Vs. Me” beautifully captures his energetic persona and commanding vocals. The vibrant funky track sees Chambers going against himself as he aims to be the better person for all intent and purposes. He makes use of producer Stefan Litrownik‘s bright textures, earworm funky guitar riffs, and rousing drum grooves that blend perfectly with his bold melodic runs and soulful harmonies. The record is quite arresting with it’s retro-modern aesthetics and uber funky vocal projections.

by Baby Robot Media

RAD/ATL: Takénobu shows off new depth and direction with latest single “Got to Get By”

For your weekend listening stack, Takénobu returns with a new song titled “Got to Get By.”

This latest release is the third single from the upcoming self-released album, Always Leave a Note, due out September 3.

Here, singer and cellist Nick Ogawa and wife, singer and violin player Kathryn Koch, strike a balance between their music’s dramatic pop inflections and the sense of lingering unease that came with life amid a global pandemic. Naturally, the title serves as a mantra of endurance and catharsis. The strength of their songwriting and their earnest delivery also show off new depth and direction, offering a hint at the direction of the new album.