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Cowboys & Indians Magazine premieres Craig Gerdes’ “Christmas Eve At Our House”

Craig Gerdes debuts his new single, “Christmas Eve at Our House,” exclusively with C&I.

’Tis the season for bundling up by the fire with some hot cocoa to listen to your favorite holiday tunes. In that festive spirit, C&I is excited to present a new addition to that playlist.

Up-and-coming country artist Craig Gerdes’ new single, “Christmas Eve at Our House,” is a fun two-steppin’ tune with a relatable hometown story about family Christmases. From the song’s steel guitar twang to Gerdes’ deep voice, the track is equipped with everything country fans love about the genre, and we’re delivering it exclusively just in time for the holidays.

“My label [Sol Records] recently called me and asked how quickly I could write a Christmas song. I slept on it, woke up the next morning, and wrote the song start to finish. It’s a humorous take on Christmas Eve. Growing up, my family gatherings always involved drinkin’, smokin’, and guitar pickin’. Looking back, it would probably make for great reality TV nowadays,” says Gerdes, who comes from rural Illinois and maintains his favorite Christmas song is Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas.”

Fueled by an autobiographical tale of a holiday family gathering, his own take on a Christmas tune features some killer sleigh-bell sounds.

“During the recording session, we realized that since we were making a Christmas song we had to have some sleigh bells on it,” Gerdes says. “But sleigh bells aren’t always easy to find [on the] spur of the moment! Our producer, Brian DeBruler, did some searching and ended up finding a 100-plus-year-old sleigh bell that once belonged to his great-grandparents. There’s some history in those bells.”

The track gives a tantalizing taste of Gerdes’ forthcoming album, Smokin’, Drinkin’ & Gamblin’, due out February 16, which promises more “outlaw-country rug cutters and ballads about strong heads and weak hearts.”

For a toe-tappin’ kickoff to the holidays, have a listen to “Christmas Eve at Our House.”

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Gold Flake Paint premieres Misty Boyce’s new single, “Get Over You”

In winter, solitude sometimes ekes deeper tracks in the mind. It’s perhaps the easy fading of days: a gilded glow, a certain ache; a shiver of trees spilling the last of their sepia leaves. When breakups happen at this time of year, it’s tricky to resist the fragility around you, to stop yourself spiralling into ice-like fissures of sadness and silence. Sometimes a song floats into your orbit, leaves its faint imprint on your life like a snowflake that brushes the tongue just once, but not unremembered. Sometimes there’s a lesson in a melody, memory. ‘Get Over You’, the heart-breaking new single from Misty Boyce, dares us to face the fact of loss, even as it clings to former sweetness.

There’s a subtle, soothing and jewelline texture to Boyce’s keyboard, an instrumental talent honed from performing with Sara Bareilles on Grammy-nominated album, The Blessed Unrest. While you can track her impressive, sprawling movements across the globe, with tours backing Sting, Ingrid Michaelson and BØRNS, listening to ‘Get Over You’ opens a more intimate, inward trail, footsteps lain over lonely snow.

When I first started writing it, I was at the beginning of a very intense love affair and wasn’t trying to get over anyone. In fact, I was happy to be falling in love. But I imagined what it would be like to lose him and fleshed out the verses and chorus from there. To my surprise, the relationship quickly fell apart, so by the time I got to writing the bridge, I was in the thick of the emotion I had created.

– Misty Boyce

Beginning with smooth, Sharon Van Etten synths, the song builds softly around the refrain, “Everything is all wrong”. The understated accompaniment, its delicate skin of muted chords, lets a simple, familiar story cut where it hurts: “I live my life by every rule / till you cross my mind / till you pass by”. It’s this earnest, quotidian sorrow, alongside a minimalist refusal of melodrama, that makes ‘Get Over You’ cry authentically in a crowded menagerie of love songs baying to be industry favourite. Boyce’s voice is a glassy, trembling thing, polishing melody to a healing, Feist-like sheen.

This is music unafraid of pain, a song reassembling the brightest shards of a broken heart. Music to listen to while you try to forget, watching the snow come again, erasing the prints of what once was love. Although closure is never so natural or easy, Misty Boyce’s new song might be the one to guide you, quietly and surprisingly, to where the light shines again, that final line: “I’ll get over you.” READ MORE…

by Baby Robot Media

What Youth premieres Cheap Tissue’s new single, “Dirt”

LA punk locals Cheap Tissue know how to jolt you awake, and their adrenaline-fueled, unapologetic, raw surge of blistering, contagious energy is almost as effective as a caffeine-filled IV to the dome, or a quick slap in the face, if that’s your thing. Formed in the early months of 2015, the four-piece – Andrew Taylor, Jesse Youngblood, John Tyree, and Matt Spizer — play hard, fast, and don’t give a shit if you particularly like their music. Just the kind of attitude we look for in a band. Listen to their new single, “Dirt,” off their self-titled debut, dropping March 2nd of next year on Lolipop Records. Considering these dirtbags have opened for the Vibrators, the Zeros, and are about to share the stage with our faves the Shrine and Feels, we’re betting hard change that they stick around long enough to induce some sort of amphetamine-drenched craze. So press play, absorb their single like the coffee you most likely need right now, and read about the meaning of the song below. —Maya Eslami

RIFF Magazine interviews Sara Rachele about her new April Fool LP

Sara Rachele describes her music as, “Like somebody dropped Emmylou Harris down a well, and she’s mad about it,” but otherwise she’s difficult to pin down.

“I’m at a place where I’m ignoring what’s happening in the industry because I don’t think anybody knows,” she says.

Her latest project is an album, April Fool, recorded in Nashville with guitarist Johnny Duke.

“I wasn’t even really trying to go into it with the idea to make an album,” she says. “It’s such a huge stressful thing.”

“I’ve been restoring this old Airstream, and it doesn’t need three steering wheels and 15 sets of brakes. It needs a couple things that become components of this piece of work,” Rachele says. “Albums are a lot like vehicles; there’s components that if you took them away it wouldn’t make sense. Not everything is a complex idea.”

April Fool is more of a folk-country album, suiting the backgrounds of the contributors: Duke has played guitar with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Miranda Lambert and Lee Ann Womack. Rachele credits Bob Dylan as her favorite songwriter, and she even has a dog named Hank Williams Sr.

“This really fantastic writer named John Lilly from West Virginia wrote the title track ‘April Fool’—a really talented guy—and I met him across a campfire,” she says. “I heard the song, and that’s really where the record gained cohesion. I said I really want to do something like that.”

Next, though, she’s going in a different direction.

“I recorded some things in New York; I went into this tape studio and got to work with some beautiful people who are just honkin’ soul and jazz guys. It’s really cool to bring what I do and let those guys take it to a totally different place. I’m excited to get those tunes out.”

And this time it won’t be another album. Continuing her former metaphor, “Sometimes it’s nice to just have an A and a B side. It’s just a motorcycle, not an RV. I love music that was made to be short form. I like songs that don’t necessarily sit on a full-length album.”

She appreciates the flexibility to switch influences and structures. While some musicians are fighting against the chaos in the music industry, she embraces it.

“I have a family member who always tells me to never miss the opportunity in a good crisis,” Rachele says. “Yeah, we’re not making quarter million dollar albums anymore, but that’s okay. If you’re fortunate enough to be able to sustain that, there’s a lot of opportunity. Things have gotten easier in a lot of ways if all you want to do is create recordings.”

And that’s all she wants to do: “I sell songs to support my recording habit,” she says. READ MORE…

by Baby Robot Media

New Noise Magazine Premieres Johnny Dango’s “Concrete to Grass”

We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of Johnny Dango’s new song “Concrete To Grass” (listen below). The track is taken from his forthcoming album Dear Everybody, I Love You, which is scheduled to be released on January 19, 2018.

“Concrete to Grass” takes cues from stadium rock giants like Queen and Billy Joel to create a sprawling track that chugs from verse to verse as it builds to its explosive, wall-of-sound outro laden with fuzzed-out guitar solos and lush pedal steel flourishes. Thematically, the track takes aim at gentrification in modern America with Dango’s trademark sharp-tongued wit taking the spotlight as he sings: “This market’s ripe for selling out, money’s all you every think about // Another parasite just following the crowd, enjoy another seven dollar stout.”

Dear Everybody, I Love You, is a nine track collection rooted in gritty rock & roll, boot-stomping Country, and atmospheric psychedelia. Dango’s position as an outsider to the current Americana establishment is felt throughout as his off-kilter brand of Country/rock delves heavily into the political, the abstract, and the cerebral. READ MORE…

by Baby Robot Media

Imperfect Fifth Reviews New EP From Kat Myers & the Buzzards

Los Angeles-based surf rock quartet Kat Myers & The Buzzards – comprised of namesake Kat Myers, Elliott Beenk, Johnny Elkins, and Jeff McElroy – recently dropped debut five track EP Owe Everybody Money. Riddled with music that was conceptualized after a sharp turn in her career path, Owe Everybody Money grants us a peek inside the mind of someone who grabbed life by the reigns when she realized it wasn’t going the way her heart wanted. Kat has developed a sound with her band that feels rugged, at times twangy – “Reluctant Love”, for instance, boasts more of an americana feel to it -, and pure rock at its core. (I mean, have you HEARD “Under The Rug” yet?) But it’s a completely genre-bending project, as her vocals do house a bit of a country vibe to them, but also feel similar to the crooning abilities of Mary Ramsey.