Yola – Walk Through Fire Wednesday, November 20, 2019 – Queen of country-soul Yola today received four nominations at the 62nd Grammy Awards including Best New Artist and three nominations in the Roots category including Best American Roots Song, Best American Roots Performance (for “Faraway Look”) and Best Americana Album for her debut Dan Auerbach-produced […]
The 2020 Grammy Award nominees have been announced! The ceremony will be held January 26, 2020 and will be hosted by Alicia Keys for the second straight year. Lizzo leads the field with eight nominations including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist. Billie Eilish also […]
New Listen Music Review: Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar I almost don’t know where to begin with this one. I’m probably the only person alive, at least in this industry, that doesn’t know everything about Harry Styles. I know he was in One Direction. I know he has the look, the star quality and […]
Slim Gambill – Fake Jazz & Theme Songs – Holy moly, this is becoming one of my favorite albums released this year. Ten songs on this instrumental opus (outside of Over Getting Over You – which we will get to later on), none of which allows you to lose interest. There’s so much going on […]
Make Yourself turned twenty years old a couple of weeks ago. TWENTY YEARS! This masterpiece from Incubus was released on October 26, 1999 and remains one of my favorite albums of all time and is my top choice from the band’s catalog – which I find hard to say given their body of work. When Morning […]
Luke Combs has the number one album in the country after dropping an impressive 177,000 albums this week. His record What You See Is What You Get is a seventeen track album that features the insanely popular (and super catchy) Beer Never Broke My Heart. This figure is including album sales + album equivalents coming […]
As Lady Antebellum gets ready to release their highly anticipated eighth studio album Ocean on November 15th, their fans have been treated to some great pieces of music that have been released as singles. What If I Never Get Over You has established itself not only on the Country Music Charts but inside the […]
Samantha Leigh is about to released her debut record on November 14, 2019. The six song EP, Perfect Ground, features the lead single Too Scared. Recorded at Fish Tank Studios and produced/mixed by Lucio Rubino – Too Scared is a big sounding, expertly produced song that is not only pleasing to the ear but also to […]
On October 18th, Grace VanderWaal released her brand new single ‘I Don’t Like You‘ to the world. Today, she launches the video for that song. In that “New Listen” review I wrote: I Don’t Like You explores that thing that nearly everyone in a relationship has considered at one point. I love you, but I […]
It’s been twenty years since one of the most underrated albums ever, was released. On August 31, 1999, Days of the New released their second album. II – or the Green Album. By this time front man and songwriter Travis Meeks was operating as the band. He put all of his creative ideas into the […]