What makes Easy Come, Easy Go so impressive isn’t simply that it’s a beautifully performed bluegrass album—though it certainly is that. Rather, it’s the way The Burnett Sisters Band subtly stretch the edges of their genre without ever abandoning the core elements that earned them their IBMA recognition. Their blend of vocal chemistry, narrative smarts,
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Alex Lopez & ALX’s Retro Revival, set for release February 6, 2026, arrives poised to extend the guitarist-songwriter’s strong chart history and reinforce his position as one of contemporary blues-rock’s most reliable and evolving voices. After a decade of steady growth—highlighted by Rising Up reaching Billboard’s Top Ten and Nasty Crime topping the blues/rock radio
American Drifter – by Jacob Jones, features eight thoughtfully written and produced country pieces with Jones giving a glimpse into his military life, after letting his sensitive side out on his previous EP Maverick. Now the plot thickens with songs about his real life and the military aspect which every track on American Drifter deals
Early Wednesday morning, December 3rd, the AARP, the nation’s leading organization for those over the age of 55, released a report with a radically unexpected revelation. You would think that the loneliest Americans among us would be teenagers who are leaving their families, going off to college, and being forced to build an entirely new
Why should we give thanks on Thanksgiving? We live in a system much bigger than we are. Our foods come to us courtesy of a sun 95 million miles away, and courtesy of life’s 3.5 billion year evolution. What’s more, our foods don’t just come from California, Florida, Brazil and Africa. Our turkey comes to
Night Of The Opera Train – A Musical Novel, puts Brent Maher in another musical realm by combining a piece of U.S. history with 21 songs written and recorded for it. This includes a story within a story of sorts, with Maher centering it around three fictional children leading the listener all the way through,
Ian C. Bouras is back in the independent music circuit, with the release of his new, sixteen minute single The Sound of Raindrops on a Broken Heart. A modern day Brian Eno, Bouras has expertly crafted notable tracks and EPs for the last couple of years, becoming one of the most exciting alternative musical acts
Aaron Poochigian’s “Four Walks in Central Park: A Poetic Guide to the Park” reads like a conversation between old friends—one of them being the city itself. Poochigian uses the park as both setting and subject, threading his way through its well-worn trails, monuments, and hidden corners with the kind of curiosity that never feels forced.
This week on Secrets of the Stage, Quinn Lemley explores the future of creativity with special guest Howard Bloom — author, thinker, and music industry legend. Together they tackle one of today’s biggest questions: Will AI replace writers, artists, and creators, or simply give us new tools to amplify our genius? From the typewriter to ChatGPT, Bloom explains why
Nashville based, Canadian born, Aaron Bucks, released a two-sided single of sorts, with two songs going on the forthcoming The Life Sessions LP to be released in 2026, and they both hit check all the right boxes and do the business to keep listeners looking forward to it. Bucks’ audience range from the Billboard charts
Bluegrass has always been about dualities: speed and subtlety, heartbreak and humor, Saturday night dance halls and Sunday morning churches. Few groups embody that balance more seamlessly than Nick Chandler and Delivered, and their latest pair of singles illustrates the point with elegant clarity. “Hazel Creek” and “Follow the Leader” may sit on opposite ends
Danny Burns has always straddled two worlds: the fiddle-laden pubs of Donegal and the mandolin-lit hollows of Appalachia. With Southern Sky, his new nine-track album released via Bonfire Music Group, he finally arrives at a place where those worlds don’t just meet—they collapse into each other. This is not simply another Americana record with a
Douglas Ray Jaffe teams with Emmy-Nominated producer Craig Brandwein on Angles, a four track EP with much more going on than four tracks would usually suggest, as Brandwein and Center Sound Productions do not skimp on quality of artistry and sound. This is true for several reasons that would take more space than granted for
When it comes to bluegrass, few artists embody tradition and heart as fully as Junior Sisk. His new release on Turnberry Records, It’s All Fun and Games, cements his place among the modern torchbearers of a genre that insists on its roots while also allowing space for freshness. Across its 11 tracks, Sisk and his
Craig Brandwein has been in the music industry for over 50 years and his latest composition is the release – Longing – A Love Across The Ages (An Opera In One Act), with libretto penned by David Sellers, and a cast consisting of Laura Melton (Elise), Austin Green (The Forgotten Prince), Christopher Blake Farley (Dr.
At a time when so much of modern Americana leans into crossover polish or festival-friendly bombast, Danny Paisley’s Bluegrass State of Mind is a small act of rebellion. This is music that refuses to update itself for playlists or algorithm-driven discovery. It’s 10 songs of stubborn, hard-driving, deeply traditional Bluegrass—performed with the care and conviction
There’s a simple truth humming beneath Ashleigh Graham’s I’ll Just Drive: sometimes the strongest stories don’t come roaring out of the gate. Sometimes, they grow quietly in the spaces between work shifts, kids’ bedtime routines, and half-forgotten mandolins waiting by the door. This debut album is the sound of a life’s worth of stories finally
Long Beach, CA Punk/Metal band CARSEX have released their ferocious new EP “Human Interest”, which is a deep dive into timely themes about the current state of our chaotic world. They channel their anger and angst into 7 pummeling tracks. The EP was produced by Steve Evetts (Sepultura, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Butcher Babies) at Maple Studios in Santa Ana, CA, and