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Adding a Southern flavor to their love of Springsteen, the Mekons, and the indie folk-pop of Ida, Memphis alt-country rockers Lucero have suffered the turbulence that comes with the indie scene, but their story of perseverance and survival is triumphant, so much so that director Aaron Goldman made a film about it. Synonymous with their hometown — in 2018, the […]

A British indie rock band with a solid guitar attack and urgent melodies that are both catchy and powerful, the Luka State burst out of the mining town of Winsford, Cheshire in 2013, scoring an early success with the song “30 Minute Break.” A change in drummers coincided with a shift in the Luka State’s […]

With influences ranging from Kate Bush and Ann Peebles to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Gregg Allman, Lizzie Edwards has been a guest at many NYC all-star jams, sharing the stage with the likes of James Carter, Syd Straw, Ted Leo and Reeves Gabrels. On lead guitar, Greg McMullen describes his music style as “sonic deconstruction onelectric/acoustic/resophonic/lap/pedal […]

The London Souls are an American, New York City based, rock band formed in 2008. Tash Neal and Chris St. Hilaire met in New York City as teenagers, jamming for the first time in hourly rehearsal rooms with friends. They shared a passion for songwriting and improvisation, and in 2008 formed The London Souls. Their song “She’s So […]

Clyde Vernon “Sonny” Landreth (born February 1, 1951) is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, settled in Lafayette, Louisiana and now lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Landreth is known as “the King of Slydeco” and plays with a strong […]

Formed in 1992, when several band members attended a summer program at Boston’s Berklee College of Music as teenagers, Lettuce was founded on a shared love of legendary funk artists like Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower of Power. After returning to Berklee as undergrads in 1994, Lettuce started playing in local clubs and steadily […]

Young Shreveport, Louisiana native Dylan LeBlanc spent his formative years surrounded by some of the region’s finest musicians by way of his father, singer/songwriter/guitarist James LeBlanc,  a longtime Muscle Shoals session player and hit songwriter for modern day country stars like Jason Aldean,  Travis Tritt, Rascall Flatts, and Martina McBride. Dylan began writing his own […]

Lissie Maurus was raised in the riverside town of Rock Island, Illinois, and she drew upon those blue-collar Midwestern origins to create her own form of indie folk music. The granddaughter of an international barbershop quartet champion, she grew up singing in theater productions, eventually picking up the guitar and playing her own songs at […]

  Stewart Lindsey is the new band of Dave Stewart (Eurythmics)  and Thomas Lindsey. Dave Stewart, the songwriter, arranger and guitarist best known as one half of new wave sensations Eurythmics, has formed a new project with a Louisiana singer by the name of Thomas Lindsey. The pair are calling themselves Stewart Lindsey, and their debut […]

Firebrand alt-country singer Lydia Loveless combines the honky tonk sound and style of classic country stars like Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline with the no-quarter attitude and spunk of punk rock divas such as Exene Cervenka and Carla Bozulich. Lydia Loveless was born in Coschocton, Ohio in 1990; she was raised on a farm, but […]