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Mudcrutch was formed in 1970 by Tom Petty and Tom Leadon, who had been playing together in a band called the Epics. Mudcrutch’s lineup consisted of Tom Petty (bass and vocals), Tom Leadon (guitar and vocals), Jim Lenehan (lead vocals), Randall Marsh (drums) and Mike Campbell (guitar). Leadon and Lenehan left the band in 1972 […]

Moreland & Arbuckle (guitarist Aaron Moreland, vocalist/Harmonicist/blues harp Dustin Arbuckle, and drummer Kendall Newby) are an American Electric Blues/roots rock trio. Moreland describes their music as “gritty blues and roots rock from the heartland.”After six previous releases, the band signed with Alligator Records in 2015. The label debut, Promised Land Or Bust, will be released […]

Starting in the late ’90s and throughout the 2000s and 2010s, My Morning Jacket expanded on their rock and country roots, embracing everything from neo-psychedelia to funk, prog, and reggae in their sonic experimentation. By the time Evil Urges arrived in mid-2008, they had successfully molded themselves into Kentucky’s answer to Wilco: a band rooted […]

Russell Morris is one of Australia’s most enduring singers. A major pop star in the late ’60s, he went on to become one of the country’s first singer/songwriters. Both ends of his career feature predominantly in the soundtrack to the movie The Dish. Morris’ career started in September 1966 with the formation of the Melbourne […]

Moby was one of the most controversial figures in techno music, alternately praised for bringing a face to the notoriously anonymous electronic genre and scorned by hordes of techno artists and fans for diluting and trivializing the form. In either case, Moby was one of the most important dance music figures of the early ’90s, […]

When Beyoncé included the country-dipped song “Daddy Lessons” on Lemonade, some seemed surprised — which was weird. Queen Bey is from Houston, where (as in most of the South) the word “country” is sometimes thrown around as an insult meaning “unsophisticated.” And her song, with its street-corner beat and hot guitar, reminded listeners that rootsy […]

Get used to hearing the tag of “heartland” music when surveying the latter half of John Mellencamp’s music blend of Stonesy hard rock and folk. He’s earned it. Mellencamp was born in Seymour, Indiana in 1951, afflicted with spina bifida and had corrective surgery as an infant. Music found him at an early age. Mellencamp […]

Delbert McClinton got an early start in Fort Worth playing wherever and whenever he could. His first instrument was the harmonica and he found plenty of work on the local club scene, where musicians often made their living by playing completely different styles of music on different nights of the week. McClinton’s career was set […]

Laura Beatrice Marling is a British folk singer-songwriter and musician from Eversley, Hampshire. She was born on February 1st, 1990 and she learned guitar in a few years. Her father operated a recording studio which kept her around musicians and music since she began to walk. After completing her pre-college education, she settled in the outskirts of […]

An indie folk band, the Mountain Goats, was formed in 1991, in Claremont, California by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle, despite the plural moniker. The band is currently based in Durham, North Carolina. Darnielle has worked with a variety of collaborators. Throughout the 1990s, the Mountain […]