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The Record Company write and play raw, sincere, power trio rock n’ roll. Reviewers praises: Making bluesy music in L.A. that would sound more at home in a sweaty, backwoods Mississippi juke joint.” (L.A. Weekly) “The band’s sound is raw, definitely bluesy and reminiscent of some of the best acts of the ’50s and ’60s–like […]
Reared in Austin, TX, and schooled at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, the fiddle-playing singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez made her recording debut in 2002 by contributing to Chip Taylor’s Let’s Leave This Town. Taylor had first heard Rodriguez at the 2001 South by Southwest conference In 2001 Chip Taylor asked Rodriguez to join his European tour […]
The Revivalists are an American rock/soul band formed in New Orleans in 2007.The 7-piece band consists of Ed Williams (Pedal Steel Guitar), David Shaw (Vocals), Zack Feinberg (Guitar), Rob Ingraham (Saxophone), George Gekas (Bass), Andrew Campanelli (Drums), and Michael Girardot (Keys/Trumpet). The group’s freshly interesting sound is best described by David Fricke of Rolling Stone […]
Breaking more fresh new blues-rock ground than ever on their raucous and soulful new album Pierced Arrow, The Rides are letting their growing legion of fans know they’re in this for the long haul. Their ongoing freewheeling journey is all there in the name. When they came up with that clever moniker for what […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers. This is the California band that mixed biting rock guitar with funk rhythms to become superstars by the 1990s and inspire legions of imitators. Few rock groups of the ’80s broke down as many musical barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musical […]
At some point in the early 21st century, Radiohead became something more than a band: they became a touchstone for everything that is fearless and adventurous in rock, inheriting the throne from David Bowie, Pink Floyd, and the Talking Heads. The latter group gave the band its name–it’s an album track on 1986’s True Stories–but […]
Describing their sound as “rock – with some mandolin,” Nashville-based duo the Roosevelts got their start in Austin, Texas in 2012. Longtime friends and collaborators James Mason and Jason Kloess began developing a warm, rootsy pop sound that pulled from influences like James Taylor, Ryan Adams, and Joe Cocker. Their 2013 debut EP, Cold Sheets, […]
~~~~ 2020-2021~~~~and on……. In March 2020, the No Filter Tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rolling Stones—featuring Jagger, Richards, Watts and Wood at their homes—were one of the headline acts on Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home on-line and on-screen concert on 18 April 2020, a global event featuring dozens of […]
Robert Cray was born to a father who was in the US Army, stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia. After moving around the country, the family settled in Tacoma, Washington. Young Robert began to get interested in music while in high school. By the time Cray was 20, he’d seen his blues heroes, Albert Collins, Freddie […]
Austin, Texas is a great magnet for aspiring musicians of all genres. Ask 29 year old David Ramirez, who was born in the Bat City, yet seems to ask questions and write music at the same time. Paste magazine called him “the best damn songwriter you don’t know yet” and folk stars The Civil Wars […]