Delicate Cutters
Delicate Cutters return in 2012 with Ring, their third album, second for Skybucket Records, due out August 14th. Not a revivalist outfit, not a gimmick band peddling an image as identity, Delicate Cutters are a band from the American South. Theirs is a music about the remarkable and mundane moments comprising a human existence. About the connective tissue found between them...
Through the Sparks
Approaching a decade of endurance, the band recorded the EP after putting out a single every month for a year (collected on 2011's Almanac MMX). They hit the studio hard with a collection of songs that hearkened back to the more lush production of the earlier days, while hitting the tape with a new-found vitality along with some well-harnessed, but full-blown, chops. An EP was due. The five songs here had worked their way into the live set and had taken over as a new "thing" for the band, directionally.
Terry Ohms
Against our better judgment, we journeyed deep inside the swamp where Terry Ohms lives—climbing over used tires and old rattlesnake skins—just to ask him what, precisely, did he mean by “What Do You Mean, What Do I mean?” Because it was after five o’clock and Terry had given up speaking for the day, he scrawled out the following explanation in playwrite mode on the back of a Holiday Inn napkin...
13ghosts
We started recording Garland of Bottle Flies in 2008, right around the time that Strangest Colored Lights was coming out. We demoed four or five songs, and Buzz, who had been in the band since the beginning with me, decided that he needed to bow out for personal reasons. I had written my half of the record by then, which is how Buzz and I always made records, and so I started writing new material to cover his half...
Dexateens
For the better part of the last decade, a band of Alabama garage rockers under the moniker the Dexateens has been bringing their self-styled "skillet rock" to an audience of music lovers that hunger for something that feeds the spirit, sets the soul ablaze, and gives the body the inspiration to jump up and dance, to witness, to testify, and sing along...
Vulture Whale
Like a dang phoenix, Vulture Whale rose from the ashes of its previous incarnations, and morphed into the best American band pretending to be a British band influenced by American music since Guided By Voices. On Bamboo You, the group's new EP and its third release since its inception, Vulture Whale combines its unique brand of eccentric rock with its love of British music. The result is six songs that are among some of the best and most inspired of any in the Vulture Whale catalog...
Barton Carroll
“Let’s Get On with The Illusion,” sings Barton Carroll on his fourth album, Together You and I, out January 19, 2010...
Dan Sartain
Dan Sartain, born of fire and baptized in the tears of Johnny Cash is the voice and soul of this generation's rock'n'roll youth. Only 23, he writes and belts out his songs with the insight of a man who's known a lifetime of hard (and occasionally good) times. He's walked among the cobras and he's screamed instead of hollered. In short, the man is qualified. Born in Birmingham Alabama (a city that immediately conjures up images of racial unrest, police dogs, and fire hoses) Dan wears his southern heritage like an upside down badge, playing with our pre-conceptions of the deep south. Coming on stage to the sounds of Ol' Dirty Bastard with a big grin on his face, he'll pick up his acoustic guitar, tell a story about "growin up barefoot"and "sittin' on the porch listenin' to Pork Scratchin' Slim", before he goes into his own rockabilly come soul come proto-punk jam "Tryin' to Say"....
Taylor & the Puffs
One listen to the Puffs’ CDs or live show proves that they are anything but light and fluffy, and certainly not prosaic either. If bluesy rock n’roll infused into solid dirty pop songs is your particular drug of choice, then Taylor and the Puffs are homegrown black-tar heroin...
Wes McDonald
Once upon a long time ago, guys (and occasionally gals) obsessed with writing songs were a unique breed, back before everybody saw themselves as the next version of whomever their favorite performer was at that moment of the day. The resulting meager musical offerings were irritating at best. Wes McDonald is a rare exception. Blessed with a genuine knack for melody and interesting lyrical play, McDonald continues to crank out catchy gems that will no doubt one day land him a spot in record collections around the world. If the world doesn¹t get it, well then, the world is a stupid place and it can go to hell...
