Trendy Bands

Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward are set to unleash their second full-length effort ‘The Lonesome Dirge’ on April 8th, 2008 and are jumpstarting the release with an aggressive tour that will head West through the month of March before traversing the rest of the nation throughout ‘08 in support of their new record.
While Parker [...]

Amy Speace Launches European Tour
Wildflower Records artist Amy Speace will be touring throughout November in the UK, Germany, Austria and Luxemburg in support of her recently released album ‘Songs For Bright Street’ in German through O-tone/Edel and the rest of Europe through ADA/Ryko.
It follows radio airplay across Germany, with some stations spinning the songs from [...]

There’s quite an uproar surrounding Calvin Harris‘ UK contest “Merrymaking at Your Place” where Calvin is attempting to set a new world record for the most house parties happening simultaneously across the country than ever before. The event is set to take place on Saturday, August 18th 2007.
The contest has caused an absolute media frenzy [...]

Vandaveer is the town-folk, city-pop, solo song and dance routine stated for the record and committed to tape by one Mark Charles Heidinger. In recent seasons this Mark Charles character traversed the mighty American highways spreading golden pop rock cheer and debauchery as principle singer, songwriter, hand-clapper and chorus-yelper for The Apparitions. Where The Apparitions [...]

Hayward Williams‘ Another Sailor’s Dream is a freewheeling, shotgun wedding of folk, blues and rootsy country rock, all filled with a gorgeous blend of ache, gristle and whiskey-toned gruffness. The album is comprised of songs that walk a perfect line between the sweet and bitter, and the sentimental and cynical, and is perfectly bookended by [...]

Breaking news from Pollstar. Unsigned indie band Dispatch is reuniting for a benefit show at Madison Square Garden on July 14th 2007 and the tickets have sold out in 30 minutes.
Luckily, another date, July 13th, has been added on but who knows how fast tickets will sell out for the second show. After all, we’re [...]

Elton John’s latest single, “Tinderbox” is scheduled for release on Monday December 11th in the UK. “Tinderbox” is off of the album The Captain and the Kid which is a sequel to Elton John’s 30 year old #1 album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. The song is about the often times tense relationship [...]

After a simple search on Google News using the search term “band” the first story to come up in the queue was about Canadian country band Ambush. Apparently they have just been announced the winner of CMT Canada’s reality show ‘Plucked’, which by the way I had never heard of until now. It’s funny [...]

The Feeling have a new single out called, “Love It When You Call” off of their debut album, Twelve Stops From Home. Whenever I hear the song I can’t help but wonder if they called up Shania Twain to help out with the songwriting. The production is so reminiscent of the pop/country star that [...]

A friend of a friend suggested that I take a listen to this country act that has some connections to Oxford called The Piney Gir Country Roadshow. With the ‘complexity’ of their name upon hearing it for the first time my friend had to write their name down on a crumpled piece of paper so [...]