Louisville's “Delightfully menacing” (Baeble Music) Chief Ghoul is back with the announcement of his forthcoming sixth album, These Lycanthropic Blues, due out June 4, 2021. Aptly named first single, "Let's Go," is now streaming everywhere and kicks off the journey of the upcoming LP.

Sometimes a song idea lands softly or inconspicuously, and sometimes it strikes a writer like a bolt of lightning, or in Miles Gannett’s case a string of mid-travel tornadic storms. That’s how Gannett ended up in Meridian, Mississippi, one night on a trip back from visiting his hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana.

With vaccines on the horizon and a few events being penciled in for later this year, Record Store Day organizers around the world look forward to the future, but recognize that in 2021, celebrating independent brick and mortar record stores is still best done in the Drops format introduced so successfully in 2020.

RSD Drops will take place at participating record stores, globally, on June 12 and July 17.

We Are Busy Bodies is very pleased to announce that “Running - Asibaleki / Sheroes Theme", the first single from the forthcoming BLK JKS LP Abantu / Before Humans (out 05.21) can now be heard everywhere via:

https://idol.lnk.to/RunningAsibaleki

Los Angeles’ Grave Flowers Bongo Band’s sophomore LP “Strength of Spring” is an inverted pyramid balanced on the headstock of an acoustic guitar, a rainbow painted in campfire smoke, an endless staircase circling into the clouds. That acoustic guitar, perfectly captured here by Ty Segall’s excellently sere and close mic’d production, plays skeleton to these conjurors’ woolly grooves, and singer Gabe Flores’ thousand-yard moan keeps us guessing as to exactly where this wildebeest is headed.

Chart-topping singer-songwriter Lisa Jeanette, whose latest hit holiday song “Mrs. Claus” (featuring iconic Folk Artist Vance Gilbert) skyrocketed to #1 on the December 2020 Folk Alliance International (FAI) Folk DJ chart, has announced that her much-anticipated album Jellyfish on the Moon released March 1 on all DSPs.

Between hearing the phrase “Middle C” as a kid learning piano in Arkansas to growing up and raising two children of his own, Sailor and Pearl respectively, it’s quite fitting that Baton Rouge-based Americana artist Reece Sullivan named his third full-length studio album Middle Sea. Slated for an April 2 release, the eight-track album ebbs and flows between folk, Americana, and at times, free-spirited guitar-driven jams that deliver the songs from the middle of the ocean to conclusion on shore.

Today, Augusta, GA-based musical powerhouse Funk You happily celebrates a much-anticipated return to the road, with the announcement of a series of seven shows throughout the southeast this spring. The tour arrives as the band celebrates its 10th year. Armed with a fresh batch of new tunes, familiar originals, and a multitude of covers, Funk You is ready to get down with you.

Moving to Nashville to break out in the Americana/Country music scene is a rite of passage for young bands, but rarely does a bands story have them moving out of Nashville. Well, that’s exactly what The Rough & Tumble did, heading out on the road and living out of a 16’ camper touring the country with two dogs.

“Oh, you were in Deep Wound?”: an FAQ for punk roots thrasher Scott Helland, whose prolific songwriting has yielded over 30 records since the ‘80s, ever since that fateful flyer fell into the hands of lo-fi heroes, J Mascis and Lou Barlow.