In March 2020, Jack Johnson reached out to Lee �Scratch" Perry to produce a dub remix album based on Jack�s most loved recordings. On August 29, 2021, the project was brought to a halt as Scratch departed this physical world. In 2022, Jack and Subatomic Sound System, Perry�s band of the last decade, connected directly and discovered they had all the pieces to bring Lee �Scratch� Perry�s three creations to completion. The LP also features dubs from Dennis Bovell, Scientist, Mad Professor, Nightmares on Wax, and more.

Deer Tick�s first new body of work since 2017, Emotional Contracts is their most collaborative to date, and sees all four members operating at peak songwriter power. Produced by Dave Fridmann, the 10-song set features guest musicians like Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) and background vocals from Courtney Marie Andrews, Vanessa Carlton, Kam Franklin, Angela Miller, and Sheree Smith. Deer Tick�s ATO Records debut adds an even greater vitality to their feverish collection of timeless rock-and-roll.

Brandee Younger is defying expectations. Over the past 15 years, she has worked relentlessly to stretch boundaries for harpists. In 2022, she broke new ground by becoming the first black woman nominated for a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition. An ever-expanding artist, the album builds on her already rich oeuvre, transcending genre. As the title suggests, Brand New Life is about forging new paths. It features originals by Brandee, reinterpretations of Dorothy Ashby classics, and more.

Golden-voiced Mavericks frontman Raul Malo lets his guitar do the singing in this 10-song collection highlighting his skill as an arranger and instrumentalist. From midnight in Havana to the beaches of California, hear Malo�s full range of musical influences on display as he explores a wild variety of textures from surf guitar licks, lush earthen tones, spaghetti western to big band jams and more, accompanied occasionally by his Mavericks bandmates. It�s a sonic adventure befitting his time leading music�s most shape-shifting band.

2023 release. An 11x Grammy-nominee and CMA Award-winning artist, Brandy Clark is one of her generation's most respected songwriters and musicians. Produced by 9-time Grammy winning Brandi Carlile, the album showcases Clark's versatility with eleven songs that span the emotional spectrum, including the first single, "Buried."

Known for their exhilarating live shows and musicianship as well as their eclectic musical tastes, Leftover Salmon has been one of Colorado's most beloved musical exports, picking up where bands like Little Feat, the Band and The Grateful Dead left off and distilling it into their own potent brew of bluegrass, rock 'n' roll, folk, Cajun, soul, zydeco and jazz and blues. As Tim Newby, author of Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival!, wrote "When listening to Leftover Salmon it is easy to draw a line that runs straight from Bill Monroe to John Hartford to the Grateful Dead to Hot Rize to Little Feat to New Grass Revival to Col. Bruce Hampton and end with Leftover Salmon." GRASS ROOTS showcases a different side of Leftover Salmon. Presenting a series of covers from some of music's most influential voices including the likes of Bob Dylan, Link Wray, David Bromberg, and more. Featuring guest appearances from Billy Strings, Oliver Wood, and Darol Anger.

GRAMMY winner and Banjo Hall of Fame member Alison Brown is one of the world's foremost banjoists and composers as well as one of the instrument's greatest ambassadors. In her hands, the banjo is equally at home on the front porch or at symphony hall. Brown has built a career taking the banjo far beyond it's Appalachia roots, blending bluegrass and jazz influences into a unique sonic tapestry that has earned her praise from a variety of national tastemakers including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, and USA Today. She is a frequent collaborator with Steve Martin and Indigo Girls as well as the bandleader of the Alison Brown Quintet which is on a self-declared mission to bring the banjo to mainstream audiences. On her newest release, ON BANJO, Brown explores all the corners of the instrument's potential on a set of predominantly original tunes. Joining Brown are Anat Cohen, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Sharon Isbin, Kronos Quartet and Steve Martin.

Rob Grant will release his debut album, Lost At Sea, on June 9, 2023. An accidental recording artist, Grant has never had a lesson on any instrument in his life, but when he sits down at a piano, something magical happens. Father of international icon Lana Del Rey, he enlisted an array of talent to contribute to the making of the album. Features and writing credits include Lana Del Rey, while production credits include Jack Antonoff, Luke Howard, Laura Sisk and Zach Dawes.

On Tired Hearts, their exquisite and thought-provoking new album, BAILEN learns how to dream in the face of life�s uncertainty and in the process, moves forward aware, resilient, and hopeful. The trio delivers a dazzling set of songs that navigates the space between the heart�s expectation and the head�s sober reality. Produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Snail Mail) along with the New York based siblings, Daniel, David, and Julia, BAILEN�s second album beats with empathy, vulnerability, and resolve.

Dropkick Murphys history with Woody Guthrie dates back decades, from covering "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" on their 2003 album Blackout, to using some of Guthrie's writing about Boston in their immortal hit "I'm Shipping Up To Boston". On their recent 2022 album, This Machine Still Kills Fascists, Dropkick Murphys crafted an entire record around the seminal American folk icon, bringing Woody Guthrie's perennial jabs at life-many of which are from the 1940s and '50s-into the present, with the resulting music eerily relevant to today's world. Okemah Rising is second and final installment of this collaboration, and the band bring it home with a bang. Whereas the goal of This Machine Still Kills Fascists was to raise consciousness, Okemah Rising intends to raise the roof. It may have one or two tender moments, but all in all it's much more of a party. "Even a party record can have a message though and we've felt that over the last few months as we've played 'Gotta Get to Peekskill' and 'I Know How It Feels' on tour all over the world. Every night, when the audience is singing along with Woody's words, his steadfast defense of the working class, and his fight against social injustice and the abuse of political power comes across loud and clear. So as long as Dropkick Murphys are involved, Woody's message will always be heard."

Two-time GRAMMY� Award-winning singer and songwriter Lauren Daigle announced her forthcoming self-titled album , Lauren Daigle, �featuring �Thank God I Do is due out May 12, 2023.
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�Thank God I Do� marks the launch of a new creative chapter for the multi-platinum selling, Louisiana-bred artist, who just last month announced the signing to Atlantic Records in partnership with longtime label home Centricity Music. The creative team behind Lauren Daigle is led by Grammy�-winning producer Mike Elizondo (Twenty One Pilots, Mary J. Blige, Fiona Apple, Carrie Underwood), and includes co-writes with Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally, Amy Wadge, Lori McKenna, Jason Ingram and Jon Greene, to name a few. Lauren Daigle comprises 10 soulful and uplifting songs to be released May 12.

After a nine-year hiatus, Laura Cantrell, a familiar presence in the international Americana & Roots music scene, is back with her latest studio album. Over the years, she has won over loyal audiences both in her home country and the UK through her constant touring and numerous media appearances. Although the album was originally intended to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her debut album, the recording was delayed due to covid restrictions. This new collection was expertly crafted in studios located in both New York City and Nashville, with the help of renowned luminaries like Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, and Rosie Flores.

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Multi-platinum, superstar hit making pop-rockers Matchbox Twenty return today with new single "Wild Dogs (Running In A Slow Dream)," marking their first new music release in over a decade. The song arrives alongside the announcement of the band's forthcoming fifth studio album, Where The Light Goes, arriving May 26th via Atlantic Records. Produced by Gregg Wattenberg with Paul Doucette and Kyle Cook, the album finds the band surging with energy for another great batch of real, relevant, and relatable songs.

Lucha, Y La Bamba's seventh album, is a thematic narrative that explores multiplicity - love, queerness, Mexican American and Chicanx identity, family, intimacy, yearning, loneliness. Born out of isolation during the COVID-19 lockdowns, the album reflects the artist's struggles and growth as a person and artist. The album is a battle cry to fight in order to be seen and accepted, and is a collection of sonically sprawling and bold tracks that document the parallel trust the artist has built with herself to allow the songs to guide how they should be sung or sound.

2x GRAMMY-nominated band Rival Sons have announce details of their anxiously awaited new full-length album, DARKFIGHTER, which his set to arrive worldwide March 10th. Produced by longtime collaborator and multi GRAMMY Award-winner Dave Cobb, DARKFIGHTER is led by the explosive single �Nobody Wants to Die,� is accompanied by an Eli Sokhn directed music video streaming now on Rival Sons� YouTube channel. The track notably marks the first new music from Rival Sons since the release of 2019�s FERAL ROOTS, which earned the band two GRAMMY Award nominations.Regarding �Nobody Wants to Die,� vocalist Jay Buchanan shares, �You live your life knowing that the sword of Damocles is hanging over your head by a thread. You�re fully aware of the impermanence of your existence, but you can�t think about it all the time�or it�ll fuck your life up. I used to work in a mortuary as a service advisor for a few years, driving and opening the hearses. I�d attend three funerals per day. Sometimes, they would be filled over capacity. Other times, it would just be me, a priest, and a hole in the ground. It doesn�t matter who you are; the great equalizer is coming. I was thinking of this because the music sounded like pursuit.� Elaborating on the genesis of DARKFIGHTER, Buchanan notes, �DARKFIGHTER represents the cultural mitosis of isolation, the Pandemic, and the national fabric of the US getting looser and looser. When I say �Cultural Mitosis�, there are lines being drawn constantly. We�re so divided, and you can�t step over the lines without offending someone. It certainly informed my writing. We recognized a responsibility to put a good word on people�s ears so there�s a good word coming back on their tongues too. We missed the joy of the live show and that magical interaction. When it was taken from us, that made me want to sing about topics that were important. There are strong themes on this record of loss of identity, preservation of joy, and beholding light and shape again.� Lead guitarist Scott Holiday added, �Records are a healthy form of escapism. I hope this one takes you as far away as possible. Our intent was to create a cinematic body of work. As soon as the doors shut behind you, you�re enveloped on the ride. This is the sound of us really coming into our own. We�ve gotten further from our influences and gotten closer to what we are. DARKFIGHTER sounds like the Rival Sons.�

2023 album from the veteran singer/songwriter. Now is Nash's first studio album in seven years.

�Several times, as I listened to M. Ward�s Supernatural Thing, I asked myself what year it�was. Was it 1952, and was I listening to a track from the Harry Smith Anthology? Was it�1972, and was I eavesdropping on the recording session for After the Gold Rush?�No, it�s 2023, and M. Ward is one of the special contemporary artists who invite such�questions. Ward has clearly mastered the whole vocabulary of American popular music�and made serious decisions about how to employ it for his own ends. What Ward shares�with Harry Smith�s artists and Neil Young is a context of musical and human values:�authenticity and intimacy. Supernatural Thing�s original songs sound freshly pulled from�the ground, with a little earth sticking to them. Ward�s lyric delivery has that slight rawness�the ear loves, and his voice has quiet dignity and great tenderness. Supernatural Thing is�an open-hearted, inviting album.�

The album�s guest stars � First Aid Kit, Shovels & Rope, Scott McMicken, Neko Case,�Jim James, others � enliven the album with surprises. On �Too Young to Die,� the women�s voices in First Aid Kit spread a light frosting over the melody, and their Beach Boys-like chorus on �Engine 5� makes the song sound like an instant hit. Eight of the album�s�ten songs are Ward originals. There�s an unusual Bowie choice, �I Can�t Give Everything�Away� from Blackstar, and a live rendition of Daniel Johnston�s �Story of an Artist.���-By James Cushing

Both as a solo artist and as one-half of She & Him, M. Ward became one of the defining�voices of the American indie landscape in the 2000s, earning fans and critical acclaim�for his distinctive brand of breezy West Coast Americana which pulled from folk, country,�blues, pop, and experimental indie rock elements. Ward established himself with warm,�analog-minded releases like 2003�s Transfiguration of Vincent and 2006�s Post-War before joining forces with singer/actress Zooey Deschanel to form the highly successful indie�pop duo She & Him in 2008. Over the following decade, Ward split his time between projects, releasing a 2009 album with indie supergroup Monsters of Folk, several high-profile�albums with Deschanel including She & Him�s Columbia-issued 2014 set Classics, and�critically acclaimed solo releases like 2009�s Hold Time, 2012�s A Wasteland Companion,�and 2018�s What a Wonderful Industry. Ward kicked off the next decade with a deeply�atmospheric set called Migration Stories and a Billie Holiday covers album Think of Spring�most recently.

Damn, Feelings, the debut album from Chayla Hope, is a distillation of what makes pop such a potent force, conjuring images of everything from �80s arcades and present-day queer clubs to golden hour convertible rides and marathon dive bar karaoke sessions with friends you�d kill for. �Love in Lo-Fi� recalls the bubbly, communal synth-pop of MUNA, �Long Way� channels the golden age of �00s, R&B-infused radio pop and �Tear My Heart Out� harkens back to the vibrant pulse of indietronica. You�ll also hear the �80s synths and funky rhythms of New jack swing as well as the bold production and teary-eyed joy of 2010s dance-pop, but the common denominator is always Chayla�s rousing vocals, alternating between cool and collected pop anthems, naked balladry and low, raspy fireworks. Pressed by the artist herself at Gotta Groove Records, where she worked for many years, this is the first time Wax Mage Records' coveted bespoke creations are available at indie retailers nationally.

There are no strangers at a Drew Holcomb show. For the better part of two decades, the award-winning songwriter has brought his audience together night after night, turning his shows into celebrations of community, collaboration, and contemporary American roots music. Strangers No More, the eighth album from Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, celebrates that sense of togetherness. Produced by Cason Cooley, it expands the band's mix of timeless songwriting, modern-day Laurel Canyon folk, amplified Americana, and heartland rock & roll.