Little Suns debut album Normal Human Feelings

John Aaron Cockburn

Robin Meyer-MacLeod

Daniel Grewal

Matt Smith

Liam Smith

Little Sun draws influences from folk music from every corner of the world which is then filtered through each band member’s respective qualities and style giving listeners a western pop audio experience. Effortlessly laced with heavy eastern European influence after John Aaron Cockburn and Robin Meyer -MacLeod ventured off to Romania and Hungary it was there with instruments strapped to their backs that a new sound was created. This musical pilgrimage gave Normal Human Feelings its authentic reverberation. 

“Being immersed in the culture I was trying to emulate at the time, it gave more realism to and authenticity (to the sound) of what I was trying to create. In general, travel helped expand my worldview,” says John Aaron Cockburn on the musical journey that brought him back to his roots in turn giving life to the Eastern Europe influence that achieves a universal resonance.

Tracklist:
1. Sunboat.mp3
2. Overnight Flite
3. Where Do People Go When They Go Away.mp3
4. Black Elephant
5. Wake Up
6. Antichrist
7. Them Girls
8. Child of the Night
9. Istanbul

Produced by Leon Taheny (Owen Pallet, Wooden Sky, Bruce Peninsula,) Normal Human Feelings expands on an already elaborate sound. The album features additional musicians and arrangements including; Raphael Weinroth-Browne (Strings & Cello) , Tamar Ilana (Vocals), Evan Runge (Violin) and Ross Davison (saxophone, uilleann pipes.)
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The Speedbumps - The Harbors We Seek

Erik Urycki  - vocals, guitar, lyrics

Sam Kristoff - cello

Kevin Martinez - bass, electric bass

Pat Hawkins - percussion

The Speedbumps are an award-winning Americana band from Kent, Ohio, for their third studio album 'The Harbors We Seek' The Speedbumps spent six days at a cabin in the woods of Pennsylvania recording, capturing the warmth and natural sound of the cabin, with birds chirping outside the window and the ‘band dog’ barking in the background, all adding to the natural development of this album. 

Mixing poignant lyrics with an intricate easy breezy sound 'The Harbors We Seek' is a contemplative sit on the dock with your feet in the water, the clouds passing by and reflection in you mind.

Founding member and lead singer, Erik Urycki, draws inspiration from an unlikely source, his anxiety. Erik credits his ongoing condition as the blessing and the curse of his creativity; 

“I have just enough anxiety that when bad stuff happens, it just means more to me. Writing songs is simply how I deal with it.ʺ

There’s a place in our hearts

That we keep unoccupied

So when the rumblin’ starts

From the storm, there’s a place to hide

The band’s sound features acoustic guitar, cello, drums, upright bass, and is a mix of Americana, Folk, and Pop that listeners liken to a blend of Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, and John Mayer. Since the group’s inception in 2007 they have taken part in numerous festivals including Midpoint Music Fest, The Kent State Folk Fest, and have shared the stage with Matt Nathanson, Amos Lee, Andrew Bird, and Red Wanting Blue.

Purchase here

Produced by Jay Alton (The Lost Revival), and mastered by Brian Lucey (Arctic Monkeys, Bombino, Ryan Bingham, The Shins, JEFF The Brotherhood, Dr. Dog, Neko Case)

Lydia Loveless announces new album Somewhere Else + releases new song

On February 18, 2014, Lydia Loveless will release her new album Somewhere Else on Bloodshot Records (PRE-ORDER LINK) The new release will be her fourth overall and follows this year’s limited-release EP Boy Crazy and 2011 breakout Indestructible Machine.



Somewhere Else was recorded and mixed at Sonic Lounge, just outside Loveless’ hometown of Columbus, OH. The new album finds Lydia writing from a new-found place of conviction, crafting 10 songs that are stark in their honesty, self-examination, and openness. Without ditching the ribald, spit-in-your-eye attitude of her previous recordings, these songs assert bold stylistic choices, alongside baring themes of insatiable desire, unrequited emotion, and mistake-making on life’s crooked path.

Two years after the critical success of her breakout second album, Indestructible Machine, Lydia Loveless emerges from the trenches of hometown Columbus, OH with the gloves off and brimming with confidence on Somewhere Else. While her previous album was described as “hillbilly punk with a honky-tonk heart” (Uncut), this one can’t be so quickly shoehorned into neat categorical cubbyholes. No, things are different this time around—Loveless and her band have collectively dismissed the genre blinders and sonic boundaries that come from playing it from a safe, familiar place.

Writing from this new-found place of conviction, Lydia crafted 10 songs that are stark in their honesty, selfexamination, and openness. Somewhere Else is more elemental than any of Loveless’s previous material; it’s about longing for the other, whether that’s something emotional, physical, or mental, all anchored by her arresting voice that sounds beyond her years. Creatively speaking, if Indestructible Machine was an all-night bender, Somewhere Else is the forlorn twilight of the next day, when that creeping nostalgia has you looking back for someone, something, or just...anything.

On their fourth overall release, Loveless and Co. (Ben Lamb on bass, Todd May on guitar and vocals, and new drummer Nick German) have coalesced into a band with a broad rock ‘n’ roll range, after a couple years spent performing everywhere from rowdy festivals to pin-drop quiet dinner sets. Without ditching the ribald, spit-in-your-eye attitude of her previous recordings, Loveless travels into some parallel-universe, roots-born Exile In Guyville territory. These are songs that find her asserting stylistic choices, while baring themes of insatiable desire, unrequited emotion, and mistakemaking on life’s crooked, fucked-up path.

The barely insinuating “Head” moves with strutting tambourine and a double-coated guitar sound that’s simultaneously crunchy and wide and echoey like a F-14 Tomcat in its hanger; sonically referencing both The Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell and the sharp-edged jangle of Lower East Side NYC punk. As she builds to the chorus harmonies, Loveless’s voice quivers from overwhelming power and knee-buckling resentment: “’Cause I know the sooner I go to sleep the sooner I can dream/Well maybe if I get lucky tonight, you’ll be there waitin’, ready for me, anything.”

“Really Want To See You Again” and “To Love Somebody” are built around bottled-up manic energy and brawny, 5 o’clock shadow hooks that renovate The Replacements’ greasy denim charm and The Pretenders’ punk-meets-shimmering pop rock. The rhythm section dials it in on sultry Heartland rock ‘n’ roll in “Wine Lips” while Loveless and May match voices for some age-old Music Row harmonies of heartache: “That’s all I really wanna do/ Is be somewhere that’s just me and you.” By song’s finish, the pain is so real that you’re reaching for the phone to call either your significant other or a former lover (or both, we won’t judge).

On Somewhere Else Loveless is less concerned with chasing approval – she scrapped an entire album’s worth of material before writing this set – and more focused on fighting personal battles of longing and heartbreak, and the aesthetic that comes along with them. She might not steal your car after the relationship goes south, but you can be damn sure she’ll still take a baseball bat to the windows on her way down the street. She might even smile about it.

Lydia Loveless and her band will be touring extensively in 2014 in support of Somewhere Else

Tour Dates:
2/26 Auburn Hills, MI - Callahan's Music Hall
2/27 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
2/28 Newport, KY - Southgate House
3/01 Columbus, OH - Rumba Cafe
3/05 St Louis, MO - Off Broadway
3/06 Kansas City, MO - Czar Bar
3/07 Columbia, MO - Blue Note
3/08 Tulsa, OK - Mercury Lounge
3/20 San Diego, CA - Seven Grand
3/22 Ventura, CA - Ventura Fairgrounds
3/25 Las Vegas,  NV - The Hideaway
3/26 Fullerton, CA - Slidebar
3/28 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside
3/29 Mammoth, CA - Underground Lounge
8/31 Cookeville, TN - Muddy Roots Festival

Listen: Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes

New album from Hurray for the Riff Raff coming February 11, 2014 on ATO Records

Produced by Segarra and engineered by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes), ‘Small Town Heroes’ features twelve new, original songs all written or co-written by Segarra, with support from a vivid cast of Crescent City musicians including her longtime right-hand-man on fiddle, Yosi Perlstein, keyboard player Casey McAllister, and two members of the Deslondes: Sam Doores on guitar and Dan Cutler on bass.

NPR has said that Hurray for the Riff Raff "sweeps across eras and genres with grace and grit,” never more so than on ‘Small Town Heroes.’ On the hedonist country lament “I Know It’s Wrong (But That’s Alright)” Segarra sings to a forbidden love “I’ll feed you watermelon off the vine,” while on “The Body Electric" she exposes the misogyny of the traditional murder ballad, and warns "Delia’s gone, but I’m settling the score."
Ultimately though, many of the songs embody that most magical and fated of American cities, New Orleans. Segarra bears witness to a wave of violence that struck the St. Roch neighborhood in "St. Roch Blues;" yearns for a night at BJ's Bar in the Bywater in "Crash on the Highway;" and sings of her own Lower Ninth Ward home in "End of the Line."

‘Small Town Heroes’ follows Hurray for the Riff Raff’s self-released 2012 album 'Look Out Mama,' which led to a performance at the Newport Folk Festival, and praise from Mojo, which compared Segarra to “a soulful, young Loretta Lynn,” and The New York Times which hailed the group as "part of the loosely cohered movement of younger musicians embracing and reframing American roots music, giving it a polish of currency but otherwise leaving its bones intact."

Popa Tunes Top 10 Picks Of 2013

10. Imperial Rooster – Cluckaphony
Most often you’ll read about this band ‘Maybe not for everyone,’ I wholeheartedly disagree, poignant, insightful and witty, The Imperial Rooster are 'THE' band of everyman. They play the kind of music that all you have to do to join in is grab a utensil, or noise maker, let loose and join in.  Yet again The Imperial Rooster burst forth with a floodwater of creativity on their new album “Cluckphony” In true Porch Pontificator style the Roosters with cathartic outbursts, and an orchestrated glorious ruckus, toss witty lines of insight and wisdom around like pit bulls with ragdolls as they create the soundtrack for the purgatory waiting room.
Track List:
The Hoover Farm Exorcism
Overunderstimulated
April
Santa Cruz
Exit Me
Polka De Nalgas
Shit Falls
The Shit Song
Soldier Boy Johnny
The Saviour
Pine Box Hell


9. Dubl Handi - Up Like the Clouds
Dubl Handi is banjo player/vocalist Hilary Hawke and multi-instrumental percussionist Brian Geltner that bring old-time Appalachian music to the eager ears of Urbanites. Adding thier distinct arrangements, Hilary's beautiful lamenting vocals, and Brian's frolicsome percussion to the likes of  Roscoe Holcomb, Rufus Crisp, and Gid Tanner standards, they are reintroducing the roots of folk to new generations while devoloping new standards with their own original material. Thier debut album 'Up Like the Clouds' is truly a delight for those with thier hearts in Appalachia and an ear intent on what's Blowin' in the Wind.
Tracklist:
1. Shout Little Lula
2. Come on Buddy
3. Fall on My Knees
4. Cluck Old Hen
5. Undone in Sorrow
6. Little Orchid
7. Shortnin' Bread
8. Katie Cruel
9. Poor Ellen Smith
10. Little Birdie
11. Randy Lynn Rag
12. Lonely Ghost
13. New River Train
14. Single Girl

8. Paul Saint John – Eleventeen
Originally from the East Coast of Scotland (he was a founding member of the UK folk-rock group, The Cottonfield), now based out of Philadelphia, Paul Saint John is a one man band, released his debut album – 'Eleventeen'  throughout the album, John’s crisp unique vocals used at times as call and response and his rhythmic guitar that he works as a drum beat create the sound of a robust band.  Scottish folk lies just under the surface of his songwriting as simple things in life oft overlooked anchor his story telling.
The opening track ‘All the Kings Horses’ is an earworm that immediately pulls you in and you’re hooked, “Raining Cats and Dogs” finds its groove somewhere between Dylan and John Prine, and is propelled with a forcefully strummed acoustic guitar and a bright harmonica adds detail. You’ll keep coming back to this album for multiple listens.

Track List
1. All The Kings Horses
2. Marry Me
3. Raining Cats and Dogs
4. Summertime
5. Bank Holiday
6. Pillars of Hercules
7. Six Feet Under
8. The Rainbows End
9. Lord, I Got a Problem
10. I'm Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde

7. Buffalo Gospel - We Can Be Horses
Milwaukee's Buffalo Gospel first full lenght 'We Can Be Horses' this album is a gotdang masterpiece of Rock/Bluesgrass fusion! Touching on a more personal level on this album, songwriter Ryan Necci - Vocals / Guitar writing autobiographical lyrics in a way relatable to all of us, adding punch to these new songs, unlike their previous acoustic EPs, they plug it in and crank it up, the songs range from somber to foot stompin,' all delivered with heartfelt abandon. Kyle Keegan is back on drums adding some bangin’ beats, Heidi Spencer adds her beautiful harmonies. The band also includes the amazing Ryan Ogburn on mandolin and guitar, Allen Coté on Lap Steel, Guitar and Brian Wells setting the groove on bass.
Track List:
1. Song Of The Ox

2. Mule
3. Hoarse As A Crow
4. When God's Away On Business
5. The Northern
6. The Western (The Devil Is Me)
7. The Eastern
8. If I Was The Last Man
9. The Long Way Home
10. The Hill Outside My Home
11. All That I Got Left
12. Letters To Georgia

6. Keith Kenny - And The Lights Came Blaring in…
Keith Kenny dazzeled the couch by couchwest crowd with his debut, an exuberant couch performance of his new song 'Filling Holes' from the new album 'And the light came blaring in​.​.​.' as a songwriter Keith tackles issues of the human condition and his inner demons, as a singer/musician he pours is full being into the delivery of his songs, with a rockin' mixture of blues/folk. A blistering guitarist with multi-instrument skills and his unique vocals are on full display on this album of blues tinged rocker's and sizzling slow burners. Constantly on the road Kenny has just returned from performing a benefit concert in the South East Nation of Laos for victims of UXO (unexploded ordnance). The event is called "We Are Kind" and is now back on the road across the U.S.
Tracklist:
1. Living in circles
2. Filling holes
3. Question the beat of my heart
4. Dream Awake
5. And the light came blaring in...
6. Carved in stone
7. Love will go the distance

5. Christopher Paul Stelling – False Cities

Stelling draws you in with his pure, uninhibited singing and masterful fingerpicking guitar playing, creating a mesmerizing atmosphere of intimacy and passion with his original folk storytelling and energetic delivery. With an abundance of talent, extensive touring and dedicated fan base one is reminded of other modern-day troubadour greats early in their careers.
Tracklist:
1. Brick x Brick (free)
2. Who I Am
3. Every Last Extremist
4. You Can Make It
5. The Waiting Swamp
6. Free To Go
7. How Long
8. Homesick Tributaries (free)
9. Writhing In Shambles
10. Go Your Way, Dear

4. Mother Merey and the Black Dirt - Down to the River
There is something raw, primal and pure about Austin band, Mother Merey and The Black Dirt, with Eric strangling the Dobro and Kevin playing harp like it’s implanted in his throat, they reach right into your gut as Merey’s sizzling vocals take the Delta Blues and squeeze fresh drops of sweat and blood from them. This is their debut folks, pay attention, Mother Merey and The Black Dirt are the real deal.
Tracklist:

1. Chicken Scrabble
2. Down to the River
3. Front Porch
4. Old Rope
5. In the Fortune
6. Family Home
7. Mother Merey's Hymnal
8. Trouble in Mind
9. Whistlin' up the Road
10. John Henry
11. Take It In


3. Skeletons in the Piano  - Please Don’t Die
Once in a while a band comes along that stretches the boundaries of what is considered sacred to the norms of music. One band that has done that repeatedly is Albany’s Skeletons in the Piano and on their 3rd LP ‘Please Don’t Die’ they have shredded all the rule books of what Rock and Roll is supposed to be. Like mad scientists they have gathered parts from many genres and created a colossal monster of a sound unlike anything you’ve heard before that will cast its spell on you. Elijah’s vocals though always powerful and unique burst forth on this album with a confident abandoness and the band displays a cohesiveness that allows them to push each other to amazing heights, the guitar work by Elijah and Brad seems like it’s ready to take off into uncharted improvised jams at any moment, with Jeff’s virtuoso violin skills ready to abide at the drop of a top hat. Dustin and Eric add a bone rattling big bad punch to the bottom end while Katarra the dancer, is featured playing percussion adding a mystical touch with hand drums, big floor toms, tambourine, woodblock and other little gems.

Track List:

1. The Price Put On You
2. Memory Lane Needs A Garbage Man
3. Disposable Televisions, Disposable Guns
4. Digging Underneath The House
5. Long Pig
6. The Blood Beyond
7. Loose Kites in Harbor
8. Oh, Rose




2. The End Men – Play With Your Toys
Pack your bindle kids, run away and clean your mind. ‘Play With Your Toys’ kicks off like a Coney Island barker luring you into the tent not for the change in your pocket, but for your soul.
Peek at astonishing wonders as they shred, bend and shape rock & roll to their will, from the first track with its Winkie Guards ‘Cleaning Your Mind’ intro and Matthew’s gruff declaration ‘It is important that you know what you are about to see is only a show.” we know we have just stepped off our familiar train stop into their world and ”You may leave here just a little bit deranged” and boom, like a canon barrage  Livia’s (the best drummer on the planet right now) kit explodes with bursts of shrapnel flying into Matthews sonic fuzz intro, we’re pulled deeper into the tent enticed to experience something profound and unusual.
The album highlights all the things that make The End Men unique and cutting edge, with its carnivalesque rhythms and beats,  Livia’s trademark powerful percussion diversity and Matthews fluid guitar style and Al Jolson meets Tom Wait’s and Captain Beefheart vocals.
Tracklist:
1. Cleaning Your Mind
2. Run Away
3. Long Way To The Ground
4. Into The Mines
5. Play With Your Toys Pt. I
6. The Ballad of Billy Polk
7. It's All Wrong
8. Mental Trapeze
9. Play With Your Toys Pt. II
10. Wrong Way Street
11. Stack Chips

1. The Blind Owl Band – The Train We Ride is Made of Wood and Steel

Deep in the forest there are aged trees with roots burrowed deep in the ground and occasionally there are the creeper roots that spread along the ground searching for a place to dig deeper, they bask in the bright new sunshine but draw on the rich nutrients from the roots before them. Sitting on a majestic branch The Blind Owl Band absorbed this mixing of past and present and luckily for us have let out a mighty sound. If Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters kidnapped the Kingston Trio’s kids and released them upon the world twenty years later you would have The Blind Owl Band and like a locomotive with a full load of coal in the furnace this band is barreling forward about to burst on the national scene.

Tracklist: 
1. Sailor Song
2. Map With Roads
3. Rusted Rain
4. Christian's Head
5. Davey Jones
6. Missing My Home
7. Jazzy Mcgee
8. Cherry Tree
9. Rain On
10. Highways Long
11. This Song is Not Called Pickle Chin
12. Lonesome Street 

Popa Tunes Top 50 Picks Of 2013 Part Four of Five

20. Black Casino and the Ghost - Some Dogs Think Their Name Is No

Some Dogs Think Their Name Is No is an ear worm unleashed from the depths of hell, epically cutting edge and amazing! Elisa Zoot’s voice is monstrous. The band was formed in London, England, in 2010. Their music is about isolation, disorientation, lust, and how to fly a plane through turbulence without spilling your coffee.

Track List:
1. Boogeyman
2. Johnny Boy
3. Ballad of the Ghost
4. Wolf is Howling
5. Been a bad woman
6. Son of the dust
7. Hoboland
8. If it doesn't hurt
9. Connect the dots
10. We've seen nothing
11. I like you 'cause you're free



19. William Gruff - Binghamton
A mosaic of musical exploration from folk, country, gypsy, Latin, jazz, rock, and boogie blues, the second release from William Gruff, ‘Binghamton’ features Matt Cusack (songwriter)(NYC), Vince Federici(Philly), Charlie Heim(Philly), Will Tobin(Ithaca), and Julia Adamy(NYC) each experts on their respective instruments. Recorded in a day at More Sound Studio after a grueling adventure to get there, Binghamton is a loose, freewheeling, powerful record from a band that naturally gels together with an abundance of creativity. Each track is hypnotically catchy, and sinks into the subconscious to wander there perpetually.

Tracklist:
1. Brainspace, Ship My Brain Away
2. Clones
3. Atmosphere On Mars
4. Feels Nice
5. At The Bottom Of The Ocean
6. Newtons

18. Eryn Shewell Self-Titled Solo Album
Eryn Shewell has developed a reputation as one of the premier up and coming voices on the scene today. Eryn has performed her unique blend of blues rooted americana infused with a taste of years gone by all over the east coast and beyond. Known as the Jewel of New Jersey Eryn's incredible vocals have the capability to give even the most hardened critic chills. A recent press article described Eryn as having "the power to woo audiences into an amused silence", with a  "seductive range changing voice,,,"  "...bending and moving to the music, especially in tunes where her voice trails off in jam band moments of pleasant belting-meets-screaming... when songs later her voice is soft as butter and seems to roll off and melt into the air around you."

Tracklist:
1. Fall
2. Suck It Up
3. Breathe In
4. Boy Like You
5. Afraid Of The Dark
6. Relax To Sleep
7. High School Sweetheart (Live In The Studio)
8. Backseat Romance Forecast
9. Simple
10. I Wish I Was In New Orleans

17. Wild Child - The Runaround
Austin’s indie folk band Wild Child sophomore Ben Kweller-produced album ‘The Runaround’ floats effortlessly and hovers ethereally somewhere between folk and indie pop rock to tickle the parts of the brain that put a smile on your face and a jig in your step. The instruments are folk,  the arrangements have catchy vocals and hooks that hit the sweet spot.

Track List:
01 The Runaround
02 Victim To Charm
03 Crazy Bird
04 Coming Home
05 Stitches
06 Anna Maria
07 This Place
08 Here Now
09 Living Tree
10 Rillo Talk
11 Left Behind

16. The Howlin Brothers - Howl
A while back one of my twitter sock puppets won one of the Couch By Couchwest contests and I received this CD in the mail from Country Fried Rock it has been in heavy play since.
The Howlin' Brothers from Tennessee play Old-time, Blues, and Bluegrass music that's ear to ear grinning, foot stompin' hand clappin' with a soulful boogie style that is contagious.

The Howlin’ Brothers are a three-piece string band that brings heart and passion into every performance. Their upbeat shows are heavy with original and traditional music, featuring the sounds of slide banjo, harmonica and old-time fiddle.

Track Listing
01. Big Time
02. Hermitage Hotstep
03. Julia Belle Swain
04. Gone
05. Delta Queen
06. Tennessee Blues
07. My Dog Can't Bark
08. Tell Me That You Love Me
09. Just Like You
10. Take This Hammer
11. Boatman Dance
12. Mama Don't You Tell Me
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15: Carolann Solebello – Steel and Salt
Most familiar to folk audiences as a founding member of the celebrated female trio Red Molly, Carolann Solebello returned to solo performance in August 2010 after six years of steady touring with the band. Her fourth solo CD, Steel and Salt released in August 2013. Carolann is the winner of the 2011 Susquehanna Music & Arts Festival Songwriting Competition, and was an Official Showcase Artist at Folk Alliance International and the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance in 2012.
Steel and Salt features Carolann’s exceptional vocals, with songs ranging from twangy ode’s ‘Brooklyn in the Rain’ and ‘River’ that put our favorite enclave in the light of small town America, to the beautifully dark and haunting ‘Backward’ and ‘Put Down the Gun’ and emotionally reflective ‘Falling Is Easy’ ‘Movie Queen’ and ‘Neptune’
Track List:
1. Brooklyn In The Rain
2. Backward  
3. Falling is Easy  
4. Concentrate  
5. Chinatown  
6. Loaded  
7. Put Down the Gun  
8. Golden Boy  
9. River  
10. Movie Queen  
11. Neptune  

14. Left Lane Crusier - Rock them Back to Hell
An album of voodoo hillbilly punk-blues, the duo expanding their sonic palette by adding bass, harmonica, organ, and trash percussion (that would be a cardboard box, a paint tin, trash can and an electrified five-gallon bucket). The result is an album to wake up the dead, and rock it back to hell!

Tracklist:
1. Zombie Blocked
2. Electrify
3. Neighborhood
4. Juice To Get Loose
5. Overtaken
6. Be So Fine
7. Jukebox
8. Coley
9. Paralyze Ya
10. Righteous


13. The Woodwards - II
To me The Woodwards conjure images of Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg sittiing conspiratoraly in a corner, Iggy and Tom chat quietly over coffee and cigarettes, John Gibbon’s wanders around collecting pieces of found objects littered about, Diana di Prima and Hettie Jones slither from table to table in black turtlenecks and tights, random chatter flows like poetry mingling with thick billows of smoke.

Track List:
1. The Wood
2. Ursula Peterson
3. 20 Toes
4. Pushing Up Daisies
5. Birdy
6. Without You
7. Burn Everything
8. She Shot Me Down
9. By The Time I Came Back
10. Work In The Dark
11. Nothing

12. Melody Walker and Jason Groopman - We Made It Home
Melody Walker, a multi-talented multi-instrumentalist and virtuosic vocalist and picker extraordinaire Jacob Groopman have fused their influences into a style they like to call “Americali.” They define it as Americana with a California twist, but of course, it’s much more. Drawing from genres including bluegrass, rock, jazz, classical, Afrobeat, samba and Balkan folk, yet staying close to their American folk roots, the duo create literate music that honors tradition, yet sounds completely of the moment.
Melody’s truly beautiful vocals and their tight intricate string work of banjo, guitar and mandolin with Jacob abound on their latest release.  Intensely in sync with each other the harmonies float like intertwined streams of thought.

Tracklist:
1. We Made It Home
2. Retinue
3. Betelgeuse
4. Black Grace
5. Come On Mule
6. Billy the Champ
7. O Heartbreaker
8. Graceland
9. Sweet Sunny South
10. Yellow Haired Girl
11. Little Blue Caboose
12. Mississippi Moon

11. Star Anna - Go To Hell
Star Anna growls 'my love will haunt you' on 'Power of My Love, on this debut solo release her voice will haunt you. Her fourth album, 'Go To Hell' leaves behind her long time band The Laughing Dogs, partnering with Tye Baille as band leader, co writer, producer and takes another step away from her beginnings as an Ellensburg sidewalk busker and alt country ingénue, reaching deep into blues Star emerges anguished and riveting with captivating impassioned vocals as she sings of real life experiences, pain and hardship.

Tracklist: 

1. For Anyone

2. Go To Hell

3. Electric Lights

4. Let Me Be

5. Mean Kind of Love

6. Younger Than

7. Power of My Love

8. Everything You Know

9. Come On Up To The House

10. Smoke Signals