New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Cold Fronts: Philadelphia indie rock band Cold Fronts will release their sophomore album Fantasy Du Jour on April 20 via Sire Records, and is hitting the road with High Waisted.
Noisey premiered the first single "Staying' In" calling the track a "perfectly formed nugget of slacker rock." Read full article HERE. Recorded over the course of three weeks in early 2017, Fantasy Du Jour marks the first time the band in its current iteration fully collaborated on a body of work. The quartet spent the past three years honing their sound through extensive touring with the likes of White Reaper, The Weeks, Hinds, Sunflower Bean as well as subsequent group writing sessions.
3/16:
6:30pm - Side Bar
8:00pm - Kebabalicious
3/17:
2:45pm - Spider House
9:00pm - Esther's Follies
3/18:
10:45pm - Burgermania Hotel Vegas
Red Shahan: The West-Texas troubadour Red Shahan will release his sophomore album Culberson County on March 30 via Thirty Tigers. Rolling Stone Country recently named Shahan one of "10 New Country Artists You Need To Know" and said, "New single 'Culberson County,' a slow-burning ballad about heading west, may be the only song in existence to pair spacey, Pink Floyd-esque slide guitar with a truly
Texas pronunciation of the word 'coyote." Stream the second some to be released from the album "Someone Someday" via Cowboys & Indians.
3/14:
8:00pm - Palm Door on Sixth
3/15:
4:00pm - Hula Hut
3/16:
3:15pm - Threadgill's (Missing Piece Group & Nine Mile Records Event)
Ryan Culwell: This summer, Ryan Culwell returns with the follow up to 2015's critically-acclaimed album Flatlands that was released via Lightning Rod Records. Culwell will be previewing music from the forthcoming album at SXSW 2018. During his last official visit to SXSW, NPR Music's Ann Powers said, "His songs themselves wring grace from plain and often dark details, expressing the realities of class and region in ways that many other writers barely touch."
3/16:
1:00pm - Threadgill's (Missing Piece Group & Nine Mile Records Event)
8:55pm - Hotel
Vegas Annex
Becca Mancari: On the heels of releasing her debut album Good Woman, Becca Mancari has spent 2018 touring extensively with artists like Joseph, The Weeks, The Lone Bellow, and her band Bermuda Triangle with
Jesse Lafser and
Brittany Howard of the
Alabama Shakes. Good Woman was placed on Year-End lists by Rolling Stone, UPROXX, The Bluegrass Situation and NPR Music's All Songs Considered: The Year In
Music 2017 Podcast, on which Ann Powers said, "Becca's album, Good Woman, expresses her reality as a queer woman, as a daughter of a Puerto Rican mother, as someone who's trying to remake Americana music to have a bigger sound. But also, it takes us into a new sonic space for Americana music, and this is what I truly love about it."
3/13:
1:20pm - Kinda Tropical
3/14:
3:00pm - The Blackheart
6:45 pm - The Hideout
3/15:
3:20pm - Whole Foods
Paul Thorn: Mississippi singer/songwriter Paul Thorn will release his first-ever gospel album Don't Let the Devil Ride out March 23rd via Thirty Tigers. After a dozen blues/country records, Don't Let the Devil Ride is a return to roots for Thorn where he reclaims his past by celebrating the first music he was first exposed to: gospel. In addition, Billboard recently premiered Paul Thorn's single & cover of The O'Jays' classic, "
Love Train" off the new record. See full article Here.
3/13:
TBD - GSD&M
3/14:
12:30pm - OPA Coffee & Wine Bar
4:00pm - Hula Hut
3/15:
6:30pm - Luck Reunion
3/16:
12:35pm - BMI Brunch @ the Four Seasons
Low Cut Connie: Low Cut Connie return on May 18 with the release of Dirty
Pictures (Part 2) via Contender Records. NPR
Music called Beverly, the album's first single, "a breathless rager of a performance" and "a propulsive heart-buster about intimacy." The single is currently in the print edition of Rolling Stone's Playlist, where they said, "With Echoes of Joe Jackson and Billy Joel, these lowbrow rock & roll idealists hit a surprising moving note of piano-pop grandeur." The band has built a cult following around their live shows, and can even call Barack Obama and
Elton John fans.
3/12:
12:00am (3/13) - Old School
3/14:
1:00am (3/15) - The Parish
3/15:
2:00pm - The Blackheart
3/17:
9:00pm - Clive Bar
Cedric Burnside Project: Born and raised around Holly Springs, Mississippi, Cedric Burnside, grandson of legendary R.L. Burnside and son of drummer Calvin Jackson, has been playing music all his life. He has developed a relentless, highly rhythmic charged style that takes the blues to another level. This four-time winner of the prestigious Blues
Music Award's Drummer of the Year (2010-2014) is widely regarded as one of the best drummers in the world and has also begun to make a name for himself as a traditional blues guitarist.
New album due to release this year via Single Lock Records.
3/16:
5:45pm - Threadgill's (Missing Piece Group & Nine Mile Records Event)
Terra Lightfoot:
Terra Lightfoot is a singer/songwriter from Ontario, Canada. Popmatters describes Lightfoot as "a roots rocker with a powerful voice and a badass Gibson SG that she plays with consummate ease... she could be your new rock 'n' roll hero. Drawing from rock, soul & blues, Terra Lightfoot is a monster talent that will be gracing the world's largest stages in no time."
3/16:
TBD - Swan Dive
3/17:
8:00pm - Cooper's BBQ
John Craigie: On March 16th, singer-songwriter John Craigie will release his upcoming album LIVE - Opening For Steinbeck. Craigie truly has a unique live performance — between nearly each song of the set, Craigie tells a "bit" that thematically leads into the next track. Because of his comedic delivery and craft for storytelling, The Stranger described him as "the lovechild of
John Prine and Mitch Hedberg with a vagabond troubadour edge."
3/14:
12:30pm - HandleBar Austin
3/15:
11:00pm - CU29 Cocktail Bar
Josh Rouse: Josh Rouse is set to release his 12th album, Love in the
Modern Age on April 13 via Yep Roc Records. Trading in his acoustic guitar for the sound and production of early 1980's releases, Rouse found inspiration from early albums by The Blue Nile, The
Style Council, Prefab Sprout, Roxy Music's Avalon as well as Leonard Cohen's
Various Positions and I'm Your Man. Spending the better part of a year touring behind the critically acclaimed, The Embers of Time, Rouse was ready for a change. "Coming off such a heavy record, I wanted to try something different. I wanted to explore new sounds and write with a fresh backdrop." Forbes premiered the track "Businessman" and called the album "a sterling collection that is joyous, upbeat and, most importantly, feels completely authentic. There is no retro gimmick to Love in the
Modern Age. This is a masterful storyteller celebrating the nostalgia of his youth with his own feel."
3/15:
3:30pm - The Blackheart
1:00am (3/16) - 18th Over Austin
Brooke Annibale: Brooke Annibale is a Pittsburgh singer/songwriter gearing up to release her third full-length album, the follow up to 2015's critically acclaimed release The
Simple Fear. Listen to the full album Here.
3/14:
8:00pm - 18th Over Austin
Greyhounds: Austin trio of Anthony Farrell (vocals, keyboards), Andrew Trube (vocals and guitar) and Ed Miles (drums). Many music fans remember Farrell and Trube as key members of JJ Grey's band MOFRO for many years. After parting with Grey in 2016 to focus full-time on Greyhounds, the band has only left the road to record and release two full-length records. Their new album Cheyenne Valley Drive will be released on April 6th.
3/14:
9:00pm - Swan Dive
3/15:
11:00pm - Cooper's BBQ
3/16:
4:55pm - Threadgill's (Missing Piece Group & Nine Mile Records Event)