Tagged: rootsrock

Yes, Yes, Y-E-S! I love Delta Spirit and maybe it's the endorphins from my run earlier tonight (that's right, I try and keep healthy. What gives?!) or my general love for the band, but I also am a big fan of this song. Sure, it's going to be a polarizing song for many longtime Delta fans. In fact there has already been a huge backlash over the fact that this particular song, the first single off their upcoming 3rd studio album, "California", leaves behind the roots-rock, americana feel. It's true it does and I'll admit, I was looking [...]

Pittsburgh's The Harlan Twins play alt-country flavored folk with twangy guitars and male/female harmonies. Think of an indie version of The Band. Booking inquiries can be sent to HARLANTWINSBOOKING@GMAIL.COM The Harlan Twins @ MySpace SAMPLE & BUY MUSIC FROM THE HARLAN TWINS PURCHASES HELP SUPPORT SOUNDHYPE! Amazon.com Widgets

Pittsburgh's The Harlan Twins play alt-country flavored folk with twangy guitars and male/female harmonies. Think of an indie version of The Band. Booking inquiries can be sent to HARLANTWINSBOOKING@GMAIL.COM The Harlan Twins @ MySpace SAMPLE & BUY MUSIC FROM THE HARLAN TWINS PURCHASES HELP SUPPORT SOUNDHYPE! Amazon.com Widgets

Divine Providence - the new album from Deer Tick- is the kind of irreverent, alcohol fueled, roots rock that you can't stop playing. The video for "Main Street" is a maybe a bit too "busy". Some may feel it's one of those videos that takes away from the actual song. Still, if you like your rock n roll mixed with a bit of Jackass, tons of fire and explosions, with a grand finale of gear destruction ala The Who but followed with urination on said gear (you just know that Keith Moon really wanted to go there) [...]

Divine Providence - the new album from Deer Tick- is the kind of irreverent, alcohol fueled, roots rock that you can't stop playing. The video for "Main Street" is a maybe a bit too "busy". Some may feel it's one of those videos that takes away from the actual song. Still, if you like your rock n roll mixed with a bit of Jackass, tons of fire and explosions, with a grand finale of gear destruction ala The Who but followed with urination on said gear (you just know that Keith Moon really wanted to go there) [...]

Dr. Dog, the Philadelphia psych-pop-rock act, have announced that "Be the Void", their latest studio album, will be released on February 7th. Here is the first video from the album for the track "That Old Black Hole". Tour dates have also been announced with a March 1st Pittsburgh show set for Mr. Smalls with Purling Hiss opening. Dr. Dog Official Site WATCH entire Dr. Dog "That Old Black Hole" video and EARN 500 POINTS! (Points Limited to 1 Video Per Day) [...]

Dr. Dog, the Philadelphia psych-pop-rock act, have announced that "Be the Void", their latest studio album, will be released on February 7th. Here is the first video from the album for the track "That Old Black Hole". Tour dates have also been announced with a March 1st Pittsburgh show set for Mr. Smalls with Purling Hiss opening. Dr. Dog Official Site SAMPLE & BUY MUSIC FROM DR. DOG HERE [...]

[Photos by acidjack] Yes, New York, we do have our very own homegrown answer to Alabama's Drive-By Truckers, and they're called Country Mice . They don't celebrate Southern roots they don't have (two bandmembers are from Lawrence, Kansas), sure, but the rootsy tinge to their sound, married to big, balls-to-the-wall major chord riffs, will draw immediate comparisons. Although I had enjoyed sets of theirs before, this PopGun Booking '-sponsored show at Glasslands showcased a tight, confident and mature band ready to take things to the next level. This set, opening for the Nashville guitar wizard [...]

Uncle Lucius has become the most talked about band in Austin, Texas. It says a lot when the live music capital of the world is buzzing about you. Uncle Lucius is a four piece roots-rock outfit currently touring the country playing more than 150 gigs a year. The sound of Uncle Lucius has a bit of a 70′s southern rock feel with a touch of the Black Crowes. Uncle Lucius on Facebook [...]

Built to Spill is an indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho, United States. The band is best known for its catchy guitar hooks and the unique voice of frontman Doug Martsch. Built To Spill Official Site SAMPLE MP3's BY BUILT TO SPILL BUY MUSIC HERE AND HELP SUPPORT SOUNDHYPE! Amazon.com [...]

Formed in 2004, in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, American indie rock band Manchester Orchestra have released three albums to date. Their most recent release, Simple Math, was recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, TN and released in May of 2011. They have now embarked on a huge headlining tour to support the album before taking a break to work on some side projects once the tour comes to a close. Manchester Orchestra has appeared four times on the Late Show with David Letterman in addition to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. [...]

The Steel Wheels are an Americana band playing a mix of bluegrass and the blues complete with foot-tapping fiddle parts and old Mountain-time family sing alongs. They have a broad appeal that should turn on fans of modern-era Americana faves like Old Crow Medicine Show and The Avett brothers in addition to those who appreciate Gillian Welch and Langhorne Slim. SAMPLE MP3's BY THE STEEL WHEELS BUY MUSIC HERE AND HELP SUPPORT SOUNDHYPE! [...]

Downtime is hard to come by for a band as on the rise as Dawes, who is touring in support of one of the year's best albums.

Pokey LaFarge was born in the heartland of America and took to the open roads at a young age, earning the key to the freedom by hitching rides and writing boxcar ballads that spun tales of a boy finding his way through this big wide-open country. He submerged himself with the most American of music and embraced himself in the beauty of the land while picking and strumming with down-home groups everywhere he went, falling in with traveling caravans of vaudeville poets and hell-raising bluegrass pickers alike. Official Website [...]

Whiskey Holler is a four-piece roots-rock band based out of Pittsburgh. They describe their sound as "folkabilly." The Whiskey Holler - "Someone Told Me" from Bryan Heller on Vimeo . Caitlin Magarity is also from Pittsburgh, PA. Music struck interest at a very early age when her parents purchased a piano for the household. From elementary school until high school, she played violin in the orchestra in the North Penn School District (Lansdale, PA). Shortly after, she picked up guitar, learned the basics, and continues to [...]

Sam Llanas gets personal and intimate without the BoDeans.

Fonzarelli – Last Chance Summer Dance Tsurumi Records keeps on expanding and keeps on releasing one quality punk release after the next. Spinning on the turntable today, in beautiful royal blue wax, is their latest Jack Endino produced platter, Fonzarelli, and their debut Last Chance Summer Dance . And let me say, this definitely won't be Fonzarelli's last chance. Packing in more hooks than you could find at a bass fishing tournament, and marrying those hooks to Endino's punchy production, [...]

A return engagement from Tex-Mex supergroup the Texas Tornados, reunited (after a fashion) roots-rock polymaths NRBQ - now featuring a former Houstonian on drums - and the honky-tonk hero who to... Continue reading "Discovery Green Lands Roots-Rock Royalty For Free Fall Concerts" >

Rocks Off feels like we live in a Western. This is nothing unusual for us, except right now is the part of the movie (every movie) where one cowboy turns to the other one and says, "It's quiet o... Continue reading "Robust Night Of Roots-Rock Shows Scene's True Grit" >

There's an iconic scene in the movie "American Beauty" where the characters and the audience are mesmerized by an image of a plastic grocery bag blowing in the wind. Caught in an updraft, it circles, flips, dips, and twists in an almost surreal ballet. The bag itself is ugly. The dirty sidewalk it drifts above is filthy. But the juxtaposition of these two images with that weightless floating creates a scene of magical beauty. Welcome to Rick Barton and the Shadow Blasters debut album An American Rock Song , except take [...]