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BY: JIM VILLANUEVA Water Walker, the second set of songs served up by Magnolia, TX-based Folk Family Revival, could be viewed as the foursome’s sonic second coming. Following the literal band of brothers’ – Mason, Barrett and Lincoln Lankford, plus family friend Caleb Pace –...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA Still riding a massive wave of worldwide success courtesy of its debut album, A Perfect World, Kodaline was not about to rest on its well-earned laurels. The Irish foursome of longtime friends Steve Garrigan (lead vocals), Mark Prendergast (guitar), Jason...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA Artist? Activist? Audio anthropologist? Singer? Songwriter? Storyteller? As it relates to musician Joel Rafael, the answer to all of those questions is a resounding “Yes!” Rafael, whose latest collection of hauntingly heartfelt tunes, Baladista, arrives on...

Current Classics is your source for discovering new music from Current AND Classic artists! This week’s special turning 21 lineup includes all drinking songs from Whitey Morgan and the 78s, The Devil Makes Three, Folk Family Revival, The Who, Rich Mahan and the Cocktail Heroes,...

Current Classics is your source for discovering new music from Current AND Classic artists! This week’s lineup includes Chadwick Stokes, Brett Dennen, previously unreleased Buffalo Springfield, Joe Bonamassa and Ray Lamontagne, plus music and conversation with Michael...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA Rick DeJesus, frontman and founding member of Las Vegas hard rock unit Adelitas Way, is not about to let a rancorous relationship with a now former major record label get in the way of making the type of music he wants to make and releasing said music when and...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA Back in 2009, singer-songwriter Ryan Cabrera began writing songs for his just-released Wake Up Beautiful EP and forthcoming fifth full-length album, though most of those early tunes were eventually tossed out. On January 4 of this year, the Dallas native’s...

Current Classics is your source for discovering new music from Current AND Classic artists! This week, check out tasty tracks from Van Morrison featuring Michael Buble, JD McPherosn, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Andrew Combs, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Noel Gallagher’s High...

By: Jim Villanueva Raised on the scenic shores of the Golden State in the city of Monterey, singer-songwriter Lauren Shera grew up over 300 miles from the Sixties-Seventies California folk scene center of Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Yet despite a generation and the geography...