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BY: JIM VILLANUEVA FEATURE PHOTO: MAX KNIGHT The Walcotts swing for the musical fences and hit for a sonic cycle on their first audible at-bat Let the Devil Win, the unit’s debut album, available September 16. The 12-track collection was recorded at the legendary FAME Studios in...

Meet the Americana, folk singer songwriter Todd Lewis Kramer! He writes beautiful songs about being in love with someone, getting hurt/longing for someone and self-reflection. He has released a few songs in the past and is well known in the NY scene but for the first time he will...

All signs point to THE WILD FEATHERS  becoming the next great American rock ‘n’ roll band. It’s not a matter of omens or conjecture either, but rather time and facts. The Nashville-based group— Ricky Young [guitar, vocals], Taylor Burns [guitar, vocals], Joel King [bass...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA There’s very little that can be described as conventional about the music and makeup of the Infamous Stringdusters – perhaps starting with this outlaw, genre-blurring five-piece unit’s moniker. Sure, their sound is rooted in bluegrass, but what these five...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA The Los Angeles-based, baseball team sized sonic carnival known as The Walcotts is a nine-piece unit that skillfully weaves a tapestry of tasty influences into a delicious gumbo of great music. Tom Cusimano, the unit’s founding member, frontman and guitarist...

Ricky Martin began his career in the music business at age twelve with the all-male pop group Menudo. After leaving this group, he went on to release several Spanish-language solo albums throughout the 1990’s. He also got into acting and in 1994, he starred on the soap...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA “I ain’t never gonna quit, so don’t count me out/If I was gonna give up I would have done it by now.” So goes the opening line of “Never Gonna Quit,” track two on Austin-based Shurman’s new record East Side of Love, the foursome’s first new set of roots rock...

At LA’s El Rey Theatre, on Wednesday, July 29th, the grief support center, Our House hosted a night of music, photo booth fun and a raffle drawing. The event raised money for Our House which provides communities with grief support services, education, resources, and hope....

The British singer-songwriter Frank Turner will release a new album, entitled Positive Songs For Negative People, on August 7th via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor UK /Interscope. The album is Turner’s sixth album and follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2013 release Tape Deck...

    PLACE IN THE SUN, the eighth album by multi-genre, multi-cultural Grammy winning band Ozomatli, takes the band’s street-party consciousness to new heights of eclecticism. Produced by the band and long-time friend, world renowned engineer Robert Carranza and featuring...