COUNTRY/ FOLK

Roxy Rawson returns with something spellbindingly intimate on “I Found a Place in the Woods,” a doorway through which once you step in, you may not walk out unchanged. Arrived this November 7th, 2025, the track is the first glimpse into Bright Star, her forthcoming 2026 album and easily her…

Neo Brightwell’s An American Reckoning lands like a lantern tossed into a dark room. Released on August 29, 2025, the album takes Americana apart plank by plank and rebuilds it through survival, queerness and honest spirituality transformed for the critiques to pull apart. It’s rooted in Alt-Country and Folk Rock,…

The Cockney Cowboy returns with “Us Against The World,” a tender original single released November 3, 2025, that folds his East End grit into a full-hearted country ballad. Written by Justin Grant Vella and produced by Dave Wright of MusicTek AV, the track is built as a love letter to…

Robert Leonard’s full-length album Pieces of Me, released October 24, 2025, arrives as a homecoming. An independent Nashville artist with roots deep in Eastern North Carolina, Leonard frames this record as a map of the places and people who shaped him.“Every song is a piece of my story,” he says,…

Wyatt Espalin returns with a reflective new single, “Losing Track of Time,” an Americana gem arriving October 31, 2025, and recorded at Gavin Calzaretta’s 460 Sound Studios in Cleveland, Georgia, the same home base for his upcoming album Lies from the Lonesome Valley. Rooted in the creative ecosystem of the…

Less Of Me, the fourth studio album from rising alt-country shapeshifter Podge Lane, lands like a dusty postcard torn from seven months of sweat-stained stages, endless highways, and it arrives like it’s uprooting your whole life. After the rock-leaning theatrics of Multiple Dead Ends and a full European tour, Lane…

Andy Crowe & The Eisen Family return with “Hold Me Close,” a soul-stirring single released October 29, 2025, that digs into the band’s own punch of soul, blues, and rock. After years of building momentum, from headlining the Tower Stage at the first Sonic Boom Festival to supporting Ariel Posen…

Johan Smits aka John Smyths was born in March 1961 in the old town of Nijmegen and was introduced to the world of music by his parents and older brother. Although it wasn’t the kind of music he liked, it was music. When his wild years were over, he got…

Bluebird arrives as Ste Forshaw’s most open-hearted work yet. He’s rooted in St Helens and Liverpool’s creative orbit, but the emotional geography of this record reaches far wider, tracing the arc from brokenness to devotion, from wandering to homecoming. The backstory matters here. Bluebird grew out of the night he…

Out November 1, 2025, “Smile of Beauty” has Dan Szyller stepping straight into the emotional core of his ArtRock sensibilities. Szyller already sits at an unusual crossroads, as a Brazilian-born artist shaped by life in Israel, the U.S., and France, drawing heavily from The Doors’ mysticism, Pink Floyd’s atmosphere, and…