The White Buffalo

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Nick Lowe

Nick Lowe has made his mark as a producer (Elvis Costello-Graham Parker-Pretenders-The Damned), songwriter of at least three songs you know by heart, short-lived career as a pop star, and a lengthy term as a musicians’ musician. But in his current ‘second act’ as a silver-haired, tender-hearted but sharp-tongued singer-songwriter, he has no equal. Starting with 1995’s ‘The Impossible Bird’ Nick has turned out a fantastic string of albums, each one devised in his West London home, and recorded with a core of musicians who possess the same veteran savvy. Lowe brings wit and understated excellence to every performance, leading Ben Ratliff of the New York Times to describe his live show as “elegant and nearly devastating.”

Uncle Lucius

rock n roll for your soul

James McMurtry

Growing up, Jonathon Linaberry was obsessed with the radio.

“Music was my whole world,” he recalls, “and the radio was pivotal in that. There was
something so romantic about it. You never knew what you’d hear, what you’d discover and fall
in love with. I wanted to find a way to recapture that.”

Radio Waves, Linaberry’s sixth studio album as The Bones Of J.R. Jones, is indeed steeped in
the past, but there’s more than just nostalgia at play here. Recorded in Toronto with producer
Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas), the collection is moody and hypnotic, drawing on the sonic
landscape of Linaberry’s youth as it reckons with all the doubt and uncertainty of adulthood.
The arrangements are utterly entrancing, built on the tension between acoustic instruments
and retro synthesizers, and Linaberry’s performances are raw and visceral, at times aching in
their unflinching vulnerability. Put it all together and you’ve got a poignant exploration of
memory and longing delivered by a relentless searcher, a revelatory work of personal
reflection rooted in the endless beauty, pain, and chaos that comes with finding your place in
this world.

“I’ve never really resonated with the idea of ‘the good old days,’” Linaberry reflects. “Your
understanding of the past and your relationship with it change as you get older, and I’ve
always been more interested in the evolution of those feelings than in looking at them with
any kind of rose-colored glasses.”

Born and raised in central New York, Linaberry got his start playing in hardcore and punk
bands before becoming enamored with the field recordings of Alan Lomax, who documented
rural American blues, folk, and gospel musicians throughout the 1930s and ’40s. Inspired by
the unvarnished honesty of those vintage performances, Linaberry launched The Bones of J.R.
Jones in 2012 and, operating as a fully independent artist, began releasing a series of
critically acclaimed albums and EPs that would land his songs in a slew of films and television
shows (including True Detective, Suits, Daredevil, Longmire, and Graceland) and lead to
countless tours across the US and Europe (including stops everywhere from Telluride Blues to
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass). Along the way, Linaberry also shared bills with the likes of The
Wallflowers, G. Love, and The Devil Makes Three, soundtracked an Amazon commercial
helmed by Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi, and earned praise from Billboard, American
Songwriter, Under the Radar, and more.

“After a dozen years of touring and recording, I found myself getting burnt out by the
constant barrage of new music that’s out there,” Linaberry reflects. “In some ways, it’s great
to have that kind of access, but it can also be numbing, and I found myself missing what it
felt like to have an album change your life, to listen to your cassette of Born In The USA so
many times you have to wind the tape back up with a pencil.”

Linaberry set out to tap back into that magic on Radio Waves, writing songs steeped in the
sounds and stories of his own coming of age. He tuned out the modern world in favor of stark,
lo-fi demos built around fingerpicked guitars and old school electronics, and when it came
time to record the album, he leaned into working with an outside producer for the first time,
traveling to Canada for two ten-day sessions at Lackritz’s studio.

“A lot of these songs started on a drum machine, which was very intentional,” Linaberry
explains. “I wanted to focus on simplicity, on stripping tracks back to their most essential
elements so that the melody and the vocals could shine.”
The result is an almost primal sound, familiar yet uneasy, like a memory hanging perpetually
just out of reach.

“These songs live in the night—the endless kind, where you get in your car just to drive and
listen to music, to feel like you’re going somewhere even if you’re not,” Linaberry says. “It’s
the sound of a kitchen heavy with the leftover heat of an August day and a table crowded
with drinks, of arguments and first loves and first heartbreaks, of not living up to your
potential, of breaking promises, of being human.”

Take a listen to album opener “Car Crash” and you’ll understand exactly what he means.
Tender and hazy, the track offers up a bittersweet embrace of life’s imperfections, finding
meaning and connection in our shared flaws and shortcomings. “I want your whole heart,”
Linaberry professes, “even the broken parts.” Like much of the record, it’s insistent yet
understated, as much a celebration as it is a confession. The sensuous “Savages” revels in the
reckless abandon of young adulthood, while the spare “Heart Attack” stares disappointment
directly in the face, and the piercing “Shameless” works its way through a lifetime of what
ifs.

“Our lives are an endless series of revolving doors,” Linaberry reflects. “Even the smallest
decisions can change our entire trajectory. What kind of arrogant fool doesn’t look back and
wonder?”
That sense of lostness, of uncertainty as to who we are and where we belong turns up
throughout the record. The blistering “Drive” devours itself from the inside out in the tedious
solitude of the road; “The Devil” grapples with identity, intimacy, and dependence; and the
breezy “Catching You” wonders what we were ever trying to prove with all the debaucherous
nights and bad decisions of youth.

“I think so many of us live in the past because it’s easier to face than the future,” Linaberry
explains. “But I’m not interested in going back. I’m interested in understanding the feelings
and experiences that made us who we are: the passion and the hunger, the faults and the
failures, the hopes and the fears.

Truth be told, those feelings never really go away. They’re all still out there, floating in the
ether, drifting through eternity on an endless sea of radio waves. All you have to do is tune in.

Rattlesnake Milk

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Aaron Lee Tasjan

Grammy-nominated songwriter

and Interstellar Pop recording artist.

✨ New Album — 'Stellar Evolution' ✨

https://aaronleetasjan.lnk.to/stellarevolutionfb

Sunny War

John R. Miller

New Album 'The Great Unknowing' out June 5 on Vinyl + CD. Stream it everywhere July 17.

Leon Majcen

Cowboy chords and hammer ons!

https://leonmajcen.komi.io

Emily Scott Robinson

Otis Gibbs

Ken Pomeroy

Ken Pomeroy will break your heart. She’ll do it with a single line––sometimes, just one word. The pain begins as an empathetic ache. Then, as Pomeroy sings her stories, you begin to see yourself in her hurt and hope. And you realize: We’re in this together.

Pomeroy’s outstretched hand to the wounded manifests as startlingly good songs. Her soprano is comforting––almost sweet––but perhaps most powerful delivering a devastating line. A deft guitarist, she opts for beds of rootsy strings that can soothe or haunt. But it’s her writing that really shines and stings. “Writing was and is the only way I can fully express an emotion and feel like I got it out,” she says. “I feel like once I get it out into a song, I don’t have to worry about it anymore. If it’s a traumatic thing that happened, I kind of act as if it’s gone.”

Pomeroy creates a wild but safe space of her own––a space that, like 22-year-old Pomeroy herself, is brutally honest, proudly Native American, and undeniably brilliant.

People have noticed. Pomeroy’s “Wall of Death” made its way onto the Twisters soundtrack, while Hulu’s Reservation Dogs featured her soul-mining gem, “Cicadas.” Tour dates with Lukas Nelson, Iron &

Zandi Holup

Isak Benjamin

Growing up in a musically gifted family alongside his sisters Johanna and Klara from First Aid Kit, Isak Benjamin, 21, has already had a lifetime of experiences—from performing at a sold-out Avicii arena show to traveling on tour buses across the US. Isak’s critically acclaimed debut EP was released in April 2025, drawing on his musical inspirations in the form of artists such as Sam Fender, Bleachers, Tom Petty, and Phoebe Bridgers. Isak was selected as one of Spotify’s “Artists to Watch 2025”, and his second EP Two Souls followed in October.

Kashena Sampson

Rearview Mirror, the first single off my upcoming album Ghost Of Me is out now!

Susto Stringband

Justin Osborne has been performing as ‘Susto’ since 2013, when he formed a collective of fellow musicians and artists in coastal Charleston, South Carolina. Now a bona fide emissary of alt rock and treasure to the indie crowd, a lifelong calling coupled with a cosmic push of serendipitous happenstance led to his latest venture: ‘Susto Stringband’ joined by Americana vocalist Clint Roberts, clawhammer banjoist Helena Rose, and upright bassist Joey Brown (now Holler Choir).

Lightning struck as an immediate connection and artistic chemistry captured a new sound and visualization that unfolds on Susto Stringband’s debut release from New West Records, simply titled "Susto Stringband: Volume 1." Nine of Osborne’s ballads, refrains and heart wrenching confessions, now drenched in the singular Appalachian sound of Holler Choir’s verdant harmonies and stringed arrangements. Still, steeped in the emotive punch of the traditional string band sound, Susto Stringband presents an Arcadia like vision of pastoralism and and harmony with nature, but with Osborne’s lyrics, there are landmines to dodge and mountains to climb.

Jeffrey Silverstein

Stockholm Roots 2026 @ Debaser Strand

Stockholm Roots 2026 @ Debaser Strand

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