Harris recorded Hard Bargain with Nashville musician Jay Joyce, who produces and is one of two backing musicians on the album, the other being drummer Gil Reaves. Despite the number of people involved, the sound on Hard Bargain is full and shimmery, reminiscent of the lustrous sound of Wrecking Ball rather than the staid middlebrow folk of 2008’s All That I Intended to Be. Harris recorded Hard Bar
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Harris recorded Hard Bargain with Nashville musician Jay Joyce, who produces and is one of two backing musicians on the album, the other being drummer Gil Reaves. Despite the number of people involved, the sound on Hard Bargain is full and shimmery, reminiscent of the lustrous sound of Wrecking Ball rather than the staid middlebrow folk of 2008’s All That I Intended to Be.
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Josh Becker digs deep into the Electronic music underground and uncovers little-known gems that are worth your while. Check out some "Sun-drenched new age ambience that never devolves into parody or cheesiness" from San Fransisco's Hatchback, or some "infectious, dubby nocturne that raises the bar for lo-fi electronic music" from Brooklyn's Dynasty Electric.
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Kenny Chesney and Matraca Berg win the week in new country music with "You and Tequila," a gorgeous song by songwriters Matraca Berg and Deana Carter. Jimmy Buffet also makes an appearance on a fun summer anthem from Zac Brown Band.
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Experimental electropop outfit Gang Gang Dane, led by singer Lizzi Bougatsos, sounds "ready for the floor" on its satisfying fifth studio album. "There's something very unpretentious about this album," writes Josh Becker. "For an avant-garde rock group from New York, that's not an insignificant achievement."
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DJ A-Track and Kid Sister stopped by Nashville's Limelight for a high-energy show the featured first-class electronic, hip-hop and lots and lots of paint. American Noise's Katie Chow was there to bring you all of the colorful details.
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Corey Parkman hits Bowling For Soup lead singer Jaret Reddick with some pressing questions about the band's eighth studio album, titled 'Fishin For Woos', in this exclusive American Noise interview.
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Anyone can synthesize spaceship noises, grand pianos and distorted voices, but electropop duo Holy Ghost! fails to demonstrate a capacity for complex instrumentation and imaginative melodic concepts on its sophomore album.
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Folk-rock band Fleet Foxes' second album, Helplessness Blues, features 12 beautifully performed songs--although the collection seems rudimentary in comparison to the band's acclaimed debut effort.
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On the surface, Foo Fighters' 'Wasting Light' is a boisterous celebration of hook-laden arena rock. Deeper in though, it's a yearning and thoughtful portrait of a band that's more vital in its 17th year that it's ever been.
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Randy Houser – “In God’s Time” Listen Our rating: 6.9/10 After hitting the scene with the best debut single in recent memory back in 2008, Randy Houser hasn’t found much else to showcase the sturdiness of his powerful pipes. Half a dozen single releases later, he returns with something to at least stand in the [...]
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Lately, he sounds inspired by his wife, Allison Moorer; together they’re the Eric and Tami Taylor of roots rock, exhibiting a hardy chemistry on last year’s Loretta Lynn tribute and on their tour dates together. She makes him sound more human, fragile and often frustrated with the world, but still strong and steely.
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Columnist Josh Becker brings the scoop on the latest and greatest from the underground electronic scene, from Estonian "disco and new wave tinged synth pop" to a song titled "Lesbian Seagull."
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Rising hip-hop star Yelawolf performed a high-octane show at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge on Tuesday. The crowd-pleasing set included fan favorites such as “I Just Wanna Party,” “Daddy’s Lambo,” and “Pop the Trunk,” as the rapper’s mother watched proudly from the side of the stage. Born in Alabama, Yelawolf (aka Michael Wayne Atha) lived for several [...]
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There’s no rule against bands re-forming years or even decades after their heyday, nor any script detailing how they should go about it. Inspiration can come in many forms and at any time—when you’re 22 or when you’re 52, when you’re sleeping on couches or when you’re paying off a house. It’s not inconceivable—or particularly [...]
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There's something stopping the band from playing nicely with each other, and that something is Brad Hargett's vocals. Bearing a healthy, droning baritone voice that has made him a darling of the New York post-pop scene, it may very well be that Hargett has talent; I wouldn't know, because every single song on Oblivion is infected with his apparent lust for echo chambers within echo chambers within
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That he makes this loneliness sound so catchy and rich is no surprise. But upon each repeated listen of the album, Tomboy seems to reveal something else you hadn't heard before, another secret buried beneath the reverb. It's like the nighttime ritual of putting his little girl to bed; he may read her the same simple stories night after night, but the dreams into which she--or any kid, really--fall
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Columnist J.R. Journey offers up his takes on 10 of the latest singles released to country radio, including cuts from Jason Aldean and Reba McEntire.
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