Quit Releasing Music Via The Short-Form EP
The only greater disservice an artist or a label can do to the music they've worked so hard on and put so much love into than releasing it on an EP, is to release it on a four-song EP. You want to bury...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Lydia Loveless “Indestructible Machine”
From Columbus, OH, the lovely and talented 21-year-old Lydia Loveless offers up her first album with international aspirations in Indestructable Machine, through the Bloodshot Records imprint. Rest...
View ArticleHip Hop Infiltrates Nashville Through Soundland 2011
Country and folk music have a long history of joining forces to create infrastructure to help support music, principally in festival gatherings. And as the corporate music world continues to crumble...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Essential Albums for 2011
So here it is, the list of albums Saving Country Music deems essential for 2011 listening. Please note this list only includes albums that have been reviewed so far. And as always, your feedback is...
View ArticleRecord Store Day 2012 Country Music Field Guide
This Saturday, April 21st with be the 2012 installment of Record Store Day, the annual event started in 2007 to help the struggling independent record store. 2012 will go down as the year when country...
View ArticleLydia Loveless Goes “Boy Crazy” On New EP
Ahead of a new full-length album promised from Lydia in 2014 is a quick little EP called "Boy Crazy." It is a straight ahead power pop album with punkish and country undertones that draws you right in...
View ArticleAlbums To Look Forward To In 2014
2014 promises to be another great year for music, and the first part of the year might just be one of the busiest seasons for anticipated releases we have seen in quite a while. From a lost Johnny Cash...
View ArticleLydia Loveless –“Somewhere Else”
Her latest album and second LP from Bloodshot Records Somewhere Else is decidedly a more dark project with moments of real depth not seen before in Lydia's young career. Lydia Loveless shows great...
View Article10 Artists to Check Out Even If You’re Not Going to SXSW
Oh you poor little non-SXSW goers, you're social network feeds are about to get positively inundated with South By Southwest information, riddling your psyche with scores of free music events you're...
View ArticleWillie’s Granddaughter Raelyn Nelson Looks to Make Own Name
That's right ladies and gentlemen, the Nelson clan can now field three generations of performers on the stage, and the new generation is about as defiant and ass kicking as you might expect. Rearing...
View ArticleSturgill, John Moreland, DM3, Nikki Lane & More on 2015 Stagecoach
Indio, California's country version of the massive Coachella Festival bucks the trend of most corporate country music festivals by casting independent artists and legacy acts in their lineup right...
View ArticlePokey LaFarge, Rev. Peyton, & Banditos All Sign to Labels
The past 24 hours has seen some big signings by some worthy artists to record labels. The old-school throwback St. Louis singing and strumming song man Pokey LaFarge has signed to the prestigious...
View Article2014 Saving Country Music Song of the Year Nominees
Each year when Saving Country Music sits down to compile the best songs, it's done so with a solemn reverence and understanding that the idea embedded in a song has the power to change a life, and...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s 2014 Song of the Year
Every true music fan craves those moments when a song and story truly disarm you and make rudimentary rubble of your capacity to keep the saline fountains at bay. Fiction can sometimes achieve these...
View ArticleAlbum Review – The Supersuckers “Holdin’ The Bag”
Going back to what the Supersuckers do best, which is come out kicking with a shit eating grin, and then hitting you in between the eyes with something meaningful when you least expect it, this raucous...
View ArticleAlbum Review –“Sidelong” by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
"Sidelong" may find itself in a dark and troubled place much of the time, but it's good old country music at its heart. You know, country music? That stuff they used to make before Music Row lost its...
View ArticleAlbum Review –“Between The Moon & the Midwest” by Austin Lucas
Nobody knows the formula, or how to navigate the whims of music to steady and sustainable employment, or God-forbid a modicum of stardom. But what we do know is Austin Lucas is an artist worthy of...
View ArticleThe Best Country Songs (& Videos) of 2016 So Far
As was said in reference to the Best Albums of 2016 So Far, it has been fairly slim pickings for the first part of the year for finding music that really touches the heart, and has the fortitude to...
View ArticleAlbum Review –“Real” by Lydia Loveless
Normally, an artist either declaring or just plain evidencing their abandonment of country music, especially one who has contributed worthy music to the genre in the past, would be grounds for...
View Article2016 Nominees for Saving Country Music’s Song of the Year
A song can change a life, and a song can change the world. And if you're a real music fan, you know this to be true because you've felt it, and seen it yourself. We're not looking for fanciful ditties...
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