Lucette Is Missing What She Once Had In New Single “Too Soon For Sorry” Forthcoming EP Nice Girl From The Suburbs Out March 21 Credit: Sebestian Buzzalino Lucette shares “Too Soon For Sorry,” the latest single from her forthcoming EP Nice Girl From The Suburbs (out March 21). Mirroring the push and pull of realizing what you had once it's gone, "Too Soon For Sorry" opens as a slow, yearning love song before gradually building to a frenzy of fuzzed out guitar wails. The song was featured this week at Atwood Magazine, who called it "the kind of cathartic confessional that sends shivers down the spine" and "a haunting late-night confession wrapped in a haze of longing and self-destruction."  Watch Video " To Soon For Sorry" Here: Lucette on the new single: "'Too Soon For Sorry' is a classic tale of undervaluing someone while you have them. It’s about wanting them even more in the aftermath of a break up. Hearing their name through casual acquaintances, over cigarettes outside of the bar, and wishing they were there instead of hearing how they’re doing from a stranger. I think a lot of us have been there. It's about admitting when you're the problem in a breakup, wishing you could fix it, but knowing it’s too soon to heal that wound, and too soon for sorrys."   "Too Soon For Sorry" follows the Canadian singer-songwriter's two previous singles – a pedal-steel-filled boot-stomper filtered through a slacker-pop lens called “Back in the Blue” (feat. Mariel Buckley), and “Heading for the End,” which finds Lucette (aka Lauren Gillis) living in the complexity of being human while still resisting people pleasing stereotypes. Expanding the musical inclinations she first began exploring on her acclaimed 2019 release Deluxe Hotel Room, Nice Girl From the Suburbs is brimming with self-awareness and a sense of shared humanity. The six-song EP mixes self-pity with clever self-deprecation, as the wry observer in Lucette turns her sharply intuitive eye onto herself.  A native of Alberta, Canada, Lucette initially captured attention when she released her 2014 Dave Cobb-produced debut Black is the Color, with NPR Music naming her a must-see act. Her follow-up Deluxe Hotel Room was produced by Grammy-winning artist Sturgill Simpson and garnered praise from Paste, NPR Music, Billboard and Rolling Stone, who called it “a bold expansion of Lucette’s melodic sensibilities with arrangements that avoid the rootsy cliches of Americana music.” Nice Girl From The Suburbs further expands those sonic influences as Lucette pulls from ‘90s dream pop and alt rock, while still remaining wholly present and relevant for these anxiety-inducing times.  Nice Girl From The Suburbs Tracklist 1. Too Soon For Sorry  2. Back in the Blue 3. True Devotion  4. Heading for the End  5. Rodeo Clown  6. Wasted Monday  Follow Lucette: Website - Instagram - Facebook (Album  Art)

Sterling Drake - She Means Everything to Me (Official Single)

Sterling Drake Announces Debut Album The Shape I’m In Out May 2 via Calusa Music/Missing Piece Records Tender New Single “She Means Everything to Me” Revels in the Power of Love

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Denison Witmer - "Shade I'll Never See (feat. Sufjan Stevens)" (Official...

Singer/songwriter Denison Witmer released his new album Anything At All, available everywhere through Asthmatic Kitty Records. Produced and recorded by Sufjan Stevens, who also performs throughout the album, Anything At All is a new collection of ten vibrant and pensive folk-pop songs that features the two longtime friends and collaborators working more closely than ever before on a cohesive, elegant creative effort. Denison also shared the official video for “Shade I’ll Never See (feat. Sufjan Stevens),” a gorgeous, sweeping track where bursts of instrumentation provide a backdrop for Denison to contemplate what the world wants to manifest.” Watch “Shade I’ll Never See” (feat. Sufjan Stevens) HERE “We had so much fun making this album and just being in each other’s company,” stated Denison. “Even though the motivation of the project was to make a record, it became as much about the process as it was the outcome. It was a nice reminder to keep moving forward…to keep working on the things that inspire me with people that inspire me.”   Album highlights include the “beautifully lush piece of indie-folk” (Stereogum) “Older and Free,” the “beautifully soothing” (Clash) “Focus Ring” (feat. Sufjan Stevens), and the recently released “A House With,” which was featured on NPR Music’s “All Songs Considered,” who called it “gorgeous” and “a perfect marriage of Denison Witmer’s writing style and Sufjan Steven’s production style.”   Anything At All finds Denison in a suitably reflective mood, mining sublime revelation from an ordinary, domesticated life. Topics like bird watching, carpentry, houseplants, and hiking offer insights into bigger, existential questions about life, death, meaning, and purpose. Whether it’s spent making clocks, gathering berries, planting trees, or putting the kids to bed at night, these songs suggest that a life lived with thoughtfulness and care can lead to deeper joy and fulfillment.   “This is the first time I’ve engineered and produced an entire album of songs for Denison,” said Sufjan. “We did a lot of it in my studio in the Catskills, which is a homey, informal space, not intimidating at all. So I think the songs capture some of that: the isolated, private, casual nature of upstate New York. We also took our time, worked in blocks between long breaks because of Covid and adult-life stuff. So there was a kind of touch-and-go nature to the process. Nothing feels hurried or immediate. A lot of big changes were happening in our lives and in the world around us, so the songs came to represent a kind of safe haven from all that.”   He continued, “I like the simplicity of the songs he wrote, how they’re mostly about domestic life, family life, housekeeping etc. And yet there’s a lot of spiritual and emotional insight too. The songs have a nice balance of the sacred and mundane. You get a good sense of how a hammer or a postcard might come to represent something more transcendent. Denison’s songs find a lot of wisdom in the everyday routine of things.”   Recorded sporadically over a period of two years, Anything At All was primarily created at Sufjan’s Catskills studio during the pandemic, with additional sessions recorded by Andy Park, in Seattle, WA. Contributors include Stevens and Park as well as Sam Evian, Hannah Cohen, Meg Lui, Sean Lane, and Keenan O'Meara amongst others. The album’s musical aesthetic marries Denison’s folksy vibe with Sufjan’s signature bells and whistles: lush strings and woodwinds, women’s choir and an occasional jazzy saxophone weave their way around Denison’s matter-of-fact vocals and acoustic guitar. These are simple folk songs with bursts of awe and wonder.   Although they’ve been close friends and collaborators for over 20 years, Anything At All marks the first time Sufjan has produced and arranged any of Denison’s songs from start to finish. Throughout the process, he steered Denison in new and challenging ways, questioning his lyrics, pushing him to explore the things that had been left unsaid, deliberately or otherwise. What might have been a challenge simply reinforced their bond, the process becoming a comfortable space for the pair to spend time being in a creative mindset together. Perhaps the album’s greatest gift is the balance Denison’s songs find within Sufjan’s signature production. While there’s an occasional push and a pull between their two styles, the finished record makes for a gorgeous marriage: Denison’s more plain-stated style, and the spaces he intuitively leaves, gently colored by Sufjan’s unique style.   Track Listing: 01) Focus Ring 02) Older and Free 03) A House With 04) Making Love 05) Clockmaker 06) Confessions 07) Lost In My Head 08) Shade I’ll Never See 09) Slow Motion Snow 10) Brother’s Keeper Album Art Denison Witmer: Website - Facebook - X - Instagram

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Taylor Rae - Cologne (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

Taylor Rae Shares Bluesy New Single “Cologne” Eric Krasno-Produced New Album The Void, Out April 18th Credit: Barbara FG  February 20, 2025 - Today, Austin based singer/songwriter Taylor Rae shared her new single “Cologne” along with an official video. The track is the latest to release off her upcoming album The Void, the anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed 2021 debut, due out April 18th. A song about lust and longing, “Cologne” is driven forward by groove, guitar, and bluesy grit. The accompanying video shows behind-the-scenes footage of Rae and producer Eric Krasno during the recording of the album. It was featured on Magnet who called it “the sort of bluesy sway Robert Plant and Alison Krauss lock into with their take on Randy Weeks’ ‘Can’t Let Go,’ from Lucinda Williams’ Americana masterpiece, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road.” Watch “Cologne” (Official Video) HERE "This is one of the lighter songs on the album, a little breath of fresh air,” stated Rae. “The image I get is putting on a partner’s t-shirt, taking in the distinctive aroma, and dancing around your apartment to a new song that you love, only because they showed it to you. It eases the discomfort of missing them. The song is simply about being turned on by the unique smell of your partner. Smell is a sense not often written about, but it resonates deeply, especially for people in long-distance relationships or those who spend a lot of time away from home."   “Cologne” follows the release of the heavy-hitting alt-tinged juggernaut “Maybe I’m The Villain,” a self-reflective track that strives to view things through the opposite lens. Holler featured the track and raved, "With its lush, sweeping harmonies, sugary '90s pop gloss and crunching backbeat, the swampy country funk of 'Maybe I'm the Villain' is a bold statement of intent that sounds like All Saints recording with The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section."   Hailed by No Depression as "a singer fully in command of her vocal gifts and a songwriter who enfolds her lyric sensibility in haunting musical sketches," Rae has spent years touring behind her career-launching debut, driving herself from show to show, watching America unfold outside the car windshield. While crisscrossing the country and playing over 200 gigs a year, including supporting artists such as Sierra Hull, Pokey LaFarge, The Head and the Heart, John Craigie, Band of Heathens, and The Brothers Comatose, she watched Mad Twenties become a national hit. The record wound up spending more than 30 weeks on the Americana Radio charts. No other independently-released album enjoyed a longer stay on the Americana charts.   Now with her sophomore release, Rae takes her eyes off the road and turns her attention inward. Filled with the most personal songs of her career, The Void is a sharply-written record that celebrates the contradictory and complementary parts of the human experience, exploring life's dark corners — from breakups to intergenerational trauma — with a colorful mix of roadhouse roots-rock, modern-day folk, alternative music, blues, and analog Americana. Anchored by a songwriting style that explores the uncharted spaces between genres, she took inspiration from the roots of American music while also maintaining a modern edge.   Produced by Grammy-winner Eric Krasno (Soulive, Lettuce, Tedeschi Trucks Band) and recorded out of his studio in Pasadena, The Void is an immersive and wildly eclectic album that both confirms Rae's status as an Americana A-lister as well as reaches far beyond the genre's borders. It features songs that are vulnerable, self-examinations rooted in loss and heartbreak, while others are celebrations of new love. Together, they explore the contrasts that have filled Rae’s life of late: darkness and light, chaos and balance, closed doors and new beginnings. Some songs were built around live-in-the-studio performances that showcased her strength as a stage performer. Others were recorded layer by layer. The result is a stunning blend of cinematic slow-burners, self-empowerment anthems, raw stripped-down field recordings, bluegrass-inspired barn-burners, and even the occasional reggae rhythm.   "The main theme is introspection," Rae continues. "The past four years have been such a trying time with constant change. Sometimes it felt like I was staring into the void, and I decided to document the moment by writing these songs."   As the sound fades into the ether, we're reminded that the road goes on forever, shuttling us from the past toward whatever future lies ahead. The Void is the soundtrack to that unending journey, whipped into existence by a singer/songwriter who's dedicated to the long haul.   Tracklisting: 01) The Void 02) Maybe I’m The Villain 03) Cologne 04) Telluride 05) Undertone 06) Celebrating Alone 07) Not Mine 08) Hi 09) Trapped 10) The Airport Song Album Art Taylor Rae Website - Facebook - Instagram - TikTok

 

Bachman-Turner Overdrive & The Marshall Tucker Band Announce Roll On Down The Highway 2025 Tour Co-Headlining US Tour This Summer with Special Guest Jefferson Starship

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February 24, 2025: Today, Bachman Turner-Overdrive, the legendary rock n’ roll band behind worldwide hits such as “Takin’ Care Of Business” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”, announced a new run of US tour dates dubbed, Roll On Down The Highway 2025 Tour. A majority of the shows will be co-headlined with southern rock pioneers The Marshall Tucker Band, with the 70s/80s hitmakers Jefferson Starship as the special guest. Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 28.   The US tour will follow BTO’s massive Back In Overdrive Tour 2025, an extensive run of shows across Canada this April and May. Multi-platinum April Wine and Headpins, two fellow Canadian rock bands, will open in support. Tickets are on sale now.   Last year, Randy Bachman revived BTO, and has continued to tour throughout 2024 with a run of US dates wrapping up next week. Led by Bachman, BTO's latest lineup also includes his son Tal Bachman. With Randy's legendary guitar and Tal's contemporary flair, BTO forges ahead, blending their classic hits with a fresh energy that captivates audiences worldwide. The band will also be performing hits from The Guess Who, the iconic classic rock group which Bachman co-founded with Burton Cummings. The BTO legacy lives on, promising unforgettable performances and a continued impact on the ever-evolving rock landscape.   Bachman has become a legendary figure in the rock and roll world through his talents as a guitarist, songwriter, performer and producer. Bachman has earned over 120 gold and platinum album/singles awards around the world. His songwriting has garnered him the coveted #1 spot on radio playlists in over 20 countries and over the course of his career he has sold over 40 million records. Randy’s songs have been recorded by a broad range of artists and have been placed in dozens of TV shows, films and commercials. Impressively, his music has provided a veritable soundtrack of the last thirty years of popular music. Founded in Spartanburg, SC over five decades ago, the 5x Gold, 3x Platinum-selling rock band The Marshall Tucker Band have sold millions of albums worldwide thanks to hits such as “Can’t You See,” “Heard It in a Love Song,” “Fire on the Mountain,” and “24 Hours At a Time.” CMT once named “Can’t You See” the #4 Greatest Southern Rock Song while Ultimate Classic Rock crowned it the #1 Southern Rock Song. Their self titled debut album reigns as Gibson Guitar’s #5 Greatest Southern Rock Album of all time, and GRAMMY Magazine named the group’s logo as one of the most distinctive and iconic brands in music. In 2023, the MTB was awarded Pandora’s Billionaires Plaque, recognizing over one billion streams on the platform. For more information on The Marshall Tucker Band, visit marshalltucker.com for tour dates.

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