Cody Lee Meece

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Cody Lee Meece is a songwriter and composer from Somerset, Kentucky. He spent the majority of his teenage years rambling from couch to couch. At 18 he took the Greyhound bus to Nashville, Tennessee; only to find himself living on the streets for four months in pursuit of his dreams. After a short stint back […]

July Moon

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July Moon is a Nashville-based band made up of Piper Bateman, Page Mackenzie, and Braelyn Watt. The all-female trio pulls influences from classic rock groups like Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles — coining their sound as ‘Fleetwood Country’. Formed in 2021, July Moon released their self-titled debut EP in 2023, garnering attention from major press […]

Abe Partridge

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Abe Partridge is a heralded musician, singer/songwriter, visual artist, and podcaster based in Mobile, Alabama. His 2018 debut, Cotton Fields and Blood For Days earned him rave reviews, with Tony Paris saying in The Bitter Southerner: “He plays guitar the same way he writes lyrics, bashing the strings with abandon until they are just about to come loose, […]

Nigel Wearne

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Nigel Wearne saunters after dark in the music of the night, blending blues, jazz and Americana-noir. Hailing from Gunditjmara country in the deep south of Australia, he’s a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with diverse influences such as Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones. Nigel has played some of the world’s most prestigious music festivals, […]

Mae Simpson

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Mae Simpson has been shaking up the Minneapolis music scene ever since her band formed in 2018, led by her powerhouse vocals and stage presence. The six-piece band brings audiences to their feet. The Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter weaves elements of funk, soul, pop, rock and country into her sound. Mae and her bandmates leave it all […]

Jeremie Albino

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There’s no counting the worlds Jeremie Albino has traveled to get to where he is today, and no telling which ones he might head to next. Born and raised in the bright and booming metropolis of Toronto, his heart led him out of the city and into Prince Edward County, where country living and a […]

Eddie 9V

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As far back as he can remember, Capricorn Studios was calling Eddie 9V. As a kid scanning the sleeves of his favorite vinyl records, this fabled facility in Macon, Georgia, was always the secret ingredient, adding a little grit and honey to every song born on its floor. Capricorn and the bands who blew through […]

Ruen Brothers

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Ruen Brothers create neo-noir Western gold with their recently relesed album Ten Paces, their third full-length and first on Yep Roc Records. “We aimed to create something cinematic and personal, an album that takes listeners out of their world and into the West, like Marty Robbins’ Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs does,” says Rupert. A […]

Sundy Best

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Sundy Best was formed by two friends since elementary school, Nick Jamerson and Kris Bentley, from Prestonsburg in Eastern Kentucky. Both were athletes in college, with Jamerson playing football while at University of Pikeville where he studied history, and Bentley played basketball at Centre College in Danville where he studied English. They formed a duo […]

The Wallflowers

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Rock ‘n’ roll is often hard to define, or even to find, in these fractured musical times. But to paraphrase an old saying, you know it when you hear it. And you always hear it with the Wallflowers. For the past 30 years, the Jakob Dylan-led act has stood as one of rock’s most dynamic […]