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Today, the ethereal-voiced folk singer Erin Rae shares the latest single from her upcoming album, Lighten Up. The album features Kevin Morby, Hand Habits, and is produced by Jonathan Wilson (hence the hazy, multi-faceted effect that you can hear particularly well on this track; Wilson is credited as performing ‘machines’ in addition to drums & percussion on “Candy & Curry”). Tinged with cosmic country, the track could easily be a…

Mae Krell shares a deeply personal new single today about overcoming addiction and the continuous process of recovering. “People often expect me to be ‘healed’ now that I’m sober, not realizing that my disease will continue to trail behind me for the rest of my life,” Mae says. “‘phantom limb’ speaks to my recovery, and what it’s like to choose to carry something difficult with you instead of letting it go untreated.”…

Today Chelsea Rose shares the video for “Be Yrself,” a standalone (and standout) single released in advance of her upcoming 12″ Truth or Consequences, to be released early next year on Paul Is Dead Records. Chelsea’s sultry voice effortlessly carries the catchy ditty with a groovy guitar solo and a toe-tappin’ rhythm. “Be Yrself” was written and recorded pre-Covid. It serves as a reminder for me (and hopefully others) that…

🚨🚨🚨🚨 NEW TORI AMOS 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Um, somehow I missed the memo but the goddess herself released a new record recently? I’m so sorry. Today shares a lyric video for the song “Spies,” featuring animated creatures that taunt Tori’s daughter Tash at their Cornish home in the night. “Spies” is a mystical demystification, an urgent lullaby, a fierce invocation of protection for her daughter. Tori will be touring the UK and…

Today, Northern California musical icons the Mother Hips share their first-ever cover song from their upcoming new album Glowing Lantern, due out December 3rd on Blue Rose Music. The song was written by David Wiffen (whose songs have also covered by Tom Rush, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Hiss Golden Messenger), and the band first heard it when they scooped up an Anne Murray cassette at a truck stop. The Hips…

Rose Hotel’s single “Expansion” is the first from the upcoming EP The House That We Knew, due out soon on Cold Lunch Recordings. Rose Hotel is Atlanta-based musician Jordan Reynolds, and in her latest she conjures an image of a post-apocalyptic folk future, with shades of melancholia, relief, and a resigned, reserved, yet cautious optimism. The dreamy, introspective track features strings by Macie Stewart and Lia Kohl, as well as…