NADA SURF MOON MIRROR NEW WEST RECORDS Alternative rockers Nada Surf first achieved popularity with the hit song “Popular”, and although they never quite reached the same success afterwards, they became a beloved band from the ‘90s. Their newest [...]
COLOR GREEN FOOL’S PARADE NEW WEST RECORDS Modern psych rock is tagged as such because it often includes a number of other musical elements that the initial psych rock from its late 60s heyday possibly didn’t have. Think of all such [...]
RICHARD THOMPSON SHIP TO SHORE NEW WEST RECORDS Singer-songwriter-guitarist Richard Thompson is celebrating the release of new music with his album Ship To Shore. Thompson first made a name for himself in the 1960s as a pioneer of British [...]
Ben Folds What Matters Most New West Records Ben Folds delivers yet another exceptional album with his latest release, What Matters Most. It is silly and heartwarming, features choruses that will be instantly loved by fans and has some [...]
The Wallflowers Exit Wounds New West Records Distance, patience, loss, and winning, and somewhere in between is Jakob Dylan, making choices. Over the decades, it seems he has been playing it safe enough not to fail. Whatever he does, however, [...]
John Hiatt With The Jerry Douglas Band Leftover Feelings New West Records It sounds like the beginning of an old joke: two guys walk into a bar, and… but this is no joke. The ‘guys’ are two giants of Americana – singer-songwriter John Hiatt, and [...]
Aaron Lee Tasjan Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! New West Records Aaron Lee Tasjan is certainly a name that is somewhere in the back of the memory files of music fans. After all, as his official biography describes, he went from “his glam rock [...]
DEVIL PUT THE COAL IN THE GROUND A CONVERSATION WITH MUSICAL LEGEND STEVE EARLE “When you make art for a living and someone doesn’t like it, it is their opinion, but it’s impossible not to take it personally because it does [...]
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES RETURN WITH GHOSTS OF WEST VIRGINIA MAY 22 NEW WEST RECORDS Steve Earle & The Dukes will release Ghosts of West Virginia on May 22nd, 2020 via New West Records. The album was produced by Steve Earle and engineered [...]
Steve Earle & The Dukes Guy New West Records Most cover albums are pretty low-stakes affairs, especially when the creator is an aging legend whose legacy is secure. Not so for Steve Earle. “No way I could get out of doing this record”, said [...]
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES RETURN WITH GUY MARCH 29 + TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED NEW WEST RECORDS Steve Earle & The Dukes are set to return with GUY on March 29th, 2019. A return to New West Records, the 16-song set is comprised of songs written [...]
JINGLE BELL! JINGLE BELL! JINGLE BELL ROCK! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2018 CHRISTMAS RELEASES Well, it is that time of year again. Trees are going up, stores are being decorated, streets are all lit up and the release new [...]
Daniel Romano Finally Free You’ve Changed Records/New West Records Finally Free is Daniel Romano’s ninth solo album since his solo debut in 2010 (Workin’ For The Music Man). The one consistency over the years with the Welland, Ontario [...]
All Them Witches ATW New West Records There is no question that Nashville-based quartet All Them Witches are capable of producing music for the genre that they are frequently pigeon-holed into – psychedelic/stoner rock – but it does them no [...]
The Nude Party The Nude Party New West Records The Nude Party is the debut album from The Nude Party. They have released an EP, but The Nude Party is their first full length album, and for the most part, it lives up to expectations. Based in [...]
Wild Moccassins Look Together New West Records Look Together is this generation’s Rumours. Co-written by the core members of Wild Moccasins, Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann, the album lyrically and musically documents the break-up of Swann and [...]
PETER BUCK OF R.E.M. & JOSEPH ARTHUR TO RELEASE “ARTHUR BUCK” JUNE 15TH PREMIERE “ARE YOU ELECTRIFIED?” VIDEO New West Records Joseph Arthur and Peter Buck of R.E.M. fame will release their debut album, Arthur Buck, [...]
Kacy & Clayton The Siren’s Song New West Records Second cousins Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum seem like they’re part of a bygone era. It’s not just their retro cover art, the disco-ball cuts in music videos, or their dreamy [...]
FACING MODERN PRESSURES HEAD-ON A CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL ROMANO According to the press release I read to promote Daniel Romano’s latest album, Modern Pressure, he made his stage debut at the age of eight. He played drums for his family’s [...]
Daniel Romano Modern Pressure New West Records Modern Pressure is solo album number seven for this prolific artist, and for the most part, no two albums sound the same. He has also been in a number of bands (Attack in Black; Daniel, Fred & [...]
