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We kick of our new release spotlights for 2022 with something surprisingly different: a funk/soul band out of Moscow, Russia! This five-piece band of Muscovites have an all-instrumental album of cinematic, psychedelic, Eastern European grooves we think you’ll dig. Available on January 28th.

This is the former Stray Birds member’s 3rd solo album, one that “opens windows that give us insights into the ambiguities of our lives.” (No Depression) She’s joined by Shelby Means & Joel Timmons, Kristin Andreassen & Chris Eldridge, her partner Ethan Jodziewicz, and her two sisters.

It might be hard to imagine an album of Merle Haggard country classics done in a Memphis soul style. But it’s actually been a dream of Reed’s to do these “radical reworkings”, as he calls them, for some ten years now. And it works! Reed credits the greatness of the songs themselves to be arranged so differently and still work. Take a listen yourself, and perhaps you’ll agree that Eli deserves a bit of that credit, too.

Originally from Santa Cruz, CA, 27-year-old Taylor has a bit of that wonderful Laurel Canyon sound in these new recordings. She currently lives in Austin, TX, and will be live in Studio B on Wednesday March 2nd! She plays White Horse Black Mountain that night, and Isis Music Hall in West Asheville on the 9th.

She and her band are one big reason why Asheville is on the national map for great music, particularly Americana-oriented songwriters who know how to sing the stories of your life. After a monthly release this past year of A-and-B-side singles, their full album is now officially released – a double-album!

It’s basically a live album that most acts can only dream of! Drummer and Mixing Engineer Tyler Thompson explains: "This album is a recording of a show at Visual Arts Collective in Boise, ID on February 10th, 2019. It was the end of a long tour, so we were definitely firing on all cylinders. Luckily, we didn't even know the show was being recorded to multitrack, so the energy couldn't be more honest and rowdy. It was so fun going back through these live tracks that it makes us feel there may be many more live albums in future.”

The pioneering jam-grass act from Colorado has a new multi-instrumentalist member, and some fresh energy, in Nick Piccininni. Co-founders Adam Aijala, Ben Kaufmann and Dave Johnston are still hanging out on the mountain, along with fiddler Allie Kral who joined in 2015.

This is a departure for the New Orleans-based Alynda Segarra, in terms of their musical direction. Its eleven new “nature punk” tracks on the theme of survival are music for a world in flux—songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is unfolding.

Sometimes you just need to hang ten with all the crazy headlines crashing into us… Check out this instrumental surf-rock band, that also weaves in some jazz noir and spaghetti western vibes. They’re new and from British Columbia, and they say that their highlights and achievements have yet to be fully measured, “but Bodhi from the taco stand heard us rehearsing and said “it was pretty gnarly”.”

After a couple albums with the band Sons of Fathers, “Big Velvet” (a nickname courtesy of his deep, smooth baritone) is now releasing his third solo album. His love for outlaw country (Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, etc.) is still there, but this time he’s a little more adventurous with synthesizer, a bit of a funk and even disco groove, and a whole lot of sneering satire. A couple of the songs, we can’t even name on the radio. Count on us to turn it up for the others, though!