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Nick Lowe’s music career goes back to 1967 when he started the band Brinsley Schwarz, followed by Rockpile in 1975, and his solo career a year later. “(What’s So Funny About) Peace, Love & Understanding”, “Cruel To Be Kind”, “So It Goes”… These are some of the hits penned by Lowe, in a career that’s included pub rock, power pop, and new wave. He’s also collaborated for a number of years with the band Los Straitjackets, and they back him up on each track of this fun new release.

We’re excited to share with you this new one from Georgie Fuller and Will Turner and their band. We love how well they channel the sounds of 60’s acts from both the British Invasion and West Coast/Laurel Canyon explosion (think Fairport Convention meets The Mamas and the Papas); The Guardian writes that they “write and play music with that lick of madness that makes early Fleetwood Mac and peak Stones so thrilling”). Or take it from John Mayer, who says “I’ve been listening all week and I really love it!” Get to know this 2nd album of theirs, released as of September 6th.

This new one from Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent is a rocker! Moreso than their previous ones, and it’s closer to what they sound like in their live sets. In fact that’s somewhat intentional: the duo recorded this one based on how they would arrange the songs on tour. They play the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte this Wednesday!

What does it mean to be a “Southern songwriter”? A few descriptions and parameters might come to mind, but American Aquarium front man BJ Barham has been expanding those stereotypes in his storytelling and soapbox sharing in ways that we can really get behind. As No Depression writes, “For the last two decades, (Barham) has seemingly willed his band to survive. Armed with an incisive pen and a love for Whiskeytown and Drive-by Truckers on one hand and Springsteen and Petty on the other, he gradually steered the rotating cast of his outfit from twentysomething dive bar revelry and heartbreak toward a more thoughtful, albeit scarred, maturity.” This is his/their 10th album, and 2nd in a row produced by Shooter Jennings.

Get to know this beautiful tribute to the many aspects of womanhood with this album from the daughter and torchbearer of the late Levon Helm. Supporting her here are Josh Kaufman (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, organ), Daniel Littleton (acoustic and electric guitar), Annie Nero (upright and center bass), Charley Drayton and Tony Mason (drums, percussion), Stuart Bogie (tenor sax), Dave Nelson (trombone, trumpet, euphonium, and brass choirs), Marco Benevento (organ), and Adam Minkoff (bass, percussion). Elizabeth Mitchell, Catherine Russell, Adam Minkoff and Zach Djanikian provide the background vocals.

This is the 4th album from this Brevard group. As their website bio describes, the goal of this album was to artistically, emotionally and energetically capture the essence of existence at a certain time and place. The place is of course our Southern Appalachian mountains, which they represent with a deep passion. They’ve got a couple of traditional fiddle tunes here, but otherwise all original tunes written by Josh Carter, Mallory Carter, Owen Grooms and others. Their album release show is Saturday September 21st at Paddle to the Pork (Green Road & Hannah Ford Road, between Brevard and Rosman.)

He’s been a professional musician for 30 years now, but this is his debut album of original material! The cofounder of Old Crow Medicine Show presents this collection of songs about beating the devil, and learning how to love himself again, and express himself freely and without limits. Congratulations, Willie!

Happy Fruition Day from WNCW: We’ve got them live in Studio B just past 11am, and three cuts from this new one between 2 and 3pm. The band from Portland, Oregon (and with Asheville connections too) is back with their first one in four years, so we’re extra excited to share it with you. “This is the first studio album that we’ve recorded entirely live,” says Jay Cobb Anderson, who shares frontperson duties with fellow multi-instrumentalists Mimi Naja and Kellen Asebroek. “We recorded 17 songs in 7 days, with everybody playing together in real time, and we didn’t overdub anything. The songs sound honest and real. They sound like us.” It was tracked and mixed by their drummer Tyler Thompson at eTown studios in Boulder, Colorado, home of one of our favorite radio programs! "Fruition Make Strong Return with Cohesive Folk and Americana...The band’s trademark three-part harmonies are still at the center of this self-produced record, but there is also a reinvigorated sound to the band.” – Glide

It’s the first album of new material in six years for Colin Meloy and his band of fellow Oregonians. To quote Stereogum, it “feels like a career summary of everything the Decemberists are and have been, juxtaposing stripped-down folk and buoyant pop songs against lengthy monoliths on a 68-minute double album that ends with a 20-minute retelling of the legend of Joan of Arc.”

We first got to know Swedish singer-songwriter Julia Logan in 2022 with her beautiful, dreamy folk-pop album Everly Foreverly. She grew up on a small Swedish island outside of Stockholm, but she also spent a few of her teenage years in southern California, where her mother’s from, and she learned the guitar from a local hippie. We feel fortunate to offer you an extra-early preview of this album before it becomes available in November. This one, like her previous one, was made in close collaboration with First Aid Kit’s producer, Daniel Bengtson.