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Vancouver Island-based indie band Current Swell are back with their highly anticipated EP, ‘Peacekeeper,’ their first release since the acclaimed 2019 album ‘Buffalo’. This 5-song EP will be followed by a 2nd one early next year, with plans to release the two together as well.

One of the best known contemporary progressive bluegrass jam bands, Yonder Mountain String Band has helped showcase the great music scene coming out of Colorado for some 26 years now. Ben Kaufmann, Adam Aijala, Dave Johnston, and Nick Piccininni are now joined by fiddler Coleman Smith, as well as dobro great Jerry Douglas on three tracks here.

"Some things just go together: Lennon and McCartney, Cheech and Chong, Willie and weed and now Hayes and The Heathens. On Sunday September 15th, fans of both musical heavyweights experienced sonic kismet when the two acts joined forces..." - John Nelson, Salt Lake Magazine. We loved hosting Hayes and a couple Heathens here in Studio B in April: https://www.youtube.com/@WNCWStudioB/search?query=hayes%20heathens

Funk, soul, jazz, rock, and symbiosis have been the bedrock of this tight band for over two decades. We loved hosting them here in Studio B in June of 2023 (videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@WNCWStudioB/search?query=motet ), and one of their tracks is on our latest “Crowd Around the Mic” compilation.

Here’s a new release curveball for ya: frontman Dave Simonett had his band Trampled By Turtles recorded an EP of new songs, AND he had his other band Dead Man Winter record the same ones in a more rock setting. Apparently neither of the bands knew about the other session at the time! Compare and contrast for yourself as we unveil both on Wednesday afternoon.

When the Amsterdam singer-songwriter Jana Mila (pronounced Yah-nuh MEE-lah) began writing a song called “Chameleon,” she thought she was writing about someone else—a friend who seemed to be changing her colors to please other people. “But the more I lived with the song, the more I felt like I was writing about myself,” she admits. “Doesn’t everybody try to reflect other people? Don’t I change my own colors in order to be accepted? Especially when you’re young, you can lose yourself in other people if you don’t know who you are.” That is the central idea behind her debut album, which introduces Mila as an artist deeply committed to self-reckoning and self-possession. “The album is a conversation with myself, a way of getting to know myself better. There are little fears woven into every lyric, but there’s also advice to myself. I’m writing to find a part of myself that has some wisdom.” Musically, you’ll hear influences of Laurel Canyon folk, Nashville country, and 70’s rock, with a definitively modern sound.

The blues legend from nearby Pelzer, SC has released a great new one! His first band back in the day featured the future “Godfather of Soul”, a young James Brown on piano. From there, he went on to work with greats like Muddy Waters and Bill Withers, and on the sets of programs like “Soul Train” and “Sanford & Son”. He retired to his home state to become an organic farmer, but we’re glad he continues to perform his great blues. If he’s really 82 or so years old, it appears no one’s told him about slowing down: he’s also got bookings for 2025 that extend as far as September (so far), including his 19th annual Cornbread & Collard Greens Blues Festival in April in Fountain Inn, SC.

You aren’t alone if you’re a bit surprised, or perhaps skeptical, about this project. But then Lucinda is known for taking songs – including ones rarely if ever covered or popular standards – and making them entirely her own. As she’s done with this 12-song collection from the Fab Four, recorded at their famous London studio. Joining her are Butch Norton, drums and percussion; David Sutton, bass; Doug Pettibone, electric guitars, pedal steel and backing vocals, Marc Ford, electric and acoustic guitars; and Richard Causon, Hammond B-3. Siobhan M Kennedy, wife of co-producer Ray Kennedy, sings backing vocals.

You may not have heard of them, but you know Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett, right? They portray their long-time alter-egos, Henry and Howard Coward, in the new scripted Audible Original series “The True Story of the Coward Brothers,” with accompanying 20-track album that we’ll feature. The Costello-scripted, Christopher Guest-directed, three-part audio series and its accompanying album are arriving right on the heels of an expansive boxed set that includes a substantial portion of the 40 years of collaborations between Costello and Burnett. The six-CD “King of America and Other Realms” includes a remastered version of the masterpiece that is 1986’s “King of America,” along with B-sides, outtakes, live tracks and selections from the projects that Burnett has produced for his “brother” in the nearly four decades since.

January 10th marks the official release of this singer/songwriter’s 45th album. Guests here include Carrie Newcomer, bluegrass great Claire Lynch, Tim O’Brien, and the vocal ensemble Windborne. Those who have followed John describe this as the best of his career. John himself says “My engineer claims it’s the best album we’ve done together. And being as we’ve done albums together since the 1990’s, I paid attention.”