Social D on Daytrotter

Excuse the brevity of this post, which I’m currently typing on a tiny netbook since my main laptop has decided to take a dive. (keyword: arrrrrrrgh!) Social Distortion have an excellent new album Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes (read a review from my pal Broken Headphone here) that officially made its way onto store shelves […]

Free Live Noise from Bruce Hornsby

With a new live record due in 2011 (plus the debut of his forthcoming musical), Bruce Hornsby is a busy guy.  So it makes sense that he would choose September during a period of the closest thing to what he calls “downtime” to debut a new live download series (powered by Nugs.net) with a free […]

Good Listening: Steve Poltz at Daytrotter

Kudos to Jeff Giles for hipping me to the just-posted Daytrotter Session with Steve Poltz.  Anybody who knows Poltz will know that he doesn’t mess around, so while some artists might play an unreleased song or two for Daytrotter, Steve played nine. As I said on Twitter, if you’re not hip to Poltz – get […]

New Music: Saintseneca

Got this in email and as one that leans hard towards good folk/alt-country/Americana stuff, I had to share it with the ATV nation. I’m not sure if there is a “nation,” but I’m going with it. Saintseneca is a folk band from Columbus, Ohio, but “folk” doesn’t capture the passion, potential and joy in their […]

Free Music: Band of Skulls

Did you just make devil horns? I sure did. I’ve done it every single time that I’ve read the email that I got today, letting me know that UK trio Band of Skulls are this week’s free track of the week in the Itunes Music Store, where you can download their new single “I Know […]