High Road Touring

[NPR] By Bob Boilen Nathaniel Rateliff stands in an old familiar place, sharing his pain. The Mercury Café is one of the first places Nathaniel frequented when he moved to Denver in 1998, hearing jazz, dancing, and eventually playing many shows there. For his Tiny Desk (home) concert, he’s assembled a dozen players including a ...

[American Songwriter] BY MADELINE CRONE “I don’t know why it took me so long to put out another solo album,” says The Jayhawks frontman and songwriter-talent Gary Louris about his forthcoming project, Jump For Joy. Due June 4 via Thirty Tigers, Louris’s new record is his first release since Vagabond in 2008. The delay was not a lack of ...

[NPR] By Bob Boilen WATCH HERE The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. Across hemispheres, despite a nearly 8,000-mile ...

“Hurt a Fly” is the first single from the Massachusetts singer-songwriter’s second album, Planet (i), due out June 25th [Rolling Stone] By SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON  Massachusetts singer-songwriter Ella Williams, a.k.a. Squirrel Flower, will release a new album called Planet (i) this summer. The follow-up to her 2020 debut album, I Was Born Swimming, which earned her a spot as a Rolling Stone Artist ...

“Two Face” leads Taja Cheek’s first LP for Mexican Summer [Pitchfork] By Madison Bloom L’Rain is the musical project of Brooklyn experimentalist and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek. Today, L’Rain announces her sophomore album Fatigue, out June 25 via her new label Mexican Summer. She has also shared the track “Two Face,” which arrives with a visual created by Reese Donohue ...