Jello Biafra is one of the country’s most outspoken supporters of free speech and freedom (constitutional or otherwise.) He has released four albums of material recorded during the spoken word tours that carry him across the country. Each of these contains… (Read More)
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Jenny Choi began her journey in singer-songwriting as a student in Champaign, IL — the mecca of indie rock. There, Choi forged for herself an impressive following through her sincere performances and quirky, charming banter, attracting press from CMJ and attention… (Read More)
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
Jenny Lewis is a singer and a songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She’s got hair the color of a Pacific sunset, a voice as sweet as an ice cream cone, and a wit sharper than a razorblade. Most days (and nights… (Read More)
Jenoah is: Zachary Blizzard: drums, percussion and vibra-tones Robbie Halbert: guitar and moog Stephen Joshua Martinez: vocals and bass Lucky Phlip Rodrigues: guitar and vocals Jenoah sprung up from the arid wastelands of California’s San Bernadino County, and with their debut… (Read More)
Jens Martin Lekman (born February 6, 1981 in Angered, Sweden) is a Swedish pop musician. He has released two albums and several EPs since 2003. His music can be described as guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings; the… (Read More)
Better known as the principal singer/songwriter for (the now disbanded) Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeremy Enigk (pronounced ee-nihk) arrives here with his debut solo work, Return of the Frog Queen. This return precipitates a near-audible sigh of relief from Sunny Day… (Read More)
Nashville-based Jeremy Lister started connecting with music from early childhood while growing up in the middle of Mississippi. A son of a preacher, he began singing and learning harmonies in church at the age of two. When his father would leave… (Read More)
Jeremy Lyons & The Deltabilly Boys
Fleet finger-picking, stinging slide guitar, compelling vocals. Drums, bass fiddle, churning out rock-solid, caffeinated swing rhythms. Playful originals, standards, and the deepest swamp blues. A favorite of the Crescent City club scene, Jeremy Lyons & The Deltabilly Boys have toured the… (Read More)
As one of the premiere dobro players in bluegrass, new-acoustic, and country music, Jerry “Flux” Douglas toured and recorded with everyone from Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to mandolin sensation David Grisman and banjo innovator Bela… (Read More)
melvin seals david kemper gloria jones shirley starks marty holland stu allen When he wasn’t touring the countryside with the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia stayed busy with a number of different musical excursions. While he explored folk, bluegrass, jazz and blues… (Read More)
Jerry Jeff Walker is best known as the writer of “Mr. Bojangles,” an enduring pop classic he wrote at the beginning of his career after meeting a street singer named Bojangles in a New Orleans drunk tank. He’s also strongly associated… (Read More)
“There are two times this band is really good,” Jerry Joseph says of his top-flight trio. "One is when we’re supposed to come out and kick ass as a rock band, especially under pressure live, like as an opening act on… (Read More)
Jerry Joseph And The Jackmormons
The long awaited double-live album from Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons, Mouthful of Copper, will be released September 23rd on Terminus Records. Mouthful of Copper captures the magic and power of the band’s legendary live shows. The Portland, Oregon based trio… (Read More)
Based in Burlington, Ontario, Jersey is proper punk in the tradition of the Clash, Rancid and Bad Religion infused with elements of Springsteen, U2 and even a little Tie Domi. All four members are proudly working-class guys who took day jobs… (Read More)
“Jesca Hoop’s music is like a four sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or a red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night.” — Tom Waits "Hoop is… (Read More)
Johnny Cash once told guitarist-singer Jesse Dayton, “You’re different, so it might take you a little longer to break than these other young guys … but you’ll have a lot longer career.” Dayton took those words to heart and has committed… (Read More)
Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos
The Secret Sun is Jesse Harris and the Ferdinandos’ first album for Blue Thumb/Verve, and their fourth overall. In the year preceding its release, Brooklyn-based troubadour Harris gained considerable attention for his work on Norah Jones’ multi-platinum smash Come Away with… (Read More)
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
Embraced – and sometimes frustratingly genre-labeled – by fans of so-called ‘alt-country’ music (encouraged in such labeling perhaps, by Sykes’ longtime collaboration with guitarist/songwriter Phil Wandscher, co-founder of seminal post-punk Americana band Whiskeytown) and increasingly by more experimental-indie listeners of Low… (Read More)
With influences that range from The Beatles to Aimee Mann this new-age folk songstress is sure to catch your eye…more on Jessie Baylin coming soon. (Read More)
Everyone talks about rock these days, the problem is, they forget about the roll. How Keith Richards- who made this comment about post 90’s rock music- must love Jet. They rock like there’s no tomorrow yet they also roll like the… (Read More)
Formed in the waning days of 1999, an unfortunate time when every poser was ditching his guitar for a pair of turntables, Jet Black Joy was locked and loaded for their part in what they see as a new rock ’n… (Read More)
Like snorting a line of Pepsi & Morphine thru the middle of an old 45, JET FUEL give ya everything you know you like & everything you think you’re too kool to dig at the same time. This is straight retro… (Read More)
Consisting of ex-Jawbreaker frontman Blake Schwarzenbach, ex-Texas Is the Reason drummer Chris Daly, and ex-Handsome vocalist/guitarist Jeremy Chatelain, Jets to Brazil could be considered an amalgam of their forefathers with a slightly darker and more mature musical perspective. With the 1998… (Read More)
Reckless abandon, danger, trouble, chaos, frenetic energy. What do all of these things have in common? ROCK N’ ROLL, that’s what! These are, in fact, the very basis of the word! Rock n’ roll, in all of its hedonistic glory, is… (Read More)
Since recording her first album nearly a decade ago, Jewel has continued to explore fresh avenues, branching out from her folk roots to incorporate rock, pop, country, blues, jazz, and classical influences into her work. Each successive album has found her… (Read More)
Jim Bianco My first musical memory was of my mother, Jane, a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn, playing Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” on a tinny old Baldwin upright piano. The performance was far from perfect, but I will say, and this… (Read More)
Safe In Sound could be the title of Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Jim Boggia’s life story, not just the name of his bluhammock music debut. As he often likes to explain to reporters, "I’ve been told that I was singing melodies before I… (Read More)
