Nashville blues punkers Natural Child have already received many comparisons to Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Stones, and The Stooges, and today they release their new 7-inch as further evidence to warrant all of that. The 7-inch, as well as a pack of rolling papers, is out on Jeffrey Drag Records, a musician-run label in Nashville known for their limited edition cassette and vinyl release from some of the most talked about local Rocky Top Tennessee garage, country blues,…

Cari Rae and Jordy Asher’s music outfit, Blonds, gets compared to groups like Tennis and Cults. Why? Because they are a boy and a girl making pop music. These are not bad comparisons by any means, but Rae and Asher’s project is not a rip-off of the pioneers of cutesy indie pop. In fact, it’s not cutesy indie pop at all. Music writers stamped the twosome with similarities after the Floridians self-released their debut EP, Dark Roots, last November. The…

In 1997, after phenomenal freshman and sophomore albums, Oasis released Be Here Now. Even though many critics liked the album, some criticized the overproduced sound and bloated length. Oasis had tried to go from early Beatles to White Album Beatles overnight and while the album sold well it was still considered a disappointment. It sort of spiraled downhill from there. “Bonehead” Arthurs and Paul McGuigan left the band, the brothers Gallagher continued to fight tooth and nail against each other…

Though this is her third album, Jesca Hoop is still a relative unknown to many music listeners. What is known, and should who aren’t familiar should know, is that Hoop has hobnobbed with some of the biggest names in the biz. She’s cut her teeth by working with the iconic Tom Waits (for whose kids she was the nanny for), Peter Gabriel (who sang backup for) and Guy Garvey of Elbow, the latter which led to her moving to Manchester.…