59 Music Blogs That Are Guaranteed To Listen To Your Song

Frustrated with the process of submitting his music to blogs, Color Theory’s Brian Hazard decided to give the service SubmitHub a try and detailed his resulting experience here. __________________________ Guest Post by Brian Hazard on Passive Promotion I hate submitting my music to blogs. Hate hate hate. The process goes…

iLLPHONiCS’ Larry Morris Waxes Lyrical On “96to99”

iLLPHONiCS offer music that carries itself with a strut and swagger, but with the social awareness of hip-hop when it achieves its best intention. The St. Louis outfit has been grafting hard for the past few years, blending genres, avoiding cliches, an…

M. Ward Talks Purity Of Essence And Hopes For ‘More Rain’

Portland, Oregon-based M. Ward has just released his eighth studio album, More Rain, via his longtime label Merge Records. When creating a record, the singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer looks to weave together old records with that …

Flashback: See Miranda Lambert Cover Merle Haggard at All for the Hall

Miranda Lambert, who first came to the attention of country music fans as a contestant (and third-place finisher) on Nashville Star, showed her reverence for classic country on the USA Network reality singing competition with a feisty performance of Me…

See Gabe Dixon’s Southern-Tinged ‘Crave’ Video

In a city overflowing with transplants, Gabe Dixon is a rare Nashville native. It seems fitting, then, that the piano-pounding songwriter — now an Americana solo artist, following a decade-plus run as frontman of his own Southern pop/rock trio and sideman for the likes of Paul McCartney and Alison Krauss…