• Meet Barrence Whitfield & the Savages. This is classy mayhem garage rock with raw vocals, thick and nasty guitar tones, and a preternaturally locked-in rhythm section.
The band release Under the Savage Sky in August, a down and dirty soulful punk record, via Bloodshot Records – filled with compact, three minute-or-less blasts.
For starters? Try a piece of Incarceration Casserole…
• This album will sneak up on you like Robert DeNiro with a bat. It’s nine songs complete. It’s Fleetwood, Springsteen, Mellencamp, Eagles; 70’s essentials.
Not many bands make the effort of an album anymore. It’s a couple of songs and that’s it. Dawes bites the head of that bullet. Their new album is a hard working LP wrapped up and intwined. We utterly adore it.
K7 saw Dawes backing Conor Oberst last summer at Way Out West in the green city woods of Gothenburg, Sweden. On stage they first looked a bit pale, then bursted into life and rallied their own songs – a tight unit for sure. The backbone of the band are brothers – Taylor Goldsmith (guitar & vocals) and Griffin Goldsmith (drums). They don´t miss a beat.
June 2nd Dawes fourth studio album, All Your Favorite Bands, was released via Hub Records. You’ll see this one high up on every EOY-list worth mentioning come December.
Til then…let’s hope your brother’s El Camino runs forever…
As always june and july is nothing but a long wait for august… Because august in Gothenburg means Way Out West. The best god damned festival that man has ever known.
Except for beeing extremely progressive regarding social and human responsibilites, art and movies among many things, they also book the most interesting acts and hook us up with brand new artists. Gotta love that!
The line up this year is no exception, check it out at: WayOutWest.se
One of Swedens best well kept secrets, Goat, returns to the festival this year. We say – awesome! See you in august!
Straight outta Birmingham, Alabama, meet the … Banditos and the intense, powerful, violent voice of Mary Beth Richardson. Goddammit.
Their self-titled debut full-length album is out this spring and layered with as much grime as it is with pinpoint songwriting and feverish technical savvy. Each song wafts new dynamics into a streamlined stylistic roots, punk, and rock ‘n’ roll jet stream.
As a Friday Special: Check out Banditos perform I Put A Spell On You live in Nashville, Tennessee. If this don’t get you moving, don’t get you emotionally addicted to the soul of great music – what will?
Swedish indie pop rockers Seaweed Meadows released a new single yesterday.
The west coast band delivers a pure and free soundscape with that awesome swedish feel to it.
While waiting for the full length, they offer us a single ”Gravitation”, which will be a great company to the pre-summer that surrounds this cold country.
Listen:
• Seth and Jessica covers Elliott in an amazing release, true & honest to the man who tragically died 12 years ago. The 2015-album Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith was recorded over the past three years at the artists’ homes and at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina. The duo will tour the album later this year, til then check out the eerie, barren, beautiful, magical – Fond Farewell.
Photo: Espen Boeg Jensen
An artist very dear to Kentuckyseven, danish Broken Twin, recently toured Scandinavia. On this tour, a fellow dane, acted support, an artist called Chorus Grant.
Chorus Grant is Kristian Finne Kristensen, danish singer, songwriter and guitarist with a very american sound. Inspired by artists like Bob James, Elliott Smith, Al Green, Wilco and Cass McCombs.
Mr Kristensen released a live album ”Live in Concert” in march this year, with recordings from a domestic tour.
The sound of Chorus Grant appeals to our frozen nordic hearts in so many ways. A melancholy that feels familiar to the bone, but also music that allows your heart to feel the hope of nordic summer.
Listen:
• Bhi Bhiman is the St. Louis-son who moved to San Fran to make darling stuff in the path of Rodriguez and Nina Simone. It’s a diverse sound that keeps the listener on high alert. It’s plain great.
Tomorrow, May 19th, Bhiman got his new record out: Rhythm & Reason. He tours America together with ol´ Kentuckyseven-favs Goodnight Texas – a combo you don´t ever wanna miss.
Check out brand new song, the beautiful Up In Arms.
