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Mayer’s Playlist for January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013 By Mayer Danzig

ALBUMS OF THE MONTH Battles, by Kingsley Flood Battles is the sound of a band hitting stride. Kingsley Flood have always delivered rock solid songs and performances. Their latest release, however, packages their most potent songwriting to date with some equally powerful arrangements. There’s a real edge to the songs across this release. The title […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Downloads, Folk, Indie, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Roots, Streams Tagged With: Asa Brebner, Carrie Rodriguez, Elephant Stone, Glossary, Goodnight Texas, Joey Kneiser, Jones Street Station, Kingsley Flood, Nude Beach, Rich Mahan, Ted Russell Kamp, the Shilohs, The Stone Foxes, Wake Owl

Mayer’s Picks: Best Songs of 2012

Thursday, December 27, 2012 By Mayer Danzig

I posted a best songs list for the first half of 2012 back in July (here). Rather than replicate that list for my full year review, consider this the continuation — the best songs from the second half of the year. Love Changes Everything, Session Americana (from the self-released Love and Dirt) Session Americana wrap […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Downloads, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Streams Tagged With: Ben Kyle, Brandi Carlile, Christian McNeill, Danielle Miraglia, Joe Pug, Jones Street Station, Kasey Anderson, Matthew Perryman Jones, Matthew Ryan, Redd Kross, Sea Monsters, Session Americana, the Vansaders

Mayer’s Picks: Best EPs of 2012

Friday, December 21, 2012 By Mayer Danzig

Several of my favorite releases from this year were 5-6 song sets rather than 8-10+ song full-length releases. Here, in no particular order, are a few favorite EPs from 2012. THE VANSADERS, The Vansaders If you like your rock-and-roll raucous and whiskey-soaked, you’ll be hard-pressed to find music better than the Vansaders. I’ll take mine […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Reviews, Rock Tagged With: Antonio Lulic, Jones Street Station, the Vansaders

Music With a Purpose: Jones Street Station’s Perennials Project

Wednesday, October 03, 2012 By Mayer Danzig

Musicians have a long tradition of giving. Sure, they give to all of us with the music that they share. Yet they also have a penchant for supporting meaningful causes. Over the next few weeks we will highlight several releases that demonstrate this giving spirit. I’ve always had one complaint about Jones Street Station. It […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Downloads, Streams Tagged With: Jones Street Station

Mayer’s Playlist From February 2012, Part 1

Wednesday, March 07, 2012 By Mayer Danzig

ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: Inspiration, by Shurman One of the things that I have always appreciated about Shurman is the ragged edge of their music. And man do they serve it up by the bucket on their latest release. Album opener and title track “Inspiration” starts things out on a positive note, both musically and […]

Filed Under: Downloads, Playlists, Reviews, Streams Tagged With: Adam Arcuragi, Chuck Prophet, Dead Fingers, Freedy Johnston, Highway Ghosts, Jon Dee Graham, Jones Street Station, Shurman, Susan Cowsill, the Hobarts, The Rationales

Mayer’s Playlist from January 2011

Wednesday, February 09, 2011 By Mayer Danzig

ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: Heart of a Dog, by Kasey Anderson and the Honkies If last year’s Nowhere Nights stood out for the down-tempo songs, this time it’s all about the rockers. “Kasey Anderson’s Dream” and “Revisionist History Blues” are driven by heavy classic blues rock guitar riffs while “My Baby’s a Wrecking Ball” and […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Alt-Country, Americana, Downloads, Indie, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Streams Tagged With: Ben Kyle, Cake, Carrie Rodriguez, Decemberists, Eddie Spaghetti, Fourkiller Flats, Greg Trooper, Jon Dee Graham, Jones Street Station, Kasey Anderson, Lori McKenna, Nicole Atkins, Romantica, Social Distortion

Mayer’s Playlist from July 2009, a Video Companion

Sunday, August 09, 2009 By Mayer Danzig

So my quest for a Bottle Rockets video from the new release turned up empty. That won’t, however, stop us from watching the boys rock out with David Bowie’s “Suffragette City.” From there we run through a string of great live performances from Daddy (Will Kimbrough & Tommy Womack), Jones Street Station, Those Darlins, Ketch […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Alt-Country, Americana, Folk, Indie, Playlists, Pop, Rock, Roots, Videos Tagged With: Austin, Brooklyn, Daddy, Festus, J. Tillman, Jones Street Station, Ketch Harbour Wolves, Missouri, Nashville, Seattle, Slaid Cleaves, The Bottle Rockets, Those Darlins, Tommy Womack, Toronto, Will Kimbrough

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