Agent: Mahmood Shaikh ——- The Tubs’ second album, Cotton Crown, sees the Celtic Jangle boyband venture into darker, more personal territory while continuing to hone their highly addictive brand of songcraft. It’s a true level up album which sees the band expand their sonic palette to take in a kaleidoscopic range of influences: everything from soulful Read more
Weird Nightmare
Agent: Mahmood Shaikh ——- If you’re looking for a raw, sugary blast of distorted pop, look no further than Weird Nightmare. The debut album from METZ guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins contains all of his main band’s bite with an unexpected, yet totally satisfying, sweetness. Imagine The Amps covering Big Star, or the gloriously hissy miniature Read more
Tommy McLain & CC Adcock
Agent: Mike Leahy ————- Concerted Efforts is thrilled to welcome Tommy McLain to the roster. Tommy McLain has unveiled a collection of new music four decades in the making with the release of his highly-anticipated studio album I Ran Down Every Dream on Yep Roc Records, produced by his musical protege C.C. Adcock. Featuring an Read more
Everyone Asked About You
Agent: Mahmood Shaikh ——- Everyone Asked About You sprung forth from Little Rock, Arkansas’ vibrant mid-90’s DIY punk and emo scene in 1996. High school friends Collins Kilgore, Chris Sheppard, and Lee Buford would jam at Buford’s family home between sessions of MarioKart64 and Goldeneye. As actual songs began coming to fruition, Hannah Vogan joined on vocals. The first Read more
Chisel
Agent: Mahmood Shaikh ——- Predating “The Year Punk Broke,” Chisel was already brewing a sound of mod-influenced punk and indie pop in 1990. Though Ted Leo, John Dugan, and Chris Infante were three Notre Dame students rehearsing in their dorm basement, their sound begged for bigger audiences. After Chris Norborg took over on bass in 1992, Read more
Abigail Lapell
Agent: Lori Peters (US & Canada) —————————————– “A disc of pure, impalpable beauty, weightless notes and melodies that pierce our hearts…. And the young woman, prey to a vagueness in the soul that she sublimates in a handful of magical songs, to offer us a twilight album, somewhere between Gillian Welch and Laura Veir.” – Rolling Read more
The Natural Lines
Agent: Lori Peters ———— “A sterling reintroduction for the former Matt Pond PA… Songs like the opener ‘Monotony’ and the string-laden ‘Alex Bell’ boast a warmth, richness and vitality… The music here conveys Pond’s customary hopes and yearnings with such buoyancy, the singer-songwriter sounds absolutely reinvigorated.” – Uncut – 8/10 “sweet, yearning indie rock” –Brooklyn Vegan “Matt Read more
Vanessa Collier
Agent: Tom Gold (Worldwide) ——– New album Do It My Own Way out now Links to singles from the new album: “Wild As A Rainstorm” “Do It My Own Way” “Take Me Back” “The singer and sax player might as well go ahead and add another shelf to her trophy case because clearly, she’s going to need Read more
The Mastersons
Agent: Tom Gold The Mastersons are singer-songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore. When they’re not touring the world as valued longtime members of Steve Earle’s band the Dukes, the musical and marital twosome make inspired albums of their own emotionally vivid, deeply humanistic songs. The duo’s fourth set of original compositions is the appropriately Read more
The Whitmore Sisters
Agent: Tom Gold (North America) Debut Album Ghost Stories Out Now and Critically Acclaimed “Self-penned though most of these fine songs are, “Ghost Stories: tracklisting might have been cherry-picked by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant for one of their duets albums…the sisters soar even higher here.” ****– MOJO “Think Allison Moorer and Shelby Lynn or imagine Read more