Over the course of the last two years, Sour Ops — led by guitarist, songwriter, and singer Price Harrison (left) — has produced its 2018 album Family Circuit and 2019’s EP Tinder Flame. In addition, they’ve released a cool half-dozen singles in 2020. Each shows a different facet of the band. On the aforementioned 2020 releases, Sour Ops presents drummer George Lilly and bassist Tony Frost powering Harrison’s concise, riff-heavy tunes. “I Want You Around”

Jamil Rashad, who performs under the name Boulevards, is set to release the Brother! EP on the New West Records imprint Normaltown Records in December. A culmination of several years of writing, playing, touring, and recording, the Raleigh, N.C.-based Boulevards’ Brother! EP is about race and reckoning in America, broken hearts, and self-inflicted suffering. It is the most explicitly political record he has done. We are happy to offer the DittyTV Debut of Boulevards’ new

Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter perhaps best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the BBC’s hugely successful crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae, and Applewood Road. Her 2017 album Sweet Kind of Blue, which was received with critical acclaim, was recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with

Legendary songwriter/producer/artist Dan Penn’s first new solo album in 26 years, Living on Mercy, released earlier this year on The Last Music Co. Penn, of course, wrote such classics as “Cry Like A Baby,” “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man,” “I’m Your Puppet,” “Dark End of the Street,” and many more. He produced the Box Tops’ No. 1 hit “The Letter,” written by his friend and longtime associate Wayne Carson. Penn has deep roots in

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Madison Cunningham released her new EP, Wednesday, on Nov. 6 via Verve Forecast. Cunningham shot to the top of the Americana world’s attention when her critically acclaimed debut LP Who Are You Now was nominated for Best Americana Album at the 2020 Grammy Awards. We wanted to learn more about this emerging star, so we hope you enjoy this 5 Questions segment with Madison Cunningham. 1) First, as a young artist,

Texas Hill is the new vocal trio of (left to right, above) Craig Wayne Boyd, Adam Wakefield, and Casey James. Boyd offers a voice full of gospel-tinged country smoke. Wakefield blends a rootsy bluegrass-and-Americana rasp. James wraps it with a blue-eyed soul quality and deft blues guitar chops. The self-titled debut EP from the group was recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville and released this fall. It was co-produced by Texas Hill and Ben