From the article:

Long the face of Boston-based alt-bluegrass outfit Crooked Still, Aoife O’Donovan – also a member of female folk trio Sometymes Why – is finally striking out on her own. … Recorded over three weeks in Portland with producer Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, Neko Case), Fossils is a must-listen blend of bluegrass, folk and back-porch Americana, highlighted by the wistful “Red & White & Blue & Gold.”

Read the entire article at RollingStone.com.

Love From London is available now on CD/LP in the Yep Roc Store and digitally at iTunes.

It’s in the 70s in Rock Island, and we’re living it up. There are a couple of days in early June that are going to be a blast here at the Daytrotter headquarters, and we’d love it if you would come and join us. Actually, WE INSIST!

Starting today, and running through May 22, when you either become a new annual Daytrotter member, give a gift membership, or extend your current annual membership, you will get: A FREE grass-green Daytrotter v-neck T-shirt — the CLASSIC logo offered for the first time in this color! (shipping not included)

Entered into a drawing to win a FREE trip to the Daytrotter headquarters to witness the magic first-hand, as we tape sessions with Baths, Hockey, Cheyenne Marie Mize, Milow, Night Panther, Stephen Kellogg and Har-Di-Har.

We will pick up the tab for your airfare (from anywhere in the continental United States), hotel rooms for the duration of your stay here, and transportation to and from the airport!!*

Everybody wins! Don’t waste a second — become a member today and let’s get our hang on!
— Mr. Daytrotter

In the meantime, listen in to her last Daytrotter session, and get details on her upcoming album Among the Grey.

May 24 – Vienna, VA at Filene Center at Wolf Trap*

May 25 – Vienna, VA at Filene Center at Wolf Trap*

May 26 – Cumberland, MD at Delfest

May 28 – Nashville, TN at Grand Ole Opry House

May 29 – Nashville, TN at The Loveless Cafe Barn (Music City Roots)

June 1 – Elmer, NJ at Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival

June 6 – Northampton, MA at Iron Horse Music Hall

June 7 – Fall River, MA at Narrows Center for the Arts

June 8 – Boston, MA at The Sinclair

June 9 – Portland, ME at One Longfellow Square

June 11 – New York, NY at Mercury Lounge

June 12 – New York, NY at Club Helsinki

June 16 – Manchester, TN at Bonnaroo Music Festival (That Tent and Sonic Stage)

June 18 – Pittsburgh, PA at Rex Theatre

June 19 – Rochester, NY at Abilene Bar & Lounge

June 20 – Syracuse, NY at The Westcott Theater

June 21 – Ottawa, Ontario at Ottawa Jazz Festival

June 29 – Kennett Square, PA at Longwood Gardens

July 3 – Berkeley, CA at Freight & Salvage

July 4 & 5 – Quincy, CA at High Sierra Music Festival

July 6 – Crested Butte, CO at Crested Butte Music Festival (Bluegrass in Paradise)

July 8 – Spokane, WA at INB Performing Arts Center%

July 9 – Boise, ID at Botanical Garden%

July 10 – Portland, OR at McMenamins Edgefield%

July 11 – Sacramento, CA at Community Center Theater%

July 12 – Saratoga, CA at Mountain Winery%

July 13 – Saratoga, CA at Mountain Winery%

July 14 – Paso Robles, CA at Vina Robles Amphitheatre%

July 15 – San Diego, CA at Humphrey’s Concerts By The Sea%

July 17 – Salt Lake City, UT at Red Butte Gardens%

July 18 – Morrison, CO at Red Rocks Amphitheatre%

July 19 – Kansas City, MO at Starlight Theatre%

July 20 – Louisville, KY at Iroquoi Amphitheater%

July 21 – Cincinnati, OH at PNC Pavillion at Riverbend%

July 23 – Brevard, NC at Brevard Music Center%

July 24 – Richmond, VA at Maymont Park%

July 25 – Danbury, CT at Ives Concert Park%

July 26 – Cohasset, MA at South Shore Music Circus

August 15 – Lenox, MA at Tanglewood^

August 16 – Bethel, NY at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts^

August 18 – Highland Park, IL at Ravinia Pavilion^

August 20 – Cincinnati, OH at PNC Pavilion at Riverbend^

August 21 – Rochester Hills, MI at Meadow Brook Music Festival^

August 23 – Rohnert Park, CA at Green Music Center at Sonoma State University^

August 25 – Los Angeles, CA at Hollywood Bowl^

August 31 – Pagosa Springs, CO at Four Corners Folk Festival

*A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

% A Prairie Home Companion Radio Romance Tour

^ The Goat Rodeo Sessions

Euphoric and evocative, listening to Kissaway Trail is an intoxicating experience. The debut album released in 2007 was filled with songs of immense ambition and scope, the music soars, filled with majestic guitar lines, dramatic melodies and epic arrangements. Kissaway Trail have that rare power to lift people out of their lives and transport them to a world of drama, beauty and wonder.

Kissaway Trail list the likes of Sonic Youth, Grandaddy, Daniel Johnston, Pixies and The Beach Boys as being their main influences, though in their native Denmark, where they have recently taken off massively due to their incendiary live shows, the band have quickly developed a unique sound of their own.

A Kissaway Trail song “New Lipstick” was used in the initial promo video for Google Glass, which has received over 20 million views on YouTube (watch HERE).

As one-half of Department of Eagles, Fred Nicolaus has embarked on psych-folk explorations with songwriting partner/former NYU roommate/Grizzly Bear member Daniel Rossen. But now Nicolaus is unveiling his own project, Golden Suits. This new venture’s self-titled debut album will arrive on August 20, including “Didn’t I Warn You,” a slightly baroque, outdoorsy winner that blossoms from campfire verses to morning call choruses. Bask in its glory down below.

Visit SPIN Magazine HERE to hear Golden Suits’ “Didn’t I Warn You.”

Fossils is now available for pre-order in the Yep Roc Store, on CD and LP.

Let it be known: This North Carolina group is “not your grandma’s bluegrass band.” On a recent afternoon in a Raleigh city park, they revealed their all-time favorite records, what life is like on the road (they’re playin’ in a travelin’ band), and the truth about sharing a microphone.

“Here’s your headline: Chatham County Line has balls,” joked guitarist Dave Wilson. He and his bandmates had found themselves on the tennis courts of a Raleigh, North Carolina city park on a recent spring day at the suggestion of the group’s mandolin/fiddle player, John Teer. “Let’s play some tennis!” he had said in an authentic Southern drawl. Nevermind that the guys were in their signature suits. In between shots, talk turned to last weekend’s shenanigans. Greg Readling, the group’s bassist, triumphed with his story of spending Easter brunch at home with the legendary Emmylou Harris and her band. After witnessing the banter for just a few minutes, it’s obvious that this foursome really favors each other. Together since 1999, they’ve released five albums and traveled across the world for gigs. Here’s what they shared about life in Carolina and the band they’d want to open for them (mum’s the word).

How did you come up with your name?
Dave Wilson: “When we first started practicing together, we’d do it at Chandler’s house out in the country. It was one of those places where it was like the third white mailbox after the gravel road on the left. By the second or third time we got lost going there, we realized that each time we were crossing over into Chatham County. So we looked at each other, said “Chatham County Line!” and high fived.”

What’s the record or song that made you appreciate bluegrass music?
John Teer: “For me, it’d be Steve Earl and Del McCoury’s “The Mountain.” The organic nature of it and the raw power it possessed had a big impact on me. And of course Steve is such a great songwriter.”

Chandler Holt: “Really early on I’d say “Old and in the Way,” by that band Jerry Garcia played banjo in. I was kinda a dead head.”

Wilson: “Just kind of?”

Read the full article now on Apartment Number 9.

From RollingStone.com:

June 4th will see the release of the long-in-the-works Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, the Southern gothic musical borne out of an unlikely collaboration between John Mellencamp and Stephen King. King wrote the play after Mellencamp told him about two brothers who had gotten into a fight over a girl at a cabin on the musician’s property; one brother was killed accidentally in the scuffle, and the surviving one and the girl died in a car crash soon after.

The roots and blues-heavy soundtrack was assembled with the help of T Bone Burnett and features array of artists like Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson and Neko Case. Now you can take an exclusive first listen to “Home Again,” a sparse acoustic number tinged with simple percussion and deep, chilling harmonies from Sheryl Crow, Dave Alvin, Phil Alvin and Taj Mahal.