Playing at various venues all over New England as a Duo, Woodford Way has already created a cult following that is spreading like wildfire throughout the Berkshire area. After recording their acoustic duo album “The Road”, Woodford Way enlisted the talents of producer/ bass player Eric Arena, Riley Godleski on drums, and Tim Lynch on percussion to fill out their sound.

Recording their brand new yet to be titled album at Zing studios in Westfield, MA for the first time as a 5 piece folk act.

This premiere lineup brings a new dynamic to Woodford Way, as it’s the first time they have had the chance to work with a producer on arranging and crafting the feel of their songs.

“Having Eric and Riley on board really added so much to the band and kept me on my toes”, Kyle says about adding the new members. “This was something Woodford Way was looking to do for years and it’s our best work to date”.

Track Listing:

1. Karen
2. Ground Crew
3. Harpoon
4. Ruby
5. Couldn’t Be More Wrong
6. City Line
7. Roll On Over
8. Natural Rebound
9. The Race Is On
10. Charlotte’s Lullaby

http://www.takethistoheartrecords.com
http://www.woodfordway.com

Source- Take This To Heart Records

Entertainment CMA Fest Showcase. The 3-day FREE event will be held June 7-9 at B.B. King’s Blues Club in Nashville. Josey is scheduled to perform at 7pm on Friday, June 7th, followed by Amy at 8pm. Jiggley Jones will perform Saturday, June 8th at 6pm. B.B. King’s is located at 152 2nd Ave. North. For more information, visit http://www.eagentertainment.com.

Amy, Josey and Jiggley join a lineup that boasts appearances by James Otto, Meghan Linsey (Steel Magnolia) and a Gretchen Wilson Fan Club Party. Meghan will kick off the event at 3pm on Friday, followed by James Otto at 3:30. A fan meet-and-greet with both artists will follow, at 4pm. Gretchen Wilson’s Fan Club Party will be on Sunday, June 9th, at 3:30pm, with only 200 tickets being available at http://www.gretchenwilson.com.

“I couldn’t be more excited for Amy, Josey and Jiggley,” said Michael Stover of MTS Management Group. “Scott Farrell of EAG Entertainment has put together an outstanding lineup of artists for this event. We’re very happy and honored to be a part of, what is sure to be, the best showcase during CMA Fest.”

Amy Rose is a Canadian country artist, a 3-time 2013 Independent Country Music Association (ICoMA) award nominee and a 2013 Ontario Country Music Association award nominee. Her latest single, recorded in Nashville, “(Redneck Reunion) Party Like a Redneck” is adding at country radio after Memorial Day. For more information, visit http://www.amyrosemusic.com.

Josey Milner is a teen country artist and 2013 ICoMA award nominee from Kansas City, Missouri. Her debut single, “Not Pretty Enough” received national charting status. Josey is a spokesperson for Angels and Doves, an anti-bullying non-profit organization. She is entering the studio this week to record her follow up single, “Cowgirls.” For more information, visit http://www.joseymilner.com.

Jiggley Jones is an Americana/Alt-country singer-songwriter from eastern Pennsylvania. His debut EP, “No Spring Chicken” is receiving worldwide airplay, charting on Roots Music Report and Americana Music Association charts. He is a recent winner of the 2nd annual Graffiti Radio Songwriters Contest. For more information, visit http://www.jiggleyjones.com.

Source- MTS Management Group

The band, who describe themselves as a ‘Tarantino surf-pop’ outfit, combine Lizzie’s Twiggy-esque style with a contemporary cinematic sound that fuses surf-pop with punk and draws inspiration from bands such as The Ramones, The Ronettes and The Beach Boys, to create music that wouldn’t be out of place on Tarantino’s next film soundtrack.

Get to know the band by watching this interview with them for Lottarox TV on the 100m Records YouTube Channel.

The single is released worldwide on June 18th and is available for pre-order through the 100m Recordstore.

Websites:

http://www.100mrecords.com

Source- 100m Records

Daniel from Devon in the UK delivers six brand new tracks, produced by Danny Hembrow and mastered by Pete Maher (U2/Beady Eye/The Rolling Stones).

The songs are acoustic and emotive with Daniel’s distinctive vocals weaved around luscious guitars and strings. From the instantly catchy opening track “Flicker” to the intimate ballad “Cold Wind Blowing” through to the more thumping “Heart’s Desire”, Daniel displays a variety of influences yet still retains his distinctive and vivid stripped back sound, having been likened to ‘a more sane version of Noel Gallagher’ with echoes of Ryan Adam’s and Richard Ashcroft along the way.

His debut EP ‘Common Knowledge’ certainly confirms Daniel as a fast emerging song writing talent. With each track comes a different colour and mood, the themes of his song writing exploring (amongst other things) love, loss, hope and friendship. On first inspection ‘Common Knowledge’ promises to be the perfect laid back sing-along soundtrack for the summer and beyond… This is one for the lazy Sunday or the late night after party.

His debut music video “Cold Wind Blowing” has been causing a stir on YouTube with thousands of views already notched up. BBC Introducing’s James Santer described “Cold Wind Blowing” as; “An incredible track”. Whilst FMDB.co.uk voted it MP3 of the day, proclaiming; “Daniel Schamroth‘s debut cinematic tune ‘Cold Wind Blowing’ is heavenly, you can listen to it and feel instantly calmed, Daniel’s voice is something rare, and I’ll be stunned if this little wonder isn’t discovered pretty soon. An Acoustic singer-songwriter from Devon who may have a massive, life changing journey ahead.” ‘Common Knowledge’ offers a fleeting glimpse of Daniel Schamroth’s song writing skills and we can expect big things in the not too distant future from this boy with a guitar from Devon.

AUDIO: Daniel Schamroth – ‘Common Knowledge’ EP http://soundcloud.com/daniel-schamroth/sets/common-knowledge-ep

Watch Daniel’s music video ‘Cold Wind Blowing’ here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHRmJUUNzUg

Links:

http://facebook.com/DanielSchamrothMusic
http://twitter.com/danielschamroth
http://reverbnation.com/danielschamroth

Source- 2spr.com

Overall Album Vibe:

On his latest release, ‘Tango Blues,’ preaching blues artist Gypsy Carns takes a break from his normal style to put out an instrumental album that happened because he says, ‘this time around the Lord led me on a transcendental instrumental blues journey.” Gypsy also wanted to find a more rural setting so he ended up recording the release at Stump Whipped Studios that’s located on thousands of acres of woods in Porterville, Mississippi.

I’m sure that you’ve heard of a one man band before with Gypsy this was a one man album with him taking full reins on the project writing all of the songs along with playing all of the instruments found on it. The list of instruments played is impressive from normal ones like, guitars, dobros, tambourine and harmonica to some more unusual ones like, rain stick, washboard and rattlesnake tails. Gypsy also decided that instead of using a traditional drum kit for the percussion parts he went with a stompbox along with American Indian and African drums.

Another unique feature of the album is that Gypsy decided to name the songs for his family and friend’s names. On, “Angel Caroline,” that starts with bird like chirping sounds, Gypsy paints a picture of love for his wife. The blues filled, “The Boot Boogie,” features unique rattlesnake tails sounds on it. The releases longest track, “Moon & Stars (4:29),” offers up a sound that paints a picture that reminded me of an old west gunfight scene from a movie with the sharp harmonica parts used in it acting almost like gunfire. “Texas Tom,” is a big blues, foot stomping number. I also like the closing up tempo blues rock track, “Ezra Fire Wheel.”

Whether you’re a longtime follower of Gypsy’s music or a newcomer you’ll quickly learn that this man has the talent necessary to make his signature guitar and dobro sounds come to life.

Like an artist uses a paint brush Gypsy uses his instruments to paint musical pictures with each new chord played.

Review by C.W. Ross

Overall Album Vibe: ‘

Say Hello’ is the 8-song debut release from the Durham, UK band known simply as Alexander. The Indie pop rock sounding release is found on I Am Mighty Records. The band gets things steaming full speed ahead right from the opening title track, “Say Hello,” with it’s up tempo guitar and drum filled rock beats. Other notable rocking tracks include, “You Lost Yourself,” that offers up a nice blend of both pop and rock beats along with the all out rocker, “Without a Parachute.” If you’re looking for something smoother the aptly named, “A Sweet Song,” is a nice melodic acoustic track offering up soft, yet still emotion packed, vocals. The album’s closing song, “Old Fashioned Romance,” also goes in a more mellow direction lead by its piano parts.

Alexander’s, ‘Say Hello,’ offers up a nice collection of Indie pop rock songs the way they should be done.

Standout Tracks: “Say Hello”, “You Lost Yourself”, “A Sweet Song”, “Without a Parachute”, “Old Fashioned Romance”,

Review by C.W. Ross

The Indie Bible is filled with a treasure trove of information that’s needed by any musician who wants to succeed at their craft. You’ll find listings for over 2,500 magazines and music blogs that will review your music, 3,100 radio stations to get airplay on, 400 sites where you can upload your MP3s or videos. Maybe you’re looking to find some management? In it you’ll find 1,000 promotion, marketing, management, and publicity services listed along with 1,100 labels and distributors that can help to get your music played and sold. Every style of music that you can imagine is covered.

The Indie Venue Bible is made up of 7 venue directories for both the US and Canada listing places to gig. It’s broken up into the following geographical regions; US Northeast (NY, NJ, PA, CT, MA, RI, VT, NH, ME, DE) , US North Central (IL, IN, KY, MI, WI, OH, IA) , US Northwest (WA, AK, WY, MN, NE, ND, SD, ID, OR, MT) US Southeast (DC, FL, MD, GA, NC, SC, TN, AL, MS, VA, WV), US South Central (TX, LA, OK, CO, AR, KS, MO) , US Southwest (CA, AZ, NV, UT, HI, NM) and Canada. Each venue listing has a set of unique colorful genre tags that makes it very easy to quickly see which venues feature the style of music that you’re looking for in a given city or town.

The listings are done by both musical genre and continent that the resource is located on so that you don’t have to waste a lot of time searching through long list trying to find what you need to find.

The collection of articles found in the bundle were written by professionals involved in the music scene offering up helpful hints on what to and not do when trying to succeed with your music. The information found in the articles is priceless and will give you a leg up on your musical career

What would you expect to pay for all of this information? The normal value of the Ultimate Indie Bundle directories if purchased separately would be $340. When purchased in this bundle package you get all of them for only- $59.95! That’s a total savings of $280. Also customers that purchase The Ultimate Indie Bundle package will also receive next year’s Indie Bible when it is released in mid December. It also comes with a money back guarantee that, ‘if you are not fully satisfied with your bundle, your payment will be returned without questions.’

Having been around the music scene long enough to grow some gray hairs I can get a little bit jaded at times but let me tell you this deal is pretty much a no brainer, Whether you’re a musician or have any connection to the music scene you need to get, ‘The Ultimate Indie Bundle’ to complete your musical reference library!

To learn more about this incredible package visit:

http://indiebible.com
http://www.indiebible.com/bundle

Overall Album Vibe: ‘Feathers & Fables’ is the follow up to Louisville based singer songwriter Nick Peay’s 2011 EP, ‘Life & Love & Us.’ Some of you might also know Peay from his time spent as frontman for the rock group OK Zombie.

Peay’s new, ‘Feathers & Fables’ EP offers up 4 tracks in which he’s not afraid to lay his emotion cards on the table for all to see. Letting his feelings known to us of trying to find his spot in the very small, cliquish type community, where he lives.

When asked about the EP’s theme Peay said, “It’s about being accepted and finding your place at home.” continuing on saying, “whether it’s an actual location, or within a family or group of people who accept you and love you for who you are.”

Things start off with the EP’s most up tempo track, “(Two Miserable) Blackbirds,” that offers up a Bryan Adams type rock sound. Track-2, “Mockingbird,” is an acoustic track that features nice guitar, Dobro, harmonica and bongos parts in it. Lyrically the song talks about cover bands that offer up a very generic sounding version of the more famous band’s songs that they’re trying to cover. Track-3, “Home,” takes the EP in a moody dark direction featuring interesting harmonica and slide guitar parts that help to set the song’s mood. The song deals with trying to find your niche in life. The closing track, ‘Fly Away,’ deals with taking a step back and reassessing your position when you find yourself in a bad spot in your life and trying to find a way to rise above it.

Review by C.W. Ross

Overall Album Vibe: Twin Cities band Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders blends American roots music ranging from, blues and country to swing and rock n’ roll. The uniqueness of this album starts from the actual recording of it. Looking to avoid a, ‘sterile studio sound,’ band frontman and songwriter Alex ‘Crankshaft’ Larson found an old barn (built in 1914) located near St. Francis, Minnesota as the place to record the album. After some much needed cleanup and work they had it ready to use. If you get a hard copy of the album be sure to read the Cd’s booklet that includes pictures of the barn’s transformation from start to finish.

Highlight tracks from ‘What You Gonna Do?’ include the fast paced, 50′s rockabilly sounding song, “When the Sun Goes Down.” The song deals with handling life’s test, doing what you have to do to overcome the situation. The percussion driven track, “Boomtown,” offers up nice rhythmic beats. “Trails of Tears,” is an electric guitar driven blues track dealing with a dark part of American history that involved forced relocation and movement of entire Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States to what is now the state of Oklahoma. Along the march many of the Native Americans faced terrible suffering with many of them dying during the forced march. “I Wanna Play,” offers up a New Orleans sound with lyrics about not wanting to sell out or settle down and have kids, wanting to stay carefree in life. “Waiting for Me,” uses an alt. country vibe as it deals with long gigs and really looking forward to getting home to your wife. “Earthquake Shake,” is a killer guitar and organ filled party tune.

Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders really hit on all cylinders in the songs that make up, ‘What You Gonna Do?’ The only track that went over the top of my head was track-10, “Don’t Leave,” that last for 42 seconds and just didn’t seem to flow with the rest of the album.

Review by C.W. Ross

Photo by Russ Wright

In May, Defiler will be on the I Wanna See You Mosh Tour in Russia kicking off on May 10th in Kiev, Ukraine and wrapping up with a show with Parkway Drive on June 2nd in Minsk, Belarus.

This is Defiler’s first time touring outside of the United States.

Defiler’s new studio album, Nematocera (Razor & Tie), is out now on iTunes HERE (http://glob.ly/2zG). The band self-produced the record with mixing duties being handled by Chris “Zeuss” Harris (Suicide Silence, Chelsea Grin, The Acacia Strain).

Nematocera has received rave reviews with Metal Sucks stating, “It may be decades before a band can rival Defiler.” Revolver Magazine has compared the band’s sound “akin to that of Suicide Silence and Chelsea Grin. Jake Pelzl gives listeners remarkably deep growls with heavy lyrical content. But his band’s anger isn’t just in the words the group uses-it is in the musical foundation, with loads of chugs and breakdowns on Nematocera… will certainly resonate with younger heavy-music fans.”

Defiler Tour Dates

I WANNA SEE YOU MOSH TOUR

May 10 – Kiev, Ukraine – Green Theatre
May 11 – Kharkov, Ukraine – CHURCHILL
May 12 – Belgorod, Russia – Roxbury
May 13 – Orel, Russia – Dva Paitsa
May 14 – Bryansk, Russia – Rock City Club
May 15 – Voronezh, Russia – Tarantul
May 16 – Rostov, Russia – Pod3emka
May 17 – Volgograd, Russia – INROCK
May 18 – Samara, Russia – Tenebrise
May 19 – Tolyatti – Hard Rock Pub
May 21 – Orenburg, Russia – Druzhba
May 22 – Magnitogorsk, Russia – ProRock
May 23 – Chelyabinsk, Russia – Garage Underground
May 24 – Ekaterinburg, Russia – Nirvana
May 25 – Perm, Russia – Custom House
May 26 – Kazan, Russia – Zheltaya Kofta
May 28 – Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia – Sin City
May 29 – Moscow, Russia – Plan B
May 30 – St Petersburg, Russia – Arktika
May 31 – Pskov, Russia – Iron Club
June 1 – Smolensk, Russia – A Club
June 2 – Minsk, Belarus – Republic (with Parkway Drive)

Emmure Tour

June 22 – Knoxville, TN – NV
June 23 – Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theatre
June 25 – Lubbock, TX – Jake’s Café
June 27 – Flagstaff, AZ – The Orpheum

Defiler Links

http://www.DEFILERBAND.com
http://www.facebook.com/defilerband

Source- Razor & Tie Media Relations