Listening to 85-year-old bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley sing Captain Beefheart and Velvet Underground songs on the soundtrack to Lawless is certainly disorienting – which is the effect Nick Cave and the Bootleggers wanted for his film.  [ … ]

Announced recently, the Murder By Death tour includes stops at The Showbox in Seattle on Sept. 16, Royale in Boston on Oct. 18, Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on [ … ]

“Initially, I had this idea for starting a band and over the course of three albums turning it from a very, very strict religious band and completely inverting the allegory [ … ]

Gothic Western playlist #3 is up on Spotify, it features songs Dark Country and Gothic Americana songs from Hank Williams III, Rachel Brooke, The Handsome Family and many more. The first [ … ]

The Heathen Apostles European tour dates have been finalized, the tour is in support of their new album Bloodgrass Vol. I & II (available from Ratchet Blade Records on LP [ … ]

Incendiary young country singer and songwriter Rachel Brooke channels the darkest nights of American Southern music, pulling forth influences from raw, early country singing to Chicago blues greats, vintage New [ … ]

New York based gothic country band o’death are named after the Dock Boggs penned song later made famous by Ralph Stanley on the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack. They combine elements of folk, bluegrass, punk, metal and Americana [ … ]

Spit from the heart of America’s Rust Belt, arising from a night of flophouse violence. Drifting across the states, they cemented their sound in Portland, Oregon and later in Los [ … ]

The Handsome Family is an alternative country and Gothic Americana duo consisting of husband and wife Brett and Rennie Sparks formed in Chicago, Illinois, and currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They are perhaps best known for their [ … ]