MJ Lenderman
Wednesday's guitarist turned solo songwriter, writing deadpan, devastating stories of washed-up men over ragged, Crazy Horse-indebted guitar.
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Geese
Brooklyn teenagers turned genre-hopping art-rock band, shifting from post-punk to hallucinatory Americana to pure noise, often within one song.
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Wednesday
Country songwriting buried under walls of shoegaze noise, an Asheville band turning small-town Southern stories into acclaimed rock records.
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English Teacher
Leeds art-rock band led by Lily Fontaine, whose sharp-tongued debut This Could Be Texas won the 2024 Mercury Prize.
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Alex G
How a self-taught songwriter from suburban Philadelphia turned bedroom Bandcamp uploads into one of modern indie rock's most quietly influential catalogs. Start with Rocket and House of Sugar.
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Say She She
A New York trio making joyful discodelic soul: three voices braided into tight harmony over deep analog grooves, with a protest streak underneath the party. Start with Prism.
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Daniel Donato
A teenage Nashville busker turned Telecaster bandleader who fused honky-tonk tradition with Grateful Dead style improvisation. His Cosmic Country is where country songcraft meets the endless jam.
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Dogs in a Pile
A young New Jersey five-piece turning deep record-collector taste into one of the most talked-about live acts of the new jam scene. Learn the studio tunes, then chase the shows.
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Crumb
Four friends who turned hazy, jazz-tinged bedroom pop into one of indie's most devoted followings. Woozy keys, warm bass, and headphone-deep atmosphere across three unhurried records.
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Doechii
The Tampa-born Swamp Princess who blends hard-nosed rap, sung hooks, and theater-kid showmanship. Her Grammy-winning breakout Alligator Bites Never Heal made her one of the defining new voices in hip-hop.
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The Red Clay Strays
Five friends from Mobile, Alabama who spent nearly a decade in Gulf Coast bars before the slow-burning ballad Wondering Why broke them wide open, fusing Southern rock, Memphis soul, and outlaw country.
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49 Winchester
The six-piece from Castlewood, Virginia that turned coal-country back roads and hometown heartbreak into widescreen country-rock. One of modern Americana's most acclaimed live bands.
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Wyatt Flores
The Stillwater, Oklahoma songwriter who turned homesickness, grief, and hard-won honesty into one of the loudest young voices of the new red-dirt country wave.
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The Last Dinner Party
The London five-piece who turned baroque theater and glam-rock swagger into one of the decade's most talked-about debuts, crowned before their first album even arrived.
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S.G. Goodman
The queer Kentucky singer-songwriter whose reedy drawl and clear-eyed lyricism turn life in the rural South into some of the most quietly essential roots music of her generation.
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Friko
The Chicago four-piece behind one of 2024's most acclaimed debuts, a band that swings without warning from a fragile whisper to string-laced, cathartic noise.
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Geordie Greep
The black midi frontman goes solo with The New Sound, a maximalist debut that fuses lounge jazz, Latin rhythm, and cabaret theatre into something gloriously unhinged.
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Neal Francis
The Chicago pianist who turned a New Orleans piano obsession and a hard-won road back to sobriety into some of the warmest soul and funk of the modern revival.
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AJ Lee & Blue Summit
A Santa Cruz band led by mandolin prodigy and award-winning singer AJ Lee, blending high-lonesome bluegrass with swing, country, and warm Americana.
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billy woods
A private, ferociously literary voice from the New York underground, one half of Armand Hammer and the mind behind Backwoodz Studioz, building songs from shards of history, dread, and dark humor.
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Caamp
Two Ohio friends who turned porch songs and rolling banjo into one of the warmest voices in modern folk. Start with By and By, then let Lavender Days pull you in.
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Stephen Wilson Jr.
A former scientist and boxer from Seymour, Indiana, Stephen Wilson Jr. fuses 1990s alternative rock with deep country roots in a sound he calls death cap rock and roll. His 2023 double album Son of Dad made him one of the most acclaimed new voices in Americana.
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Andy Frasco & The U.N.
Andy Frasco & The U.N. is a Los Angeles funk and party-rock band led by pianist and bandleader Andy Frasco. A relentless touring act, it is a fixture of the modern jam-band and festival circuit.
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lespecial
lespecial is a Connecticut power trio that fuses heavy electro-funk, progressive rock, metal, and electronic production into a genre-blurring live show, with four studio albums since 2015 including Cheen and Odd Times.
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Denitia
Denitia is an American singer, songwriter, and producer who moved from atmospheric Brooklyn indie R&B to a hazy, guitar-lit strain of Nashville Americana, self-producing across albums like Highways and Sunset Drive.
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Coyote Island
Coyote Island is a Florida-rooted indie and electronic project blending chillwave textures, live-band jam grooves, and reggae rhythms, with guests like Matisyahu and Mihali of Twiddle.
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Caitlin Krisko & The Broadcast
A powerhouse soul-rock band from Asheville, North Carolina, fronted by vocalist Caitlin Krisko. Known for a big live show, they built a run of singles and EPs into the studio album Heirloom.
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Zach Person
Zach Person is an Austin blues-rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for a heavy, riff-driven sound and raw live sessions, from official singles and the 2024 album Let's Get Loud to widely shared Audiotree performances.
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Jason Scott & The High Heat
An Oklahoma City band blending country, soul, and roots rock, led by songwriter Jason Scott and his backing group The High Heat, spanning the debut album Castle Rock and the 2025 full-length American Grin.
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The Faux Paws
A genre-bending American roots trio built around brothers Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand with multi-instrumentalist Chris Miller, mixing fiddle, guitar, and saxophone across old-time, bluegrass, and dance traditions.
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Joslyn & The Sweet Compression
An American soul and funk band from Lexington, Kentucky, fronted by powerhouse vocalist Joslyn Hampton, reviving classic 1960s and 1970s rhythm and blues with a horn-driven sound.
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The Black Lillies
A Knoxville, Tennessee band formed in 2009 and led by songwriter Cruz Contreras, blending Appalachian folk, classic country, and roots-rock across five studio albums.
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Mama Said String Band
Mama Said String Band is a contemporary American bluegrass and string band playing original acoustic music on banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and upright bass across four studio albums.
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Organ Fairchild
Organ Fairchild is an American instrumental organ trio in the soul-jazz and jam tradition, built around a Hammond organ, electric guitar, and drums, turning greasy funk grooves into extended improvisation.
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Holler Choir
An Asheville, North Carolina band led by songwriter Clint Roberts, blending Appalachian old-time and bluegrass instrumentation with close-harmony folk-rock songwriting.
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Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
An award-winning bluegrass fiddler and the featured fiddle player in Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, whose clean, driving tone anchors both her own records, led by Fiddler's Pastime, and a long list of collaborations.
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Parlor Greens
Parlor Greens are an American instrumental Hammond organ trio working in the classic soul-jazz and funk tradition, recording for Colemine and Karma Chief Records.
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Penelope Road
An American indie roots-rock band whose warm, guitar-forward songwriting spans two EPs and a run of singles, including live sessions cut at Macon's historic Capricorn Sound Studios.
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Bella Rayne
Bella Rayne is a teenage, self-taught guitarist and songwriter from Mendocino, California, blending Southern rock, Americana, and jam-band improvisation around a big electric guitar tone.
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Big Daddy Love
Big Daddy Love is a Winston-Salem band that blends bluegrass instrumentation, Southern rock, and jam-band improvisation into what they call Appalachian rock, a fixture of the Southeastern festival circuit across five albums since 2008.
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The Dip
The Dip is a seven-piece soul and rhythm-and-blues band from Seattle built around a full horn section, joining classic 1960s and 1970s soul arrangements to contemporary songwriting across albums like The Dip Delivers and Sticking With It.
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Amble
Amble is an Irish folk trio formed in Dublin in 2022, known for close three-part harmonies and acoustic string arrangements, whose debut album Reverie followed a run of EPs.
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Zion Marley
Zion Marley is a contemporary reggae singer and songwriter, and a grandson of Bob Marley, building a catalog of roots-forward singles across the mid-2020s.
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The Animeros
An American instrumental band blending cumbia rhythms and Latin grooves with reverb-soaked desert and border rock, with a compact catalog centered on a 2024 self-titled EP and a run of singles.
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