Artist: Adam Chaffins Hometown: Louisa, Kentucky Latest Album: Trailer Trash EP (released May 16, 2025) Personal Nicknames: “Chaffins” Genre is dead (long live genre!), but how would you describe the genres and styles your music inhabits? I’ve considered myself a multi-genre artist from the beginning. While I feel confident identifying as a country artist, that…

Growing up with access to all of recorded music, it’s hard to imagine not enjoying a wide range of styles. When we all met around fifteen years ago, it was fun to see where our backgrounds overlapped and where they didn’t. Eventually, after lots of road testing, we ended up with some kind of sound…

Your weekly dose of brand new roots music is here – You Gotta Hear This! Our West Coast friends, The Brothers Comatose, kick us off this week with their new single, "Golden Grass." The title track for their upcoming album, it's a loping bluegrass number that pays tribute to the special regional string band styles…

Ever since she was a child in Arizona, Kassi Valazza has battled crippling stage fright. While that fear has lingered in the years that have followed, on her journeys touring, and living in Portland, then New Orleans, and (soon) Nashville, she’s been able to conquer it with intention, introspection, and consistency. “I need to be…

As an artist who believes the sad songs of the world could be a little sadder, of course there’s a haunting beauty to the work of Ken Pomeroy. With her debut album, Cruel Joke, the 22-year-old Oklahoma-born Cherokee Nation member gives fans a gorgeous tribute to inner unease rooted in the wisdom of her own…