I listened through Joshua James‘ debut album, The Sun Is Always Brighter, today.
The 24 year-old Utah via Nebraska singer-songwriter’s album has already been a #1 seller on iTunes (the single FM Radio was downloaded over 150,000 times in one week) and will be released in stores on June 3rd on Intelligent Noise Records.
Frankly, […]

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Daniel Merriweather’s label e-mailed us about him a couple weeks ago. I opened up the MySpace link and there’s a photo of a New Kid on the Block-lookin’ guy along the top. Turns out the boyband haircut and earring are the least questionable thing about this guy. He’s packing the voice of a smooth-croonin’ lady […]

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Ryan Montbleau Band
Patience on Friday
Label: Blue’s Mountain
Guess who’s playing First Avenue’s 7th St. Entry tonight? Ryan Montbleau, who was last in town on Sept. 28, playing with Martin Sexton.
We have his band’s new disc, Patience on a Friday, sitting here and admittedly haven’t given it enough attention. However, 2006’s debut, One Fine Color, has been […]

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Cedar Avenue
Running Home EP
Minneapolis acoustic pop group Cedar Avenue’s new EP, Running Home, was produced by Brian Johnson (Coldplay, Lifehouse, John Mayer), and it’s primed and ready to play in heavy rotation at your neighborhood beauty parlor.
Singer Jesse Matthew knows a thing or two about soft crooning that makes the girlys giggle. Underscore that […]

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