The California natives have often heard their folk-rock tunes compared to the likes of Neil Young, A.A. Bondy, and Delta Spirit, and will be making their Pullman debut at the BellTower on Thursday, January 27th at 8 p.m.

Take a look below as they perform a version of “If You Let Me Be Your Anchor” while accompanied by The Morning Benders:

Dawes & The Morning Benders “If You Let Me Be Your Anchor”

Dawes – When My Time Comes

Dawes will be accompanied by Nashville alt-country artist Jonny Corndawg.

You can purchase tickets online in advance for $7, or at the door for $10.

“Harlem River Blues” is a weary road song at its heart, with Earle traveling up Manhattan to go jump in the Harlem River and finish himself off. But the gospel choir and the upbeat arrangement give the song some push-and-pull. Earle may be heading up north to disappear beneath the dirty waters, but he’s gonna make damn sure that he goes out leaving a great, timeless-sounding tune in everyone’s ears.

Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues from the forthcoming Harlem River Blues, due out September 14th from Bloodshot Records…

Friday to Sunday, August 6th, 7th, and 8th, Pendarvis Farm, just outside of Portland, Oregon. If you’re at all in or near the Portland area, we aren’t aware of anything else you oughtta be doing that weekend. Discounted advance tickets remain on sale until Thursday the 5th. That’s tomorrow, people.

Pickathon, dammit.

A locally-owned, family-friendly, sustainably-run indie roots music festival with a killer lineup, great food, and on-site camping. Not only that, but Stereopathic mastermind Larson Hicks will be volunteering there, so if you see a relatively sober, 6’1″ Texan concierg-ing Bonnie Prince Billy from the Beer Garden to the stage, say hello to the man. Our dear friend Nate Wolff will be there, too.

We can’t say enough nice things about Pickathon, and those of us who aren’t making it down this year (some of us so we can run the Roadside Graves’ show this Friday) deeply resent those who are.

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce the details of the next Justin Townes Earle record. Harlem River Blues will hit stores on September 14th.

Compared to the much-lauded Midnight at the Movies,  Harlem River Blues is more mature and increasingly nuanced, while still embracing the raw voice and clean sound of previous standout tracks like “Mama’s Eyes.” Featuring guest appearances from Jason Isbell, Bryn Davies, Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show and Calexico’s Paul Niehaus, it’s rockin’ and reelin’ at times, sweet and slow at others – and it’s great….and it was produced by JTE and his old friend Skylar Wilson.

We’re counting the days till September 14th.

Justin Townes Earle: I Don’t Care (from the Yuma EP)

“Even when I’m here in New York, the city is compressed down into a little village, a Moscow-sized place with the places I go and the people I know,” Ritter says. “Maybe there is something in the water there. It’s probably better than whatever’s in the water here.”

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Stylistically, the album stays true to the “working man’s rock-n-roll” motif established by The Hold Steady in their previous albums, but this is mellowed by the lack of their signature piano after the departure of their keyboard player. A solid album overall, but I wouldn’t count on it making any lists at the end of the year.

Go see The Hold Steady at the Sasquatch music festival May 29-31.

Listen to The Smidge and know that you are a better person for it.

Sites like Ripfork—and my own experience doing so—have amply convinced me that writing about music is a perilous affair, so no hyphen-heavy pontification on the record’s sound or what’s at stake for the band or blah blah blah. Just three things, conveyed after one go-round with High Violet.

One: The record fits the National’s pattern (at least since Alligator) of gathering songs onto LPs that add up to more than the sum of their parts… put another way, this is an album, not 11 songs by the National.

Two: Matt Berninger is a real sad-sack. The songs fit together lyrically and musically, not least because the dude can’t stop singing about how sad everything is (even though Obama—his name be praised—now presides over this Fake Empire of ours!). His sorrow and anguish are rather exhausting. Fortunately, the music sounds like it’s really worth digging into.

Three: No drop-dead, staggering, perpetually-surprising standouts like Boxer‘s “Fake Empire”, and no outright stinkers… this often indicates a completely mediocre record. I think it means people will either like or dislike the entire thing.

Here’s Afraid of Everyone, which has been making the rounds already. I must say, it sounds even better where it belongs—between “Little Faith” and “Bloodbuzz, Ohio”.