This is a nice writeup by Guy Fletcher, who has worked with Mark since the Dire Straits days and handled the production for the single: Guitar Heroes Diary – Guy Fletcher
‘The brief I gave to all the players was simple: “Play as much or as little as you like, and don’t worry about playing over other players—I will sort it out.”’
And speaking of Mark, the full new album One Deep River is out now.
The Accidentals have been releasing a couple one off(?) covers, here’s one released today of “Not Strong Enough” by board favorite boygenius:
Now they’ve all been put together as a cover album.
They do a good job with “Closer to Fine”:
As mentioned on R.E.M. HQ - “Sleeping Soldiers of Love,” first single from Johnny Irion’s upcoming album, also titled “Sleeping Soldiers of Love,” The album was mixed by Patrick Sansone and features an all-star cast of players including Jeff Bridges, Mike Mills of REM, and many others.
Latest Decemberists song from the upcoming album.
New Nada Surf.
Folk supergroup, Monsters of Folk, are reissuing their first (and only) album with a bunch of previously unreleased bonus tracks. This is one of them. I had to check it wasn’t a Springsteen cover! Boss-esque. It’s great.
I am loving the tracks that I have heard from the upcoming album, Triple Fire, by Los Angeles artist, Geneva Jacuzzi. This is synth goodness across the board.
If you are a big fan of current darkwave music, then see how many artists you can spot in the second video…
New music from Julien Baker and Calvin Lauber.
Eddie Vedder covers the English Beat.
From Moon Mirror, due September 13th.
This song caught my ear a few nights ago on a local roots rock, Americana radio program called The Sound. This is their newest single but I’m not sure if it’s from an upcoming release or not.
Nice, I like that song a lot. Not familiar with them, so checked out some of their other stuff too. Tried starting with their first 2013 self-titled EP, and it was way too Mumford and Sons and I couldn’t deal with it. 
Jumped to the other end and their most recent 2022 album is good though.
New Gillian Welch & David Rawlings. Woodland is out on Friday, August 23rd.
New from the Alternate Routes:
The latest release from Fancy Gap’s debut album which is out on Friday. Some of you may recognize the voice of Stuart McLamb from the Love Language.
The new Lunar Vacation tracks have me very excited for their new album. I already love their old stuff, but I think the two teaser tracks they’ve put out are some of their best work so far. They’re another GA band and are actually playing a show at the 40 Watt in September for the release of their album 
Great video too. 
