Since starting Babehoven in Portland, Oregon in 2017, Maya Bon has shown herself to be a gifted heart-on-sleeve songwriter, using music to peel back the layers of her own experiences—sometimes sad, sometimes surreal, always vividly rendered—to reveal universal emotional truths hidden in the most intimately personal of details.  

Originally from Birmingham, AL, Banditos is a group – more like a gang, actually – of six 20-somethings, nowadays operating out of Nashville. I love their blend of jangle boogie, hill country mojo, all with a healthy dose of folk, soul and bluegrass. A taste of the forthcoming release, Right On, out soon. Plenty of other great tunes including the latest from Jonah Tolchin and Bellows.

Call it prairie noir, or Canadiana desert rock: Abigail Lapell sings haunting, gorgeous modern folk songs. Her albums have won two Canadian Folk Music Awards, English Songwriter of the Year (2020) and Contemporary Album of the Year (2017). Her latest single from upcoming album, Stolen Time, explores the insatiable, contradictory impulses that drive doomed love and other addictions.