ESSENTIALS•The Best Halloween Country Songs
Get the apples bobbing, stick a bowl of candy by the door and sit back to enjoy some of country music’s spookiest moments with Holler’s guide to the best Halloween Country songs.
INTERVIEW•One Hot Minute: Kelsey Waldon
Oh Boy Records artist Kelsey Waldon talks with Holler about her artistic bond with John Prine, finding her way in Nashville and more for Introducing.
INTRODUCING•Album Premiere: Katie Callahan's The Water Comes Back
Over sparse arrangements and meditative lyricism, the album untangles Callahan's feelings about her evangelical upbringing and the person she's become.
INTERVIEW•Lady A: The Pause that Kept the Music Playing
Alison Bonaguro sits down with Lady A to reflect on their long career in country music, and how a pause they took in 2014 allowed them to gravitate back together for a new chapter of music making
ALBUM REVIEW•Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash – At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968
This record captures Cash in a transitory stretch - not yet lauded as the spokesperson for the downtrodden and a progenitor of the “outlaw” sound, but rather a talented country musician plying his trade on the road.
ALBUM REVIEW•Hayes Carll - You Get It All
You Get It All indeed does have it all: the good, the bad and the most acute challenges of human experience which Carll treats with humor, heart and clear-eyed intelligence.
ALBUM REVIEW•Elvie Shane - Backslider
It’s clear that Shane is well-positioned to carve a niche as a popular contemporary country performer; he clearly possesses the energy and enthusiasm needed to do so. Suffice it to say, Backslider offers him the means to keep moving forward.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Sam Hunt - Montevallo
It’s certainly not your momma’s taste of traditional country, yet Montevallo's honoring of storytelling roots makes it one of the great modern country classics.
PLAYLIST•Best New Country Songs
All the best new Country, Americana and Roots songs we're spinnin' at Holler Headquarters. We've got big tunes aplenty.
PLAYLIST•New Country Artists
Every Monday, we introduce you to the best new acts in Country, Americana and Roots.
PODCAST•Holler Weekly Ep.15
Tenille Townes joins Baylen and Kelly to talk about her new single 'Girl Who Didn't Care' and to take part in One Hot Minute!
LONG READ•Wanda Jackson: Doing It On Your Own Terms
There are not that many people who have both kissed Elvis Presley and recorded with The Cramps. It’s a reasonably safe bet, in fact, that there is only one: the redoubtable Wanda Jackson.
LONG READ•Carly Pearce: A Country Star Reborn
The next chapter of Carly Pearce’s life is underway; an unputdownable page-turner with one of country music’s most exciting new characters taking the lead role. A star has been born. Again.
LONG READ•Lauren Alaina: Getting Good at Being You
At 26, Lauren Alaina has already had a career full of ups, downs and many disappointments, but it has not changed her. She could be bitter or jaded, but instead remains the bubbly, optimistic girl from Rossville, Georgia.
LONG READ•Dan + Shay: Right Place, Right Time.
When you think back to where it all began, it’s as if Dan + Shay have always been perfectly poised for whatever kind of moment country music is having.
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INTERVIEW•Introducing: Bendigo Fletcher
Folk-rock melodies, a thunderous howl and wide-eyed performances - Bendigo Fletcher are Elektra Record's next best thing. Their frontman Ryan Anderson caught up with Holler to talk about the group's new album, 'Fits of Laughter'.
ALBUM REVIEW•My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket certainly make a resolute statement with this new album, i.e: “we’re back”. Of course, coming as it does from a group so averse to explosive displays, it's the kind of measured statement one needs to lean-in to discern.
ALBUM REVIEW•Lady A - What A Song Can Do
With What a Song Can Do, Lady A's eighth career set, the band continue pushing forward with emotionally-driven songwriting while also looping back to their poppier roots.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
After working within a standard country template for his first two albums, Steve Earle embraced hard rock with his third effort Copperhead Road, kicking off the doggedly nonconformist streak that’s defined his career ever since.