Rachel Cholst

2 days ago | nashvillescene.com | Rachel Cholst

Angie K is building a plane. She is a mechanic by trade, and she’s always wanted to build one, so she’s doing it. This isn’t a metaphor for the country singer-songwriter’s musical career, but the methodical approach to achieving her goals that she relies on as she assembles her plane has made it possible to raise her profile and make a return visit to CMA Fest.

3 days ago | nodepression.org | Rachel Cholst

With New Roses, Ben de la Cour delivers the sonic equivalent of that eerie feeling you get when the beams from an oncoming set of headlights brush over you on a rainy day. It’s not quite a run in with your mortality, but there is a sense of a near miss. Although the light scanning across your skin is intimate, the interaction itself is alien and alienating: you’ll never see the person in the other car. There’s something predatory about it.

1 week ago | nodepression.org | Rachel Cholst

The Shootouts are as electric as ever on their latest album, Switchback. The title track is an instrumental interlude breaking up the band’s most confident album yet. The rollicking guitars and buoyant trad country rhythm section take us back to matinee Westerns. While the band has always cultivated a retro profile, they’ve never stuck to it slavishly, and Switchback sees them growing into their own skin in many ways.

1 week ago | nashvillescene.com | Rachel Cholst

Performing at The Concert for Love and Acceptance, 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 2, at Category 10 Rhinestone Revolution out June 6 via River House Artists Playing June 6 at The Blue Room at Third Man Records Nashville wasn’t ready for Derek and Brandon Campbell when they arrived almost a decade ago from Versailles, their small hometown near Lexington, Ky. As country duo The Kentucky Gentlemen, the twin brothers stand out with effervescent harmonies, and they’re equally deft at soulful anthems and...

2 months ago | rainbowrodeomag.com | Rachel Cholst

Trousdale 2 min Every week, Rainbow Rodeo brings you the best new queer country music! Listen to this playlist on Spotify and Tidal! Thanks to Elliott for making a parallel list on Apple Music! Listen to the parallel list on Tidal. Missed a week? TA Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured on this Spotify playlist.