Cosmic American Music…Wednesday night AD presents Futurebirds at The Satellite. We’ve got a few pairs of tickets for AD readers. Leave you name in the comments with an email we can contact you at. Winners notified via email, tickets held at will-call.

This Wednesday, September 21st, Futurebirds bring their psychedelic country-rock to the Satellite in Silver Lake. Waters and Loch Lomond support. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers. Hit us up in the comments, below, with your name and an email address we can reach you at. Winners notified by Monday afternoon. (purchase [...]

Before last year’s Hampton’s Lullaby placed them firmly on the national radar, Athens, GA’s Futurebirds self-recorded and released their eponymous debut EP. This week Autumn Tone is releasing a remastered version of the EP digitally in conjunction with a vinyl edition release by nascent Athens label, Holy Owned Subsidiary. From the opening chords of the [...]

Tomorrow, during the second hour of the SIRIUS show, I am airing the AD session Futurebirds laid down in September at Red Rockets Glare Studios while touring out west. For those sans satelllite radio, check out the band, below, stretching out on five tracks culled from their Autumn Tone full-length, Hampton’s Lullaby. The band is [...]

Covered in kudzu and swathed in a blanket of humidity, spanish moss, feedback and reverb exists Futurebirds. Here, at this intersection, we find a synthesis of the two extremes of Neil Young’s yin and yang.  It’s at this crossroads, on this plane that Futurebirds meld the sweet, lilting, pedal steel and harmonies of the Stray [...]

New Orleans, this Friday night Aquarium Drunakrd presents a double bill of labelmates Roadside Graves and Futurebirds at One Eyed Jacks on Toulouse St. in the quarter. If you read the blog of the regular then you’re well aware of my affection for both. Roadside are kicking off their North American tour and Futurebirds are [...]

Inhabiting a zone somewhere between the Band, Bill Murray, Crazyhorse and early Jacket, “Johnny Utah,” the first track off Futurebirds’ Hampton’s Lullaby (out July 27th), finds the band continuing down the path of their self-released EP, tempering some of the noise, sweet enough to make your mama cry.  Futurebirds are presently on the road continuing [...]

(Autumn Tone is set to release Futurebirds debut full-length, Hampton’s Lullaby, next month. The record is a monster. Below we revisit the EP. Catch it before it’s (hint) taken off bandcamp.) For whatever reason, or maybe a few specific ones, when I think of Futurebirds, I think of the Violent Femmes intro: “The Violent Femmes, [...]