Aquarium Drunkard — Promised Land Sound’s 2013 debut was a fun romp, getting by on garage-y energy and pleasing country rock choogle. The energy and the choogle remain firmly in place on the Nashville-based band’s sophomore effort, but For Use and Delight is a quant... more info

Stereogum — Promised Land Sound are a fairly young band out of Nashville, but you wouldn’t know it based on the strength of their second album For Use And Delight. One of the trickiest things about this band is they’ve got more than one vocalist, a flexibili... more info

Stereogum — Nashville psych-folk rockers Promised Land Sound continue to hint at an increasingly polished sophomore album with the sun-soaked “Push and Pull (All the Time).” The track follows and contrasts the more mellow and doleful “She Takes Me There,�... more info

Stereogum — Joe Scala’s voice is a candle flickering in the wind, but his band is a bonfire. Scala is the frontman and bass player for Nashville psych-country fuzzers Promised Land Sound, who put out their self-titled debut album through Paradise Of Bachelors ... more info

Time — Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis will play Harriet Tubman in an HBO Films and Amblin TV production, EW has confirmed. The untitled project is based on Kate Clifford Larson’s book Bound for the Promised Land, the 2003 biographic novel on the Civi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield, words by Andrew Sacher Angel Olsen @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - 5/13/14 Angel Olsen brought her current tour to NYC last night (5/13) for a show at Music Hall of Williamsburg, her second sold-out show... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — We’re en route from Los Angeles to New Orleans for jazzfest. So, in the spirit of the state’s indigenous sounds, check out the voodoo that is Maison Dufrene, and then get lost in this…. Fais Do-Do: A Swamp Pop Honky Tonk Johnnie Allan – Promi... more info

The Telegraph — Ari Shavit's bleak and blinkered view of the state of Israel fails to convince Ed O'Loughlin     more info

Consequence of Sound — Music City quartet comes Jack White approved. more info

Impose Magazine — Do we have a readership into four-part harmonies, a la Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young? Do the readers of Impose think Jesus is just alright and the same goes for The Doobie Brothers? Are you friggin' ready for good ole' Dollyworld Americana, ch... more info