The Olympic Ass-Kickin Team / National Champions

Unabashed disciples of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team plays hook-filled guitar rock loaded with large doses of Terry Anderson's twisted wacky sense of humor. "You Had Me At Get Lost" tells the tale of an infatuated ex who finds physical abuse and restraining orders signs...

New releases: June 30, 2009

Wilco! Wilco! Wilco! Ahem. The full (to the best of our knowledge) list:

Levon Helm -- Electric Dirt (Welk)
Brad Paisley -- American Saturday Night (Arista)
The Sweetback Sisters -- Chicken Ain't Chicken (Signature)
Kevin Welch -- Beneath My Wheels (Compass)
Wilco -- Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)

Another Rock Legend Dies

Sky Saxon, lead singer and founding father of the seminal sixties garage band The Seeds died Thursday. Their hit single from 1967, "Can't Seem To Make You Mine", has been covered by everyone from the Ramones to Alex Chilton (okay, everyone except Michael Jackson-who also died Thursday-just in case you...

New releases: June 23, 2009

Bjork -- Voltaic (Nonesuch)
Shawn Colvin -- Live (Nonesuch)
Dinosaur Jr. -- Farm (Jagjaguwar)
Patterson Hood -- Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) (Ruth St./Thirty Tigers)
The Mars Volta -- Octahedron (Warner Bros.)
Tift Merritt -- Buckingham Solo [Live] (Fantasy)
Charlie Robison -- Beautiful Day (Dualtone)
Sons of Bill -- One Town Away (Thirty Tigers)
Regina Spektor -- Far (Warner Bros.)

Hickory Wind now taking submissions through ReviewShine

Hickory Wind is now taking music submissions through ReviewShine, a website that allows artists and promoters to safely and securely submit digital music to bloggers.

No more wasted paper & plastic -- no more worries about if the post office will get the CD to us in a playable format, or lose it altogether. It's not free, but it's way cheaper than sending physical CDs through the mail.

Just surf to reviewshine.com, sign up as a promoter, upload your album, and click "Hickory Wind" as a blog you want to submit to! We're guaranteed to get it immediately!

Full Disclosure: Larry Karnowski of Hickory Wind is a partner in Truer Sound LLC, the operator of ReviewShine. However, you can submit to lots of other blogs through ReviewShine too, like AmericanaRoots, Twangville, and The 9513 among many others.