Time for another shout-out to other fantastic songwriters, singers, and musicians still toiling in relative obscurity. This week, we offer due props to bluegrass outfit Harmony Hot Haus from Harmony PA. I first encountered these guys three IndieFests ago in Oil City (which would make it 2017, when I had saxophonist Michael Squillace in tow with me), where they put on a kick-ass set and we swapped CDs. They had a fantastic rhythm section that kept the guitar and fiddle locked

Last week I sent you the links to listen to the brand new single by The Random Hubiak Band, “This’ll Be Our Year.” This week, before I go into the story of the song’s inception and production, I’ve simply got a nice playlist for you. I tried to match the mid-60s style of the song itself to the songs from that era that inspired it, as well as some later songs (from the seventies through the present) that were either also inspired by those same sounds or which celebrate the sum

“Best practices” for blogging and newsletters suggest that one shouldn’t email on a Monday or a Friday, but it’s Friday, and I’m proctoring a test (which gives me time to tend to personal tasks). I don’t want to wait until next week for this quick announcement, and I know that nobody will read it if I send it over the weekend. But perhaps if you knew that this song is a perfect feel-good summer song that screams “weekend in 1966,” you will feel compelled to take a listen! “Th

Happy July 4th to all of you who actually read my newsletters! The good news for those of you waiting to hear new material from The Random Hubiak Band is that we’ll have a new single out on July 19, and I’ll tell you about that in another newsletter. Today’s newsletter is simply to share more awesome music with you from others whose music I feel makes the world a better place. And today those others happen to be Lancaster PA’s self-described accordion-powered romp-rockers F