Stopover In Absentia

We're feeling it, are you feeling it? There's some Stopover magic in the air on what would normally be Savannah Stopover Weekend. But we don't want to be sad, so let's be happily nostalgic. We love keeping up with all the bands who've played the festival so we put together a playlist with recent releases from 35 great festival alums.

It seems fitting to kick off with a track from Hurray for the Riff Raff's excellent new album The Past Is Still Alive and end with a re-release of "How It Ends" on the 20th anniversary of DeVotchKa's seminal album.

Have a great weekend and go out and support a live show in your home town tonight, and find the full playlist here:

The Stopover List - January 2023

The New Year has started off with a bang with new music from The National, Boy Genius, King Tuff, Tennis, The Arcs ( Dan Auerbach’s project) plus a slew of great tracks and albums from rising stars like Billy Nomates, Royel Otis, Bombshell, Grapetooth, Wednesday and more.

The Strokes are back dominating the music press with their 10-disc boxed set vinyl release The Singles-Vol 1 including b-sides and rarities from their 1st three albums. The excellent “The Modern Age-Rough Trade Version” dropped as a teaser on January 13th. The whole set is available Feb 24th.

Newer bands that continue to catch our ear include Jive Talk, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Two Blinks, I love You, Steady Holiday and Gretel Hanlyn.

Stopover festival alumni are in fine form with new albums from July Talk and new singles from The Nude Party, Caroline Rose and Ron Gallo; whose new album drops March 3rd.

Lastly, do not miss the lead single “Dog Park” from Savannah’s own Ann Kellam released Friday, 1/27. We couldn’t be more proud of our hometown talent and this track deserves all of the accolades it’s about to receive!

The January List

Billy Nomates

Jive Talk

The Strokes

Anna Kellam

Danielson; Sufjan Stevens

Steady Holiday

two blinks, I love you

Black Belt Eagle Scout

The National

Gretel Hänlyn

The Nude Party

Young Fathers

Grapetooth; Knox Fortune

Grace Kelly

boygenius (Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus)

King Tuff

The Arcs

Royel Otis

Wednesday

July Talk

Ron Gallo

Blondshell

Nick Waterhouse

Tennis

Caroline Rose

The Stopover List - Best Tracks of 2022

Our picks for the 40 best tracks of 2022 - we hope you find a few new artists and songs to love.

Viva la music! Happy New Year from the Savannah Stopover Team!

Best of 2022 List

Spoon

Kevin Morby

Alvvays

Wilco

MJ Lenderman

Beach House

Max Mason

Big Thief

Nilüfer Yanya

Jive Talk

Royel Otis

Angel Olsen

Danielle Ponder

Drugdealer

Yot Club

Billy Nomates

SAULT

The National, feat. Bon Iver

Bonny Light Horseman, with Anais Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman

Father John Misty

The Reds, Pinks and Purples

Jockstrap

Sharon Van Etten

Jane Inc.

Plains, with Waxahatchee and Jess Williamson

Odie Leigh

Horsegirl

LCD Soundsystem

Abby Sage

Miss Grit

Dehd

Emily Nenni

The A’s

Alex G

Yo La Tengo

Automatic

Say She SHe

Hurray for the Riff Raff

Black Country, New Road

TOLEDO

Happy Holidays from your friends at Savannah Stopover!

Enjoy our holiday playlist with over two hours of music from Stopover alum and some of our favorite indie artists. From Lucy Dacus to Pink Martini to Pearl Jam and everything in between, the holidays never sounded brighter.

The Holiday List

Lucy Dacus - Last Christmas

JD McPherson - Every Single Christmas

The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song

Heartless Bastards - Blue Christmas

The Beths - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

SASAMI - Little Drummer Boy

Southern Culture on the Skids - Silver Bells

Fruit Bats - It’s Beginning To Look Like Christmas

Le Bon - Make Way For The Holidays

Dr. Dog - Christmas Party

Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today

The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping - Single Edit

Dex Romweber Duo - Dark Christmas

She & Him - Let It Snow

Khruangbin - Christmas Time Is Here

Best Coast - Little Saint Nick

Ron Gallo - White Christmas

Pink Martini; China Forbes - Auld Lang Syne

girlpuppy - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

Nikki Lane - FaLaLaLaLove Ya

Hiss Golden Messenger - Hanukkah Dance

Eels - Christmas Is Going To The Dogs

Margo Price - River

Charles Bradley; Menahan Street Band - Every Day Is Christmas (When I'm Lovin' You)

Mountain Man - Greensleeves

Finom - Jing-a-Ling, Jing-a-Ling

Wild Child - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)

Blitzen Trapper - Christmas Is Coming Soon!

Pomplamoose - Here We Come A-Caroling

of Montreal - Peace To All Freaks

Pinc Louds - Watching Snow

Pearl Jam - Santa God

The Cave Singers - Christmas Night

Susto - R.I.P. Santa

Dent May - I'll Be Stoned For Christmas

Julien Baker - A Dreamer's Holiday

Murder By Death - O Holy Night

River Whyless - Jingle Bells

Kishi Bashi - It's Christmas, But It's Not White Here In Our Town

No BS! Brass - This Christmas

The Stopover List - November 2022

Our November List of the best in new music is a deep one; whether it's featuring new tunes from stalwarts like Yo La Tengo and Scott McMicken (from Dr Dog) or favorite newbies like Royel Otis, Emily Nenni and Odie Leigh. The whole fun of it is checking out music that's hot off the press and 'new to you' and from around the world! Bands from London (Sault), Melbourne (CIVIC), New York (Papi Shiitake), Dublin ( Aoife Nessa Frances), Nashville (Cailtin Rose), Chicago (Horsegirl) and small towns in between.

We're especially drawn to this month's trove of singles from Savannah Stopover alum, including Kate Bollinger teaming up with Drugdealer, Lucy Dacus covering Carole King, the latest EP from Bendigo Fletcher and the new track from The Bones of J.R. Jones (which is burning up TV's all over the world as the track for this year's Amazon Holiday Campaign). Lastly, it's been years since we've had an album from longtime Stopover fave Caitlin Rose; maybe 9 or 10 years? Man, was it worth the wait!

Enjoy y'all and let us know what's catching your ear!

The November List

Yo La Tengo

Scott McMicken and THE EVER - EXPANDING

Caitlin Rose

Jadu Heart

Drugdealer; Kate Bollinger

Tennis

Papi Shiitake

Emily Nenni

Bendigo Fletcher

Odie Leigh

Teleman

The Bones of J.R. Jones

JW Francis

Royel Otis

Lucy Dacus

Horsegirl

CIVIC

Andy Shauf

Aoife Nessa Frances

Field Guide

Crack Cloud

Yot Club

Allie Crow Buckley

SAULT

Say She She

The Stopover List - October 2022

Our October List of the best in new music is out! Let’s get to the fun stuff. Which new under the radar bands are catching our ear? Dazy, Yot Club, Housewife, Lowertown, Arcy Drive, Abby Sage, Miss Grit and Dummy for starters. 

Plus new albums just out from artists we love like comedian/actor Whitmer Thomas, Beth Orton, Dry Cleaning, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charley Crockett, The Backseat Lovers, rapper Mavi and folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman.

 We had to toss in that killer new single from LCD Soundsytem and new tunes from Young Fathers, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Bass Drum of Death and the aptly titled new track from Girl in Red, “October Passed Me By”.

Lastly, we’re loving these new tracks from Stopover alums Ron Gallo, French Horn Rebellion (afro-cuban funk!) and Futurebirds, our friends and local superstars who just dropped a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil” today.

Let us know what’s catching your ear as we round the musical corner from fall into winter…hit us up on Insta or Facebook.

-The Stopover Team

The October List

Dazy

Yot Club

Ron Gallo with Santa Chiara

Housewife

LCD Soundsystem

Whitmer Thomas

Arcy Drive

Lowertown

Futurebirds

Beth Orton

The Backseat Lovers

Charley Crockett

Young Fathers

Abby Sage

Bonny Light Horseman, with Anais Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson and Josh Kaufman

Dummy

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

French Horn Rebellion, with Cimafunk and Stalking Girls

Miss Grit

MAVI

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

TOLEDO

Dry Cleaning

Bass Drum of Death

girl in red

The Stopover List- September 2022

We close out the summer and plunge into fall with our September list featuring the best in new music... plus one stellar reissue. Thank you Big Crown Records for re-releasing 1972's Never Coming Back, the overlooked album by the underrecognized soul artist Shirley Nanette.

Lots of collabs this month; The No Ones ( Peter Buck of R.E.M & Scott McCaughey of The Minus 5) are back with a new single, Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson have teamed up for a new project Plains, The National & Bon Iver hit it out of the park again with "Weird Goodbyes", Sleater-Kinney & Courtney Barnett? Yes Please.  And don't miss Armani Caesar and Westside Gunn railing on Paula Deen.

A few newer projects that keep catching our ear include London's Jockstrap, Chicago's Dehd (who just keeps getting better), Royel Otis, Emily Nenni ( recently signed to New West Records) and Atlanta based goth rockers CDSM.

Other highlights include Nilufer Yanya covering PJ Harvey, the new album from Death Cab For Cutie, Arctic Monkeys take a new sonic turn, a blistering track from Asheville's Wednesday and fantastic new music from Stopover Festival alum All Them Witches, The Bones of J.R. Jones, Ezra Furman, Kate Bollinger, Peel Dream Magazine, Quinn Christoferson and Danielle Ponder, whose debut album came out September 16th and is blowing up the universe.

See the Spotify playlist below!

A bazillion new albums drop in October so stay tuned for next month's list...

-The Stopover Team

The September List

The National, feat. Bon Iver

Plains, with Waxahatchee and Jess Williamson

Drugdealer

Dehd

The No Ones

Kate Bollinger

Royel Otis

CDSM

Jockstrap

Peel Dream Magazine

Emily Nenni

The Bones of J.R. Jones

Ezra Furman

Arctic Monkeys

Shirley Nanette

Quinn Christopherson

Weyes Blood

Danielle Ponder

Biig Piig

Armani Caesar feat. Westside Gunn

Rubblebucket

Nilüfer Yanya

Sleater-Kinney with Courtney Barnett

Death Cab for Cutie

Wednesday

The Stopover Throwback Playlist: 2011-2022

Who doesn’t love a throwback?

For our end of summer monthly playlist, we went into the archives and pulled 50 of our favorite tracks from bands who have played the festival  since its inception. That’s over 700 bands to choose from spanning 2011  through 2022. How did we cull it down to 50? Lots of hand wringing. We selected some  from personal favorite memories , particularly from bands who were just starting out when they played the fest. The list is in chronological order. Who remembers Mac Demarco body surfing through The Jinx in 2013 or The War On Drugs surrounded by blooming azaleas in a museum garden in 2012? Or Rainbow Kitten Surprise blowing the roof off of a church in 2016? Ah, the memories. In almost every case, we selected tracks that the artist released the year they first played the fest or the song that made us fall in love with them.

Happy listening down memory lane!

The Stopover List - July 2022

The July List is hotter than Georgia asphalt with 25 new tracks we've fallen hard for including new singles from some of our favorite artists like Alvvays (how has it been 5 years?), Cass McCombs, Christine and the Queens, Sylvan Esso, Flipturn and Australia's Good Morning.

The Elf Power new album Artificial Countrysides is finally out (their 14th in a 30 year career!) and it's some of their finest work. And Dawes just dropped the most sprawling and unique record of their career, Misadventures of Doomscroller. Give it a thoughtful listen! 

What's on repeat? Debut albums from newcomers Grace Ives, Launder and Naima Bock as well as tunes from a slew of new discoveries like San Francisco's The Red, Pinks and Purples, New Orleans' Julie Odell, Alberta, Canada's Ghost Woman, NYC's Pan Arcadia and Nashville's Jive Talk ( who recently played a red hot Dog Days show in SAV). 

We're especially excited for the debut album from London's Gently Tender; the project from three former members of Palma Violets. Look for that to drop in late August. It was recorded in Stopover alum Matthew E White's Spacebomb Studios in RVA; an instant badge of cred!

And as always, don't miss the best new work from Stopover alum. This month's list includes new music from Lee Baines +The Glory Fires, Twen, Caleb Caudle, Mckinley Dixon and of course Elf Power!

Stay cool and summer on!

The July List

Alvvays

Gently Tender

Christine and the Queens

Kennebec; Hemlock Ernst; Sudan Archives

Ghost Woman

Good Morning

Arlo McKinley; Logan Halstead

Cass McCombs

Sylvan Esso

flipturn

Grace Ives

Caleb Caudle; Jerry Douglas; Sam Bush

Twen

Lee Bains + The Glory Fires

The Reds, Pinks and Purples

Jive Talk

Elf Power

Housewife

JayWood; McKinley Dixon

Pan Arcadia

Sorry

Julie Odell

Naima Bock

Launder

Dawes