Earlier this year, Seattle's own Your Heart Breaks released their ninth studio album, the riveting Drone Butch Blues. An important queer concept album, the LP takes the writings of historic and contemporary GLBTQI authors and weaves them through the perspective of local artist Clyde Petersen. On the track "The Party's Over," Petersen looks to the journals and writings of multimedia artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz. (You might remember his famous photograph Untitled

Here’s something good from Cincinnati outfit The Tillers, taken from their ‘Hand On The Plow’ album. This is a band that knows its Americana and can play it superbly. They’re on tour in the UK in November and well worth seeing. 06/11 Hemel Hempstead // Fishery Wharf Cafe Boxmoor 07/11 London // Green Note 08/11 Brighton // Brighton Electric 09/11 Barton Upon Humber // The Ropewalk 10/11 Newcastle // Jumpin’ Hot Club at Gosforth Civic Theatre 11/11 Edinburgh // Traverse

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Cincinnati-based heavy rock band Ampline have contributed a previously-unreleased track, “Silver Wave”, to one of two upcoming compilations from Ohio’s Aquabear Legion in celebration of the music company’s 15 years in operation. The Volume 7 compilation can be ordered directly from the label’s website and it also includes songs from Actual Form, Buffalo Killers, Counterfeit Madison, DANA, Hiram-Maxim, Lung, Smizmar, and Van Dale. The comp is also available digitally via SofaB

On October 4, Daniel Martin Moore will release ninth album Never Look Away (SofaBurn). In the past, the Kentucky singer/songwriter has collaborated with the like of Jim James, Ben Sollee, Joan Shelley and others. On Never Look Away, Moore’s main partner in crime is producer/multi-instrumentalist Seth Kauffman (Floating Action), with whom basic tracks were recorded in North Carolina before Moore took them back home with him to flesh them out and finish them with a little help