WHAT IT IS: “I prefer to create friction,” the post-country chanteuse offers. “Because if you’re not pushing buttons, you’re just making something pleasant; it’s probably been done before—and it’s not making anyone feel anything.” New City Blues is a high-energy box-cutter of emotion, marked by the bite and punch of a smart girl who knows there’s more to life than a cold beer and cut-offs. Trying to put a label on her sound is tricky. Sellers’ sound has an immediacy and an urgency, as well as a jagged edge best described as garage country.
ALBUM: New City Blues
RELEASE DATE: 1/29
SINGLE: “Light of Day”
TV: TV debut on Colbert 1/28; CMT Next Women of Country campaign
LIVE: Opened for Chris Stapleton; select 2016 dates with The Felice Brothers, Delta Rae, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Jamestown Revival; upcoming festivals include SXSW, Stagecoach, Bonnaroo, ACL, Windy City, Vegas’ Route 91, more
RADIO: Top 5 on AMA Americana airplay chart in six weeks; Most Added at Americana radio; airplay on SiriusXM stations The Highway, Outlaw and Coffee House
PRESS: Rolling Stone, Nylon, NPR Music’s First, Spotify’s Spotlight on 2016 Country Artists, Paste, Garden & Gun, N.Y. Post, Associated Press, EW, NASH Country Weekly, The Tennessean, Music Row
BOOKING: Jonathan Levine, Keith Levy/Paradigm
PUBLISHING: Carnival Music Group
MANAGEMENT: Mary Hilliard Harrington/Red Light Mgmt.