X Ambassadors, “Townie.” On their new album, Townie, X Ambassadors reminisce on their childhood memories and life in upstate New York. Townie X Ambassadors Virgin, April 5 8/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. The fifth album by brothers Sam and Casey Harris consists of 12 tracks laced with smooth guitar…

X Ambassadors, “The Beautiful Liar.” Don’t get it confused, kids: X Ambassadors’ The Beautiful Liar is a breakup album. Its bookending children’s audiobook conceit, its Jung-for-beginners Shadow figure and its incongruous satirical skits may gesture toward some kind of intellectual import. However, when you skip over this stuff, you’re…

Empire of the Sun performs at Golden Gate Park at Outside Lands on Aug, 12, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. Sonoma Harvest Music Festival producers Monday announced the lineup for the third annual event at Glen Ellen’s BR Cohn Winery. This year’s festival will again take place on four days over…

X Ambassadors perform at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — By adding three soulful backup singers to singer Sam Harris’ bluesy growl on their current tour, Ithaca, New York rock band X Ambassadors added a new gospel wrinkle to their alt-rock sound.…

Jamie N. Commons. Photos: Jon Ching. Blues rock singer-songwriter Jamie N Commons is a man of many talents. Least-known among them is the ability to slip in and out of his native English accent and into his adoptive American Midwest and Southern tongues. That’s what happens after your father…