What do you get when you combine steel guitar and meditations on death and reincarnation? Why, Thin Lear’s “Death In a Field” of course. It’s an incredible character study and seemingly light interpretation on one of the most terrifying —…
Grace Gillespie is a London-based artist and producer originally from Devon, who spent much of 2017 touring as part of the live line-up for 4AD’s Pixx. Her early demo of ‘Restoration’ saw her tipped to Q Magazine by Newton Faulkner and brought her to the attention…
Big news! Plus subways, driving times, and dying music scenes. Rachel’s Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artemathebeast/artema–the–beast See Von’s show heavyheavy — 4/19, Badass Cafe, Bradenton, FL The Suitcase Junket – “New York City” (Mean Dog, Trampoline) Swimming Bell — “Got Things” (Wild…
On paper, Mrs. Greenbird would have been a difficult sell for me: male-female duet, emphasis on the”pop” part of folk pop, a Gothic tinge, big arrangements. Usually that’s an instant “no” for me but there’s a reason Mrs. Greenbird won…
There are a lot of ways to make a living as a musician, but Tom Wardle has cornered a very particular market. The English singer-songwriter is well-known in the Hamptons, making the rounds after moving to New York in 2017.…
If a thousand-yard stare could be turned into music, it’d be DL Rossi’s new album A Sweet Thing (out this Friday.) The 7-song record packs a mighty wallop, distilling Rossi’s past few years of hellish setbacks: cancer, divorce, substance use,…
Dar Stellabotta’s carved out an interesting niche for herself, fashioning modern-day blues on homemade cigar-box guitars. I featured her music last fall and am more than happy to remind you to take a gander at her album Lo-Fi Rejection. Stellabotta…
Sometimes you just can’t let a song go — or, it won’t let you go. This is true of the arresting “On My Mind,” gently unspooled from the ether by Laura Jean Ward and a crack team of backup singers.…