Ten minutes might seem like an odd runtime for an EP, but Amparo’s Rains knows not to overstay its welcome. The three-track instrumental combines gentle, organic guitar work with electronic looping and modulation, creating something a little more than human.…
Jeremy Squires is surely about to release a stunner of an album. While Poem doesn’t yet have a release date, he’s released a number of singles that have me quite excited. In “Gift,” Squires reckons with loss and nostalgia in…
Rachel and Von return to discuss aging, dental health, snakes on a seat, and how sometimes it’s not great to say yes to everything. Also, some excellent tunes. 1. Good Graces, “The First Girl”, Hummingbird 2. Molly Parden – “Sail…
I really love my job, but I am extremely jealous of whoever does the music placement for Democracy Now! (It’s an independent news show, should you be curious. They’re are very unapologetically left-leaning if that’s your thing.) During commercial breaks,…
Things are a bit stressful right now, but Flood County will slow you down. These songs aren’t happy by any means — it’s a classic country album, why would you think otherwise? But the mellow harmonies of Stewart Peck and…
In these troubled times, it’s important to have music that’s fun, something that reconnects us to our youths when the whole world felt possible…and then combine with the demand to make that world possible. However, for many people, our youths…
Over the summer, Kim Ware’s revolving band the Good Graces released a rocket of an album with Set Your Sights, a breezy romp through 90s college rock, folk, and roots rock. By contrast, The Hummingbird EP sounds like it was…
Von and Rachel return with a folksier set…as well as Rachel’s unvarnished opinions of Williamsburg. Mark Currey’s “Unless You Move” kicks off the set, though Andrew Carter’s “Tear This Motha’ Down” and Tusk, Her’s “Gianni’s Gun” kick things into high…