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…
There’s an old adage that it takes a lifetime to write a first album, but in Mark Currey’s case, that’s more than true. We became Facebook friends recently and Currey is a new grandfather. And Tarrant County this is his…
Nashville is busy bestowing well-deserved crowns on Jason, Chris, and (sort of) Sturgill for pushing all the right envelopes and expanding country music to places it hasn’t yet gone. But country is a big tent and somebody needs to hold…
At the end of the day, it all turns into jazz. At least, that’s my sense of any kind of progression of a genre as it continues to push back against its own conventions. Sunny War’s impressive guitar playing, based…
Adobe & Teardrops highlights the best in alt-country and punk week after week. Co-hosted by Rachel Cholst of the long-running blog Adobe & Teardrops and Von Cloedt (formerly of Americana Rock Mix), the show will highlight the kind of music…
Roxie Watson has been near and dear to my heart for quite some time. The four-piece amiably dips into bluegrass, country, rock-a-billy, and folk with equal measure, and on their fourth release Try A Little Kindness, they throw in a…