Morning Music!
1. The Town Council — “Lie Awake” doesn’t sound anything like Two Cow Garage, but something about the voice and the gruff honesty of the song calls my favorite guitar slingers to mind. 2. Monica Riskey — “Gluten Free” is…
Morning Music!
1. Ajay Srivastav — “Between the Cracks” is an intrepid journey to the spaces between folk, blues, psychedelica, and traditional Indian music that hits all the right notes. 2. A Valley Son — “The World, It Moves” is a Southern…
Susannah Winspear — Slightly Unemployed
Slightly Unemployed, is, quite simply, a delight. Winspear’s lyrics are so pointed and timely that she is a one-person latter-day Gilbert and Sullivan. Slightly Unemployed celebrates the anxieties of a twenty-going-on-thirty-something in this day and age. Joyously. With a swing…
Partner — In Search of Lost Time
It’s been a while since I’ve fallen so hard for a bad, but maybe it’s because I can see so much of myself in the band. Proudly queer and absolutely hilarious, Partner introduces a new paradigm of queer portrayal in…
Morning Music!
It’s always a bit strange to be a New Yorker on 9 While for the most part life passes as usual, but it’s always a stark reminder that what’s normal now really wasn’t not so long ago. But this playlist…
The Sparklers — All the Prettiest Girls Go Straight to Hell
The Sparklers’ previous album, Crying at the Low Bar, came out back in 2012 and has been living with me, in one way or another, since. Click the tag for the proof but that album has been one of my…
Morning Music
1. The Bara Bara Band — “Plimsoll” is a truly epic, truly British folk song. 2. Lindsay White — “Surrogate” is a pained song that showcases White’s lyricism and vocal performance. 3. Reece Sullivan — “I Dismissed Your Work” brings…
Exhausted Pipes — New Dust
Exhausted Pipes brings an intriguing blend of folk pop and Americana grit to their whopper of an album. Clocking in at 14 tracks and roughly an hour, the band covers lots of ground in New Dust. Exhausted Pipes proves its…