Music Roundup 8/29!
1. “A Chance to Fly” by Scott Jackson is a warm song that suggests that, even though it’s off of Jackson’s debut album, this isn’t his first rodeo by a long shot. 2. John Dominy‘s “Bootstraps” reminds me of the…
WATCH A MOVIE: The Shopkeeper
There’s no question that the music industry is flailing — now even the streaming giants like Spotify and Pandora that destabilized things in the first are becoming victims of their own success and record companies are beginning to gain the…
Music Roundup!
I get most of the songs for these playlists from a site called SubmitHub and my queue is…overloaded to say the least. So I’ll be posting a playlist every day through the end of September (or until I run out…
Karen and the Sorrows — The Narrow Place
I’ve been shouting praise for Karen and the Sorrows from the rooftops for a good five years now. I’ve heard the band tweak this collection of songs over the last three years or so. And now that The Narrow Place…
The Savage Poor — The Grownups
I don’t think this album could have come at a better time. If you stuck the Replacements, David Bowie, and John Prine in a blender, slowed them all down with some codeine, and let them stumble woozily around, you’d get…
PREMIERE: Karen and the Sorrows — “The Price of the Ticket”
I have been a huge fangirl of Karen and the Sorrows for, like, a while. They started playing around town shortly after I moved back after college and the intersection of queerness, Jewishness, countryness, and — by complete coincidence —…
The Everyday Sinners — Shakedown
The Everyday Sinners proudly marches in a long and distinguished lineage of British protest music that combine celebration with hard truth. The chug-a-lug of the bass and nimble rhythm guitars throw back to American roadhouses and gospel churches, but the…
PREMIERE: Anna Volpe — “Never Imagine”
Anna Volpe’s “Never Imagine” is a touching tribute to her father, but it’s also a whole lot more than that. You may recognize Volpe’s dulcet tones from the background in Paisley Fields songs. Volpe’s heading out on her own and…