Even when they’re fun, the holidays are an emotional time bomb. That’s why it’s so important for all of us to take in a few quiet moments. Chris J Norwood and his brass band the Knockdown Dragout have got just…
Juniper recounts a no-good, very bad day on “Thinking About You.” Is there anyone who’s not been driven to distraction by that one person they can’t get out of their head? But the song is by no means frenetic. Rather,…
Wolf Van Elfmand’s inventive songwriting has won him a place in my heart over the years. On “Don’t Call it Country,” the Brooklyn-based artist shines a light on all the diversity country music has to offer — a gentle ribbing…
Listen to my favorite tracks off each album on my Spotify or Tidal playlists! Updated weekly with all the best new country, Americana, and whatever else I feel like — this is music like your life depends on it. Ashley…
I relate a little too well to The Roseline’s new single, “I Was a Gun.” The holidays are a hard time to be a teacher: if you think it brings up a lot of bad feelings for you, it’s worse…
Humbird rails against white supremacy in her powerful psych-folk song “Child of Violence.” As I’ve said in the past, what makes a song anti-racist is not the message that “racism is bad” so much as acknowledging one’s complicity in it…
Sully Bright’s latest EP, Darling, Wake Up, is an album of love and fear. Born in the small town of Forest City near the mountains of North Carolina, Bright bonded over rock legends with his father (the Eagles are a…
On Saturday I was hanging out with my high school friends. As one does, we remarked on the passage of time, how weird it is for our peers to be having children, and, since my wife and I are teachers,…