Dougmore — Outerboros
Dougmore has been making a splash on the scene with feature pieces on No Depression and American Songwriter. He’s a member of newgrass darling Cricket Tell the Weather. But to me, he’s just Doug Goldstein, the guy I set next…
Humble Tripe — The Beginning
Normally I write a little bit about an album, stick in the cover image, write a little more, then embed the file. I really have no way of knowing who clicks on it, if anyone. But this time around, I…
Pure Luck — Pure Luck
It’s Friday. You want a drink. Pure Luck is the band to go with that drink, assuming they don’t dropkick it out of your hands. The band was created via fortuitous circumstance at a backyard party in the summer of…
Panther Hollow — People Synesthesia
I was in high school during the Great Indie Rock Revival and, I gotta say…I don’t really miss it. I know we were all processing our collective trauma after 9/11, but I could just never get behind the wafty guitars,…
Daniel Romano — Modern Pressure
There are a lot of people throwing around the term “psychedelic country” these days but Daniel Romano is perhaps the first since Sturgill to use it correctly. Romano’s Modern Pressure is pure ear candy — there’s no way to listen…
Rabbit Rabbit! Morning Music for June 1
Jon McNulty kicks us off with “Broken Leaves.” McNulty’s intriguingly androgynous voice gives the song a poignant, breathy atmosphere. With “Get Found,” Mike Stocksdale makes sense of adulthood with some rugged acoustic strumming. Kylie Odetta releases her “Stress,” but we…
Mink’s Miracle Medicine — House of Candles
Mink’s Miracle Medicine downright dazzled me the first time around. I’ve thought about them pretty often since — chilling in Harper’s Ferry in an old camper, sipping moonshine and watching John Brown’s failed raid. Seems like a pretty sweet life.…
The Rubs — Impossible Dreams
The Rubs have returned with their new LP, a power pop barnstormer that’s as charming as it is infectious. These intricate pop melodies were penned and executed exclusively by none other than Joey Rubbish himself. Rubbish has a way of…