Starfire on the Mountain’s a little peculiar. I don’t mean that he’s peculiar as a person (per se.) His music is peculiar in that it achieves in what it sets out to do. Starfire’s got an uncanny knack for creating…
It’s hard not to succumb to the charms of The Fire Sermon‘s kick-off track, “Cashmere.” The light chorus and driving guitars display journeyman songwriter John Statz’s finely honed pop sensibilities. Helmed by friend and fellow Denver songwriter Megan Burtt, The…
I just got back from my first vacation in about a year. And since I’ve switched up my routine, here’s a list of songs that are a little out of my wheel house. Von Bieker sets banjos and acoustic guitars…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…