Charles Ellsworth — Cesaréa
It just goes to show what a great producer can do. I’ve given Charles Ellsworth a bump before, but his newest album, Cesaréa, is a leap and a bound above the songs I heard last year. Ellsworth ditched SLC for…
Music Roundup!
For those of you in the US, I hope everyone had a restful Memorial Day weekend! Canadian duet Moscow Apartment prove that the kids are alright — the self-described feminist duo had barely finished their first year in high school…
An American Forrest — Rosas y Mesteños
With all due respect to everyone I’ve been writing about lately, it’s been a long time since an artist has reached out to me directly whose music is so stunning that I have a visceral response to it. Rosas y…
Morning Music
It’s rainy and gross here in New York, but these songs lift my mood. Jared Rabin kicks us off with the strident anthem “Something Left to Say.” Matthew O’Neill‘s “Alzheimer Blues” takes my deepest fear and grief and turns it…
tricot — 3
I don’t have too many opportunities to use Japanese stateside, so I hope you won’t mind my getting a little pedantic. While the band is referred to as tricot in its US marketing materials (so I used it in the…
Lynn Drury — Rise of the Fall
Lynn Drury’s become a master of the world-weary ballad. That doesn’t mean Drury’s stuck in a rut; it’s just that on her eighth (!) album, Rise of the Fall, she plays to her strengths. Drury’s got a refreshing earthiness to…
Morning Music!
Here’s a nice playlist for your morning routine We start with Lee N. Sage‘s “Thrown,” a bracing acoustic track. That’s followed up by some blistering shoegaze punk from American High. Mt. Joy brings us back to Earth with a rootsier…
VIDEO: James Wilson and Sam Gleaves — “Apartment #9”
A hole in the time-space continuum allowed queer country luminaries James Wilson (of the Paisley Fields) and Sam Gleaves to get some back-porch-and-strumming time. The pair sing a bottom-of-the-glass rendition of Tammy Wynette’s “Apartment #9” (and now that same-sex marriage…