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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…