This album deserves a full review but I think it’s worth sharing my initial reaction: So that’s Brighter in the Dark in a nutshell but here’s some more context. Mouths of Babes is a queer folk supergroup (super-duo?) comprised of…
I was immediately struck by Texas singer Kim Nall’s silver tongue and barbed pen. Nall borrows the title of her band’s debut album from an Allen Ginsburg poem, but Lay Your Vision Down is as earthy as they come. Nall…
The Jerry Cans, hailing from Nunavut (the Canadian Arctic, that is), seamlessly blend country music and Inuit traditions. This can be seen in the gorgeous new video, “Arnalukaq.” The song highlights the serious and oft-ignored issue that indigenous women in…
Rayna Gellert’s Workin’s Too Hard is a little long to be an EP and shorter than an album, but it says a lot more than most. Gellert is perhaps best known for her work in the roots band Uncle Earl.…
I had the good fortune to see Micah Schnabel live the night after the election. Both he and Shane have produced new music for us just in time for Inauguration Day. Micah’s been playing these songs during his last couple…
If you are white, mad about Trump, and not doing SOMETHING this weekend, then we have nothing further to say to each other. If you do not plan to attend the march or any other action, donate your money, donate your…
Wishing you had some more pounding banjo in your life? Fear not — McDougall’s got you covered. The banjo punk troubadour is re-recording a number of his old songs with a full band. Eventually he will release the collection of…
I’m really sad that Become My Blood didn’t come out a few weeks earlier. If it had, it absolutely would have been on my top 10 of 2016. Be that as it may, I imagine it’ll stick with me throughout…