McDougall is a powerhouse but I love him with a band. “Stop This Train,” a plaintive song that most would treat as the “quiet” interlude in an album, retains a quiet dignity as it gathers momentum amidst gang vocals, an…
Some people are just blessed with gorgeous voices. I’m a little jealous of Paula Boggs. Her latest video comes from her new EP, Live From Empty Sea: Songs of Protest and Hope. Boggs writes that this song is a form…
Ani DiFranco’s got a new record coming out, and boy do we need it. Here’s the video for her latest single, “Play God,” a damning indictment of patriarchal control over reproductive justice. It’s exactly what you’d expect from DiFranco: pointed…
I was blasting this the other night. My roommate walked in and said, “Oh! This is so pleasant! I like the harmonies!” I couldn’t help grinning. “Right? But this is a song where she’s contemplating jumping out of the emergency…
Ali Burress sounds so self-assured on her new EP, Dwell, that it’s hard to believe she’s 19. The five songs in this EP are swooning odes to creativity. They are unhurried and feel as if Burress is in complete control…
If anyone can capture the messiness and frustration and chaos and yearning and anxiety and elation and disappointment and detached amusement of one’s twenties, it’s Fred Thomas. Changer came at me in very much the same way that first sentence…
You can tell a lot about a person by the friends they keep. In this case, when M Lockwood Porter tipped me off to Maita, I knew I’d fall in love with her music right away. Maita’s one of those…
The Paisley Fields have released a new video. This one’s one of my favorite songs from their previous album. In the video, two straight dudes try to sneak into a gay bar to chase a girl. It’s a happy ending…