It seems fitting to review New Orleans native Michael Cerveris’ debut album while everyone’s nursing their Mardi Gras hangovers. And considering half of the city of New Orleans was involved in the making of this album (see the “Labels” for…
Animal City’s Bump Head Go Home was easily one of my favorite albums last year. The band has just released an EP of B-sides that they didn’t want to part with. Each song on Party City is a unique glimpse…
Freeman’s album was listed in Rolling Stone‘s most anticipated country albums of the year. Get a gander of 5 seconds of a Freeman song and you’ll know why. The quality of Freeman’s voice is just not something that exists in…
Should you need convincing that queer country and folk (that is often fueled by radically liberal teachers) is totally A Thing, may I present you with Anna/Kate? As a fellow pedagogue, I am always excited to feature the artistic pursuits…
Alex Culbreth’s last album, Heart in a Mason Jar, was released in 2013 which, for me, is one apartment and almost all of my girlfriends ago. Like myself, Culbreth’s narrators aren’t necessarily less of a mess than they were three…
Heather Green’s songs might be dominated by distorted guitars and layered harmonies, but it’s Green’s carefully observant lyrics that distinguish her. “The Wild Ones,” a song that exudes confidence — not because of the subject matter, but because of Green…
Here’s to finally updating this blog! I think I’ll finally have enough breathing room for this again. The Feral Conservatives blew me away last spring with their EP, The Feeling Noise Becomes. The EP was a cherry bomb of barely…
This song came to me a while ago. Chris Hickey’s “Langston Hughes” is a mesmerizing, semi-spoken word piece about how we are all united by art and the universality of the human experience. Plus, Hickey gets extra points for being…