You may remember Jeff German’s first album from a few years ago. It was a barnstormer of a Midwest rock album. 12 Packs, in contrast, is a more sober affair. German, best known for the Cur Dogs and as a…
Adobe & Teardrops favorite Cotton has recently launched his own label, One Horse Records. The first two releases, ahead of his forthcoming album, were recorded in his living room. The first, Anna Wallis’ Pop Abuse, is a quirky little single…
Traveling Light, Lana McMullen’s evocative debut, is a collection of quiet epics — six songs that are never shorter than four minutes. Each track is a thoughtfully crafted piece, devoted to complex characters. McMullen, whose operatic training adds a sense…
If you’re reading this, you’re probably not checking out Record Store Day. It’d behoove you to do so, because then you can buy the Mekons and Robbie Fulks’ latest collaboration, Jura. For me, this is my introduction to both artists.…
Nathaniel Talbot is clearly a man of passion and intensity. The songs on Swamp Rose and Honeysuckle Vine are vivid in imagery and lush with warm, inviting guitar wizardry. Talbot is evidently a scholar of poetry, which can be seen…
Just or a change of pace, I wanted to hep you to jazz revivalist band The Ladybugs. The band gives the Fats Waller an airy treatment that gives the song a light, whimsical touch.We might be preparing for our Thanksgiving…
When The Wildness showed up in my inbox, the subject line instructed me to leave room for it on my year-end list. Whatever — most of solicitations will say that this time of year. Somewhere about halfway through the second…
A small grab bag of odds and ends today. First up is Tapes & Tubes’ latest release, Man in the Window. As always, the three tracks create a mystical atmosphere that is slightly creepy (Austin Potter’s hoarse sing-whisper half-submerged in…