Tedo Stone could not have picked a better time to release his sophomore album (which, spoiler alert, is a grand slam.) Between the Alabama Shakes’ ascendance with Sound & Color and Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires‘ incendiary southern…
The Bottle Rockets have been a band for almost as long as I’ve been able to read, but I’ve listened to their music for the first time when reviewing South Broadway Athletic Club. It took me a little while to…
Aja Warren’s new single, “Misbehavin,” brings the best of country, blues, and jazz together, wrapped with the bow of Warren’s singular voice: delicate and arresting. The band stretches itself out as it explores the corners of the song’s musical space,…
So I know Sounds & Color is way old news. I’m not writing about it as a new discovery. I’m writing to try to convince those who, like me, were nonbelievers. The Alabama Shakes were literally the first band I…
Is it considered payola if the Paisley Fields’ lead singer, James Wilson, gave me a lift to Riis Park? Sometimes you hang out after shows at Queer Country Monthly, and sometimes somebody and his band shows up even though they’re…
I’m about to spill 200 – 300 words on Not Here, but there’s only one word that matters: majestic. Few reviews of Not Here will fail to mention the Pollies’ Alabama roots, so I suppose I should do my journalistic…
Dead Professional’s third EP sees a shift in direction. Young Hardware starts off with one of Dead Pro’s signature Tom Petty-inflected rock with “Downtown and Sundown” and “You Heard What You Wanted.” Dead Professional is notable for making catchy rock’n’roll…
From the strange, discordant opening strum on Ali Holder’s sophomore release, From My Veins Will Fall is a short but powerful piece. Holder’s first album, In Preparation for Saturn’s Return, was a bit whimsical. Whatever’s happened in the last two…