If there’s one band I’d pick to listen to during the apocalypse, it’d be The End Men. Their bass and drumlines are nothing less than earth-shattering, a fitting soundtrack to the destruction of the Gomorrah I’ve chosen to surround myself…
This may sound like an overstatement, but Chuck Hawthorne’s debut album, Silver Line, sounds to my brain like the platonic ideal of country music. This wasn’t a conscious decision. As I did the tourist thing in Nashville and stood on…
I think Annie Woodward would have been most at home in New York City at the Sidewalk Cafe back in the early 2000s. I bet she and Kimya Dawson would have gotten on famously. But she’s ten years too late…
I’m fresh back from a whirlwind tour of Nashville (really it was more like four days of touristing and two days of “what do I do in this one-horse town while waiting for concerts to start?”) and felt pretty humbled…
I don’t know what it is about the lilting sway of Cajun music that speaks to me, but there it is. A lot of people think it’s corny and I can see why. But Steve Riley and his band bring…
As I write this, the US Supreme Court has yet to announce its ruling on same-sex marriage, though we all may wake up to a significantly altered America by the time this goes live. (Edit: I wrote thi son Thursday.…
Christopher Paul Stelling’s secret weapon is lulling you into a false sense of security, then taking you out with a suckerpunch. Stelling’s Anti- Records debut, Labor Against Waste, begins with a number of soothing tracks, including the imminently radio and…
Round Eye’s debut reminded me a lot of Mad Max. As I wrote previously, it’s a movie that happens to you. In similar fashion, Round Eye isn’t something you listen to. It’s a forcefield that radiates through your speakers. It has the…