Feral Conservatives — The Feeling Noise Becomes
I don’t know what it says about me but I’m not sure if I believe in love at first site when it comes to people. At least, it hasn’t happened for me. But love at first listen is very much…
Anna & Elizabeth — Anna & Elizabeth
We don’t have time machines (yet) — but we do have Anna & Elizabeth. On their second album, the duet offer us 16 traditional Appalachian songs that range from hymns to dance songs. Whatever recording magic happened, these songs sound…
The Breton Sound AND Karen and the Sorrows AND Michael Leonard Witham!
I’m super excited to have all of these names in the same title! First of all, if you are in either of my two favorite cities (New Orleans or New York — and yes, you read that order correctly), I…
Great Peacock AND Quiet Hollers
Great Peacock wowed me about two years ago with their first EP. It takes a lot for a song to sear itself into my psyche for that long, but “Take Me to the Mountain” and “Desert Lark” have done just…
The Deer Run Drifters — Restless Youth
The Deer Run Drifters’s sophomore album opens with the lines Young and dumb… Not good at much But fucking up It could be another album about crying in your cups (it is) but it’s not the usual gravely sad-sack guy…
VIDEO: Freddy Jones Band — “Those Diamonds”
If you’re ready for a break from the typical sad bastard song club fare, the Freddy Jones Band has a nice spring song for you. If “Those Diamonds” made you dance in your seat a little bit and you live…
Eric Peter Schwartz AND Campfest!
You may remember Eric Peter Schwartz as the guy with the delightful love song centered around Dungeons & Dragons. I was expecting more of the same on Schwartz’s latest release, Casual Ghosts. While Schwartz offers humble, humorous ditties like “Hot…
Krom — Mama Blue
Metal Postcard Records brings us another bizarrely tasty treat from the rock’n’roll underbelly of Southeast Asia. Krom’s trance-like blues brings us the seedy underbelly of a developing city (or is that my orientalist imagination?) Either way, the song is well…