James Burrows — Paradise Cinema
I’ve been sitting on my hands for a good amount of time now, waiting until the general public can get James Burrows’ debut album into their little paws. This album is great. I love it. I know I love almost…
The Milk Carton Kids — Monterey
You guys, I haven’t eaten anything but rice in the last 72 hours. Well, that’s not entirely true. I tried to eat human food last night and this morning, but my stomach was very definitively like “NOPE” and I actually…
The Last Tycoon — Death by Dixie
The title track on the Last Tycoon’s new EP, Death By Dixie, is a sleeper. With the climbing banjos, mandolins, and John Gladwin’s delicate voice, at first I thought the guy was just another pretty-boy hipster with nothing to say.…
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…