My pure, unadulterated initial reaction to Kendl Winter was: Holy Moses this is good. Mike Ostrov at Ninebullets did a pretty great job of praising Ms. Winters’ greatness. A top-notch songwriter and a breathtaking banjo player. It’s a rare bird…
Holy wow. In Snow’s EP is difficult to describe, though I know that’s kind of the point of you reading this. They describe themselves as an instrumental orchestral rock and that’s pretty much what you get, just minus the pretension…
I’m glad that Fire Mountain found a home for its latest record, All Dies Down. You may remember I tried to get you guys to throw some money at the band a few weeks back. I was unsuccessful and the…
It’s easy to understand why the Sometime Boys don’t have the reputation they so justly deserve. They’re just kinda weird, yaknow? Is anyone else writing pseudo-reggae roots songs like “Pharaoh”? Or the meandering ballad “Fake Girlfriend?” Last time around I…
Ed Tang has all the right ingredients for a fantastic album: raspy voice, just the right mix of distortion and acoustic guitars, and some choice literary references (Catch-22 and Death of a Salesman are two of my favorite 20th century…
The Porter Draw has got to stop hiding in New Mexico and make themselves known to the world. This is good stuff. I have a confession to make: I’ve been taking a songwriting class. I didn’t mention it before now…
Benny No-Good, like many of the gents on this blog, started his music career as a punk rocker. If you’re from the Midwest, you may know him as the frontman for Indiana hardcore band The Enders. If not, you’ll enjoy…
The dog chewed up my earbuds the other day. You’d think that’d be enough to make me decide to just shell out for a pair of studio headphones. I didn’t want to because I feel like attaching those giant bulky…