The Library is on Fire does not have an official website but they do have a Wikipedia article. Here’s what it says: The Library is on Fire is an American indie rock band formed by singer/guitarist Steve Five in 2007.…
Guiguisuisui has been amusing and bemusing me for nigh on a year now. This neo-colonial (I sure hope he doesn’t mind my saying that) bluesman is a British expat living in a dingy industrial city in the bleak steppes of…
Oh man, did I ever need an album like Liars and Outliars. Denver’s 4H Royalty has been championed on better blogs than here and it’s truly a gross oversight of mine to not have looked into them earlier. Liars and…
If there’s justice in this world, George Taylor will become a household name as a singular bluesman. The Tennessee native’s Americana roots pairs nicely with whiskey (or, in my class, aged rum that tastes like whiskey when I close my…
I’ll just start with this one: Little Village is a thing of beauty. The opening track, “The End of February” is a stunner and it only gets better from there. The intimacy of the first few lines says it all:…
If you’re looking for a blistering wall of apathy to climb over in this early spring weather, here it is. Bishops, based in West Virginia, is the brainchild of Tucker Riggleman. Part shoegaze, part strident punk, Silver Lining presents few…
Considering I do this as a hobby, it sounds crazy to say, but I cannot stand music journalism. I recently read a piece where the writer breathlessly describes what the artist he interviewed had for lunch and what kind of…
The Jinxes have crafted folk pop to pure sugary perfection. They were one of the very first bands I wrote about way back when and it’s great to see that they’re still in the business of making music. The Jinxes…