This afternoon I received a number of solicitations from electronica and spoken word musicians. Come on, guys. Maybe you should like, READ, the publications your sending your stuff to? But considering that’s been the most annoying part of my day,…
Texan femme fatale Patricia Vonne has released her fifth studio album, Rattle My Cage. The album cover should give you a pretty good idea of what you’re in for. With the bombast of an ’80s pop-rock diva (think Pat Benatar…
As one Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter put it at a recent Queer Country Monthly, country isn’t about where you’re from. It’s about your attitude. The Communal Well, a Paris-based blues-rock sextet, couldn’t prove the point better. These gents have got the swagger…
Dead Professional has a new music video out! Dead Professional —Official, Facebook, Bandcamp
If you read this blog it means you miss the ’90s — sonically — at least a little teensy weensy bit. If you are my favorite kind of reader on this blog (I don’t have favorite students, but I do…
The Onlies have a rare gift for storytelling that is barely surpassed by their musical chops. It wouldn’t do you any good for me to describe each song on Open Road, though that’s kind of what I want to do.…
Continuing in the vein of fantastic Canadian Americana artists (is that an oxymoron?) I present to you Express and Company. Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. Like its album art, Ontario is an airy, unassuming album that…
Normally I don’t review EPs. There’s just enough stuff on the piece to give a proper assessment (my favorite education word) of the work. But this time, one song was enough to sell me. Slow Leaves is the product of…