Texas musician Joel Brogon plays your feelings as effectively as his guitar on his new EP Reunion: Songs of Family and Home. Brogon’s high, lilting voice and surefire melodies make his gentle folk meditations on home, belonging, and grief into…
Born in Memphis and raised between Los Angeles and Nashville, Angie spent her childhood living in two very distinct and distant worlds. “My parents split up, soon after we moved to L.A. for my father to train with the surgeon…
Rachel Angel doesn’t pull any punches on the title track of her new album. Digging in with country rock grooves, Angel leverages country musical tropes — hard distortion counterbalanced with a wistful slide guitar and wailing organ — to evoke…
There’s nothing like an excellent band with incredible chemistry, and Effie Zilch have that in spades. Lead by Steve Wyreman and Evanne Barcenas, teenage friends who have been playing together for years, the band’s confidence and skill have the power…
On “Fluid,” The Quite Smiles’ latest single, the band meditates on the nature of life from the unlikeliest of sources — and gets folk-rock-funky with it. The Quiet Smiles have a poetic way of doing things, so I’ll let them…
Alright alright alriiiiight! I’m sure you missed these reviews! I know I did. I love writing album reviews for other publications, but it means I have to take on a slightly more formal voice to do so. I don’t keep…
After decades in the belly of the music business in New York City, lund’s gone south for her debut album, Right This Time. The album was recorded with producer Tyler “The Falcon” Greenwell (Tedeschi Trucks Band) at Echo Mountain Studios…
Kentucky Eileen is your new favourite folk quartet – they’re those sudden friends that you feel like you’ve known all your life. Born out of the orchards of the Okanagan and laser-focused on their Nashville-style sound, they bring a modern Canadian flavour to American folk music. These…