Music Roundup!
I get most of the songs for these playlists from a site called SubmitHub and my queue is…overloaded to say the least. So I’ll be posting a playlist every day through the end of September (or until I run out…
Rachel Cholst
Karen and the Sorrows — The Narrow Place
I’ve been shouting praise for Karen and the Sorrows from the rooftops for a good five years now. I’ve heard the band tweak this collection of songs over the last three years or so. And now that The Narrow Place…
The Savage Poor — The Grownups
I don’t think this album could have come at a better time. If you stuck the Replacements, David Bowie, and John Prine in a blender, slowed them all down with some codeine, and let them stumble woozily around, you’d get…
PREMIERE: Karen and the Sorrows — “The Price of the Ticket”
I have been a huge fangirl of Karen and the Sorrows for, like, a while. They started playing around town shortly after I moved back after college and the intersection of queerness, Jewishness, countryness, and — by complete coincidence —…
The Everyday Sinners — Shakedown
The Everyday Sinners proudly marches in a long and distinguished lineage of British protest music that combine celebration with hard truth. The chug-a-lug of the bass and nimble rhythm guitars throw back to American roadhouses and gospel churches, but the…