When I first heard a track from Let Them Eat Chaos on NPR’s All Songs Considered, I appreciated the wry wordplay and drive behind Tempest’s performance. A little later I heard a second song and thought, “Okay — even though…
If you get a chance to, I strongly encourage that you listen to Carrie Rodriguez’s set on Mountain Stage from a few months ago. It’ll give you a lot more insight into this beautiful, multi-layered album. Shortly after the election,…
As a godless Jew, I tend not to like Christmas songs. But as a footsoldier in the War on Christmas, I can’t help but admire the Paisley Fields’ chutzpah in their new single, “Gay For Christmas.” If you’ve ever had…
Another long-time favorite, Big Shoals recently released their follow-up album, Hard Lessons. I liked the previous album, Still Go On, a good deal. But when I went back to it recently in preparation for this review, I realized I had…
It seems fitting that, shortly after the fifth birthday of the blog, I get to write about Jo Wymer’s second release, SLG. Wymer was one of the first artists I wrote a review of. She was the first artist to…