My Politic’s new album, Missouri Foklore: Songs & Stories From Home is an immersive look backwards, a celebration of home and finding one’s away. The album’s concentration at home is even more evocative now that Kaston Guffey, one half of…
Trust me, I’ve had a lot of amazing, incredible things happen this year. And somehow, lately, I just want to curl up with music that focuses on licking your wounds. Shirley Hurt’s self-titled album provides a good soundtrack for that.…
There’s nothing like a well-suited collaboration. Sarah Lee Langford released one of my favorite albums of 2019, Two-hearted Rounder. Its moody atmosphere serves as a neat counterweight to Will Stewart’s breezy Slow Life, which came out earlier this year. The…
UPDATED: 11/26/22 Hello! I hopped over to Mastodon about two weeks ago, once Elon began making increasingly strange pronouncements. I don’t know if it will “replace” Twitter (it doesn’t need to!), or if Twitter will actually collapse, but so far…
Sarah King inhabits the dark side of Americana with a rich imagination and powerful voice. Her 2021 debut EP The Hour, produced by Simone Felice and David Baron (The Lumineers, Jade Bird), marks her stunning arrival. (I reviewed it when…