Category New Music

Becky Warren — Undesirable

Becky Warren seems to be building a career on stories nobody else wants to tell. Her debut album, 2016’s War Surplus, was a devastating album about the romance — from courtship to dissolution — of an Iraq war veteran and…

Songs of the Week!

I’ve got too much music to fit on the podcast and more time to write about it now that I’m not longer doing the Wide Open Country thing. So let’s dig in to some tasty Americana, folk, and punk snacks!…

The Little Miss — American Dream

When you’ve got a voice like Hayley Johnson’s, you had better do something with it. I don’t mean pursue a singing career; I mean pursue a career that counts. Thompson, performing under the name The Little Miss, is doing just…

Ben Fisher — Does the Land Remember Me?

I had just met this woman and I was terrified that I was going to offend her. We were at a neighborhood meetup in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Northern Manhattan that has a long-standing Jewish community. She’s about thirty…