Anjana Vasan’s bold EP Too Dark For Country bears a double entendre. The songs here, like most good country songs, are not particularly buoyant (though “Key Lime Pie” is delectable). But the London-by-way-of-Singapore singer-songwriter addresses the near-constant racism she endures…
Sometimes you need to take a break from trawling out your insides just to feel something. At least that’s how I am (musically!) Alan Barnosky’s Old Freight does the trick — a classic-sounding folk and bluegrass album that features some…
Fountains of Wayne hit the big time when I was in middle school. For me, they were the first band from New York that I truly fell in love with, and hearing about my hometown in songs I related to…
If there’s one narrative I’ll never get tired of, it’s the jaded sad-sack guy. It’s been a little bit since I’ve been broken through that headspace myself (is that what adulthood is? Or could be?) But something still leads me…
The Durham, NC band Hardworker is drawn some comparison to the Alabama Shakes and, let me tell you, it’s well-deserved. Hardworker delivers blistering rock that delivers equal parts Muscle Shoals and Laurel Canyon. Take the Wild Reeds and turn the…