There’s not much information about there concerning Asheville, NC’s M.J. Lenderman. Perhaps he thinks his music should speak for himself — and it does. On “Left Your Smile,” the 6-minute ballad unfurls into an epic outpouring of grief. I…
The 70s are back in a big way — fashion, music, drugs. But I feel one thing that’s lacking is the swagger. That is absolutely not the case on The Local Strangers’ “Not Missing.” It’s the single off their third…
The first thing that jumped out at me about Lucy Isabel’s Rambling Stranger is its sense of adventure. Isabel truly embodies the full sense of Americana — no two songs here are exactly the same. Isabel glides between bar band…
Nothing well ever convince me that the song “Girl Crush” is about someone who….wants to be the woman that her dude crush is dating? The fuck? Straight people, are you ok???? But there’s certainly a lot of gray area between…
There’s much to be made about pop music’s place in country, but Anna Volpe has proven that the two co-exist once you have the right ingredients. On her debut EP, Call My Name, Volpe serves up five carefully crafted pop…