Lots of touring musicians call themselves troubadours, but how many of them can say they’ve traveled to gigs by RV, van, bus, and foot (with hiking gear and instrument cases)? Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski, now touring as Golden Shoals,…
Sara Rachele is at her best when she confronts difficult themes. Her 2015 song “Rebecca” is a heart-crushing recounting of having an abortion and its latent after-effects. 2020’s Scorpio Sun, the follow-up to her 2019 release Scorpio Moon, is as…
I’m going to give it to you straight. The NYPD is turning this city upside-down, so I haven’t been listening to much music. Country music, specifically, has an historic vested interest in maintaining a status quo where white people are…
If you enjoyed Audrey and Hugh’s otherworldly harmonies on Episode 112 of Adobe & Teardrops, good news! There’s a whole album of the duo’s whimsical folk pop out on May 22nd! Sisterman, whose release was postponed due to our current…
What do you get when you combine Americana and pop-punk? Well, it’s not quite alt-country — and it still rips. Maybe it’s the equivalent of making a cocktail with sake instead of vodka; it’s a little unorthodox, but it’s a…