Buffalo Nichols is nothing if not blunt. He and his former musical partner, Joanna Rose, performed what is still the single best musical critique of the supposed safe haven of the Americana genre. He had no problem putting on the…
This review is also cross-posted on our sister site, Rainbow Rodeo. Karen and the Sorrows pulled a Beyonce and dropped her latest EP, Why Do We Want What We Want? this morning. Before we get into the EP, though, it’s…
Lots of great music came out this past Friday — Childers, McBryde, Joan Osborne, Julian Taylor…and even more that I know I’m missing as some of Americana and country’s best angle for year-end playlists. But the first album I hit…
Did you know that grad school would seriously cut down on your time to write about music, let alone listen to it? Couldn’t be me! So over the next few weeks you’ll see me writing capsule album reviews in a…
It’s difficult to find a band that transcends to the highs of Noble Dust. The Boston-based sextet creates music that fits comfortably in the folk canon but might be better thought of as art songs. Buttressed by horns and strings,…