Category Review

Ryan Curtis — It Ain’t Easy

Ryan Curtis’s gravelly voice will almost certainly remind you of your favorite Americana Dude. His songs of road dogging, hard living, and heartbreak are skillfully executed and stand up to the best of them. Where It Ain’t Easy stands out…

Sara Petite — The Empress

Sara Petite is absolutely transcendent on her recent album The Empress. The guitar slinger nonchalantly ducks and weaves between outlaw country, rock’n’roll, and folk gracefully. She ties it all together with her rich storytelling, ricocheting from trailer parks to dive…

Sammy Kay — Inanna

Earlier this winter, I stuffed myself into an oddly-shaped room in a former Bushwick warehouse. The room was, at best, 6 people wide and about 80 feet long. It was a familiar scene, something I did throughout my twenties. But…