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…
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…
We can’t always get what we want, and we often get what we don’t. The New Hampshire-based Joel Schwelling is pretty clear on that in his sophomore album, The Getting Up. On “Don’t Wanna,” Schwelling paints a picture of his…
Don’t go into Brad Gerke’s Burden expecting resolution. That’s for the next album. According to Gerke’s statement on Bandcamp, Burden was nearly complete in a burst of productivity right when Gerke completed his previous album. But we all know how…
Elliah Heifetz is a first-generation American singer-songwriter born to political refugees. After writing musicals and pop songs with premier Broadway & Hollywood talent, Elliah turned to his first love—folk music—to sing his own story. In 2018, he released his first…