I wouldn’t go into this album expecting an uplifting experience. I don’t think that’s a bad thing; sometimes when you’re at your lowest, you need to listen to music that’s down there with you. As you’ll hear on the first…
A classroom teacher with political consciousness and roots rock leanings, Philadelphia’s Drew Harris is a man after my own heart. His band, The Naked Sun, takes its name from an Isaac Asimov novel that exposes our fear of authority and…
Max Garcia Conover bowled me over with his previous album Motorhome. “Streetlights” continues in the same vein with a bigger sound: strange patchworks of keenly observed memories set to comfortably worn melodies and Garcia Conover’s performative vocals lead to a…
Sometimes you need to take a break from trawling out your insides just to feel something. At least that’s how I am (musically!) Alan Barnosky’s Old Freight does the trick — a classic-sounding folk and bluegrass album that features some…
Fountains of Wayne hit the big time when I was in middle school. For me, they were the first band from New York that I truly fell in love with, and hearing about my hometown in songs I related to…