This album deserves a full review but I think it’s worth sharing my initial reaction: So that’s Brighter in the Dark in a nutshell but here’s some more context. Mouths of Babes is a queer folk supergroup (super-duo?) comprised of…
The Jerry Cans, hailing from Nunavut (the Canadian Arctic, that is), seamlessly blend country music and Inuit traditions. This can be seen in the gorgeous new video, “Arnalukaq.” The song highlights the serious and oft-ignored issue that indigenous women in…
Rayna Gellert’s Workin’s Too Hard is a little long to be an EP and shorter than an album, but it says a lot more than most. Gellert is perhaps best known for her work in the roots band Uncle Earl.…
I’m really sad that Become My Blood didn’t come out a few weeks earlier. If it had, it absolutely would have been on my top 10 of 2016. Be that as it may, I imagine it’ll stick with me throughout…
When I first heard a track from Let Them Eat Chaos on NPR’s All Songs Considered, I appreciated the wry wordplay and drive behind Tempest’s performance. A little later I heard a second song and thought, “Okay — even though…