I promise you — this album isn’t a reissue, rescued from dusty obscurity by an avid collection. Martha Spencer’s self-titled album is, in fact, her debut and it will, in fact, be released on November 2nd. The album is steeped…
Becky Warren seems to be building a career on stories nobody else wants to tell. Her debut album, 2016’s War Surplus, was a devastating album about the romance — from courtship to dissolution — of an Iraq war veteran and…
I had just met this woman and I was terrified that I was going to offend her. We were at a neighborhood meetup in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Northern Manhattan that has a long-standing Jewish community. She’s about thirty…
On a later episode of his podcast Cocaine and Rhinestones, Tyler Mahan Coe discusses the question of authenticity in country music. (btdubs, you should absolutely listen to the first season if and when you’ve caught up with our podcast.) Mahan…
I’ll be honest — this is the kind of album I would have spurned when I first started writing this blog. I’ve matured. I’ve broadened my tastes. I’ve become more tolerant of music that sounds less familiar to me at…