The title track on the Last Tycoon’s new EP, Death By Dixie, is a sleeper. With the climbing banjos, mandolins, and John Gladwin’s delicate voice, at first I thought the guy was just another pretty-boy hipster with nothing to say.…
I don’t know what it says about me but I’m not sure if I believe in love at first site when it comes to people. At least, it hasn’t happened for me. But love at first listen is very much…
I’m super excited to have all of these names in the same title! First of all, if you are in either of my two favorite cities (New Orleans or New York — and yes, you read that order correctly), I…
Great Peacock wowed me about two years ago with their first EP. It takes a lot for a song to sear itself into my psyche for that long, but “Take Me to the Mountain” and “Desert Lark” have done just…
The Deer Run Drifters’s sophomore album opens with the lines Young and dumb… Not good at much But fucking up It could be another album about crying in your cups (it is) but it’s not the usual gravely sad-sack guy…