Wolf Van Elfmand’s inventive songwriting has won him a place in my heart over the years. On “Don’t Call it Country,” the Brooklyn-based artist shines a light on all the diversity country music has to offer — a gentle ribbing…

Listen to my favorite tracks off each album on my Spotify or Tidal playlists! Updated weekly with all the best new country, Americana, and whatever else I feel like — this is music like your life depends on it. Ashley…

I relate a little too well to The Roseline’s new single, “I Was a Gun.” The holidays are a hard time to be a teacher: if you think it brings up a lot of bad feelings for you, it’s worse…

Humbird rails against white supremacy in her powerful psych-folk song “Child of Violence.” As I’ve said in the past, what makes a song anti-racist is not the message that “racism is bad” so much as acknowledging one’s complicity in it…

On Saturday I was hanging out with my high school friends. As one does, we remarked on the passage of time, how weird it is for our peers to be having children, and, since my wife and I are teachers,…