Alum Rock starts off conventionally enough — jangly guitars and drums. But the first couplet is a little jarring: We’re like potatoes in a basement With tendrils growing in every direction Uh…what? I thought this was a pop rock song?…

Sometimes you just need a bread-and-butter, honest-to-God country song. No tricks, no affectations, no superbly hidden self-consciousness. Sometimes, you just need a song. For those times, Hank Woji is your man. Though a Jersey native, Woji’s clearly in his element…

My kids are working on term papers, which means I’m spending most of my day and evenings editing them, which means just about the last thing I want to do is write a review. In the meantime, enjoy this new…

I sat on Late Risers for a while. Too long, really. As a listener, I enjoy digging into an artists lyrics, thinking about what the song means, imagining what inspired it. But in The Abramson Singers’ latest album, the lyrics…

Normally a band’s album should speak for itself. But if this video of the Show Ponies performing the duet “Whiskey and Wine” doesn’t win you over, you’re dead to humanity. Most of the songs are a little slower, a little…