If someone had described Mike June’s music as “heartland rock with a sharp political bent” I would have been sold before I even listened to the album. This album is an instant favorite and I’m so glad Von featured it…

This isn’t so much a review of Bristle Ridge as it is some meditations about Austin Lucas. To be honest, I didn’t really like his music at first. I was mostly annoyed by all of his songs about how he…

If the volumes of text praising Our Lady of the Tall Trees were stretched end to end, we’d have a bridge to Mars. Here’s my little snippet to add to the bridge. This is beautiful, breathtaking acoustic music and it…

This is my reaction to Hero Jr.’s debut album: holy shit. The debut track, “Ann Boleyn” is worth the price of admission alone. I picked the other two songs featured here basically at random — there is no dead weight…

I apologize for the radio silence this past week. Public schools had Veterans’ Day off, and on Sunday I decided I’d simply ignore any and all obligations. That meant lots of work for my real job on Monday and catch-up…