If you wish Courtney Love had written a country album, Suzie Chism has got you covered. The singer-songwriter is based out of Nashville now, but every song here screams LA. It’s not just the lyrical content, which centers the incongruity…

When you strip it all down to bare essentials, you get Jamie Stillway’s Lullaby For a Stranger. The instrumental album has a sense of intimate warmth that is gamely striving to stave away coldness and alienation. Considering Stillway wrote and…

Bo Armstrong keeps it simple and true on his new album If your tired heart is aching… Armstrong’s sensitive, straightforward Americana is arresting. With his warm voice at the center of each composition, Armstrong’s tales of exhaustion and optimism carry…

Donny Van Slee grabs the bull by the horns. Music has always been his love, but it wasn’t until he took a stop off in Nashville while pursuing chiropractic studies that he knew he had to be a musician. He…

Trust me, I’ve had a lot of amazing, incredible things happen this year. And somehow, lately, I just want to curl up with music that focuses on licking your wounds. Shirley Hurt’s self-titled album provides a good soundtrack for that.…