Tedo Stone could not have picked a better time to release his sophomore album (which, spoiler alert, is a grand slam.) Between the Alabama Shakes’ ascendance with Sound & Color and Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires‘ incendiary southern…
So I know Sounds & Color is way old news. I’m not writing about it as a new discovery. I’m writing to try to convince those who, like me, were nonbelievers. The Alabama Shakes were literally the first band I…
Is it considered payola if the Paisley Fields’ lead singer, James Wilson, gave me a lift to Riis Park? Sometimes you hang out after shows at Queer Country Monthly, and sometimes somebody and his band shows up even though they’re…
I’m about to spill 200 – 300 words on Not Here, but there’s only one word that matters: majestic. Few reviews of Not Here will fail to mention the Pollies’ Alabama roots, so I suppose I should do my journalistic…
Dead Professional’s third EP sees a shift in direction. Young Hardware starts off with one of Dead Pro’s signature Tom Petty-inflected rock with “Downtown and Sundown” and “You Heard What You Wanted.” Dead Professional is notable for making catchy rock’n’roll…